Sorry foxy,
but I have to agree with Shadow on this one. Ludwig makes my concerns well. Having lived in two separate extremes of this I shudder at the thought of formalising them.

Prejudice, bothers me no end no matter what its intention or guise

Dear Shadow Minister,

What I am proposing is to take the ghettos out of
the cities and create new towns that will be respected
and be able to hold their own individuality within
the greater Australian community structure. That's
all it is. It's creating a natural "green belt," that's
impossible to introduce in the city structure.

I'm not suggesting isolationism - and integration will
happen naturally anyway - especially amongst the young
through inter-marriage, work-place relations, education,
and travel.

Sometimes people in retirement would prefer to live within
their own culture as is being demonstrated by Chinese,
Greek and other national retirement communities and nursing
homes.

I'm sure the Irish, Brits, Scots, and many others would love
to set up their quaint village societies in this country -
that they remember from their youth.
Now wouldn't that be a treat to visit? Look at the popularity
of "Sovereign Hill," in Ballarat, Victoria - which is
a re-constructed Museum - and charges a fee for access.
Everyone learns about the early mining days in Victoria.

Great post Foxy,

It's good to see you lefties are starting to realise the consequences of multiculturalism. Conservatives warned you that multiculturalism would eventually divide society and make it ungovernable (like the USA and Britain are now), but you called us racist and ignored what was happening right before your own eyes.

But there's no stopping multiculturalism now - so the future of Australia will be several tribes competing for control of the all-powerful State with nothing to bind these tribes together the way Christianity did in the past.

Dear Pelly,

Thank You so much for responding and for such
a fair-assessment.

My attempt was to solicit creative thoughts
and honest opinions.

I feel that we've received a good and interesting
discussion.

I'm grateful to all of the contributors.

Dear Examinator,

It's a good thing to have our prejudices challenged
from time to time - especially if we are forced to
broaden our outlooks. Many have done that for me
on OLO - even if I don't always care to admit it.
Only by being forced to re-examine our bias - do we
create the potential to learn and grow.

Dear TRUTHNOW78,

I feel that Australia is still evolving. Look how far
we've come since early settlement. Much has been
achieved - much will still be achieved. I remain
absolutely confident about our future - because as
I've said on other threads - we tend to get it right
in the end - in the over all scheme of things. Sure,
we make mistakes - but we at least we try to correct
them.

One thing that has come out of this thread has been
our genuine concern in building a better future for
future generations.

The Australian population is predicted to grow to 36 million.
New towns will spring up - and who knows what the origin
of these towns will be.

Foxy

Great idea to kick around but I have a few questions.

Will there be a huge wall between the jews/Isrealis and assorted Muslims?

Will we ban the use of Google in the Chinese area?

Do we ban porn and alcohol in all of the Aboriginal areas?

Will the English area be half full of Indians and Pakistanis (for authenticity)?

Where will the white Australians live and how quickly can Truthnow move there?

Dear benk,

Thank You for your questions - however have no fear -
Australia will be no different then it is today.
Except that there will be towns of certain
flavour and persuasion to choose to live in.

What's being proposed will be
much the same as it is today - when certain
groups congregate in parts of suburbia or live
in rural areas because they like the environment
and the people.

The major cities will inevitably retain the mixture
they have today.

By the way - in our society there are no walls.
Except those that we create in our minds.

There are already examples of special interest towns
such as Nimbin in NSW, and Bryon Bay - artistic
communities - with their own life-styles - and people
move there that want that lifestyle.

What is being suggested - is in fact - nothing new.
Only more defined.