Canem Malum,

A little tip for you, if I may. If you want to keep the reader's attention, keep it short and to the point; it's a basic rule for good communication. You might have had something useful to say (probably did if your second short post to the serial critic of anything not Left dogma, Foxy, is anything to go by). Anonymous posters merely expressing opinions cannot attract and hold attention by going on and on. Only good, professional writers can get away with that.

Good to have some new blood, though. We are starting to look inbred, Same old same old.

Make sure you vote for anti-immigration (One Nation, Sustainability Australia, etc)
Canem Malum,
At the extremely high risk of being branded racist I'd like to propose selective immigration. Not willy nilly as in the last decades. There must be a very, very clear establishing of genuine refugees & those claiming to be refugees. Genuine refugees should be given the opportunity to rebuild their country from here & then return. This assistance must exclude money, only building materials & tools manufactured here.
We have more than ample proof that a high percentage of so-called refugees don't actually like it here but remain because of our misplaced compassion & associated generous welfare that appears not to extend to genuine Australians or those who genuinely consider this country their new home.
Pauline Hanson has to be given support instead of a constant barrage of criticism. She appears to be the only patriotic australian senator.
Those who do not agree with this proposal to help refugees should put their own proposal on the table, one that reduces the social & economic costs to the already struggling australian taxpayer.

Is Hanson a democratic person of course she is, compared to North Korea’s version of democracy she is very democratic.
America’s democracy and Australia’s democracy are democratically different. Is there a set of rules for a democracy.
Foxy used the words [To the very heart of democracy] What does that mean.
Abbott had a form of democracy that never needs to be repeated.
One person one vote, why do political parties insist on block voting, why not secret voting surely that is the most democratic.
Having to bribe an opponent to get their vote is that the best democratic way.

A truth exists we can not ignore, no party is perfect, but in our system the one that wins the most seats wins the election, tell me a better way,now yes Islam is behind much of the fear Hanson rode back in to politics on, it however ,as shown by her lower number of first preference votes than the greens is a view not shared by nearly all of us,we should aim at being the best we can be, that is as near perfection as we can ever get, dreamers, place too much faith in this woman, ignoring some truths,she runs politics like a cook in a miners job, and she has lost it this time

Dear Canem Malum,

The point that I was trying to make with the quote
that I gave earlier was - that in order for us to
move forward as a free, fair, and vibrant society -
we should not succumb to the siren calls of demagogues,
charlatans and ideologues.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on
how you turn the glass.

Dear ttbn,

You have your entire life to continue to be a jerk.
Why not take today off?

Dear doog,

You asked what my reference to "the very heart of democracy
meant."

Democracy can only thrive when several basic conditions
have been met. Which includes - restraints on government
power (democracy is best served if there are institutionalised
checks on the power of the state), tolerance of dissent,
access to information, diffusion of power (so that no one
group can obtain a monopoly over it) and so on.

I think Belly is trying to say that we are better of for having immigration. Tell that to victims of African gangs, Belly. Tell it to Australians being pushed out of their neighbourhoods by Muslim colonists. Tell it to your erstwhile workmates whose wages are stagnant because of mass immigration. Tell it to the 750,000 unemployment Australians who can't get work because it's cheaper to import foreigners en masse rather than train Australians (John Howard is to blame for that)

Contrarily, Belly decries “taking their (the majority's) rights to save minority ones. He says that he has come in from the bush, but he doesn't seem to be aware that the majority is losing its rights to the minority in Australia as is the case with all Western countries.