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» 28/07/2007 1:00:16 AM Shockadelic said: "The writers use the term "forcefully assimilate". Who ev.....
» 28/07/2007 12:23:11 AM Shockadelic is correct in asserting that there was no 'infamous White Australia Policy'. R.....
» 19/07/2007 1:36:02 PM yvonne said: "Having said that, I also am aware of the many voices who see this as de.....
» 18/07/2007 5:34:33 PM "You could please explain to him that means his area of responsibility actually exten.....
» 16/07/2007 2:22:14 PM Both the State and Federal Governments have shirked their responsibilities for decades by .....
» 16/07/2007 2:03:07 PM There is a good reason why so many Asian students study in Australia (aside from using our.....
» 16/07/2007 1:32:34 PM saintfletcher said: "Should or could Australia be a part of the EU?" While Aust.....
» 16/07/2007 12:47:31 PM "Anglo-London-forbearers..." Considering I don't have any English ancestry what.....
» 15/07/2007 8:16:22 PM yvonne said: "Oligarch gave China as an example country preaching unity by not allowi.....
» 15/07/2007 7:17:41 PM chainsmoker said: "Nobody has suggested we should be part of Asia for more than a dec.....
» 15/07/2007 2:11:44 PM I can assure you that I have no misty-eyed longing for the grand old days of the British E.....
» 14/07/2007 11:14:45 PM Speaking of our chronically inept immigration department, the Australian National Audit Of.....
» 14/07/2007 10:54:18 PM In his 2006 speech entitled "Can Australia Survive the 21st Century?", noted Aus.....
» 14/07/2007 8:10:11 PM CJ Morgan said: "I suppose it would be politically incorrect to disagree by saying th.....
» 14/07/2007 6:25:27 PM aqvarivs said: "MichaelK., how does Australia measure up to where ever it is your fro.....
» 12/07/2007 5:03:37 PM Political correctness destroyed Pauline Hanson. Whatever one's opinion of her, most object.....
» 12/07/2007 3:50:54 PM In response to Michael, Read "U.S. Government Objectives in Iraq" by Erich Marq.....
» 12/07/2007 3:43:03 PM Senator Lyn Allison makes some astute points about Australia's dangerous reliance on forei.....
» 12/07/2007 1:54:51 PM Is Mise said: "We have closer ties with the USA than with most of Europe." One .....
» 12/07/2007 3:37:48 AM Australia has a special historical bond with the nations of Europe and we should be lookin.....
» 11/07/2007 8:44:10 PM FrankGol said: "Would it be intellectually dishonest to suggest that the likelihood o.....
» 11/07/2007 7:49:29 PM CJ Morgan said: "I don't suppose that Oligarch knows the difference between a nation,.....
» 4/07/2007 5:55:17 PM FrankGol said: "Now I wonder - which of my Australian friends of Greek, or Italian, o.....
» 4/07/2007 3:16:17 PM FrankGol said: "The Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867-1918) was not a multicultural socie.....
» 3/07/2007 4:05:16 PM "Well, we all know that Howard has always been ambivalent about multiculturalism, but.....
» 3/07/2007 2:26:10 PM FrankGol said: "To assert that "Only an authoritarian state could survive such a.....
» 2/07/2007 2:41:00 AM FrankGol: "Multiculturalism does not threaten 'mainstream culture' which, by definiti.....
» 2/07/2007 1:45:44 AM In response to FrankGol, "Multiculturalism is not a doctrine that simply ‘came along.....
» 30/06/2007 5:34:46 PM "I enjoy jocks, Banjo." OLO's very own Borat strikes again......
» 29/06/2007 4:12:50 AM Yvonne At the risk of sounding churlish, perhaps you should ease off worshiping at the al.....
» 29/06/2007 2:55:38 AM FrankGol, is it possible for you to engage in a rational debate about multiculturalism wit.....
» 28/06/2007 2:20:36 AM Multiculturalism is more than a dirty word; it's a vile, pernicious ideology. It's more th.....
» 28/06/2007 2:19:06 AM Multiculturalism is more than a dirty word; it's a vile, pernicious ideology. It's more th.....
» 14/06/2007 6:26:02 AM The enormousness of Australia's debt-servicing burden leaves us highly vunerable to any do.....
» 14/06/2007 6:13:52 AM Rhian, Australia cannot keep borrowing indefintely from foreigners to finance our fiscal i.....
