Multiculturalism appears to me to mean Different things to different people. As a migrant who came to this country in the 1960s before the term multiculturalism was coined, I honestly am unable to discern any difference between pre / post 1978 and the advent of this amorphous word.

Seems to me a multiplicity of cultures were melting together in this country happily enough without requiring a new noun to subscribe its existance. Like so many things government and politicians want to become involved, some merely to win votes and others to finance whole new government departments.

This whole subject is a political construct which serves no good purpose other than to distract public attention away from scrutinising the increasing concentraction of power away from the middle classes and towards an ever smaller corrupt and thieving elite.

This self same corrupt and thieving elite have stumbled onto this idea of fostering racial division to continue to distract and divide the community and thereby continue their thieving unscrutinised.

Thus for the last 10 years Australians have been groomed to first become suspicious of Muslims, to next accept the invasion of Muslim countries, to accept the necessity to torture Muslims who resist our benevolence, to deny them refugee status and confine them in conditions not fit for humans.

You can write all the anti-racist legislation you like it means not a twig. What but our government, our foreign policy and our zombie acceptance of US exceptional ism has planted and nurtured the seed of racism in this country. That we still witness so little racial violence is a credit to the fundamental decency of the australian public and certainly no thanks can be attributed to any of our political parties and that includes the conceited greens.

The current detention centre policy for refugees marks our descent into a brutality I never thought possible of this country. And yet I fear our descent is nowhere near its bottom

"All that we need now ts for our Muslims to embrace multiculturalism and everything will end up rosy."
Is Mise, I don't know if you have had any interaction with Muslim people, I have, going to their home 'break the bread'. Typically, the head of the house is father, but wife has a lot to say and keeps very much on top of things. What do they want from life, something better for their children than what they have experienced. Very pleased with Australia and thankful for the opportunity it presents, not so much for themselves but for their kids. Very proud parents, telling you how well daughter is doing at school, but son needs to work harder or he's not getting his own phone. Very family people, all want their kids to be good Australians and do well. Like all of us they have their problems and concerns, not the least housing, education, employment etc, just like the rest of us. How many times have I heard a Muslim person when speaking about the extremists, say something like "They are not Muslim, they are stupid people, what is wrong with them, don't they know Australia is a good country!"
I am confident, given time and like Southern Europeans (and I remember the problems they had, when they first arrived) Muslim people, by and large will make good Australians. All they need is opportunity, remember people who perceive themselves as doing relativity well are not radical, but conservative, wanting to maintain the 'status quo'. Some may have a social conscience, but the vast majority of them, who desire change, want to affect change from within, working within the confines of the system to bring about progressive changes to society. The violent radicals will remain a small minority, providing the majority perceives themselves as doing well.

@Paul1405,

<<I am confident, given time...Muslim people, by and large will make good Australians>>

Absolutely...after all, look how well the Muslim peoples in the Southern Philippines, Southern Thailand, Northern Nigeria,Indonesia, Malaysia, the Sudan ...and practically everywhere across the Middle ...have become good citizens--they just oooooooooooooze good-neighbourliness... peace and harmony prosper everywhere they go!

YES SIREEEE!

"Thus for the last 10 years Australians have been groomed to first become suspicious of Muslims, to next accept the invasion of Muslim countries, to accept the necessity to torture Muslims who resist our benevolence, to deny them refugee status and confine them in conditions not fit for humans".

and Muslim anti-social actions in Britain and Europe are but a propaganda aide to this grooming.
Atrocities in Africa are figments of someones imagination and 911 was but a simple American plot to discredit Islam.

Pull the other one, it plays Mendelssohn's Concerto in A Flat Major.

SPQR,

You don't see a difference between Australia and those countries you named? Have a think about it, maybe then you will realise. It is the 'environment' people find themselves in that makes the difference. I'm sure if Australia was like Northern Nigeria we could have lots of problems.