I simply don't understand how you can blame Multiculturalism for what certain criminals do?

To kill, bash, main,steal, et cetera are criminal activities. They are activities inflicted on the rest of society by usually a small minority. These people that break the law - will be arrested and tried by our legal system.

To say that I'm a racist because I'm for Multiculturalism? That's beyond my comprehension.

I believe in the rich diversity that makes up Australian society.
I feel that the gathering of many cultures is one of the most unique and rewarding aspects of living in Australia. I feel that the nature of being Australian is to be part of this deversity. And finally, the
wide and varied gathering of 'identities' is in keeping with the sense of potential and openess so many people enjoyed on coming here.
I feel privileged not only to have been able to make a home here but also to have found my own sense of belonging.

knopfler: "You are a racist"

I think that's what's called "projection" in psychological terms.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection for the general gist.

I recall you mentioning that you're a medical practitioner. I sincerely hope that you're professional enough to not let your personal antipathies impinge in any way upon your practice of medicine.

Understanding the REAL stories of migrants in this country.

Migrants no longer offer badly needed new skills. If they did, one yearly intake of 160,000 migrants would have solved the plumber, doctor and every othe skill shortage. All they offer is a vote for the H&I (Howard and Iemma) style federal and state government constituencies. Immigrants skillfully migrate to property bananza areas of capital cities. There they work for themselves and their own communities and vote for incumbents who selfishly pork-barrel grants to migrants over ordinary Australians. This suits the dysfunctionality of current H&I government because it keeps the economy growing, gives voting gerrymanders, allows H&I to ignore legitimate commuities and get on with their thusfar benign dictatorship. This dictatorship seems to have just one goal: transferring wealth from the poor to the rich with impunity.

Now if we didn't have permanent crises like drought, climate change, salinity, looming PEAKOIL, skills and ageing crises, and gridlock in every social service from police to hospitals to roads, Australia could assimilate this godforsaken dictatorship stupidity and still move ahead as a free nation. But those crises mean that Federalism will fall apart as petrol hits the $5/litre mark in less than a decade. Foreign interest groups within politically empowererd immigrant enclaves in all capital cities will tear this country apart to suit their own ends. This country will descend into regional civil wars that will make Cronulla riots look like sunday school. The upshot in a PEAKOIL world is that even the current elite southern European migrant blocs will fall apart as a strife torn Australia will invite overt invasion from asian regional neighbours. The lure of free Uranium gas & coal to solve their own PEAKOIL problems will prove too great.

This is the main reason Howard will lose. Most Australians understand the disharmony, erosion of basic rights and freedoms and the general gridlock that is breeding in our communities with clumsy "Go 4 Growth in migrant numbers, at the expense of the environment - with ZERO plans for sufficient energy and water to avoid an ensuing Thermodynamic Chaos" policy.

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From this time forth, every new migrant will dramatically increase water, power, hospital/healthcare, police, justice and all manner of public service shortages, for which H&I government have no plans other than building roads for new immigrants, akin to withdrawal of control rods in a nuclear reactor, that will hasten the imminent critical meltdown of aUStralian society.

The only way this nation will survive PEAKOIL is to STOP immigration and concentrate on developing new technologies. Particularly ENERGY technologies:

Total-Nuclear-Industries including a research seguay into laser based nuclearfusion,

Geothermal power laser drilling research,

A limited green energy backup infrastructure

And even a limited Unmanned SPACE power generation program.

We have, despite Howard and Costello's abysmal penny pinching economic management, the serendipitous wealth from all-time-high world mineral prices, to achieve targets in these areas that will insulate us both from PEAKOIL and from foreign invasion. To forego this future ENERGY challenge and waste that $wealth on roads to open up extra property bonanzas for new immigrants with very uncertain loyalties should be legislated as a crime in view of its future cost in Australian lives and the fate of this nation.

And the deathknell to the H&I dumb-notion that immigration-based-Economic-growth is Australia's future, is that the current US-economy valuation of our $Dollar$ will soon collapse along with the US economy. Then, as PEAKOIL bites harder all global curencies will be linked to energy stocks that are cheapest to transport. That means the $A will not be worth the paper its written on except for any remaining oil/gas/uranium reserves, all of which will be under threat of invasion.

Re various Cocks and crowings etc

Alan Jones did INCITE violence and terrorism. FACT.

Mu is quite correct. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found earlier this year that shock jock Alan Jones had broadcast material "that was likely to encourage violence, in the lead-up to the Cronulla riot".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1893477.htm