» 13/06/2007 4:32:23 AM "You don't seem to understand basic economics." Obviously nor do you. From a .....
» 11/06/2007 3:14:23 AM What will define the current era? In my opinion, the decline and eventual death of the Wes.....
» 11/06/2007 2:39:29 AM Saintfletcher said: "The foundation of this country was on the premise of defending t.....
» 26/05/2007 1:10:20 AM Frankly spendocrat, I'm not interested in your idealistic delusions about humanity. As so.....
» 24/05/2007 2:30:27 PM And maybe spendocrat, you should use your head instead of your bleeding heart. Your not a .....
» 24/05/2007 8:55:45 AM Let's put this into perspective. When the Ottoman lands was divided, the Arabs received 1.....
» 24/05/2007 8:02:28 AM Spendocrat, the ageing workforce argument for high immigration is fallacious. Read the 199.....
» 22/05/2007 5:32:53 AM Spendocrat says: "Excellent, more immigrants. We need to boost up the population a bi.....
» 21/05/2007 12:58:42 PM Print off the above Crikey article and confront your local federal MP with it. Ask them to.....
» 19/05/2007 7:34:47 PM According to Michael Pascoe at crikey.com.au, Australia’s real immigration numbers will ap.....
» 19/05/2007 4:19:11 PM 180,000 a year and not a word from the media. The recolonisation of Australia is in progre.....
» 18/05/2007 1:50:18 AM If a party like the Democrats came out against high immigration, I suspect their flagging .....
» 17/05/2007 2:27:42 AM Agreed, Canberra should be the venue for the APEC meetings. Sydney is an overcrowded cess.....
» 17/05/2007 2:14:56 AM Rhian said: "It’s true that the minerals boom is a boon for our economy, but these po.....
» 16/05/2007 9:41:38 PM As with Australia and New Zealand, Canada's high immigration levels are providing the oxyg.....
» 15/05/2007 12:37:33 AM "He has apparently been heard to say privately that "we don't need to do busines.....
» 14/05/2007 11:36:23 PM Fester, immigration has become a zero-sum game for most Australians. In terms of economic .....
» 14/05/2007 2:35:40 AM Australia needs to a population decentralisation strategy. Senator Lyn Alison last year pu.....
» 14/05/2007 2:18:22 AM And who is Billie Piper's character Rose? Julia Gillard?.....
» 14/05/2007 2:12:49 AM The Howard Government's Achilles’ heel is climate change and Costello's budget failed to a.....
» 14/05/2007 1:49:47 AM Surprise, Surprise, the Zimbabwean dictatorship is now accusing Australia of racism. Nev.....
» 14/05/2007 1:20:37 AM Ruawake, an Americas-wide trade pact with Australia as an associate member would be ideal .....
» 13/05/2007 6:44:38 PM Why aren't our schools teaching Spanish? South American countries present massive trade op.....
» 11/05/2007 10:07:55 PM "Last night in his Budget reply, Mr Rudd announced that he would re-establish a strat.....
» 11/05/2007 2:41:01 AM Steel, no need to presumptuously jump to wildly inaccurate conclusions and engage in pueri.....
» 11/05/2007 1:53:44 AM An Australian government with foresight - an oxymoron if I ever saw one!.....
» 11/05/2007 1:41:02 AM I dare say that sinophile Rudd is more obsessed with Asia than Paul Keating was. Don't wor.....
» 9/05/2007 5:46:38 PM Emma, I did not claim that Australia was still British. As a second generation Australian .....
» 8/05/2007 11:40:27 PM Poor old RobbyH. It appears nobody ever warned him that people who live in glass houses sh.....
» 8/05/2007 10:23:45 PM Leigh, never mind Emma Dawson. Multiculturalist zealots like her are so intent on imposing.....
» 5/05/2007 7:40:41 PM With all due respect to Arjay, blaming the State Government's incompetence for NSW's econo.....
» 5/05/2007 7:23:46 PM This discussion has managed to bring out a new bunch of rabid extremists - the Dawkinite a.....
» 23/04/2007 9:06:22 AM From the UK: Disintegration Britain: Report blames mass immigration The UK faces politic.....
» 22/04/2007 12:29:54 AM BOAZ said: "I don't think it should ever be a matter of 'Western' or 'Asian' identity.....
» 21/04/2007 4:54:54 AM Steve Madden, your comparison between Victoria and the UK completely overlooks Australia's.....
» 20/04/2007 4:41:03 PM TurnRightThenLeft, history has demonstrated time and again that multicultural states event.....
