Another rich example of this blind discourse.

"Yesterday upon the stair I saw a man that wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.I wish, I wish, he'd go away"

Xenophobia is a direct result of an unwanted multicultural policy (forced down our throat by the cultural elite). Many people cannot stand this contrived population policy, GET USED TO IT!

Chek, I'll concede that there is a difference between calling someone a racist and suggesting that they have used racism for their own ends.

Some of your comments still give the impression of playing the race card as a political tool. Maybe that is not what you intended, if not I apologise for misreading your comments.

Can I make it very clear that I am in strong disagreement with those who appear to be speaking out in support of racism. Again I suspect the issues of culture and race get far too mixed up in this kind of debate. Maybe if we find a way to differentiate the two we will find healthier ways of having these debates.

Having said that I would also like to make it clear that I embrace the healthy interaction of different cultures. Different groups have found different ways of seeing things, different solutions to problems etc. In that lies opportunity for finding better ways of doing things (and sometimes celebrating the solutions we have already found). In it lies different ways of seeing beauty - expressions of art, music and taste. We have and should have the ability as individuals and as a society to pick and choose from the best of cultural influences to make this society a better place to be.

Again I would point out that I see concern about the indonesian justice system as no more racist than concern about Camp XRAY. Either could be "racist" or they may be legitimate concerns about aspects of a culture which we don't like.

R0bert

Haven't we come a long way since 1901 when we celebrated Our Constitution with words from PM Edmund Barton to the effect we maintain our racial purity e.g white Anglo-Saxon, and ensure we deny 'other' lesser Nationalities from entering Aust ( Hansard).We 'progressed thro' the ages with Arthur Cadwell and his damming 'white Australia Policy', the anti Kanaka policy, tough ' diction tests ' immigration laws, deportation of Malays and Phillipinos in 1945 - we couldn't suffer these Asian refugees after the WW 11,and even now, with JH inventing off-shore Nahru and numerous other detention centres to house women and children who are perceived as racially inferior to us.What a crying shame.
With a History like this one, do we wonder why we are reviled overseas as racist and prejudiced. It's merely History repeting it's self. We treat our Indeginous brothers and sisters,with utter contempt,desdain and worst.We 'genocided' them. We have a PM who refuses to apologise to the 'stolen' generation, yet apologises to S Corby, who in Indonesian Law is a convicted drug smuggler ?? We have accepted mediocrity of performance as a catch-cry, and for some graciously embraced it.
Who said we weren't hard-core RACIST.

Rainier – you’re a classic! One of the best examples I’ve seen of the morally superior mind at work. Take a break from guzzling at the trough of compassion and work out a way to reign in the contempt you feel for the average person. You wouldn’t have a clue as to who leaves any of these comments. You must be a remarkable human being to be able to work out ones educational status and IQ from a few words on a website. But then you “head tilters” are all pretty remarkable, even if you must say so yourselves.

Chek says “try envisioning a better Australia”, good advice Chek, and I see that your way of doing this to concentrate on negatives. You wouldn’t try to improve your child, or your friend, by continually telling them how stupid and horrible they are, (well maybe you would), but I suppose it might work with a nation. Sure we need our shortcomings pointed out; but genuine ones only please.

Who knows if Corby is innocent or guilty? I myself think she is most likely as guilty as sin. But would she have been convicted in an Australian court beyond reasonable doubt? Hardly. The Indonesian justice system is unfair and dangerous and we have every right in the world to criticize it. That does not make us racist. Most people now think Lindy Chamberlain is innocent – is this because we as a nation believe in the inherent viciousness and cruelty of dingos? Perhaps it is you Chek who is the racist? It seems you don’t think that the people of Indonesia deserve better than a fourth rate legal system and corruption from top to bottom.

If we spent our time imbibing what Chek and the Pontificating Prince dish out to us we’d all be cutting our wrists!

No, no, no, Bozzie. Ya got it all wrong, mate. I want Chek Ling and Rainier to keep telling us Australians what a useless bunch of ill educated racist morons we all are, it helps John Howard heaps. The funny thing is the supposedly intelligent brahmin caste can never work out why this is so.

Quite frankly, I thing the Australian public are absoutely fed up of the evangelical finger waggers who never tire of displaying their presumed moral and intellectual superiority over the Great Unwashed. It is a sort of fashion statement for them, which clearly displays their socially snobbish aspirations as the super intelligent far seeing prophets of ethical enlightenment.

With friends like Chek and Rainier, why would the Federal Labor party need enemies?