Yep ,five years probation for any migrant [regardless of skin colour] before they get permant residency status or become an australian citizen.If they indulge in protracted periods on social security or involve themselves in crime,sorry we don't want you.

Time for a tough approach. Let the UN and sniverl libertarians squeal discrimination as much as they like,at least we will then have safer cities.

We are too scared of offending the sensibilities of these moral and ethical absolutists,who use our fear of their dissent,to subjugate our nation.

Andrew, the tightening of citizenship laws would be an excellent cost effective control measure. The same system is used in Switzerland, to be a Swiss they make you jump hoops to prove that you really want to be a citizen, citizenship is a highly valued achievement. Until that time you are a resident (as are your children) and can be deported if convicted of criminal activity.

Andrew with all due respect, you more than likely are not living in the "multicultural" uptopia I have been forced to live in.

However I do wish to thank all those patriots in Canberra for a job well done. Traitors one and all.

Amel.

For the record I was born in Spain and my husband in Lebanon. I am light brown and fair, I look Australianish, but my husband and children are very dark and Lebanese looking…..

Included into our family has been the following: Australians; one with Aboriginal heritage, Lebanese, Spanish, Italian, Maltese, and others. Religion wise we have a mixture of mainly Catholics, some not practicing, we have Muslim, Jehovah’s and a couple of atheists. We are however, Australian and proud of it.

I am not racist against any colour or look, as then I would have to be racist against my own children, husband and family. I just have concern about some of the ‘actions’ of some people and groups in Australia. My family love Australia and the Australian culture and ways and we can see things changing in a way that seriously concerns us.

The standards are dropping, we cannot sustain things the way that they are.. I am just stating what we are seeing, hearing and experiencing and what we feel is putting the downward pressure on our standards. It’s nothing personal, surely you can respect that!.

I might be wrong about the amount of people on welfare and the amount of people who abuse the system. That is why it is up to the Government to ensure that the system is fair and that they provide the information to ease the fears of the Australians as many believe that we are supporting immigrants who do not respect our ways and abuse our system and we are going backwards as a result. Those that come from countries where the standards are low don’t see it as such a problem as the standards feels high for them. I personally don’t want Australia to go backwards as it seldom makes things better.

Please explain what you mean when you say “You will never truly see people as people” because as far as I am concerned people are human and humans are capable of both good and bad regardless of their place of birth, colour or race?

Jolanda,

"I look Australianish." I do hope that you are not saying that a real Australian is white.

I would remind you that an Australian has no particular "look". This great country is made up of all kinds of "looks". We have the blecks, the asians, the arabs etc. We live in a multicultural paradise.

I am most offened that you would say that someone has to be white to be an Aussie.

I am currently writing a book about non-white contribution to this country. It will be avilable at the local post office because it will be the size of a postage stamp.

"Australianish" indeed!!

Friedrich, I think what Jolanda meant is that she does not look so obviously ethnic that she would get picked out of the crowd for a bashing (or maybe that the gangs in Sydney might think she was a legitimate target).

I assume that you are having your book printed using a similar technology used to etch angels onto the head of a pin or limiting the achievments to area's which interest you (probably not a lot of non-white nude tiddlywink players in Australia).

If you broaden the range out a bit you might find the contributions in medicine of people like Victor Chang were worth a couple of stamps and Kathy Freemans sporting success could be worth a stamp. Plenty of other indiginous sports stars (not that I personally rate sporting achievement very high but plenty of Aussies do). I have not paid a lot of attention to the skin tones of high achievers in other area's but my impression is of a notable proportion of people who's skin colour is not quite white explaining their work when scientific breakthroughs are announced. Maybe you should reconsider and go for a book of stamps.

R0bert