PP, that’s probably the best idea I’ve heard of in ages!
With the Net now available across the world, it would be simple to co-ordinate. Allowing for time zones might introduce some confusion, yet could be dealt with, with a little practice. ONYA!

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NO, I do not mean an organization as fecca! They depend on government's money and they used from the governments to cover their policies about ethnic or religious minorities and multiculturarism.
Howard's government attacked agresively ethnic and regilious minoroties, Howard's government attacked agresively attacked multiculturasism BUT fecca did nothing to defent multiculturasism,ethnic and regilious minoroties. Even they was not brave enouph to resign!
Many of communitee associations are closed to new members, are other non democratic and other exist only as stamps.
Many members of mecca come from this kind of community associations, and they have very little contact with their communities.
They did nothing to democratize the ethnic communities, they did nothing to bring the migrants in their community organizations.
I know a Greek association with good relations with South Australian authorities. One time the primier and governor of South australia went to their even, few months later I spoke to members of the committee of this association about serious mistakes of their president.
In the next meeting of the committee they replaced their president, 7 to replace 2 against it. Few weeks later I learned that the replaced president expelled the 7 members of the committee who dicided to replace him!
One expelled the 7! There is a huge problem in community associations but fecca does not do anything to support them, and the governments, I supposed, prefer semi-dead community organizations!
I WANT AN INTEPENDANT, OPEN, MASS, DEMOCRATIC, ACTIVE ASSOCIATION READY TO FIGHT FOR MULTICULTURARISM AND ETHNIC-RELIGIOUS MINORITIES RIGHTS.
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

In that case, I want an INDEPENDENT, OPEN, MASS, DEMOCRATIC, ACTIVE ASSOCIATION READY TO DEFEND AGAINST MULTICULTURISM AND ETHINIC/RELIGIOUS MINORITIES RIGHTS!
Multiculturism is “divide and rule”, and an insult to thinking people.
The minorities “rights” already over-rule most aussies desires, why encourage them?
You want to live in this country? Live as we do.
You want to live like you did in the country you left? Go back!
This is AUSTRALIA, NOT a U.N. camp!
You suffer from prejudice? Tough, it happens everywhere, get over it, adapt, assimilate, your grandkids WON’T.
Encouraging and abetting the things that divide us is NOT the way to teach tolerance and acceptance, patience and education will though.
I like P.P.’s idea, big-screen permanent international links, kids will grow up knowing that the other kids around the world really aren’t that much different, it would be a flarbling good start.

Thank you for retrieving that post Whistler. This time I put it in here on purpose as it seemed the most appropriate current discussion.

I am really shocked and hadn’t picked up on it before that the aboriginals didn’t have citizenship before 1967. When Australia wanted white immigrants only was that racist or was it about the education or qualifications they got from the people of predominantly white countries at the time?

Oh you do have “acceptance of the aboriginal community” – like in NZ one can “identify” with a tribe and be accepted. But I believe you must pick one and not waver. I would like multi-cultural status. The government wont fund a lot of aboriginal foster services to take on non-indigenous carers. So they effectively stop the aboriginal orgs from being as useful as they could. This must be considered racist and discriminatory…?

The “integration by self-determination” while seeming fair and respectful in reality becomes indulgent and exclusive doesn’t it. If you really want to be part of the rest of Australia you can but after all that has gone before all we can do is just help you when you feel like cruising in.

Why isn’t there a positive message of come join the club, we need you educated and working with us because without you Australia will never be a nation that is balanced, grounded and proud.

Hey Thank you Max, I completely forgot about the time zone stuff maybe if it began in Aussie between Aboriginal schools, predominantly Muslim schools etc. I was trying to think of ideas where the teachers aren’t required to do even more than they do already.

I think if you are white Australian who is not affected by different cultural influences directly then it could appear ugly, this reality.
However the reality is the same for many Australians that are white as it was for some indigenous Australians. of course nowhere as bad, but along the same lines.

I totally embraced multiculturalism, more so than anyone I ever knew. I was severely mistreated and humiliated, more than once, by men who have very different values towards women than how we were brought up to believe. This happened in marriage, relationships and workplace. Effectivey my embrace of this utopia called multiculturism has ruined my life.

Now I see my niece as open hearted as I was once and really want to stop her relationship with the young handsome migrant as I see in him the same as I have seen before.

I can't of course, but appears I am now a racist after so many years of being on the frontline of the welcoming committee. Of course this can happen in any race, any culture but when you are powerless to speak out against the elements that hurt some, then what do you do?

So be it. I am racist, if only to protect future generations against cultural influences that are at the expense of women.

Plus my problems, the problems from migrants are nothing compared to real racism that exists toward indigenous. Like we are all spoilt children moaning for a month over a brusied knee when real illness is left unattended.

Hey Missus, it’s weird the lessons we learn. My upper class English defacto in-laws didn’t like me because I had two kids to their son but wasn’t particularly interested in marriage. My Italian in-laws didn’t like me because although I married him I could not have children. The children never accepted in either family like their cousins were.

Hard to please people in this world. Your niece will find her own way and you never know, she may get through okay?

I really know very little about the Aboriginals, most of it has been gathered from here and a few weeks ago I read “Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence’. I also read lots of a site about Aboriginal culture but there was no one to question. I know I have to do more than read but I’m not sure what it is.

So you’re problem with many immigrants is they come from sexist cultures? I can understand that one and obviously the personal stuff that has happened.

But what do we want for our children and our sisters’ children? What do you want for them Missus?