Had France nipped the decline of their existing culture and put a stop to irresponsible immigration when they had the chance, they wouldn't have been faced with churning out controversial-excessive laws like this to begin with in order to tackle their Muslim problem.
Desperate times called for desperate measures, and it wasn't until their own culture began to disappear (not at all a good look for French tourism)...when in a state of panic did they resort to drastic measures such as banning the burqa to bring about change and civil rest, given their people were outraged by their former governments in discriminant immigration policies.
Sound familiar?
Too late! The damage is done... French- Muslims are there to stay, with or without their (eye-rape armour) aka burqas, this and will continue to breed like rabbits in warrens spreading the word of Allah throughout disadvantaged generations of French youth to come who are outraged by the overall rape of their nation so turn to a faith that promises retribution and justice. This is why Islam is so appealing to down-trods and outcasts. Why do you suppose Muslim Sheiks/muftis lurk about in prisons, recruiting indigenous Australians?
They know they are already angry with white Australians this and p8ssed off with our western-laws, so converting them is a piece of cake.
Shutting the gate after the horse has bolted is a rather punitive measure, compared to what should have been done to retain/protect their existing culture when they first realised things were getting out of hand on the immigration front over in France.
But like so many western nations, they thought they could immigrate their way through a global recession/downturn, this and possibly even thwart it with some degree of optimism...(what a joke)... This only prolongs the inevitable, something we Australians have yet to realise.
We need to learn from others mistakes,(Particularly France and Britain).. and think to a degree, we are learning, slowly, hence some nations accuse us of being overly protectionist, and in some cases racist.
I think we are more protectionist than racist, and for good reason if France is any indication of what irresponsible immigration and the Islamification of a western nation can amount to.
If it's going to be done, then it has to be done now,(Stop immigrating known to be problematic groups which conflict with our existing western culture)... lets not wait until the situation gets so out of control that like France, we have to regress to passing controversial archaic laws to contend with the mess.
We need to stop being so 'correct'...'polite'... and just accept our past mistakes for what they are so we can work towards creating meaningful policies to sustain and preserve future generations of EXISTING-Australians to come, this opposed to burdening our offspring with illegal immigrants.

Better they (Illegal immigrants) cry now, than we later....
because we will be doing just that if we continue allowing them to play the reverse racism victim card.
Someone has to make the hard decisions, and not everyone will be happy with them...but it has to be done!
Does Gillard have the balls?
Does Abbot have the balls?