Fair Go, what makes you so sure that the protesters are in fact 'neo nazis' and 'white supremacists'? Is it possible that they are not, and simply hold a different position on a particular issue that is different from yourself? Do you have evidence that these people, as you imply, preached white domination and the extermination of everyone else?

It sounds to me like they were raising legitimate fears. Many Africans live in housing commissions in Australian cities. Elsewhere in the world they bring with them poverty. France has dangerous ghettoes full of Africans thanks to unchecked immigration. Why do you think there is a concerted effort to disperse African immgrants around the country? So they can't form poverty stricken ghettoes. This alone is reason not to bring them here.

Back to the pitiful and shameful work of social engineering called multiculturalism. Hundreds of ethnic groups live side by side in parts of Australia thanks to the infrastructure set up by the Anglo Celtic / Saxon population. The anglo culture is the glue that stabilises this country, so why subvert it. The benefits immigrants bring is grossly exagerated to justify more immigration for the benefit of certain interest groups (and not the broader australian population).

Davo, your comments are both cruel and unwarranted.

First, to say that people from war-torn countries around the world should not be accepted into Australia because they might form poverty-stricken ghettos reflects poorly not only on you but on our society. You are obviously an intolerant and cold-hearted individual who is too concerned with your own material and economic well-being to extend your heart to people suffering real humanitarian tragedies. I think you should be ashamed of yourself and your and small-minded opinions.

As for fair go's statements about white supremacists have you stopped to ponder if perhaps fair go is calling them "supremacists" because that is the ideology they openly espouse? I know it's hard to believe that such people are out there, but it was equally hard for me to read your extreme opinion about Africans...ill-informed, racist and cruel opinions are everywhere, as you yourself demonstrate.

Davo, your comments are both cruel and unwarranted.

First, to say that people from war-torn countries around the world should not be accepted into Australia because they might form poverty-stricken ghettos reflects poorly not only on you but on our society. You are obviously an intolerant and cold-hearted individual who is too concerned with your own material and economic well-being to extend your heart to people suffering real humanitarian tragedies. I think you should be ashamed of yourself and your small-minded opinions.

As for fair go's statements about white supremacists have you stopped to ponder if perhaps fair go is calling them "supremacists" because that is the ideology they openly espouse? I know it's hard to believe that such people are out there, but it was equally hard for me to read your extreme opinion about Africans...ill-informed, racist and cruel opinions are everywhere, as you yourself demonstrate.

Well said Dronkey!

The extremely racists, almost militant views expressed in this forum are shockingly shameful. No wonder so many people feel isolated whilst living in Australian society.

And to call people who care about the plight of others, as opposed to having dreams simply of expanding their own wallet, "self-loathing" is paradoxical.

Many African people are poor, but why is that a reason to deny them immigration to Australia? Surely one of the "core" Australian values our Prime Minister is trying so dearly to cling onto has something to do with compassion and understanding? Australia after all is a nation of migrants. Why are do we feel so afraid of migrants now? Is this an expression of a latent fear of ourselves?

Australia should be leading the way to the socialists nirvana and be demanding the worlds poor and disenfranchised. Everything that has been created in the last 200 years should be used to support and employ and house the worlds poor here in Australia. Racist white Australians should go live in Africa and see how they like it. Fertile lands as far as the eye can see. Long ocean shores teeming with fish. Forrest after forest to harvest timber. diamond and other mineral wealth. Exotic fruits to seed farms, grapes to grow wines. Miles of grazing land for cattle and sheep. The opportunities for whites is boundless. Those poor Africans they have nothing.

Thanks Banjo. I made that list to show that Australians who were born in another part of the world learn to know and understand intrinsic Australian 'values'. I sometimes think that we might even have more insight into these than those born here. After all, we have to adapt and have come from other cultures to compare.

Multiculturalism helped me and others like me to become a real part of this nation. It acknowledges that I and others like me, though born elsewhere and never able to hide the fact because of things like accent and habits, am still as Aussie as any other Aussie.

Our children too, though born here, because of growing up in a non Anglo Australian household will grow up knowing their parents' culture. Now they don't have to be embarrassed anymore and hide this fact.

It is Australian to judge and respect individuals on their merit. Not on issues like class, education, religion and where they come from. Most Australians would agree with this. But what does does then really mean?

Australia is such a successful multicultural country precisely because of intrinsic Australian values. That's why countries like say France, Germany and Great Britain have problems and struggle with multiculturalism.

Terms like 'Fair go' are bandied around, but what value does that have if really we want everybody to conform and be the same? To conform and obey to some vague authority I regard as un-Australian. I'm afraid if anybody is going to demand a certain Australian code of conduct Australians being what they are will rebel!

As I've remarked before: Multi-cultural does not mean multi-national. Many cultures are identified in name by a nation, but it denotes a culture not the political entity of a nation. Multicultural has nothing to do with multinationality. That is not acceptable.

Debates like this divides Australians again into new-comers and suspect vs Anglo-Celtic Australian. All people who become Australian citizens have to swear allegiance to this nation and its laws after a long drawn out process.

Fair dinkum you blokes, give us a fair go.