Dark side of diversity
OUR PM Malcolm Turnbull keeps telling everyone that Australia is the envy of the rest of the world because of our wonderful multicultural society.
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But when you weigh up the pros and cons, there are a lot of grey areas that he never mentions.
The media reports with monotonous regularity the criminal acts committed by persons of Asian, Mediterranean, Pacific Islander, African and Middle Eastern appearance.
And there are a growing number of no-go zones in our cities that are ruled by ethnic street gangs.
In Victoria, the gangs are most prominent in suburbs such as Footscray, Sunshine, St Albans, Broadmeadows and Springvale.
These gangs are so out of control that it has prompted the police to warn the locals to avoid them at all costs and to “flee on sight” if they should encounter gang members.
An article in this newspaper on September 25, 2014 said the “radical element in Australia is just a tiny group of disaffected people – a very small minority of the Islamic community”.
This “tiny group” have certainly made a very significant impact on the lives of all Australians.
As a direct result of this “tiny group” and “very small minority”, all of Australia is now under constant 24/7 high terrorist alert.
And it must be remembered that when the Twin Towers came down in America, it was reported in the media that large numbers of “moderate” Muslim men, women and children sang and danced in the streets near the Lakemba Mosque.
Obscenely, they were celebrating the deaths of about 3000 innocent people who were trapped inside the towers.
At the moment, Muslims make up about 2 per cent of the population.
However, if our governments keep flooding the country with these type of people, I shudder to think what will eventuate when the population of the Islamic community reaches around the 10 per cent to 15 per cent mark.
I’m afraid that our future generations face a very bleak future indeed.
And it will all be thanks to the short-sightedness of our political masters.
Geoff Field
Gundagai
The plebiscite pantomime
IF RE-ELECTED, Malcolm Turnbull plans to hold a plebiscite regarding the Marriage Act.
He does not say when this process will be put to the House of Representatives.
The hard right (Abbott supporters) seems to control Mr Turnbull and have already indicated that they are unlikely to follow the wishes of the Australian public.
I had thought that this was just talk.
To my horror, I have discovered that the hard right can do this.
A plebiscite does not mean that the will of the people will succeed.
I refer to the Australian Electoral Commission website (updated in September 2015) that states plebiscites are “an issue put to the vote which does not affect the Constitution.
“A plebiscite is not defined in the Australian Constitution, the Electoral Act or the Referendum Act.
“A plebiscite can also be referred to as a simple national vote.”
Governments can hold plebiscites to test whether people either support or oppose a proposed action on an issue.
The government is not bound by the result of a plebiscite as it is by the result of a Constitutional referendum.
Beware!
The members of the Coalition cannot be trusted on this issue.
We need to have a clear statement by our own National Party representative whether he will follow the wishes of the Australian public.