Jay>> but can they give us a reason why we should have thousands of unemployable, hostile and unassimilable Tongans, Samoans and Maori living here?<<

About assimilation, I know a load of Islander’s both male and female who have Caucasian partners. I don’t know too many Middle Easterners who marry outside their race and that engenders nothing except an enclave mentality.

Jay believe it or not as they say, I supported myself through uni by working as a doorman at Kings Cross for various clubs owned by the late Abe Saffron way back in the day. There was nowhere near the number of Islanders back then but they predominantly gravitated to doorman type work because of their physical stature. I did not find them brutal; they did not come from a culture that had a religion or society that condoned physical retribution for social demeanors. I still have no problem with Islanders.

I have issue with youth unemployment being over 30%, and the brutalizing of our youth by the crap playstation games and the wanky gangster rap genre, that the white owned and managed record companies promote.

lexi,
Yep missed you girl, Would recomend a doc if I could. Look after yourself, as i recall you have a grandchild to spoil.

I like your idea of sending illegals straight to NZ, remember they took some from Nauru before, but Ludy is right we would still need a cap on the incoming from NZ.

Hasbeen,
I liked that about room SEX, did you ask her if room sex cost extra or was it part of the tarrif. I intend to use that one. I think that would put a smile on The Pied Piper

Thanks everyone for all your kind comments.
I didn't mean to de-rail this thread by complaining
about my state of health (I was merely answering Hasbeen's
question as to where I've been) - so
sorry Ludwig. I will contact Epworth hospital however.
I've heard that they specialise in heart problems and have
the best cardiologists.
Anyway, once again - Thanks to you all.

This asylum seeker issue really has me bamboozled.
I certainly don't have any more answers - and I've
tried to see things from various points of view -
and yet I still don't know what the heck we should
really do about any of it. I thought that I had it
all figured out - well of course my views aren't set
in concrete - and all I can do is listen and learn.
And hopefully with time things will sort themselves out
for the best. For all of us.

<< …shipping all the asylum seekers arriving on our shores to New Zealand to replace the New Zealanders
coming to Australia.>>

That’s actually a very good idea Lexi.

We should be insisting that New Zealand take all our onshore asylum seekers. Afterall, they are getting a hoot of a deal in being able to freely move to Australia if they wish, with no restrictions on numbers.

Even if we put a restriction of 30 000 per annum on them, we should still require them to take all onshore asylum seekers, which at the current rate of arrivals would amount to less than one third of that total, and require those found to be refugees to stay there for at least ?ten years before they can move to Australia.

They’d still be getting a hoot of a deal!

All the best. Cheers.

I don't care where they come from they should not be allowed to receive any social security benefits until they have at least worked for X amount of years.
I remember a person from New Zealand years ago he was an alcoholic getting the dole (didn't even have to look for work), rental assistance and had welfare workers bending over backwards to help him he had never contributed 1 thing to Australia. These leeches from any country should not be allowed.

Lexi perhaps you'd better come up here to the warm. We have some pretty good cardiologists too. Not only that, we have some kind of Asian doctor at Beaudesert who is brilliant.

I have no idea where he comes from, between my tinnitus & his accent, I can't understand a word he says. However he has sorted out my 3 heart attacks, quick time.

After he's finished with me, they could send me home, but they insist on sending me to the big time city hospital to check I'm alive.

It does help to find one who will talk to you like an adult. A lady cardiologist at PA in Brisbane explained what some of the medications do. Now I know why they are giving me some of them.

My doctor was taking me off a couple, because I don't have high blood pressure, or cholesterol. Now I know he was wrong, & I know why I should be on these things.

Tell me Sweet, do you rattle too? They have me on so many pills, I rattle for half a day after taking them all. Keep your chin up, & don't let it get you down.