Dear Friedrich,

I just want to ask you something about what you said before, about only the whites were in the trenches.. that's pretty much right (plus there were a handful of black fellas in the digger mob).. i took what you said to mean that the diggers made a lot of sacrifices for this country to protect it.. yes they did.. but listen, the fellas in the trenches were fighting against the Germans, who were basically all white.. even at Gallipoli, where one of my relatives died and another had his toes blown off, they were fighting against turks who were taking their orders from German officers and using German equipment. Most of the diggers ever killed in battle, ever, were killed by German soldiers.

In WW2 the Aussies were fighting the Germans again. (still very white after 25 years since WW1). The Nazis were a bigger threat to Australia than the Japanese, since they almost crushed England, our largest trading partner at the time. The Japanese Imperial Forces were less of a threat to Australia, because they had already invaded every single other country in SE Asia, and decided to take on about one billion people. When they bombed Darwin and torpedoed a boat in Sydney harbour, they were trying to damage American naval vessels, not invade Australia. I want to know what 'white pride' thinks of the PNG 'fuzzy wuzzies' who carried our wounded diggers through hell on the Kokoda trail. Or the East Timorese and S Pacific Islanders who hid Aussie commandos while they were intercepting critical Japanese intelligence. Or the South Vietnamese who fought alongside us in the Vietnam war. Or the South Koreans in the Korean war. Please tell me what you think of these people, cos they were on our side.

I'm in Deutschland now by the way, and if you were here too you would be put in prison for a long time for being pro-Nazi. Our diggers fought against the Nazis, not for them. So are you a Nazi or an Aussie? I want to know.

A positive note from Melbourne...no room for complacency, just a call to action.

**Fear no more**

The sun is shining
Santa is on his way
And in the suburbs of Australia
Fear lurks each day

A label we use
A generalisation we make
How quickly it can deteriorate
Into crime and hate

But here in Victoria
We continue our quest
To celebrate our uniqueness
And speak without jest

For our diverse community
Access and equity
For all of our residents
Peace and harmony

All it takes is you and me
Sharing a little empathy
And speaking up for all our friends
Not just those that look like us

Flint writes, "it [Cronulla violence] was never planned, called for or condoned." Flint's written piece is laced with flaws of this type.

In this case Flint flatly ignores the phone messages before the event and the radio host who gleefully encouraged the violence of some callers.

Sir Flint must be slowing down. It took him a whole nine paragraphs before he got around to using the word "elite". The word "multiculturalism" apparently means whatever the speaker wants it to mean. The same can be said of the word "elite" if it can be applied to a poverty stricken, illiterate person who disagrees with Sir Flint.

I think down in “The peoples Socialist Republic of Brankistan” The Old Victoria: He has a Vice grip hold on the people -, half the population has not got a clue what is happening, don’t worry, you will soon enough.

Ev,

I would like to know the answer to your question too.