Like Jennifer Clarke, I am disgusted at Kevin Andrew's attempt to make the Sudanese people into an election issue. If he is going to make an attack on a whole ethnic group he should be prepared to back it up with hard evidence.

However, the bulk of the article was the standard Leftist line: "white race as the cancer of history", "we have no right to our prosperity", etc. It is amazing that people like Jennifer Clarke never apply their reasoning on citizenship (i.e. our collective property) to private property. Ms. Clarke no doubt keeps her doors locked so that random strangers cannot come in to doss down or help themselves to the plasma television. To give people an incentive to cooperate, work and provide for their future, we respect private property and even allow people to become rich, even though we know that property is sometimes acquired by dubious means or inherited from people who acquired it in such a way. Why does she think the situation is any different on the national scale?

White people did not invent wars and genocide. These things were happening before there were modern humans, as we know from those cannibalised Homo Heidelbergensis skeletons in that cave in Spain. There is now DNA evidence that the ancestors of the Aboriginal people were in a position to settle Australia because they had displaced the ancestors of the New Guinea Highlanders from the coasts.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200106/ai_n8988825

What is the use by date on ancestral guilt?

The main problem for Australia is about numbers, not ethnic background. But accepting migrants from diverse lingual and cultural backgrounds is not without significant logistical challenges. The UK has pursued similar policy for decades, routinely dismissing any criticism as racist. Of late the problems have become too substantial to ignore. How long will it be before people start facing the reality here?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article2511938.ece?openComment=true

That's what I love about the left,they never let reality or common sense interfer with their ideology.Face it we are nothing but a bunch of white elitists racists and that is why we have the the most diverse culture on the planet who take more refugees per head than most other countries.

No mention of facist Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia or Malaysia who make second class citizens out of non Muslims.By the way,if you don't like the Muslim philosophy or the imposition of Sharia Law,you are also a filthy white racist.You must learn to be tolerant to those who seek to enslave you.

Jennifer Clarke seems to target whites as a kind of "cosmic enemy" - as a group of people hindering the arrival of the long-awaited free and equal new man.

It's a "magical" way of thinking about the world. We are supposed to believe that stable governance and a strong work ethic in Australia are responsible for lack of development in Africa. We are supposed to believe that if whites gave up group identity and power that others would be released into freedom and equality - despite the evidence to the contrary in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Zimbabwe is an excellent example of what is wrong with the theories put forward by Jennifer Clarke. When whites there lost power and privilege the result wasn't freedom and equality, but political repression and a new kind of inequality in which a black elite exploits the black poor and in which one black ethnic group dominates another.

It's noteworthy that the most egalitarian nations are generally the most homogeneous, e.g. Norway and Japan. Compare these two countries to diverse nations like Brazil and Mexico in which a small but enormously wealthy elite rules over the masses.

It seems to me that Jennifer Clarke has picked up on some of the worst aspects of academic whiteness studies, as explained here:

http://ozconservative.blogspot.com/2007/09/whiteness-studies.html

Arjay, no-one is advocating handing out citizenship certificates to known terrorists or fundamentalist sharia Imans, but the majority of Muslim immigrants settle in here just fine, and as they usually maintain ties back to their countries of birth, this can only help the slow and painful process of dismantling racism and fascism in those parts of the world, as more and more Muslims see the obvious benefits of a liberal and equal society first-hand.

Actually because of the illogical focus on race and ethnicity, it concerns me considerably that immigrants with extreme beliefs intent on imposing them on us are being allowed to slip through the cracks. The idea that the average Sudanese refugee is somehow less likely to assimilate and adapt to Australian values than, say, the average Iraqi refugee is pretty much nonsense, yet this is exactly what Andrews is claiming.

The difference is an Iraqi will at least be able to use a phone to save himself. And at least Arabic is not a language no one has heard of, he can go and work in our many thousands of kebab shops.

Whats the bet Jenny got a big fat grant from our government for this rot?

Where do these freaks come from? What did her parents do to her as a child that she comes up with this garbage?

Jenny I want my money back, you are very clearly an oxygen thief and not the full quid and as such not worthy of my tax dollars.

I believe your time would be better spent in the kitchen looking after your girlfriend.

NEXT!