Foxy loved my dad still do, he worked himself to death for his kids, at 54 years of age
However on the railway station at Bowral [his birth place] I was about nine, he told a Greek migrant, in very bad words, to speak English
Also said he knew he understood
Got a clip over the ear for asking dad could he speak Greek
It happened your story is one of thousands like it
My youthful time working in Sydney taught me much, love those friendly Italians
BUT youthful Greeks and Italians informed me, often our women in their minds, had low morals
We have come a long way from those days and are better for it

Dear Belly,

Yes we have come a long way.

However - there's still some who have not
progressed very far. I still cringe at Canem
Malum telling me that I was merely a "guest"
in this country and that I could work on the
land - but it was not my land because I was
not of British ancestry.

So you so - for some, I shall always be a
"foreigner" even though I was born and raised
here. Imagine if I didn't speak English very
well - or spoke it with an accent, or even
looked different - how the heck would I be expected
to ever fit in and be accepted?

The funny thing is - there were other owners of the
land before the arrival of the British. And the
British are in themselves a mixture. So what the
heck?

cont'd ...

Dear Belly,

I'm sorry that your dad died at such a young age.
My dad worked himself to death as well. He died
at age 52. But they left us with a rich heritage
that we have passed on to our children. And that's
what matters the most.

We live in the best country in the world - and
we're certainly happier than most.

Foxy my dad was a worker, he told me to live my own life, not get a home for him mum and my siblings
Yet after his death that was the only thing to do
And many eldest did that
I am confronted by comments and commentators like CMs
Ask myself how did this section of a place set up for freedom to hold a view, become home to an over representation of far right people
Has this country turned right
Some have, the election will prove it
But hopefully it will underline, not in the numbers we see here

Dear Belly,

You're amazing. And your family is very lucky.

I also helped my mum after dad died. We paid
for dad's funeral - because my brothers were
in no position to help. And mum could not
access their money - as dad had not left a will.
So we helped out. And we did that all along
until the day mum died. That's how it was in our
family as well - and I imagine in many others.

Talking about people's views regarding ethnicity.
We hear frequently that Australia is the most
successful multicultural society in the world.
Possibly it is. But of course there are groups
that still yearn for the "White Australia" policy
and days of old.

In the most recent 2016 Census 7.8 million or
36.1% of respondents identified as "English."
According to the 2016 Census about 50% of
Australians were born overseas or had a parent
born overseas. Census data also indicates that
about one quarter of Australians speak a language
other than English in their homes.

State and federal parliaments should really reflect
contemporary Australians - yet fewer than 20
of the 226 currently serving in our federal
parliament have a non-English speaking background.

Diverse parliamentarians are crucial as they possess
a lived experience and in some cases life as a
refugee and other issues unique to multicultural
communities and can therefore serve as a voice for those
Australians.

We talk about quotas for women in parliament - perhaps
we should also include quotas for multicultural
Australians as well - to fully reflect Australia's
highly ethnically diverse people.

Anyway, we shall have to wait and see what happens at
not only the next election - but in the future elections.
Will we be given more choices in the pre-selection of
party candidates?

I imagine that changes will inevitably happen with time.

Foxy indeed the whole world will change
It is my view the mass migration/Refugee flow will bring about a closer world
Just maybe pain and all, the says a better world