Boaz_David, I see you are very passionate on your beliefs and it is people such as yourself that make this country and democracy what it is. We have rights as Westerners in a government that allows us to speak our mind, yet many take no action. I do want to caution you though, that you may be taking Muslim spirituality and the Qur’an the wrong way. (I could be wrong and please correct me if I am). There is content in the Muslim texts that re very traditional and in some cases fundamental to our beliefs today, but the Bible as well, shares its own content that we can see as evil. You did make reference to this, but when we really think about today’s society, writings in Catholic texts are nowhere near as highlighted as Muslim texts. On your last point, do you honestly think that if we did have one culture, it would be beneficial? Although there is ethnic conflict, there are still advantages of having a culturally diverse population. Thank you as well for your message, I look forward to reading your response.

When migrants accept Citizenship, they swear to uphold Australian laws, to be Australian . Obviously many take the oaths intending to not be "Australian" but to carry on using this country as a convenience.
If that is 'cultural diversity' we do not need it.
The whole matter of migration and citizenship now needs investigation and perhaps a complete change of direction.
We now have alleged terrorists who ,if charged, face years in Australian prisons.They will be kept on Australian tax payers expense, their families will be kept ,educated,housed and fed at tax payers expense and their children possibly will grow up with a hatred of those same tax payers .
It would be preferable if those who mean us harm in the breaking of our laws, are not incarcerated but shipped with their entire family,back to the homelands that mentally they have never left.
And we can get on with our lives without that threatened marginalisation.

So how would you ensure that these countries they came from and "that mentally they have never left" take them back? Or should we just take them to the edge of our continental shelf, give them a dinghy and set them adrift to make their own transit arrangements?

grahamy, do you consider we should emulate the ostrich and ,putting our collective heads in the sand, ignore the risks of permitting insane fanatics go about their business?
Appease them in the hope they will not turn rabid on us?
Or do we rid this country of those who hate it and who will try to do us harm because we are different to them?
I would rather my descendants grow up in the freedoms and peace that was our country and that should still be their right.
As it was before multiculture.

Not all terrorists and extremists are those from different countries? People that come to our country accept the laws and if they are staying here than should abide by them. But I do not believe they should have to blend into our culture if that is what you are implying.
Our country is a good country and no-one can say we prefer conflict over peace. Australia is multi-cultural, which is good, but to say they have never mentally left home seems harsh. I know if I lived in another country, I could never, ever, forget where I come from, and what it holds to me.

Mikijo, I'm not an ostrich - neither genetically nor temperamentally - but I'm not into just venting emotions either.

Australian citizens are our problem, not the problem of a country in which they happen to have been born. Not all Australians are equally loyal or supportive of our culture and our values, but that doesn't mean there is an exit shute that we can put them down. Or that it is even desirable or possible to determine who goes and who stays.

It doesn't even mean that there is a set of agreed values we all must share and that these aren't contestable.

Your solution isn't just, isn't practical and isn't adequate.