Yes Is Mise, & then they combined to become Australian. The result was so strong we absorbed the 10 pound poms, the Greeks & Italians, & made them all Australians.

Then the rot set in, with governments bringing in so much garbage in the last 30 years, it has been impossible to make the influx Australian.

Both I, 60 years ago, & my son 28 years ago voluntarily Joined the defense forces to defend the country of our birth. There is no was you could get us to fight for the rubbish it has become. The country of our birth has been destroyed, replaced with something definitely not worth fighting for.

Multiculturalism. Different values. People of different cultures were never meant to be together en masse. There's nothing wrong with people of different cultures per say, but they/we are all more comfortable among our own kind, no matter what social engineers say; difference and division, group identity, identify politics, divide and rule: it's all part of the plan. And it's too late to do anything about it now.

Religion should have no place in the running of a country. There's a reason for the separation of Church and State and the last time it was tried was called The Dark Ages for a reason.
Recent events in the USA demonstrate what can happen when the administration is captured by evangelical zealots with a specific agenda and indications are there is much more to come.

This country would be in dire straits if it wasn't for immigration as post-COVID economic conditions demonstrate. It's always been a Ponzi scheme that needs a growing population and the Anglo heritage population simply isn't up to the job. We can't even pick enough fruit to feed ourselves let alone fill certain job vacancies and it's primarily immigration that has been providing our economic growth for decades.

A white pure-bred Christian Australia for locals only is very much the philosophy of another group in the USA. At one time One Nation shared exactly the same ideas as the KKK except for drug-testing of welfare recipients but now they've taken that on-board too.

The idealised fifties have been and are long gone and since replaced by a loss of the middle class, increased economic inequality and the deterioration of common support services due to never-ending tax cuts for the wealthy.

If you want to go back to another fanciful nostalgic era maybe we shouldn't have given women the vote or any rights to aborigines either.

"This country would be in dire straits if it wasn't for immigration as post-COVID economic conditions demonstrate."

We currently have the lowest unemployment for decades, due almost entirely to the lack of immigration since the pox from China arrived. Are we in favour of full employment for Australians?

If you want to go back to another fanciful nostalgic era maybe we shouldn't have given women the vote.

Wow rache has finally said something sensible.

"Religion should have no place in the running of a country".

I agree. It certainly should not, and does not in this country; although individuals might make decisions on their own beliefs.

It is culture and values, not religion, that is the problem. Multiculturalism is suicide.