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Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 9:55:41 AM
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Homeaffairs.gov.au tells us that it was in 1978 that the
first official national multicultural policies were implemented by the Fraser Government in accord with the recommendations of the Galbally Report in the context of government programs and services for migrants. In October 2016 the government formally reaffirmed its commitment to racial respect. The Prime Minister moved a Statement on racial tolerance in the Australian Parliament's House of Representatives. The Statement read: This House: 1) Reaffirms its commitment to the right of all Australians to enjoy equal rights and be treated with equal respect regardless of race, colour, creed or origin. 2) Reaffirms its commitment to maintaining an immigration policy wholly non-discriminatory on grounds of race, colour, creed or origin. 3) Reaffirms the commitment to the process of reconciliation with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the context of redressing their profound social and economic disadvantage. 4) Reaffirms its commitment to maintain Australia as a culturally diverse, tolerant, and open society united by an overriding commitment to our nation, and its democratic institutions and values and - 5) Denounces racial intolerance in any form as incompatible with the kind of society we are and want to be. This Statement was supported by the Opposition Leader and was carried unanimously. In the Western English-speaking countries multiculturalism as an official national policy started in Canada in 1971 followed by Australia in 1973 and it was in 1978 that the first official national policies were implemented. Where they are maintained today. These were quickly adopted as official policy by most member-states of the European Union. There's more at: http://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/multicultural-affairs/about-multicultural-affairs/our-policy-history#: Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 11:21:34 AM
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A mother, Sakina Muhammad Jan, has been identified as the first person in Australia to be convicted of causing a person to enter into a forced marriage.
Startlingly, the offence has been law for only a decade in this country, although enforced multiculturalism has been with us for 50 years. During that time, there have been periodic rumblings about young girls being sent back to their parents’ homeland to marry men they didn’t know. Nothing was done because, hey, multiculturalism is so “successful”. Don't want to rock the boat. Don't want to admit how wrong we got it. Not even friendly warnings that that sort of thing is not on here. Well the stupidity of the naive expectations of alien cultures just fitting in are now in the MSM. This woman's 21 year daughter was murdered by the man she was forced to marry 6 months after the wedding. He is doing a life sentence. The prosecutor wants the mother in jail too, to send a message to the “community”. But, this is in Melbourne where judges are more interested in looking up innocent Cardinals than non- white minority imports. Also deserving jail are the politicians who thought that all they had to do was introduce multiculturalism (without our permission) and everything would be fine. Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 8:38:02 PM
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"Since forced marriage was criminalised in 2013, significant
steps have been taken by government, civil society, and communities to better identify and protect those vulnerable or subject to forced marriage in Australia." "However, despite those often collaborative efforts more effective strategies are needed which focus on prevention and early intervention. To do this we need to better understand how Australian communities are impacted by forced marriages, how they best respond, and what they think can be done to prevent it at the community level." "Most of all, we need to understand the experiences and advice of affected communities, what has worked, and what is needed to truly have a community led response." To this end, the Australian Red Cross has undertaken a series of consultations with communities. There's more at the following: http://www.redcross.org.au/globalassets/cms-assets/documents/migration-services/forced-marriage-community-voices-stories-and-strategies-australian-red-cross.pdf Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 10:33:39 PM
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Here is another link that answers frequently asked questions
about forced marriages from the Dept. of Home Affairs: http://www.homeaffairs.gov.aucriminal-justice/files/forced-marriage-faqs.pdf Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 10:38:08 PM
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Excuse my typo. Here's the link again:
http://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/criminal-justice/files/forced-marriage-faqs.pdf Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 23 July 2024 10:40:49 PM
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All Albanese says about the abomination that is multiculturalism is it is a “key part” of modern Australia; and we should “nurture our multiculturalism” - just because he says we should: no real reason given.
On the other hand, to give him credit, Peter Dutton recognises the very obvious downside of the policy, and points to the fact that there is, or should be, a social contract whereby “we do not allow the problems, the tensions, or the animosity of other parts of the world to manifest in our communities or on our streets”.
Unfortunately, the Albanese government has not implemented any such ‘contract’; has not even used the existing laws on hate speech.
Dutton has said there is clear evidence of “people in our country today who do not subscribe to our democratic values” and of individuals “who do not want to change for Australia but want, instead, for Australia to change for them.”
There is an election coming. And it is hoped that Mr. Dutton will put his oppositional beliefs into government as the only practical alternative to Mr. Albanese.