Try bringing a flag on a stick more than a meter long into the WACA grounds and you will be hit for a six out of the ground by the WACA security bods

Nice article, Clifton Evers. I have been quite disgusted at the way the Australian flag has been co-opted by that knuckle-dragging minority who are an embarrassment and affront to all fair-minded and reasonable Australians. However, as you point out, it is reassuring that there is resistance to this xenophobic 'localism' in locales as diverse as in the surf at Cronulla and in the mosh pit at the Big Day Out.

Now I await the usual litany of hate and intolerance from the xenophobes, racists and religious nutters who seem to infest this forum of late. They could learn a lot from the Cronulla grommets and from the BDO organisers, in my opinion.

Nicely written, Clifton Evers, thank you :)

I agree this is a readable article, with a light touch. It identifies an issue that concerns many Australians. But Clifton Evers doesn't take us very far.

I agree that politicians "have failed to listen to Australian youth’s concerns about a deeper set of social, political, and cultural problems that are besetting them at this time - questions of globalisation, transnational terrorism, deregulation of industries, and multiculturalism". (Not that politicians listen all that hard to Australians at large.)

The point is: how well do 'Australian youth' (a simplistic term) understand what troubles them about globalisation, transnational terrorism, deregulation of industries, and multiculturalism? I get the feeling sometimes that headline words like these - together with 'Australian' , 'unAustralian', 'national pride', 'Australian way of life' and 'respect' - get thrown around as a distraction from more serious matters about power and economic control.

So, we see videos of Muslim clerics commenting about how non-Muslims are filth, we see the leader of Australia's Muslims comment that Anglo's are liars and convicts, and the recent videos on You Tube of young Muslims bashing white Australians, and laughing about racist pack rapes, for fun.

We've seen Muslim leaders explain away terrorist attacks, clerics state that we must submit to backward Islamic law, and Muslim youths flocking to these meetings in the thousands.

We've seen Muslim leaders refuse to condemn Osama Bin Laden, anti-semitic remarks laughed off, and some of the more "moderate" leaders demand brutal terrorist thugs like the Syrian/Iranian imperialist organisation Hezbollah taken off the terrorist list.

We see NO, repeat No protests to have such bigots removed, only charges of Islamophobia by angry, defensive Muslims. We even seen with the immoral scum that is the Muslim leader (Mafia Boss) Sheik Taj Hilali, that vile publicity seeking bigot who nearly got Australian hostage Douglas Wood killed, that the Muslim community in Auburn actually wanted to stage a rally in his SUPPORT!

And yet, you wonder at young white Australians demanding allegience to not the flag (that is just the symbol) but our values?

For nigh on two decades such youth have been the subject of racial bashings, even a crime only seen in wartime (which explains the mindset of these young olivenecks) racially motivated pack rape, with the authorities ignoring it while their political masters in the ALP get the "ethnic" vote.

It's bad enough that an entire community votes so undemocratically in the first place, i.e, are a stackable electorate, but that those young victims of Arab imperialism (another name for Islam - have to bow to Arabia 5 times a day, recite the Koran in Arabic even though most Muslims, 85% aren't Arab) have been called racists themselves for reporting on the reality of living with those from intolerant cultures....

................We see what the mid-east is like, that they are all intolerant of each other, Sunni's hate Shi'ites, Kurds hate Persians, and they all hate Jews, and us, yet we import, on mass, 100'000's of them and hope for the best?

Are you serious? I think it's a testament to our Christian nature of turning the other cheek that Australians haven't formed their own gangs yet, and started fighting back.

Unbelievable.