Dear Suse,

I've just read SPQR's comments about us.
Perhaps he can form a fan club for us
seeing as he's such an admirer.

Suse,
How very droll, the concepts of "country" and "nation" are easily distinguishable that's why I make a conscious effort to avoid using the term "country", if I slip up you'll understand that it's years of conditioning at play. "White countries for everybody" comes from a larger memetic device called Whitaker's Mantra, it's a tactic used by anti-egalitarians to draw people into a discussion on our own terms, nothing more.
What do you think you'd lose by styling yourself after Caroline Chisholm and thinking about helping women who've migrated here from the U.K?
I posed the question in another thread about helping the Afrikaners and Irish who live in dire poverty to migrate here, couldn't you and Lexi feel just as good about thinking about helping them?
Is thinking about helping fit young Sri Lankan men somehow more satisfying than thinking about helping destitute Boer women whose husbands have been murdered or been dispossessed and discriminated against by the ANC?

Jay,

Perhaps we should be helping Papua New Guineans - instead of dumping our obligations on them...

http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/for-those-whove-come-across-the-seas-a-short-trip-to-png/662/

Jay, I know exactly what you mean when you say 'nation', and so does everyone else.

Yes Lexi, I am sure SPQR is our biggest fan, as he loves to write about us so often : )

Poirot, I think sending the refugees to PNG is almost as bad as sending them back to where they came from.

How much money will Australia have to spend on ensuring they are well treated in a country with a poor track record on education, health and human rights?
More money wasted than if they were properly cared for in Australia I would wager...

No way around it!
The thought that the Tony Abbott [ mad monk] I knew long before he became leader is other that a silly little man hurts me.
No one should laugh that much so early in the morning.
My little foxy s nearly took to me.
Election is not won or lost yet but the thought of Abbott PM is horrifying

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/attack-puts-abbott-right-into-no-mans-land-20130723-2qhiv.html
Banjo the thread has the raw hide to question Abbott!
Well done good journalism!