Dear Joe,

Canem Malum is still banging on as usual.

There are only 1.2 million UK citizens living in
Australia. The population of Australia is 25.5 million.

He can do the math. And out of those 1.5 million,
I wonder how many want to go back to the UK or
bring the UK here?

He needs to sit down and give his mind a rest.

Dear Foxy,

Yes, freedom and tolerance are non-negotiable.

However, my original comment about the need for proof was in response to Saltpetre's:
«It strikes me that, unfortunately, within one broad group of long-time residents there remains a noisy indignant scattering who refuse to want to be Aussies as such»

So long as an immigrant (or aboriginal) respects and tolerates the others, there should be no requirement to convert them into an 'Aussie'. Should you wish to convert others anyway, then the onus is on you to prove to them that your culture is better and greater, if indeed it is.

http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/ethnic-background-of-australians.html

Demographics and Ethnic Groups of Australia

By Amber Pariona on July 18 2019 in Society

British continue to be the majority with 67.4% of the population.

David F said-

At first the nation state of Australia had a white Australia policy which in effect denied the fact that a significant proportion of the first fleet were not white, Protestant nor English.

Answer-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australians

Between 1788 and the Second World War, the vast majority of settlers and immigrants came from the British Isles (principally England, Ireland and Scotland)...

Since the end of the White Australia policy in 1973, Australia has pursued an official policy of multiculturalism and has the world's eighth-largest immigrant population, with immigrants accounting for 30 percent of the population in 2019. A large and continuing wave of immigration to Australia from across the world has continued into the 21st century, with Asia now being the largest source of immigrants.

The development of a separate Australian identity and national character began in the 19th century, linked with the anti-transportation and nativist movements and the Eureka Rebellion during the colonial period and culminated in the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901. The primary language is Australian English, and Australian culture and literature have historically developed from Anglo-Celtic and Western traditions.

http://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_convicts_on_the_First_Fleet

Didn't appear to be any Chinese names in this list as far as I could see. Maybe their names were anglicised.

All of the "From" fields appear to be in the British Isles.

No matter what our origins are we can all now be proud of being part of our Asian present.

We are the product of four decades of Asianiastion (aka Multiculturalism Australian-style).

All this talk about whether or not one is a Lithuanian cossack or a Chinese spy or a British convict is all academic and is something we should leave to the Arts graduates in anthropology, history and sociology to discuss.

I'll keep posting photos from the web that display Austrasian street scenes because there are still a lot of you in need of some serious psychotherapy.

Where is there a half-decent sociologist on one of those very rare occasions when you need one ?

The village idiot has claimed that her/she has put up a

" .... photo ... of a tram stop in Flinders St Melbourne. "

Actually, a Eucharist procession in a part of Sydney, but never mind.

Hmm, who tends to use trams in Melbourne ? On his/her first day as a sociology student, he/she would have noticed that people who use trams, may not have private transport. Gosh, is that possible ? Are there such people ? (Wow, you learn so much from sociology already).

Well yes, perhaps students; perhaps women more than men; older people; city-based service workers.

Conversely, whoever walks in and out of the doors of the Melbourne club ? Perhaps we should judge the entire Australian population from the composition of that population ? Gosh, I conclude that most Australians are wealthy white males.

To decide on the entire population from such a sample would be a common error of first-year, first-week, D- sociology students. FAIL, Misopionated.

Joe