"What I am convinced of is that many Australians are aching to bring back some normalcy, a dose of common sense & decency. People are past all this racial idiocy. Only the racists use race as a tool, decent people are more focussed on harmony & sustainability"

Too right.
If your someone who sees the world through racist coloured spectacles, then you'll perceive that theres an element of racism in everything.
- Don't blame me for the way others see the world.

Any one? any one at all care to tell me how this country or even America can not forever be one made up of people from all over the world?
Saw the charge the writers of that song are or maybe traitors,laughable but tragic too.
Back then the focuse was on Asians, how they would be the ruin of us and our country.
Why not the Chinese, they make up more than three times the number of Muslims
Greeks in Victoria? EU can it ever not be the many country's and races it was before the economic partnership?

Am I imagining things - or do we currently have
a serious problem in this country - of leaders
who promote a permanent separate identity within
Australia for their adherents - an identity that
is very divisive in today's Australia.

Regaining community trust is essential. Part of the
solution must be disempowering those leaders
and encourage participation by all groups within
the wider community.

Perhaps before we look at our refugee "problem," we
need to try to fix our internal problems first?
Unfortunately, I feel that it will probably take
centuries for that mentality to be bred out. In
the meantime the country will remain divided as
long as the "colonials" deny the contribution of later
arrivals.

All new migrants will continue to be looked at with
suspicion and fear as history has demonstrated.
And refugees will not be seen as a global problem -
but as someone else's problem.

People forget that thanks to Western involvement in
recent wars - has created this refugee problem.
Therefore Western powers should take their share of
responsibility.

"Am I imagining things - or do we currently have
a serious problem in this country - of leaders
who promote a permanent separate identity within
Australia for their adherents - an identity that
is very divisive in today's Australia"

Are you referring to Islam; or the divisive nature of the lefts identity politics?
Or am I missing something?
I don't understand.

any one at all care to tell me how this country or even America can not forever be one made up of people from all over the world?
Belly,
Australia is already made up from people from everywhere. I don't think anyone has a problem with that.
Where people start to have problems is when crapheads from everywhere come here & are let in by australian crapheads.
You see, Australia's biggest problem are Australians who only have money on the brain.
In the pre PC era they were called traitors, now they're called bureaucrats.

To Armchair Critic- It seems to be only three or four posters that support immigration. They seem to have one foot in Australia and one elsewhere- perhaps due to marriage or family relationship some due to ideology. They don't seem to understand that just because they may not support mass immigration doesn't mean that they are against members of their own family that happen to come from other countries- despite what the socialist propaganda would have you believe.