TO BOAZ-David
You said "How beautiful it would be, if we had no sense of ‘ethnic division’. If we could all look around and see just ‘Australians’".

How about if we said, here are souls like us. We are one, just people pretending to be different. Comparing, judging, and struggling (yes struggling) to mark ourselves as different to others. Powerplayers (MPs, mullahs, priests etc) trying to promote divisions where they are only in the mind. In the short term, I believe we should stand for an integrated nation, longer term, as we mature as beings, we might learn to cherish the outward differences.

We are Australians.

'Discrimination' is being used once again to complain about the new citizenship requirements.
Determination about who is permitted to enter our country is more important.
We can discriminate everyday about many things, it is also called having a choice, an option . There is nothing wrong with it.
The stupidity comes with having more than one legal nationality.The double passport should be banned and migrants should be forced to choose which country they owe allegiance to. And then live in that country.This was a peaceful land until multiculture. Get rid of it, it is divisive and wrong.

I am a little doubtful about that degree of "anglo-celticness' of Australiaia pre-1950.

Immigrants of Nordic appearance were always welcome here, regardless of cultural background.

Its just that their surnames were anglicised upon arrival!.

All understandable support a responsible law-obedient citizen concerned of straightening a country wants offering to, the aired governmental regulations emphasizing English proficiency as a very basis of and insinuating an Australian mateship as a very ground for granting an Australian citizenship, keep one even of the most enthusiastic devotee out off the Cranulla-2007 naturalization shores.

Even among traditionally imported British monarchs Queen Victoria is remembered in history AND for her poor command English, which does not devaluate her reign as the most substantial upon English royal millennium.

Factually, even internationally acclaimed, non-England-biologically-linked skilled migrants with their international in-English-language-worldwide-presented innovations and surely much better English linguistic skills than a million of fellow completely reading/writing short native English speakers equipped with, are not being employed in national-liberal mateship-ruled contemporary Australia desperately importing skilled foreigners while then practically rejecting new Australian citizens for what they naturally are.

Do the locally allowed being employed among whom British subjects in generations are the all realistically know a difference between Australia and Germany? Hint: Germany is a sovereign historical birthplace of a nation as Australia is a non-sovereign political entity built on a land-grabbing and luring the educated with mirage of opportunities.

MichaelK In future when talking about “English”, you might care to use some “English grammar” too.

As for Queen Victoria, She was English born and bred. Where do you get the notion she had “poor command of English”? Her husband was the German, maybe they chatted privately in pidgeon.

Oh one of my daughters was born here, I do not think she perceives herself as anything but Australian, like her Dad.

“Sovereignty” is where the heart is / we pledge our allegiance, not simply an accident of geography associated with birth.

Hint: some of us believe “life” is about more than just “land-grabbing and luring the educated with mirage of opportunities”.

Thank you, Col Rouge, but no thanks for your usual mentoring concerning English language issues.

However, it would be good to know a meaning of “English” recently as both writing and its sounding definitely vary among English-sphere substantially.

Back to a topic reflecting usual neo-racist approach in this English semi-colony to non-Anglo-Saxons/non-Anglo-Celts happened being trapped in Australia, your further imaginations of queen Victoria might be forwarded to any author of any book on the UK history, as well as your critics concerning my English proficiency might be addressed to Microsoft World creators and technical support services, of whom Grammar and Spell Checking has been used and appreciated worldwide.