DalCorn,

Thanks for sharing your 'observation' with us. Perhaps you could say something useful next time? For instance, do you have any opinions of your own, or do you just delight in critcising other people who do have opinions? The word is "Muslim', incidentally. They don't like Moslem, which you cannot even spell.

I do not have a blog. Nor do I post on other blogs. And I am not a she! I am a (fairly) grumpy old man, and certainly no Christian.

You don't like 'anti-migrant'remarks. Care to elucidate? Who is anti-migrant, specifically? I'm not. If you don't like other things you read, what are you? Someone who never mixes with anyone other than those who agree with your?

Back to work, and stop using your employer's PC in his or her time. I suppose you don't like the new PR laws, either.

Leigh, I'm not sure if DalCorn likes the new PR Laws. Perhaps you could enlighten us on their provisions and their relevance to the current discussion.

Is it just Leigh? Or does anyone else here have any comment on the new PR laws?

Marilyn I'm trying to work out if you think that you are really any different from the worst of the mossie bashers.

"I felt entirely safe with 130 young Afghan men that night - I rarely feel safe alone with even a couple of Australian men, Tony Kevin and Frank Brennan excepted - better add Jeremy Moore."

Transpose the groups in your statement and then ask if the statement would be one you could expect from a racist stereotyping bigot.

My guess is that most of us who genuinely think individuals should be judged on their merits would think so. Most Australian men are not violent and/or rapists, just as most migrant men are not.

Your obvious dislike of "Australian men" leaves me wondering how much you have contributed to some muslim migrants feeling alienated from australians and "the Australian pop-culture of pornography, gambling, alcoholism, and drug addiction.".

R0bert

Sorry, can't resist the bait.

Alchemist, of course I don't have a clue about real life yet. I'm only married, a homeowner, got a career, lived in the city, lived in a small town, lived in the suburbs, lived overseas, visited a dozen or so countries, driven across Australia and back, been through family deaths, break-ups, illnesses & hard times.

But remarkably, as you point out, I've done all that without learning anything about real life. But then again, I'm not you, and as you so often remind us, you're the only person on the OLO forums who does know anything.

Next time I disagree with someone, I think I'll just follow your winning formula and tell them they know nothing. It's such an incisive and compelling line of argument, and it'll vastly enrich the standard of debate around here. Thanks once again for your sagacious contributions, they're a real adornment to the forum.

Avagoodweegend and try not to get too frightened of the scary Muslims - BOO!

Marilyn,

Penicillin wasn’t invented in Adelaide by two Australian doctors. It is a natural product of a particular mould, and the scientific work around its discovery and development as a vital medical treatment was performed by many people, most working in Britain during the 1930s and 1940s. Three of the most prominent workers, Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, and Ernst Chain were rewarded with the Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology in 1945 for their work in this field. Florey was an Adelaidian, and Australia can rightfully be proud of his scientific work in the development of one of the most important medical developments of the 20th century. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Walter_Florey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Boris_Chain