Original purpose of Constitution subsection 51(xxvi) was mostly external affairs to stop Chinese and Melanesians being imported as cheap labor so damaging the developing Trade Unions and undercutting workers standards of living; Problem requiring this clause was limiting migrants to only British citizens would not work as they were ALL British citizens and as such they could migrate here... so racial clause to apply to persons not already in Australia was used so as to prevent more from coming... those already here ok to stay.

The "except Aborigines" bit was to also to ensure no laws could be upheld which diminished rights and responsibilities of Australians who happened to also be Aboriginal persons.

Shamefully the High Court allowed state's claims overturning this when defending their States denial of rights and responsibilities to Australians who were also Aboriginal. A mess still being repaired...

This abuse achieved with reference to census section which was to prevent Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland padding their population counts with inaccurate A+TSI population counts to effect their House of Representatives numbers.

Supporters of racism defend measuring rights and responsibilities of Australians and others using same old excuses "we are doing this to help you"...

Australians want no such help on racial terms, or religious terms, or..

Ringy,

Most of the posters here on OLO come across as insightful and intelligent people with a real concern for the down trodden, the poor, the disadvantaged, and those who are unjustly treated in our society.

Its just the others I don't like.

Hahahaha :D Very droll Rainier!

Where I live and conduct my business, I know numerous people who could be quite accurately described as 'rednecks', yet I find in most of them enough commonalities that we are generally very friendly to each other. As is the case in small communities, we in fact often socialise with each other - and nearly all of them are customers of mine.

I won't stretch the analogy any further, but suffice to say that (as most regular OLO participants would be aware) I'm not generally thrilled by their demographic ;)

But individually they're mostly good blokes. Then again, I'm a particularly tolerant sort of chap :)

Go figure.

CJ, the small town not far from my hometown is full of them too.
the rules of interacting 'strategically' with 'blacks' are grudgingly adopted by new comers.(with quiet tutelage from locals) In this historically significant town apartheid is so deeply entrenched in social relations that it draws connivance and silence from even the most ardent anti-racist. Every now and then something happens which disrupts, ruptures and reveals this insidious pattern of toxic cohabitation. And then someone always whispers "Keep your eyes down, mind your own business, don't get involved, if you know whats good for you".

Whenever I have worked somewhere there are a lot of ethnics usually Asian or Arab, I am always told that we have to change to meet their needs. That they are here now and Australia is their's.

This does not happen to me. It is common. It is reason to tear up apart our immigration policy and abolish this self destructive multiculturalism.

The presumption of ‘racism’ is in itself ethnically libellous against white people. No one accuses Asian or African nations of ‘racism’ for their refusal to allow ethnic diversity. Like being endlessly self critical, diversity is a white only duty.

It is a ready made insult that infers white majority populations have no right to self determination and a homeland – unlike everyone else. This occurs in both new world and old world white majority countries, whether they have been colonialist in the past or not. The only time when self determination doesn’t draw the ‘racist’ accusation is when it’s between two white groups, eg. ETA in Spain or the IRA in Ireland.

The ethnically libellous slur of ‘racist’ is fed largely by Hollywood. One immediately identifies white self determination with images of movies full of slow witted ‘rednecks’, ‘hillbillies’ or ludicrous men with German accents. Claim self determination, and one is almost certain to draw such insults from people who’ve grown up watching these (mostly fictional) American movies. On the other hand, Hollywood has presented non-white self determination as noble. There is yet to be a movie about the millions of white slaves taken from coastal Europe by North Africans, a slave trade that preceded America’s and was infinitely more brutal.

Regarding the premise of the article, of course most people can get along on a one to one basis, but this has nothing to do with large scale demographic change. When you find yourself in a minority position, this airy fairy rhetoric means nothing. It is an feel good exercise in self flagellating white competitive altruism...the equivalent of slaves singing the joys of slavery to appease massa’. We climb the social ladder by degrading ourselves.

I am white, therefore I am racist by default. No buts about it