Here Peng is my chance to duck and weave to say other than what I Think.
To chase popularity at the expense of truth.
Far more do just that, say something they do not believe for peace sake, spineless in my view.
SeE I like every contributor to this thread.
Know my Friend Lexi is concerned about my views, both my unhappiness with Muslim migration.
And my truly held view my party, ALP is in need of leadership direction, and the flogging it will get in NSW in two months.
I would willingly give up my freedoms to live in one world.
One people, one direction, it would hurt massively but after two generations we would be better for it.
I however intend to go close to offending my friends here,maybe Graham too, but truth is worth while still isn't it?
Continued.

I was born in the year the second world war ended.
The son of poor parents my mum came from a family of 13.
Her sisters had 13 in one case and mum had 16, only 8 lived to grow up.
As you cam imagine that family tree is a forest.
People from Holland Germany China Italy Scotland England more wed into my family.
A raw country kid I at age 16 lived away from home for work, with migrants from all these country's and more.
Learned to live eat and so much more from them.
I love multi culturism.
Do you know that kid trying to learn Italian, being the only non Italian in the crew was reminded, Belly this is your country make them learn I did they must.
Only an idiot would think every Muslim is a problem, I am no idiot.
But look at the impacts of say Catholic religion on me, my party is near personal property of that Church,one NOTORIOUS head warning his parliamentarians they MUST follow church policy's.
Look, give it thought please, at the level of control in the Islamic religion.
See the control based on , like any religion, the belief we bought from the middle ages .
Humanity can be one, if we have the courage to stand for our beliefs and stop hiding our concerns in that awful name political correctness.
Stop hiding the worst or for that matter the best in Muslim culture but let honest comment and concerns be seen not as bigotry
I stand firm, this country is importing problems.
The post about social engineering is the best I ever saw on this subject.
I feel Australia is part of the silly idea the next few generations will breed out a problem.
Address our concerns, the concerns of middle Australia about growing attempts to change us to fit in better with another minority,we do you know look at Christmas for a start, PC is choking us,an awful word an awful out come for humanity and far from correct.

Like Peng, I am hoping the series opens up a little.

I like Henry Reynolds and his perspective, but it would be good to get another voice there, even if it was that nitwit Keith Coalscuttle, the fake historian, or Andy Bolt, or Christopher Pearson, giving us the lowdown on "how Australia is and always has been a Christian country built on a Judeo -Christian basis."

And it is just those sort of spurious claims that really need to be challenged through a show like this.

I also hope they move onto the 'other' side of the 'workers paradise' which so far has only painted us as racist bigots.

The other side goes back to how white people got here, and the total injustice of the English justice system, which has to touch on the class system, and the emerging working class as a result of the industrial revolution.

Such as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the rise of the AWU and union movement, the creation of the ALP in response to the attempts to create a squatocracy of middleclass nongs, which is what the nation has ended up as.

So, a good topic but it needs to extend a great deal from episode 1.

We are multicultural in this country- and that includes Muslims.
suzeonline,
you'd be hard-pressed to find all that many who are dead against multiculturalism just for being against it. What the average (50%) thinking Australian is objecting to are those fanatics among the immigrants of the invasion by stealth army who want to change this country. I have yet to see chinese, german, italian, greek etc immigrants who have such an agenda. Why ? Because if they had that intention they would have done it by now. I really believe that the biggest threat to this country is lurking within the stupidity of 50% of the population left of mainstream.

TBC I like and agree with your post.
I feel about half my age and try to see the world as it is not once was.
Bowral, brings to mind for me infamy, Dad and his parents came from there, apparently after a short stay on the far south coast.
Unfortunately he took us back there, England in the bush in the mid 1950,s
You actually had to remove your hat to talk to third generation Australians who thought of England as home.
We can not convict those fools by using todays standards, I do think it must be about the same now,but only for a few.
Miners racism against Chinese happened but other times other people.
I refuse to spend my life saying sorry for others past acts.
I do not denie them, would never support them, but think we are far better than that now.
By the way Bowral gained no relief from me when a former Prime Minster turned it in to a fort trying to fight terrorism that never existed.
Anada Marga or our own , never know will we.

but think we are far better than that now.
Belly,
With the amount of hindsight available to us nowadays we're a long way from catching up with our forebears' foresight.
It beggars belief how shortsighted today's society is. Everyone's against racism & bigotry but without fail when push comes to shove all the idealism goes out the window & the formerly accused are being called upon for help. Just you wait.