Paul
Your observation is perfect

not wearing the hijab might get one "stoned to death",
Paul1405,
Sadly yes & silly me had been made to believe that that's the kind of suppression & human persecution that the UN was created for at the cost of literally many, many billions of Dollars !

The burqa is a sign of oppression.

People are free to wear the yellow star of David, but no sane person would.

Hey Ezhill,

What's decent?

My parent's moved up to QLD from Victoria when I was 3.
The closest town 5 minutes up the road was Tweed Heads / Coolangatta.
By the time I was 6 or 7 in 1980, I was in nippers at Tweed Heads Surf Life Saving Club.
What standards of dress insofar as covering up would you expect me to have?
Do you think I didn't see women wearing skimpy clothes (next to nothing) at the beach at my local town 5 minutes up the road in the 80's?
In the other direction, down at Fingal, there was the 'nudie beach' not that my parents took me to that particular beach because I was still young, but it was no secret even to me when I was young that it was a nude beach.
We did go to Fingal now and then, just not the 'nudie beach'.
80's was a different time, it was no problem for women to get their boobs out, and blokes were strutting up and down the beach with 70's mustaches and dick-togs and driving around in the old 'sin bin' HZ Sandman panel vans.
Maybe if you grew up in a different time and place to me, things may have been different for you.
- But hey I'm an Aussie, that's how I grew up, and that was over 40 years ago now.

I remember there was at least 1 local rapist getting around as it was in the local paper and women were concerned and spoke about it with each other in passing.
- The local resident sex-pest.

Do you think women deserved to be raped in this kind of environment because 1 or 2 deviates couldn't control themselves?

For me, I don't really care how skimpy people dress, it was all normal, apart from people actually getting around COMPLETELY NUDE, which was a no-no unless you went to the 'nudie beach'.

There was always the good old regular streaker on the TV footy or cricket anyway.
We can't forget them, and their place in Australian culture and history...

[Cont.]
- And to add to that we also can't forget how things were in those times.

All the ad's on the telly, and crude and creative car stickers on peoples cars.

"Hey Love,
If you need a plumber call Des, He'll unblock your drains."

"Ladies if you need a good lubrication, head on over to Bill Mechanics"

"If you after some WOOD, Mike's Timbers Has You Covered"

"Need some yardwork? Dave will look after your BUSH. All work Guaranteed"

They were way more cruder and creative than the examples I've given here, but you get the idea.

Old XC falcons driving around with speakers on the roof, advertising this or that, Friday night at Twin-Towns or the Playroom...

That's how things were in those times.
- Back when we called ourselves 'The Lucky Country'
Perhaps we've gone significantly backwards since those days,
- Trying to please the sensibilities of foreigners and their conservative religions and create a generic bland culture where everyone's complaining about everything like the 'bloody poms'.

I want the old Australia back.
- This one sucks.

[Cont.]
If I allow myself a little nostalgia and think about those days that were, the years of my youth.
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=9900&page=0#337421
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=9900&page=0#337422

Sure, we've got fancy computers, iphones, ipad's and electric cars.
- But we really have gone down the drain as a nation since our heyday,

This bland, fake, manufactured, imported, generic country we now are.
"socially responsible" "progressive".
Colonised by UN Sustainability Goals and foreign treaties and all the other feelgood 'PC' controlling crap.
- We're not the 'Lucky Country' anymore, it's all lies, it's all garbage.
We haven't really progressed at all