Banjo, If you find it uncomfortable that I should name your racisms so spectacularly its not my problem, its yours.

I think an English test is essential part of anyone becoming Australian I mean if people are serious about moving hear and wanting to contribute to this country it’s quite obvious that they need to be able to speak English. Any argument against this is absurd and socially indefensible.

How can you ever be part of nation and know what is going on if you cant communicate with the locals read local papers and watch local news? But then again most immigrants who come to this country are not hear to contribute to this great nation and could not give 2 two hoots about Australia or Australians so understandably they are all up in arms about real aussie making it tougher for their mates to get on to easy street….. I mean into Australia.

The English test has been way over due and if people are serious about being Australian they would know English before they come hear

Dear Ranier... I've ordered the home care nurse to attend to your obviously failing memory and tunnel vision :) sorry, don't mean to sound unkind there but where in this wide world do you persistently, stubbornly and with monotonous regularity keep on regurgitating this 'white apartied' type of monoculturalism that you think I am on about ?
I mean..seriously, I'm beginning to doubt my communication skills.
I've done the right thing..GOT THEIR ATTENTION, with my ONE NATION,ONE RACE, ONE CULTURE piece where I clearly and systematically outlined my vision of a blended Australia of tomorrow.
I am NOT repeat NOT about either making everyone white NOR am I about marginalizing everyone who is not white. I am.. repeat.. AM about dropping racist predjudices and mixing ourselves up, intermarrying, creating a new blended aussie.

Number 2 was closest from your rather limited list. But the point I'm harping on, is that we should NOT be funding anything which emphasizes DIFFerence, rather, we should be funding any measure which creates UNITY and blending.
Again..I repeat that the only BARRIER to such an approach is an entrenched racism which feels it is superior to other less worthy cultures/races.
I would not mind if my 18 yr old son married your 18 yr old daughter as long as they loved each other.

So, in conclusion, I guess that makes the Left/MultiCultists the true racists and me the non racist.. mr clean if you like :)

So, there, have a chew on that for a while... again.
cheers mate.

Bazz...spot on mate. (ditto for most others)

Banjo, I totally agree with you that this ‘milking’ of Australia should be stopped. And it is true that not everyone is honest. But what I believe is, that not only immigrants commit fraud or are corrupt and that it is discriminatory to especially select and focus on one group as scapegoats: the immigrants.

If the Australian government is inadequate in taking control of fraud means that it should prioratise improving its efficiency in this area.
When individuals commit fraud, the whole group of immigrants is not to blame and should not have to bear the consequences.
There’s crime and fraud and corruption all around us throughout Australia. Think of Farm crime frauds, banking sector frauds, fraud in the real estate sector/property developers, scammers, con-artists, bribers, and corruption in the (local) government. All these are individually dealt with. So should it be with immigrants- we cannot say, ‘because a minority of immigrants have committed crimes we need to deal with the whole group- let them sit a test’, if this is not also done with other groups in society.
That’s why it bothers me.

Knowledge of Australian history, Australian values, or a test in English are hardly going to stop immoral people commit fraud. Tests are not a cure against immorality or dishonesty.

Some immigrants do not integrate?
Neither do some Australians.

Think of cults or sects like The Exclusive Brethren (EB) and Hill song.
The exclusive Brethren do not integrate any more, and I dare say, even less, than the minority of immigrants that Howard criticised for not integrating.

Mixing with other Australians:
They are forbidden to socialise with people outside the EB clan. They may only do business with them, but may have no contact outside business purposes.

Equal rights for women:
And what do EB think about women? They have dress-codes for women, and they do not allow women to work outside the family home once married.
So much for equal rights for this great Australian value.

continued:

EB have many rules and regulations that are not in line with Australian values.
Every Australian kid should have the right of education? Not so- the EB forbids their children to take part in tertiary education.
EB members may not vote, watch TV, read newspapers, use the internet- no contact at all with the outside world or be excommunicated.

I have not once heard Howard criticising these sects (in fact, he funds them AND their EB schools which offer kids no computer skills) but when it comes to a small minority of migrants that do not integrate, he’s quick to criticise.

Boaz,
there already exists one race: the human race.

"The values of freedom, democracy and the rule of law are clearly universal values."
Posted by Yung Yong, Sunday, 24 December 2006 11:44:00 PM

This phrase 'the Rule of Law' has had much currency lately and I am suspicious of it. Who makes the laws? Why the WASPS of course. So why would the peasants value the rules made for them by their overlords? Well they wouldnt and they dont.

There has been a great injustice in the recording of our White Australian History in the failure to recognize that there were two very different tribes on those early boats although they all had white skin.

There were those that sat at goose, and those that festered in chains - those who stood at one end of the gun, and those that worked at the other. Why would the convicts, or their descendants, want the jailors, or their descendants, making the laws for them? Well they wouldnt and they dont.

We came here as two white tribes and we have been so ever since.