There is mounting evidence that civic virtue is decaying in Australia and that a crisis of citizenship is upon us. Multiculturalism and “diversity “ is weakening Australia. Cultures adverse to the Australian Christian/Anglo Celtic culture are becoming more dangerous. The first generation of Australian born children of immigrants are the biggest problem. They don’t fit in, or don’t want to fit in.

The Scanlon Foundation research shows a long term decline in a ‘sense of pride and belonging’ in Australia. The most recent indication of decline is reflected in a score of 91 in 2007 dropping to 78 in 2023.

Commitment to the Australian way of culture and life is diminishing. Commitment dropped from 65% in 2007 down to 40% in 2023.

Identify politics have subverted the “liberal ideal” creating a country of strangers using “rights” as a shield to protect them from views they don't like.

The Australian political class, particularly the Left, have cultivated the situation with an official policy of multiculturalism that was not voted for by citizens.

Yuyutsu,

“Well, Ttbn, I am not leaving, this is my home - what are you going to do?”

I only noticed your post after I had posted this morning. I no longer ‘surf’ to see what other people think.

I'm not going to “do” anything except express my opinions, which will have no more influence than yours or those of any other posters here.

Your posting history indicates, to me at least, that you are an unhappy and discontented person who would be that way wherever you live. You left Israel because you didn't like it, and you don't seem to like Australia either. You should think about what you are doing to yourself rather than what I or anyone else might do to you.

Dear Ttbn,

Interesting why you deduce that I am unhappy and discontented:
what have my views to do with my personal life, which you hardly know about?

Yes, my values are different, but why on earth should they coincide with the Christian/Anglo-Saxon/Celtic culture? Before your people came to Australia there were aboriginal people here, so should my values coincide with theirs too?

Capturing hungry people for stealing a loaf of bread, then sending them abroad in chains on a torturous journey for 7 or 14 years of hard labour and whips, never to see their families again - doesn't such behaviour resemble the Hamas' kidnapping? Is this the culture you are so proud of? Is it less primitive than the preceding, aboriginal, culture?

And this arrogant belief as if the land is yours to dominate, in the name of the Empire on which the sun never sets, how different is it from the Communist Chinese culture and its land-grab of neighbouring territories?

And do I need to repeat the horrors of the Christian culture, which David F (whom I miss) used to so succinctly describe, fraudulently posing as a religion, such atrocities due to which religion today is looked down upon?

I am mostly a busy, active and happy person and participating in OLO is just a fraction of my life, where I get the opportunity to communicate my views and values, allowing readers to expand their limited views that are largely based on early brainwashing by an unjust culture desperately trying to preserve itself.

Kudos ttbn

Yuyutsu said- “Well, Ttbn, I am not leaving, this is my home - what are you going to do?”

A- Remigration

Thanks CM,

There is more against mass immigration and multiculturalism than there is for it. There financial situation alone - the lies about how good it is - is just one.

Any financial gain from immigration is often offset by added demands on public services, infrastructure and housing. Not to mention the ‘confusion’ caused by alien cultures that prevail forever, thanks to the diktat (imposed by the powerful without consent) of multiculturalism that discourages assimilation.

Australian Treasury figures show that, while the benefits of immigration of even ‘skilled’ migrants to Australia are $198 k per capita, the “family and humanitarian migrants is minus $126,000 and $400,000, respectively”. (Ramesh Thakur, ‘Importing the third world’).