Dear Shocker,

Australians who are still suspicious of immigration and
immigrants will eventually have to accept the reality
that racial homogeneity has gone, will not return, and is not necessary for social harmony and cohesion. Australia needs
more people and these will no longer come from
the founding British nations. Australians will have to accept
the growing numbers of tourists, entrepreneurs, and students
from Asia, many of whom are to remain permanently.

This acceptance will have to go along with a recognition of
Australia's dependence for trade and security on its
relationship with Asian states. This doesn't mean severing links
with Europe or the English-speaking world. They also
have growing connections with Asia and with each other, of
which Australia must be a part as so many political
commentators point out.

The sensible compromise between Keating's "Australia is part of
Asia," and John Howard's greater affinity with the English-
speaking world would be to accept that Australia is a part of
both.

It is the responsibility of our governments to explain these
realities. Arthur Calwell, understood very well the need to
change public opinion towards mass, non-British immigrants.
He combined the portfolios of information and immigration
throughout the Chifley governments between 1945 and 1949.

Also government advocacy is likely to be most
effective when it is unequivocal and bipartisan. When the
public receives conflicting messages from the government
as well as from private mass media, this results in
confusion created by the mixed messages and traditional
prejudices are re-asserted.

The arguments and terminology used by One
Nation were not novel but they achieved some effect because
they were repeated by influencial public figures, including
politicians.

For attitudes to change in the future there needs a greater
degree of consensus and bipartisanship than has been at
present.

Bye again.

One of our multicultural mileposts:

"Hundreds of commemorations will take place to remember Australian sacrifice during World War One (1914-1918) but only one that will remember life taken on Australian soil. But due to political correctness, I am not sure there will be any commemoration at all.
I am referring to the Battle of Broken Hill which took the lives of four Australians, none of whom were in uniform, and wounded seven more.
It started, as these things mostly do, with the lilting sound of “Allahu Akbar” ringing out on the outskirts of Broken Hill. (Pictured is the original mosque.) The date was 1 January, 1915. Shortly thereafter, two men began shooting at a train taking 1,200 men, women and children to the annual New Year’s Day picnic....."

http://pickeringpost.com/story/islamic-suicide-attack-on-broken-hill/3005

When you contribute more than insults to any issue
Foxy,
You just can't help yourself can you. Facts are simply too hard for you to accept once the rose-coloured glasses fail.

Dear Individual,

I deal with facts all the time.
But facts are beyond your comprehension - apparently.
I threw down the gauntlet to you and all
you can come up with is more of the same insults.
Sad really.

Dear Is Mise,

If you want to go back that far or even further
in this country's history - you could instead give
things a bit of balance and also tell us about
the Muslim contributions.
Like the contribution of Australia's Afghan
Cameleers in opening up the outback.

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2011/07/australias-afghan-cameleers/

There's also the
Indian army in Gallipoli that's worth a Google.

If all someone wants to do is demean
people, and look for their bad qualities - there's plenty
to be found I'm sure - be it among the Irish, German, Greek,
British, or any one else. But how about what unites us
instead of what divides us. There's enough hatred in the
world - without us contributing to it even further.

I don't know exactly how to gently reveal the truth to some of you.
Multiculturalism may well be a flag that many on the left like to wave but it is essentially a symptom of corporate globalisation. It makes lefties feel good about themselves but its essential for multinational companies and it is multinational companies who most find reason to import foreigners with supposedly skills not available here. If your going to move your call centre to India, your manufacturing plant to china - well, you can figure it out.

Its one big global color gender blind business world.
Somehow the left has convinced itself fighting racism, and gender inequality was all their idea, when all along it is a core Corporate value.

Nothing like the stupidity of the left, unless of course its the stupidity of the Left hating bogan who is also convinced that the do gooder lefty has destroyed his monoculture with this multicultural crap.

And all along, the corporate elite just giggle. Truth be know it is all rather amusing, or it would be if it weren't so tired too. Wakie, Wakie!

Foxy,

Is 2012 modern enough?

"Police have used tear gas on Sydney protesters who swept through the CBD as world-wide demonstrations triggered by a US film portraying the prophet Muhammad as a womaniser and paedophile reached Australia.

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Up to 500 protesters stormed through the city… The crowd carried signs saying “Behead all those who insult the prophet”...

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Fairfax Media saw a number of arrests and seriously injured protesters. One protester being taken away by ambulance spat at officers and chanted “Allahu Akbar”.

Also being brandished by heavies in the crowd: the black flag of jihad, the green flag of the Hamas terrorist outfit and a sign “we love Osama”.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/we_let_them_in_now_they_threaten/

Before you say that it's just Andrew Bolt, there were other reports of this happening and there is this on Wikipedia:

"he protest started at about midday when approximately 100 people gathered at the Sydney Town Hall before marching along George Street to Martin Place where the US Consulate is located. Conflict between the protesters and the police started when the former tried to enter the US Consulate.[1] The police used capsicum spray to push the protesters back from the consulate. According to one protester this aggravated the crowd, as many had brought their children.[3]

The crowd then moved to Hyde Park, where around 300 people had gathered.[3] Muslim speakers addressing the crowd called for calm and an end to all violence. Further clashes erupted as police used capsicum spray on protesters who at times threw bottles at police.[4] Protesters chanted "Down, down USA"[1] and carried Islamist flags and signs saying, "Behead all those who insult the prophet", "Our dead are in paradise, your dead are in hell", "Shariah will dominate the world", and "Obama Obama, we love Osama" and threw bottles and objects retrieved from construction sites at police officers. The police responded by spraying capsicum spray into the crowd.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Six police officers were injured of which two were hospitalized.[12]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Sydney_anti-Islam_film_protests