October 7, 2007
Kevin Andrews, the Immigration Minister is a crude politician. Dog whistle politics require subtlety. You imply, infer, suggest, so that your conservative kind of people know what you mean by excluding African refugees. You are talking about a white Anglo-Saxon monoculture where citizens are readily identifiable in a homogeneous Australian society.

Bill Leak
Multiculturalism doesn't work is the other message. It causes social division, ethnic ghettos and leads to events such as the Cronulla riots of December 2005 .The locals had to defend their beach under the Australian flag from people of Middle Eastern appearance----all evidence of an underlying ethnic racism in a multicultural Australian society.
That is the game Kevin Andrews is playing is it not?
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Gary,
its another attempt at the wedge. In our political culture Rudd would be on a hiding to nothing if he takes on the issue like the African refugees.