Kell's diatribe was published 31 dec 05 in The Jakarta Post. With current embassy and Indonesian government alerts warning of pending attacks by Islamist terrorists on individual Australians and other foreigners in Indonesia, I wonder who will be welcome his outrageous comments?

As a recently graduated mature age university student I have a certain amount of experience in the two worlds of academia and real life. One thing I would suggest to anyone publishing in the public arena is to first undertake a certain amount of academic recovery, look around and experience the living breathing world.
It is beautiful and it is ugly. No particular part of society has a monopoly on either.
I must admit to having had reservations about the concept of multiculturalism from prior to my university days and my study has done little more than promote intolerance within me. Not to other cultures or peoples but to the keepers of knowledge who decide what gets studied and what findings are accepted.
The segmentation of society into cultural facets worries me. Not from a perspective of statistical analysis or peer reviewed journal articles but from observation of the human condition and life experience that we all share. The latter two seem to have little, if any, weight in academic circles yet it is what moulds the world in which we live. Academia thrives on the critical analysis of the parts of our society while rarely undertaking a similar analysis of itself.
My university time is not yet done as I go back to further my degree yet one thing that life has taught me is that "Anglo" is not a synonym for all the world's problems, "Muslim" is not a synonym for all the world's pain and "Academia" is certainly not a synonym for all the world's answers. On the contrary, I find the amount of vitriol and intolerance that emanate from our seats of learning to be a cause of concern

Re: Cronulla Beach riots: making waves for the Asia Pacific region' Assoc. Prof. Peter Kell tries hard to pad this weak argument with emotive phrases such as'surfing the big waves of the Pacific' when discussing the recent scuffle at Cronulla really, I ask you, when is the Left and particularly the large Left contingent in Australian universities going to get over losing every federal election since 1996? Kell's article does not mention our largely successful management of multivcultural Australia - he chooses instead to focus on a rare incident - drunken muscle flexing yhouths 'having a go' on Cronulla Beach, the trigger being two life savers having been bashed a week or so earlier. In every nation there are tensions between different groups. You onlyu have to watch the news on T.V. to witness this. B ut as usual, the Australian Labor Left wing of that party are trying to gain mileage out of this incident, working it for all it is worth. The 'Holier than Thou' Howard-haters can't manage to gain the Australian public's trust, so in their usual style, Left Labor try to cut down those who are trusted and elected to government. The faxct that this twerp Kell approached the Jakareta Post with his assertions about Australia's 'racism' is nothing more than an underhand swipe at his own country by means of another country's media. I feel contempt for him. JMV

Craig,

Good for you, Marxist Training Camps full of Red Supremacist lecturers, who are so biased and defensive.

Do what you have to do to pass and keep on thinking for your self.

I am glad to I did my degree at 30 years old, after having lived some.

I agree it’s scary to think of many uni grads getting policy-making jobs with their arts degrees. Implanting their idealism into my reality with multicult social policies

http://www.campus-watch.org/about.ph

I know lots of red supremacists...Red is the new color os the 21st century, since we all know we get into the spirit world, and whites are going away for what they do with the book....the medicine wheel is a main teaching in native religion, and the circles in dreamcatchers are better for the land....I know...they foretold the filth's arrival, and all they think of is war and diseases....sick culture....