Jennifer Marohasy

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Politics at Cronulla

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The Australian newspaper published an opinion piece by Keith Windschuttle today on the violence in Sydney last weekend. It is one of the few piece that I’ve seen that includes some information, as well as opinion, you can read it by clicking here.

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  1. Ian Mott says

    It is an extraordinary irony that an Australian State Government could proudly claim credit for producing a deserted city beach on a mild, sunny weekend in December.

  2. Andrew Bartlett says

    The article you link to does contain a small amount of information, in the form of some minor immgration statistics from many decades ago. It also has a large amount of grossly distorted and misrepresented rewriting of history from the last 30 years, coupled with a false portrayal of immgration policy and laws of both Labor and Liberal government over that period. Fairly ironic that a guy who calls himself a historian and complains about early Australian history being distorted because of political and ideological agendas can so shamelessly do just that in writing about recent and current events.

    He would make George Orwell proud with how well he deploys words to make them mean the opposite of their normal meaning.

    I’m all for a wide range of opinions being expressed – this issue more than most needs it – but there does need to be some starting point of basic honesty. Still it could have been David Flint’s article, so I suppose one should be grateful.

  5. Andrew Bartlett says

    So many of multiculturalism’s critics define it is as something it is not e.g. ‘segregated living’,and then proceed to attack the falsehood.

    I guess it makes it easier to win the argument that way.