Another thing I forgot to add in my message. Under PM Julie Gillard we finally have a chance to completely rid ourselves of all this racial stuff we've had for so long under Howard and his Liberal thugs for the last 10 years or so before Ms Gillard was elected after hopeless Kevin Rudd. We all need to make sure she gets back with a large majority so she can get done many of the fantastic things she wants to get done. She's been hamstrung with no clear majority for so long, so everyone needs to make sure they vote for the Party of progress, and the Party of the future. The Labour Party.

misanthrope,

While I never voted for a government under Howard, I fail to see how Ms Gillard lives up to your claim of "completely ridding us of this racial stuff".

To what in particular do you refer?

Yes, I realise Howard usurped Hanson's agenda..., but how is this http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-16/immigration-report-scathing-of-manus-island-centre/4632728 "better" than under Howard's watch?

(and since you go on about them so much, it would be less irritating if you'd spell Labor "Labor")

Poirot>> I realise that I'm being pedantic here,<<

Circular rather than pedantic P. I gave you a link to The Australian who quotes the Aust bureau of statistics who report exactly what I said and you make another request as if the first did not happen…..

Csteele my acquaintance, you continue to assault my integrity because I said I was wrong. You even use the passive aggressive card by naming and shaming Wm for saying it was a fair admission of wrong.

Csteeele>> But at least they accept who they are and don't try and apologise for the bile they offer up<<

Then you play the zealots card by naming Hasbeen and Philp S as being the worst of the worst…but at least they stay faithful to their rhetoric.

Csteele>> If you truly don't want to walk that path then please examine what motivates you to post such nonsense after unquestioningly accepting it as the truth.<<

Then you offer me a way towards the light of blissful denial, “walk that path” …..what path?

As I said to another, just because J Edgar Hoover denied that a mafia existed did not mean it was so. Why not a Greek, Italian, Yugoslav, Baltic, Indian, South American, etc etc dedicated crime squad? ….Numerically they do not warrant one at present, but the Middle Easterners do….not my fault, I’m not doing their crimes. Go to any of our prisons and see the disproportionate number of Middle Eastern visitors, any day of the week.

Csteele>> You see it isn't a matter of just trying to get the facts straight, you need to recognise what drives your behaviour and correct it. Treat the disease, not the symptoms.<<

Thank you doctor, I will take a Bex and have a good lie down and see if the first news report I hear tomorrow has a shooting in a Middle Eastern enclave, or whether the assailants are describes as “of Middle Eastern appearance.”

I will let you know the outcome.

sonofgloin,

That's quite amazing.

You say

"....I gave you a link to the Australian who quote the Aust bureau of statistics who report exactly what I said..."

No they don't.

Here's what the article said:

"...data collected by the Australian Bureau of statistics shows that Lebanese make up the fifth largest ethnic group in Australian prisons after Australians, New Zealanders, Vietnamese and British and Irish, with 226 Lebanese prisoners last year accounting for 0.75 of all detainees held for serious crimes."

0.75% is less than one percent.

How does 0.75% equate to 20%?

How does "the fifth Largest" equate to one fifth?

That's what you're doing isn't it? You're equating the term "the fifth largest" to mean one fifth (20%) of detainees are Lebanese.

Not withstanding, the fact which I've pointing out, that being Lebanese by no means automatically translates to being Muslim.

misanthrope>> We whites invaded Australia in the first place, so why shouldn't other races and nationalities come here if the want, provided they are peaceful.<<

We are in unison there misanthrope, I grew up during the first post war intake of refugees. When I heard an Aussie vilifying a wog and complaining about the change of culture I always thought, “what goes around comes around.” Bemoaning the loss of something that was taken in the first place always seemed shallow to me.

misanthrope, you bring me the four Leb thugs who used a fence picket to fracture my sons skull in 4 places, on a suburban street, in broad daylight, simply because he is white & was alone, & after I have dealt with them we can talk, about Muslims.

Until then go soak your head in a bucket of the tripe you peddle.