» 19/04/2007 9:58:24 PM Oh dear, poor Alanpoi is still living in the 1980s. Rather than engage in a rational debat.....
» 18/04/2007 1:24:20 PM Leigh, our politicians ignored Geoffrey Blainey back in the 1980s when he presciently fore.....
» 18/04/2007 10:05:58 AM According to a report by the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), the.....
» 18/04/2007 9:13:03 AM aussiedave, the "new white trash of Asia" was a quote from Singapore's former Pr.....
» 17/04/2007 9:21:05 PM Rhian said: "I’m a supporter of multiculturalism, which I see as comprising acceptanc.....
» 17/04/2007 5:31:53 PM In his book, "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order", Samue.....
» 17/04/2007 4:21:05 PM Rhian, multiculturalism is not the solution to our problem, it is the problem. Hilali was .....
» 17/04/2007 8:57:57 AM Caedmon said: "I believe we endure the poverty of multiculturalism and that state-san.....
» 17/04/2007 8:28:39 AM "Good News Geoff" Gallop was a mediocre Premier. Sadly, his academic performance.....
» 17/04/2007 7:55:16 AM I'm beginning to suspect that this invidious MichaelK character is some sort of jokester......
» 14/04/2007 10:53:57 PM "The Australian Peoples Party" Sorry, but I would have reservations about joini.....
» 14/04/2007 10:43:14 PM "A corporate raid on a country is not foreign investment. It's just a corporate raid......
» 14/04/2007 10:23:43 PM Arjay said: "Put more simply,Kevin Rudd's view of IR reform as being "the bridge.....
» 14/04/2007 9:38:00 PM Emma Dawson writes: "And, as former deputy prime minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim,.....
» 14/04/2007 1:05:42 AM I suspect a downturn in world commodity prices will scare off the foreign creditors curren.....
» 14/04/2007 12:45:48 AM MichaelK, perhaps you should consider remedial English classes before you denigrate Austra.....
» 14/04/2007 12:27:19 AM More nauseating tripe from the multicultural lobby (Emma Dawson is a former SBS employee)......
» 13/04/2007 9:52:40 PM Irfan Yusuf states: "What will make New Zealand values more meaningful is that New Ze.....
» 12/04/2007 9:22:49 PM Brock, you've contradicted yourself. If Australia's economic boom is due entirely to an up.....
» 12/04/2007 3:52:01 AM Personally, I've always viewed do-gooders as agents of political correctness. No do-goode.....
» 12/04/2007 3:37:37 AM Western Australia is about a decade behind the rest of the country, so I can understand wh.....
» 12/04/2007 2:04:42 AM shorbe said: "Multi-culturalism didn't exist in Imperial Europe -- to be an ethnic mi.....
» 12/04/2007 1:47:05 AM Stephany said: "To what extent do immigrants bring their home country attitudes to Au.....
» 12/04/2007 1:12:03 AM Australia is indeed a profligate nation. It concerns me greatly that we've spent the las.....
» 12/04/2007 12:26:26 AM alanpoi, your flippant attitude is really quite disturbing, especially when our nation's l.....
» 10/04/2007 12:47:32 AM tortasaurus said: "Who are the LOSERS?" In short, us. The average Australian .....
» 10/04/2007 12:15:42 AM Rojo, the water shortages currently faced by our capital cities are indicative of our limi.....
» 9/04/2007 11:19:07 PM Rojo, Australia simply does not have the water nor the arable land to support 30 million p.....
» 6/04/2007 7:34:38 PM Sadly, it appears the only man capable of ending this high immigration madness has effecti.....
» 5/04/2007 9:36:40 AM yvonne said: "We tend to lump Asians, Africans and Europeans together because of some.....
» 2/04/2007 4:26:25 PM FrankGol, I suspect your decision to retreat back into your pseudo-intellectual fantasy la.....
» 31/03/2007 11:27:58 PM FrankGol, diversity in the baneful form envisioned by multiculturalists is a self-fulfilli.....
» 31/03/2007 8:34:14 AM Why this irrational obsession with diversity for diversity's sake? Does FrankGol also dema.....
» 26/03/2007 12:57:23 AM "At what point did we all suddenly become parochial and inward looking?" Again,.....
» 26/03/2007 12:38:57 AM Pericles, polls have consistently shown that Australians want a reduction in immigration i.....
