Bazz, "We hear all about the "moderate" moslems
and I am sure that there are some, but when push comes to shove they
will go along with the dictates of their religion"

It is true to say that when charismatic Islamic 'scholars' (all self certified) challenge Muslims to 'prove' their faith, fundamentalism can be expected to kick in.

However, it is very difficult for Muslims of goodwill and Western educated to find their footing and have commonsense discussions with other Muslims and the broader community at large where they are being sledged and shut out of the public debate by the patronising, denialist, politically correct apologists on The Box and in the media generally (OLO too).

To add to my post, I have never seen any explanation apart from 'diversity' from the feds as to why in a buyers' market the Australian government would be giving preference to higher risk migrants. For example from countries where the population is strongly fundamentalist Islam. The UK Labour Party got its fingers badly burned with Pakistani (Kashmiri) men who dealt in drugs and sex trafficked children. The problems will carry on long after the responsible Labor politicians are dead.

There must be many thousands of young Germans, Swedes and others who now want to leave Angela Merkel's Germany and Europe, the UK too. Australia desperately needs the superior trades skills, especially in construction, from those countries.

Well OTB the Prime Minister laid it out quite clearly this morning.
Someone asked if the government would give preference to non moslem
migrants and his answer was clear.
Quote
Australia has always had a non discriminatory immigration policy and
it won't be changed.
unquote
The last five words may not be verbatim but the sense is accurate.
It was not a surprising answer as I know from personal contact that
Federal Ministers are simply out of touch with reality on several
different fields of government concern.

They are either ignorant of the true situation or they just do not
want acknowledge it, because it is non PC or they don't have a clue
what to do about it.
In one field I know they have been told by a government commission
and by a non government organisation both saying the same thing.
The government report was removed from the web site by PM's office
instruction. It escaped because a reporter for Le Monde downloaded
it during the night. I have a copy here.

So government is deliberately denying the public’s complaints for
not very good reasons.