It is a considered a crime to criminalise a race in Australia if some of their members commit race hate crime. That is if you mention the race, too often, if at all then the ethnic leaders can sue for racial vilification. It is a human right not to be vilified due to your race alone. So when anyone is target of race hate crime by minorities the police etc are put between rock and hard place. To admit it is racist is to say *INSERT RACE* is racist against Indians, whites or Indigenous etc, members of accused race can then make formal complaint to HEROC. However the law is discriminatory because the same laws do not apply to "white race".

The reasoning is how Foxy suggests, ethnic groups do not have large enough populations to have racial political representation but whites do. So you see support for parties like One Nation or the in the UK the BNP. Both considered racist so even the reason a white person has no human rights law against racial vilification of their race is considered racist?

Not sure if that is clear but is why all the screws are loose on the subject. It is also why some will join a "white" political party. The reason they have no human rights like others is because they can vote this way.

I could not give a flying fig what race people are but am really sick of this Australia is racist, the flag is racist nonsense, and the victimisation of people who as far as I can see have perfectly equal footing. I really only care about Indigenous Australians as a racial subject, the rest usualy a bunch of crybabies and white guilt trippers who are too coward to apologise for their own sin but want to share it round like some form of Bird Flu.

Now onto subject of Bogan, Redneck. etc, I am not real sure who they are. I see Van Rudd as a child who is easily led by propoganda and see the racist rubbish against whites. Is he a bogan? I am sure he has not been disadvantaged. I see he protested KKK style while his "race" asians were busy beating up Indians. Is he a bogan? He is not classy, not informed, uneducated. Bogan Van? Brownneck?

Or is it ONLY working class. Working class are not racist. You throw one bone to 5 dogs all of different breed a fight may break out. Are these dogs racist? Oh how the comfortable are ugly with their shallow judgements. Like life is some cheap reality TV show.

Egalitarian was once the most wonderful trait of Australia yet so many keen to flush this quality down the toilet while they embrace fake class structures based on celebrity and trend. All idealism long abandoned.

Working class fractured along ethnic lines and divide and conquor strategy going as planned. Divided they fall. Oh how sheeple we can be be. Then the anti-flag brigade come out, full of bluster on all things they do not understand nor feel, no care for. Just a bunch of Hyacinth Bucket's (bou-quet) boors clogging the airwaves.

I wish I was French.

I say; leave the flag alone. As there is only one possible end-design for the new flag, out of a hundred million or so possibilities, only a very small proportion of the population would ever be truly happy with it.

Most people would either be unhappy that it was changed at all or unhappy with the chosen final product…..or apathetic!

Very few people indeed would be happy with it, I’d reckon.

So a new flag, no matter how nice it might be, would be more (probably a lot more) divisive than helpful.

I wish I was French too Missus. You talk of loose screws and well, you're walking into something with those rants. Keep em coming though!

The French have an arrogance I admire. I like their views on sex too. I love it when Parisians who speak English refuse to do so to foreigners. I think it's funny. Good on em.

I like your 5 different dogs after a bone. I'm with you on the Bogan haters, and CJ, sorry, you're guilty as charged.

'Just a bunch of Hyacinth Bucket's (bou-quet) boors clogging the airwaves.'

Even pontificator got a mention.

You rock Missus!

'I really only care about Indigenous Australians as a racial subject, the rest usualy a bunch of crybabies and white guilt trippers who are too coward to apologise for their own sin but want to share it round like some form of Bird Flu.'

That's excellent!

Examinator,
You are right about people not knowing about the stars on our flag or the words to our anthem, but they do recognise them when they see the flag or hear the anthem.

This has far more to do with our education than anything else. For years now schooling has done little to teach kids Australian history or Australiana. Recently I asked a 12 year old, in NSW, who crossed the Blue Mountains, when and its significance. He did not know. My grandaughter,14 years and in Melbourne, could not tell me when Melbourne was settled or the present Governor of Vic.

Ask a kid now to recite 'My Country' or a Banjo or Lawson poem/story.

Teaching about other cultures has been far more important. I consider we have the priorities wrong.

Seeing as everyone is having a bit of a
rant - I'll add my two cents worth...

Here goes:

Wouldn't it be great if the good will
that surrounds Australia Day can extend
to the other 364 days of the year, through
respect for other people; civility;
a welcoming smile; extending the hand of
friendship; sharing celebrations and food.

These are simple virtues. And they are powerful.

It's up to us - what sort of identity we have!