» 24/03/2007 2:08:08 AM FrankGol says: "Oligarch, you accuse me of 'unfounded, dogmatic certitude'. And you d.....
» 24/03/2007 1:19:29 AM Pericles, do you accept that immigration should be for the benefit of the people already h.....
» 23/03/2007 1:53:00 AM JSP1488 said: "The so-called victors, Britain, France and the USA let this happen whe.....
» 23/03/2007 1:23:12 AM As the Howard Government's record high immigration intake levels are essentially being dic.....
» 22/03/2007 8:51:47 PM There is a key difference between New York's ethnic diversity and Australia's systematic n.....
» 21/03/2007 1:17:14 AM FrankGol dismisses the assertion that "MC is simply a philosophy that rates original .....
» 16/03/2007 11:21:51 PM "The Australian People's Party" policies on immigration and citizenship are susp.....
» 14/03/2007 1:05:18 AM The problem with this global citizenship piffle is that all traffic appears to be one way .....
» 13/03/2007 11:32:41 PM Country Gal, the halving of CGT, combined with existing negative gearing provisions, has e.....
» 13/03/2007 12:50:11 AM Arjay, as much as the Coalition would love to blame the Labor states for record low levels.....
» 12/03/2007 11:57:01 PM Pericles, it must be truly abhorrent to live under the tyranny of monoculturalism. Imagine.....
» 11/03/2007 2:46:40 AM Reading through this thread has only re-affirmed my opinion that multiculturalists are eit.....
» 11/03/2007 2:07:34 AM I agree that unilateral tariff reductions are utter stupidity. Both sides are indeed culpa.....
» 11/03/2007 1:37:48 AM sharkfin said: "Whatever happened to separation of church and state. People with stro.....
» 9/03/2007 8:52:38 AM Retailed as mjaso, kangaroo meat is being used in Russia to solve that country's domestic .....
» 8/03/2007 1:29:26 AM Yabby said: "Otherwise lots of people simply won't bother and it will only be when th.....
» 5/03/2007 8:37:29 PM mickijo makes an important point in that multiculturalism places all the emphasis on ethni.....
» 5/03/2007 1:33:41 AM FGM in Australia? Thank you multiculturalism!.....
» 5/03/2007 1:23:10 AM Australia must be the only developed nation still pursuing this gratuitous privatization a.....
» 5/03/2007 12:22:57 AM Arjay, Australia's average working hours are already longer than most other OECD countries.....
» 4/03/2007 2:41:02 PM FrankGol says: "For every Gunnar K. A. Njalsson and Paul Scheffer (who?)" Perha.....
» 4/03/2007 2:38:25 PM FrankGol says: "My answer is first that 'Western values' is a meaningless term, and s.....
» 4/03/2007 4:47:29 AM Arjay, I am perplexed by your faith in Howard's perceived superior economic management. I .....
» 3/03/2007 10:52:35 AM Considering Australia just recorded its worst trade deficit since 1974, I think it's fair .....
» 2/03/2007 9:23:47 PM FrankGol wrote: "Why do you and they continue to trumpet the old myth that Multicullt.....
» 1/03/2007 6:21:42 PM Suprise, suprise. Another non-Western minority group representative promoting ethnic separ.....
» 12/02/2007 7:24:14 PM saintfletcher said: "Never-the-less, it would be far easier for all tripartite nation.....
» 12/02/2007 6:40:19 PM BOAZ_David said: "Humor aside.. I think we should go further and include Pacific Isla.....
» 11/02/2007 3:47:38 AM Climate change may well provide the catalyst for the implementation of a sustainable popul.....
» 11/02/2007 12:10:52 AM West said: "Intelligent design is a lie that is utilised by predators to manipulate c.....
» 10/02/2007 11:43:53 PM BOAZ_David said: "That.. is like the KEY TO THE CITY for this discussion. It summariz.....
» 10/02/2007 11:17:26 PM It is somewhat perplexing that Australia doesn't enjoy a closer relationship with Canada c.....
» 10/02/2007 3:48:21 AM From Wikipedia's entry on multiculturalism: "In 1999, the legal philosopher Paul Cli.....
» 10/02/2007 3:24:43 AM The Federal Government is running massive budget surpluses. So unless Howard embarks on ye.....
» 10/02/2007 2:44:18 AM spendocrat said: "This is a common question posed by those who lack the understanding.....
» 10/02/2007 1:30:10 AM seaweed said: "I did laugh at the statement "accelerate export growth in high-va.....
