" There was a time when to be Australian was to be English,
only sunburnt. There was a time when to be Australian was
to be a dangerous criminal, but far enough away geographically
from normal people. "

"There was even a time when to be Australian was to be a giant
short-faced kangaroo, and it's amazing that today barely
anyone even remembers what life was like back then."

"As national identity has changed in our own lifetime, it
changed in our great grandfathers' lifetime, and even in their
great grand-parents'. Before Gallipoli nobody knew Australians
could fight in trenches. Before Errol Flynn nobody knew
Australians could be sexy in front of cameras. Before Julia
Gillard nobody knew Australians could be women."

" Australia is a process of revelation, of unveiling to the
world the surprising facts, facts about ourselves that nobody
knew."

" I guess what I am saying is we should let the celebration
of great Australians be not only a reflection of our past, but
a salutary lesson for our future. We need to learn from
Weary Dunlop and Caroline Chisholm and Vincent Lingiari, and
all their historical kin, so that we can become the Australians
we aspire to be, and more importantly, create the Australia we
aspire to live in."

"But even while we do so, let's remember the words of a great
Australian whose identity remains a mystery to this day:
There's never been a more exciting time to be Australian -
than right now."

Taken from the book - "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie: Questionable
Histories of Great Australians," by Ben Pobjie.

That all began to change when Fraser (truly the most disastrous of all Liberal leaders) bought into multiculturalism.
mhaze,
Grasby wasn't in that administration ? he was in the previous one, the one that did away with discipline & opened the gates ! At least that's how I seem to remember it all. Of course I couldn't possibly be totally certain after all, we could only go by what the media showed us.

Australia is fully committed to multiculturalism,
the doctrine that several different cultures, rather
than one national culture can co-exist peacefully
and equitably in a single country.

Hence the mosaic metaphor which supports the idea
where many cultures exist collectively in one place
and are supported as one by the existence of others.

The beauty of a mosaic is not due to merely one shade
of tile, but because of the appearance of many -
which collectively form a beautiful bigger picture.

It's not often that I say this but Kudos Yuyutsu.

mhaze said "multiculturalism exists by cannibalising the successes of the previous monocultural Australia."

Kudos mhaze.

Foxy said "Australia is fully committed to multiculturalism"

Answer- Peta Cretlin said in one segment that according to Hawke's memoirs (1984) both Labor and Liberal colluded to keep issues of immigration out of the town square. So it if Foxy means that "both sides of the uniparty are fully committed to multiculturalism against the will of the Australian people" then this sounds correct.

Looks like our culture now is also selling weapons to kill innocent civilians.

http://twitter.com/CaptCoronado/status/1767648209139028152
NATO backed Ukrainian forces launches Australian made cardboard attack drones to attack city center in Belgorod, Russia!! NATO launches all out assault on Russia! Is the Australian proud?