Foxy,

I have previously provided you with links but regardless of the facts that are put before you, you come back time and time again as though that has never been done.

Regarding your offensive slurs against Arthur Caldwell and your disbelief that Lithuanians would ever thank him, I provided an actual photograph of Lithuanian migrants aboard a ship presenting him with a gift. In reply there was no apology from you, just churlishness - you claimed they would never thank him again!

You disbelieved Caldwell's motivation and initiative in offering Lituaninas sanctuary in Australia, work and free choice to leave any time they wanted, without obligation. But despite evidence given so many times, you churlishly deny him even that.

So here once again I am providing information from Australia's largest Lithuanian community in Sydney that proves what I have said But weasel around it by all means, it is nore aimed at readers who do not have a chip on their shoulder or inherited (claimed)'victimhood' to pursue,

<...the first large migration of Lithuanians to Australia occurred only after W.W.II.
1.1 Post-W.W.II. Migration

Lithuanians arrived from the DP camps of Germany shortly after The Hon. Arthur Calwell MP, then the Minister for Migration, visited the DP camps of Europe in 1947 and reported to the government of the day about the miserable conditions he had witnessed. The large Lithuanian Communities in Australia today had their origins right at the very beginning of Australia's post-war migration intake. They arrived in the first and following ships bringing to Australia its post-war migrant intake. In the first shipload, some 85% of the passengers were Lithuanians..

The Lithuanian people migrating en-mass to Australia in the period 1947 to 1953 were refugees and displaced-persons fleeing from the Soviet occupation of the Republic of Lithuania. >
http://www.slic.org.au/Community/History/Background/Background.htm

What really puts the lie to your disgraceful allegations of discrimination and poor treatment of Lituanian migrants is that a negligible number of Lithuanians returned to Lithuania following the collapse of the USSR and restoration of Lithuanian independence.

To be very blunt Foxy, there is no evidence at all of Australia's largest Lituanian community in Sydney demanding the victimhood you are claiming for them.

They seem to be happy normal Aussies going about their lives and treasuring memories and traditions, just as others do.

They don't need the black armband you claim to wear on their behalf.

Everyone had it tough after the war. But even when people at that time were doing it comfy, if the left whingers of today were to experience similar duties and conditions, the left whingers' feelings of entitlement and denial would never allow them to see themselves as anything other than society's 'victims'.

SteeleRedux,

Thanks for the link.
I'd looked for one but never thought to type in ten pound poms,
should have as my first wife migrated from Scotland as a teenager, with her father, mother and young brother under that scheme.

Australia House advised them that as Australia was such a sunny warm place that they would not need their good Scottish winter clothes, so they sold them; she spent her first winter in Australia at Bathurst, NSW, and it snowed and snowed and snowed.
One of Bathurst's coldest winters!!

Able Manton,
Thanks for reminding us about the possible introduction of devastating diseases.

Some years ago I was told that Indonesian fishermen regularly stopped off on our mainland where they killed their chickens for food. Not sure if that still happens.

I don't think roos carry the rabies virus, but could be wrong. The big worry is if Foot and Mouth got into our wild pig population. Such would immediately stop all rural exports, meat, wool, wheat, the lot. Virtually impossible to stop getting into our domestic stock and millions would have to be destroyed. I cannot even imagine the cost to us.

There are other exotic diseases as well, like the bird flu and rabies in the wild dog population. There certainly is a risk of the illegals bringing in these diseases. Another reason they are best housed off the mainland.

otb,

For your information.

1)The photograph of Mr Caldwell being presented with a gift
by Lithuanians on board the ship that you cited earlier
is an extremely well known photograph and common knowledge
that it was a
part and parcel of Caldwell's campaign in selling the DPs
to the Australian public. Read the text of the Bonegilla
site I gave earlier.

2) The question of Mr Caldwell's motivation for selecting
the DPs and the conditions under which they were accepted to this
country, what was expected of them, how they were classified,
and treated is well documented.

3)I grew up in Sydney and was part of the Lithuanian Community
there for decades. My family is very well known in the
Community.
We were all involved in the Community and family members
have served on its Executive Council and fully participated in all activities.

4) As for preaching to me about appropriate behaviour and
churlishness et cetera - Let me simply say this -
when you display even the smallest, tiniest sign of
any decency and good manners (not talking about
logic or reasonableness - that would be too much to expect),
I shall then take you seriously. Until then I shall no
longer respond or read any of your posts because as I've
stated to you in the past (many times) I do not enjoy
inter-acting with you. And I would prefer not to do so
in the future.

You need to find someone else to bully.
I'm no longer interested.

Is Mise my comment about cheap shot was qualified by “non Muslim”......ie the harassment of Aussie women to cover up....and that has not become an issue yet.

But you mentioned Muslim friends that moved away from the radicals in the enclave suburbs.....yes I believe that....radicals always start the bullying on home ground before expanding.

Sorry Suse, don’t agree with anything you say on this issue. You take the politically correct high ground and plead equality and rights....but if the lot you are defending have their dreams realized your rights are gone....your equality gone because of gender, your freedom to voice an opinion contrary to the practice of the Koran gone.....Suse of old....gone.