Hi Fester,

I now detect a high degree of insincerity in you, as I gave you the benefit of the doubt, that you were in earlier posts sincerely looking for justice in the outcome of this referendum, be the result a "yes" or a "no". Regardless whatever, there is still much work to be done, not the least a healing process will be needed to mend fences as this debate has degenerated into a hostile slanging match between both sides with claims and counter claims. Rightly or wrongly a 'YES' vote offers a new direction, a new beginning in how we as a nation tackle this problem of inequality. Many on the 'NO' side will see a victory as vindication of their entrenched hostility towards Aboriginal people. I hope, regardless of the outcome we realise the problem is still there and real action is needed.

Shadow Minister,

The reason that I may appear as a Labor supporter
is due to their policies. As I've stated time and
time again - it's policies and people that get
my vote. I don't simply go with Party support.

Anyway, we'll see w2hat the Coalition comes up with
at the next election

Despite what Paul1405 might say Traditionalists are not Extreme Right- they are on a different dimension. Traditionalists were around before Libertarian Industrialists- they were the ANZACS, the ones who support Queen Elizabeth, the ones who created the Magna Carta, etc. Traditionalists believe that change needs to be balanced with Traditions otherwise principles are devalued in favour of change for change sake- usually to take the electorates freedom for Communist dictators power. Traditionalists believe that every culture should have their own nation- that multiculturalism is racism- in the west racism against Anglo-Irish peoples. American Indian and Australian Aboriginal rights are not multiculturalism despite what Communists might claim.

Some people are often drawn to extremism and fundamentalism
because they feel their traditional ways of life are
threatened by the influx of new things that they find alien.
Therefore they are pessimists about the future and
optimists about the past.

I won the parental lottery. Many of the kids I grew up with
came from unstable homes. I went home to a very traditional,
good Lithuanian Catholic family.

Perhaps Foxy was drawn to extremism due to her family being transplanted from Lithuania despite her upright Traditional Catholic upbringing. Or perhaps Foxy's family has been given preferential treatment from the Australian government against Anglo-Irish people- this would be racist Anglophobia.

Most of us have come to realize that in modern times
the "melting pot" need not mean the end of particular
ethnic identities or traditions.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists
is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.
The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what
they say about their opponents.