And here's another despatch from the Auburn-front:

<< ETHNIC tensions among Sydney's Muslim population are being inflamed by the conflict in Syria, with the opposing sides trading death threats and warnings of violent civil unrest.

Jamal Daoud, a refugee advocate standing for election to Auburn City Council in Sydney's west, has received a number of such threats after criticising what he calls the role played by "terrorists" in the Syrian civil war.

A series of anonymous text messages and telephone calls include a warning that his house will be shot at as well as other threats to kill Shia Muslims living in the suburbs of Auburn and Bankstown.

Mr Daoud, who is of Sunni Muslim descent, said tensions between the groups could lead to violence, with individual members already choosing to arm themselves and accusations flying of ethnically-motivated attacks on local businesses.

"Some of them are getting batons and sticks to defend themselves. We can't go on and on until someone is killed," he said. "It could progress to civil unrest. If they can burn businesses, other people can burn businesses, too. If they can shoot people, other people can shoot people, too."

A number of official sources said there were divisions within the community, but NSW Police said there was no evidence of people arming themselves, and that authorities were working hard behind the scenes to build relationships between the groups.

Several shootings in western Sydney earlier this year have anecdotally been linked to disputes sparked by the Syrian conflict, though senior police have denied religion or politics was a motivation for these alleged attacks.

The death of a Sydney sheik, killed in a rocket attack in Syria last week, has focused attention on the effect of the Syrian conflict on Australia's Muslim community. Thirty-year-old Mustapha al-Majzoub was known to counter-terrorism authorities because of his extremist views, although his family and other community leaders have denied this.>>

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/syrian-conflict-fires-local-muslim-strife/story-e6frg6nf-1226461150858

I'll bet they did NOT tell Paul1405 anything about that in Greenie Sunday school --And, I'll wager that Foxy found NO reference to it on any of her favoured sites either!

Saltpetre, you mention both domestic unemployment *and* immigration to solve economic problems.

I cannot see how these are not contradictions.

Why would we need so many immigrants, when we already have such a labour surplus?

Particular "skills"?
I find it hard to believe that Lesotho and Nepal have better educational/training systems than Australia.
Or indeed any Western nation.

I find this skills "shortage" claim to be utterly bogus.

SPQR,

Like many suburbs of Sydney, Auburn has its fair share of social problems. Unfortunately too many want to stereotype and stigmatise people because of their ethnicity. What is needed for some, is a reality check, no matter how much you or others yearn for a return to the "good old days", its simply not going to happen. Nor will those who believe that if some how they could construct "Fortress Australia" and exclude all those they believed to be undesirable, all would be well, I have news for you, it ain't going to happen.
Immigration by its very nature presents problems for both the new arrivals, and the old established hands. People can choose to be negative about immigration and resist the inevitable changes that have and will continue to take place, or they can choose to be positive, and work to make Australia a better place than it would otherwise be.

Foxy;I must say the "Auburn City Council's Crime Prevention Plan 2013 - 2016." is the kind of initiative that helps communities deal with issues like crime. Despite the negative attitudes of some. there is a lot of positive work being done for both our newest of arrivals, and also for the oldest people who's ancestors inhabited the continent.

http://tribalwarrior.org/ Doing a great job!

SPQR, are you sure you lived in Auburn Australia, and not Auburn Alabama (there is such a place). I was positive you would be one of dem dar Good Ol' Boys, from Alabama. Possibly the Grand Wizard himself, minus the bed-sheet.

Hay, SPQR/Rip Van Winkle, your dispatch from the "Auburn Front" is dated 2012. How was it dispatched, by horse and cart? The year is 2014, sorry for the breaking news, and this might come as a complete surprise, World War I is over, and Queen Victoria is no longer on the thrown. Just though I would let you know. Now, what was I saying about people living in the past LOL.

Paul

LOL see you've got me all wrong. I remember you saying in a earlier thread you pictured me dressed in some posh private school uniform!

I probably had a much more plebeian upbringing than you --and that's why I can see through all the Lefty propaganda.