Dear Banjo,

You think that repeating something is
going to make it true.

Hasn't worked thus far!

Banjo,

You hit on one of the things which is wrong with state sponsored multiculturalism in this country. It trades on misrepresentation--so you get these things trotted out time and time again:

<<We imprison brown asylum seekers>>
we detail ALL illegals --whatever their skin colour.

<<, we once celebrated our national day with a white racist riot>>
Nothing is every said about what provoked it.

<<. There were assaults on Indian>>
This is comical since it was established those doing the attacking were themselves migrants

<<One Nation>>
The usual old boggie man!

Then Foxy comments: <<You think that repeating something is going to make it true.>>

Maybe, but if you say it often enough those who cant think for themselves will swallow it and parrot it.

Let's get one thing straight,One Nation is/was an assimilationist party, they're not Nationalists in any sense of the word since they support race mixing and intermarriage.
The only reason Leftists and "respectable" Conservatives ever mention them is to try and make the case that "One Nation was stupid and One Nation were Nationalists therefore Nationalists are stupid".
Wrong, assimilation and intermarriage is a stupid idea and that's why One Nation failed, if they'd really been "Racist" they might have had more success.
Racism doesn't exist in Australia because there is no nation, "Australian" is not a nationality except in the legal sense, that said there is a growing awareness and acceptance of "White" identity due mainly to the fact that migrants for whatever reason see us as "White".
It doesn't matter what anti Racists and Liberals think or say because their views are purely religious and not grounded in reality, there are such things as races, nations and ethnic groups and in a multiracial society those distinctions only grow stronger over time. Do we really care what Pentecostal Christians or Buddhists think? No we don't so why should we give a second thought to what Anti-Racists and Liberals think?

Foxy,
Remember, you said, "People who are in denial about racism in this country are simply ignorant. Lets look at the facts - we imprison
brown asylum seekers, we once celebrated our national day
with a white racist riot. There were assaults on Indian
students, a little political organisation called
One Nation, and of course "the intervention" - the heraldic
beak on our long hawkish treatment of Indigenous Australians".
Foxy, OLO Friday 18-4-2014 12.18.35

You could admit that you were misleading everyone here, as I am sure you know your 'facts' are incorrect.

Jay, you have posted some pretty weird stuff from time to time, but this latest lot has got to take the cake:
(Mind you, I can't help feeling you're just 'stirring the pot', with the ultimate objective of getting a 'raise' out of someone like me; but, in any event, here goes, and with both barrels..)

> assimilation and intermarriage is a stupid idea and that's why One Nation failed, if they'd really been "Racist" they might have had more success.<

and:

>Racism doesn't exist in Australia because there is no nation, "Australian" is not a nationality except in the legal sense..<

So, you are an anti-anti-racist (ie. 'pro-racist'), white supremacist, head in the sand, self-confessed intellectual 'giant' who simply refuses to see how society, any society, actually works, and, equally importantly, rejects outright the conviction that:
".. And from many lands we come,...I AM, YOU ARE, WE ARE Australian...!!"

You may be a pro-eugenics racial 'purist', but, fortunately, yours is and will hopefully remain a lonely voice on a barren mountaintop howling ineffectually into a raging headwind, as Australia moves inexorably into a 'natural' multicultural 'rainbow' future.

Racism and 'discrimination' alive and well in Oz? You bet; but it's largely confined to 'living in the past' would-be superiority-driven 'purists' like yourself, and it's on the way out - going, going, gone within three or four generations from now (except for the few hold-out ego-driven segregationist-supporting loopies like yourself, and, of course, some religious whackos who really believe that they are God's 'gift' - as long as they 'play the game' along self-same lines that Noak took with him onto the Ark - or possibly as was genetically 'imprinted' into their DNA from their Neanderthal-thinking non-evolved ancestors).

Talk about shades of the 'Australian Defence League' - you're not perchance a 'founding member' are you?

One Nation WAS a xenophobic, anti-immigration, anti-assimilation, anti-integration, anti-Australian mob of non-thinking (or simply deluded) everyday, ordinary mentally-repressed fear-mongers;... and, good riddance.
(We have better and more important things to do than to worry about 'reds under the beds' or a 'Chinese takeover'.)

Dear Saltpetre,

Thank You for expressing what most of us feel.
I've told Jay in the past that he and others
of his ilk can think
whatever they like - however in the general
scheme of things they are a very small regressive
minority who won't make even a dent into the
future of this country. They will end up on the
dung heap of history along with others who are
both cenceptually and intellectually impaired.