Karnal wrote on Mar 17^th, 2014 at 10:48am:


Who's talking about population growth?

The multiculti bit was a wank dreamed up first by Professor Donald Horne ... and then acted upon by Gough Whitlam and his criminal mate Al Grassby.

Own goal again.

Dear O dear O dear ...

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 17^th, 2014 at 11:18am:


Because they couldn't get enough Europeans to fill the factories of Bankstown and Granville.

Dear O dear O dear.

And the multiculti wank was first dreamed up by the Yanks. You know - send us your poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

They've certainly improved church attendance in my multicultural ghetto.

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 17^th, 2014 at 12:35pm:


In Australia, Herbie. Multiculturalism was originally a Canadian term influenced by US immigration policies. We got the term from them in 1968, courtesy of the academic, Jerzy Zubrzycki.

The ten-pound Pom scheme continued well into the 1970s. Immigration from England was always favoured. My own English father lived here illegally for years before he applied for the paperwork in the late 70s.

He filled in a form and got residency in an afternoon.

I have no doubt that your own experience of emmigrating to Australia was a piece of cake, no doubt whatsoever.

The Poms weren't coming, so we first settled on Eastern Europeans and Tennant Creeks, and then - in the 80s - whoever came - firstly Vietnamese, then successive waves of Lebs, Chinks, Islanders, etc.

The main reason we turned away from British immigration is we weren't getting the Poms. Multiculturalism was a feel-good response to this, based on the experience of the Yanks and cities like New York. "Give us your poor huddled masses, yearning to breathe free".

Marxism had bugger all to do with it, and during Grasby's time, we got bugger all non-white immigration. Whitlam initially wanted less - his reasoning was that immigrants from Indochine would vote Liberal, based on the Libs' entry into the Vietnam war and Vietnamese refugees'' staunch anti-communism. Former Soviet immigrants already had a tendancy to vote Liberal. Cabinet papers have been released discussing this.

Makes perfect sense that Fraser would open the floodgates, eh?

Sorta begs the question, doesn't it?

Given the antipathy to the influx of Vietnamese immigrants after and during the 'war' years, weren't a lot of pre-conceived notions about immigration answered when Cabramatta became a no-go area for Aussies, home invasions started and the usually quiet Asian gangs started making the news? You couldn't shop there because you couldn't read the signs in the windows.

The new 'reffo's' started to get a bad name back then. Not the old 'reffo's', they'd already settled in - owned the cafe's, concreting services and shoe shops.

Tribalism, gang fights, special crimes squads, interpreters - these were new things.

Did those times pre-date 'multiculturalism' - or did they trumpet a warning that has since been muffled?

Nothing in the recent news seems to support those old rose-coloured views of blithely introducing savage ignorance to ignorant civility (such as it is).

Why do we continue to import people whose beliefs and cultural standards stand at odds with our own established societal customs and mores?

And, in such a needy world, are we allowed to be a little selective? Accepting all sorts don't seem to be working.

Perhaps we should withhold such largesse until such times as "no Australian child lives in poverty"?

Seems we have a way to go.

Karnal wrote on Mar 17^th, 2014 at 10:41am:




Ghetto. How the fook do you get metropolitan areas of Australia where Australians are a minority??

WTF?  Who's stupid idea was this?  And bozos like Paki Bvgger here are promoting this as a good idea?!?!

How some of the cities get like that is years of immigration failed policies.