» 9/02/2007 1:31:38 AM Rainier said: "Well the current land rights in separate and majority white hands must.....
» 9/02/2007 1:15:56 AM West said: "Darwins discovery of natural selection has been confirmed in the lab and .....
» 8/02/2007 5:44:59 PM Celivia said: "I love Australia, it's beautiful and should be looked after." I'.....
» 8/02/2007 5:28:20 PM Is this the Coalition's new scare campaign? Surely they can do better......
» 8/02/2007 5:25:55 PM Where is Costello's debt truck these days? In 1995, Australia's foreign debt was $193 bill.....
» 8/02/2007 5:23:26 AM West said: "Oligarch you are asserting that you do not know enough of evolutionary pr.....
» 8/02/2007 3:49:03 AM Leigh, belabouring Celivia's residency status doesn't change the fact that Howard is a cli.....
» 7/02/2007 2:31:21 PM For every bible-bashing creationist diligently reading the young-earth piffle at AnswersIn.....
» 14/01/2007 2:29:52 AM Runner said: "I know that their are a lot of Howard haters on this forum but at least.....
» 14/01/2007 2:06:59 AM Scotty said: "When you think about how many people are doing voluntary,casual or part.....
» 14/01/2007 1:16:54 AM Audrey Apple said: "I find it ironic that most of you are banging on about our inalie.....
» 13/01/2007 5:43:37 AM Rutager said: "What was your GG grandfather doing 80 years ago or more like where was.....
» 12/01/2007 2:03:06 PM Leigh said: "The silliest part of the latest outburst in Egypt is that a mere 3% of A.....
» 8/01/2007 6:49:54 AM "In the year following the agreement, Australian exports to the U.S. declined, while .....
» 8/01/2007 6:36:51 AM Leigh said: "I don't know why Ludwig wants Rudd (if elected) to carry on with Beazley.....
» 8/01/2007 5:45:56 AM Arjay said: "Evolution has fossil,genetic,evidence,and logical hypothesis to back up .....
» 8/01/2007 4:38:43 AM Leigh said: "The next thing you know, we will be blood brothers of Outer Mongolians.&.....
» 6/01/2007 1:52:16 AM West said "Perhaps the dungeons and dragons players (Christians) in this thread could.....
» 6/01/2007 1:14:45 AM Australia needs to broaden its horizons and move beyond the anachronistic obsession with r.....
» 5/01/2007 3:58:48 AM Pericles said: "You talk compassion and tolerance when it suits your book, but your u.....
» 5/01/2007 3:29:44 AM The flat earth comparison is nothing but a crude red herring. Darwinian evolution is where.....
» 5/01/2007 2:40:02 AM "We are naturally and comfortably and permanently part of this region [Asia] and see .....
» 4/01/2007 1:51:22 AM Yung Yong said "a nation that opens doors and provides people from all backgrounds to.....
» 6/12/2006 2:11:00 PM A number a posters are sadly correct when they assert that Australian citizenship has been.....
» 27/11/2006 2:34:55 AM Firstly, congratulations to aqvarivs for such a rational and perspicacious post. It is ind.....
» 25/11/2006 8:32:20 PM EasyTimes said: "Privatizing is the best way the 3rd world can get western money and .....
» 24/11/2006 4:01:44 PM The last few months have seen the Howard Government become increasingly vunerable on a num.....
» 24/11/2006 3:30:36 PM My initial hope was that this article would explore the trade and investment opportunities.....
» 24/11/2006 2:35:55 PM Tristan Ewins said: "How is investing in infrastructure and services "anti-growt.....
» 24/11/2006 12:16:30 PM Ronnie Peters: "Australia is a multicultural nation. If you disagree with this assert.....
» 24/11/2006 4:58:36 AM Charlie Bradley said: "But the thrust of the educational change that is being promote.....
» 31/01/2006 4:22:26 PM "Is it possible that the Korean GOVERNMENT took action in the economic interests of t.....
» 14/11/2005 12:38:32 PM "ANZAC day has now become the "Australia Day" for non hyphenated Australian.....
» 14/11/2005 12:10:29 PM To plantagenet, Firstly, I'd like to clear up your (feigned) confusion over my identity. .....
» 13/11/2005 7:01:06 PM "It also neglected to mention that the Australian Senate’s 2004 inquiry into poverty .....
» 13/11/2005 6:31:58 PM Intelligent Design is inferred from empirical evidence in nature, not deduced from scriptu.....

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