Darlene

Stop now before you make more of a goose of yourself. Where do you hang out? Koories are not invisible in Melbourne. They live here in the thousands. Why don't you make an effort to speak to some of them this weekend?

Andrew Bolt,how anyone with some concern about racism and racist opinions views and comments,how anyone then can support,this man with a dutch mentality, and that is one way,and that is right,you may say to me ,mate by what you just said Dutch mentality,just a short explanation,I have lived for the best part of my years,with this type,my best friends are Dutch I have Dutch relatives,I have been in business,with Dutch people,I love them,but the fact remains,that,there is one thing they share,and that is rightwing political views and opinions,this excludes the DUTCH NATION,this is only about the dutch migrants,and Andrew Bolt is the worst offender when the subject is about racism,his views opinions and comments are all stamped one way only,do not turn left,it is dangerous,the roads are in bad condition,but the roads to the right are in a good condition,there are no signs warning you of danger ahead,so if you read his column,what do you read,all about is anti ISLAM and anti black Africa,and all the LEFT MEDIA outlets is bad for AUSTRALIA.In the year 2006 the above opinion of mine has been endorsed by many of my closest DUTCH friends and relatives.To Editor,if you think that this is a racist view,please edit or refrain from publishing.

I disagree in total with this review of Andrew Bolt's book, in my time the worst types of racists,were those that has some knowledge of BLACK people,house servants,nannies,garden "BOYS" AS they were termed,but were in fact grown men,their best friends before going to high school and then on to University were BLACK,and the end result was they became the greattest enemies of the black nation,ask me I was there,and if you want to know where that was,it was my land my country,the land of "Segregation the land of Apartheid",and now the land of the FREE.

Yes Frank, and I'm sure some of your best friends are Aboriginal and all that. I live in inner-city Melbourne and they are not hugely significant in this area. They are in other parts of Melbourne, but there are not as large a population as elsewhere. Interesting to see that someone is disagreeing with my review before the book has even come out. What amazing powers you must have. I get the feeling that some of the responses I have received probably go to prove the divide between the political class and ordinary Australians. To the person who accused me of writing a love letter or something to Mr.Bolt, that's a bit sexist isn't it, sweet?

Andrew Bolt's book has not been released yet, Darlene? Thank heaven you wrote that in your reply to that intellectually challenged critic, Frankgol. It is 6-30 AM now, and after initially reading your appraisal of Bolt's book,I was just waiting for 8-30 before I hopped in my car and went to Castle Towers to buy it.

The only time that I have read any of Bolt's work was his masterful analysis of "Rabbit Proof Fence" which clearly displayed that this movie was a propaganda movie on the same level as "The Eternal Jew", Alexander Nevsky", "Battleship Potemkin", "The Green Berets" and "Birth of a Nation." It also marked Mr Bolt as an insightful deconstructionist of trendy lefty wool pulling and other dishonest shenanigans.

I consider that your article was fair and well written, and your injection of ironic humour at appropriate moments marks you indelibly as a woman of singular intelligence.

Darlene
1. There are about 30,000 kooris in Victoria, so I guess one day you might bump into one. In the meantime in lieu of personal experience (since you confess your ignorance) you could check out some of the indicators, e.g. "Summary of Indigenous Health November 2005" at www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/ or police arrest rates for Indigenous Victorians at http://elecpress.monash.edu.au/pnp/free/pnpv4n1/mackay.htm. Or you could take in "Land Marks" an exhibiton of historical Victorian Indigenous art at the Ian Potter Centre at Fed Square. There are lots of ways you can improve your understanding if you really want to. I happen to think that talking to Indigenous people is the best way.

2. You seem to have misread my critique of your 'review'. I didn't 'disagree' with it; I used my 'amazing powrs' to say it was shallow, uncritical and apparently partisan. I agree with The Examiner's first post - it is not a review of Bolt's book in the way a 'review' is usually understood.

3. Your false dichotomy between 'the political class' (a singular entity - presumably including the 'left' and the 'right' wings?) and 'ordinary Australians' (another singular entity - would Kooris be in there, for instance?) is an absurdity. It's a simplistic dualism much over-used by those who can't be bothered to marshal evidence or to mount a reasoned argument.