The NSW ALP wants us to believe we have become a materialistic, racist Backwater so we become guilt ridden and susceptible to new draconian government legislation. Then they say that multi culturism (sic) is doing very well, thank you very much. This clever ALP conundrum at once paves the way for more government control over our lives and at the same time, more immigration, more votes more power, bigger taxes and more social instability.

Here's the LIE:

Belly ---> The ALP path to election victory must be in the middle of the road, never the left lane, and never travelling against the flow?

Here's the TRUTH:

The ALP path to election victory must be in the middle of the road?

For that is where the NSW ALP has legislated that you can exceed the SPEED limit to overtake and you can overtake for ever, even though we all know there is no such thing as safe speeding.

Never the left lane?

For that is where the 90% of inferior citizens, those that don't rate good hospitals, trains, police or schools, have to stay unless they want to be tailgated, road raged, shot at or baseball batted.

And never travelling against the flow?

The flow of 1,000,000 NEW ALP voters tucked into Liberal seats so as to change the political landscape in NSW, forever to be LABOR. The flow of desal water that inferior citizens have a year to discuss and vote on before the ALP signs contracts anyway, most likely with MacBank, Bob Carr's new employer. A desal plant touted by the worst ALP propaganda since Hitler, as the solution to overpopulation so we can continue to overpopulate Sydney with another million ALP voting immigrants.

Here's the ANSWER:

To solve this lapse of truth, all NSW citizens need do is force a change to the "Keep Left Unless Overtaking" sign to "Keep Left Unless Travelling at Speed Limit".

This one simple change is all it will take. The light of truth will shine on the NSW ALP. It will be seen for what it has become, spoiled and self aggrandised since having dictatorial powers conferred on it for the 2000 Olympics. And in this light we will see it's true colours and form ... A cockroach scurrying for the nearest rock to hide under.

Bet you do not realy beleave your own post Left lane? surely you understand just what I said?
My love of the ALP and just what it could be again is forever.
My contempt for the last campaign and the ALP leader existed months before the tragic events that self muterlation that gave away workers rights.
Labor will in time take that mainstream road ,it may well be with Bill Shorten driveing , lets hope the motor starts soon , its stalled at present.
And this thread remains a lie we are no racist backwater, some racists however are from minoritys, truth remains truth.

I just have to say as a younger citizen of Australia who looks in from the outside rather than from the middle of the 'fun', most of the people responding to this article are correct. Australia IS a multicultral society, but somehow people don't seem to know the meaning of this word?
Everyone in Australia has either a different background nationality or has immigrated recently. I am referring to the few two hundered years ago that this fine country began. Our population was built on immigrants, so i do not understand why today we have camps such as Baxter to lock free people up in. These people have no homes, and now their only home is the cold hearted welcoming of jail with love from Australia. Exscuse the high modality but it really fires me up when people have the nerve to accuse other countries of crimes against themseleves when we are no different. The fact that racism is now a becoming issue in Australia is shameful, our country is beautiful and so are the people if only each one of us realised it, if we shared more trust for one another, the example we set would be a proud one for our children.

John Howard has exploited racism.
Racism is on the rise (though not by all and not from one individual party).
And for all the people who questioned the high biased and modality in the article written by this man, it was to get your attention. It was to get you thinking, it was so you could question yourselves. Like one man quoted from Zimbabwee " I have never heard anyone admit to being racist these people say: "I'm not racist...but"

Shamefully i admit to speaking these very words, and shamefully i admit to making racist remarks. So ask yoursleves this question if you have doubt: "how much do i care for the other"

anotherbrickinthewall,

Baxter and other Detention Centres were not built to keep out certain races; it was built to detain entrants from any country who have entered Australia illegally; that includes Europeans as well. They have violated our National security, so must be established as worthy entrants.

The fact is we have legal migrants from every nation and culture on the Earth, and they have made legal application to enter Australia.

The fact is we have the equivalent of three Jumbo Jet loads of legal refugees entering Australia each week. I believe you ought to celebrate their entry rather than focus all your energy on illegal entrants that get left wing Media attention.

Being of non-English speaking background and having been the victim of stereotyping and rascist and ignorant remaks throughout my life, I am pleased that a commentator is brave enough to say what many people of non-English speaking background feel but are afraid to say in this climate, about government policy and where it is taking us.
On the issue of citizensip testing:-
Anyone who believes that citizenship tests will promote integration knows little about the experience and feelings of the typical migrant experience. It also assumes that all current Australian citizenship holders are and have always been respectful.

Yet, the number of migrants who have had to change their names to make them more Anglo-celtic (in order to disguise their background and avoid stereotypes and assumptions about them, for the purposes of gaining employment etc) in itself is a marker of a failure of policy makers to understand that respect cuts both ways.

I do not see commensurate education programs in schools (such as civics education) to encourage ALL Australian citizens to be more tolerant and respectful generally. It seems as if in the end, multiculturalism and diversity in Australia will only be represented on food menus.

The proposal of a citizenship test is fraught with highly problematic assumptions and does nothing to deal with the problem of tolerance and respect in a more substantive, meaningful sense and at a societal-wide level.