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December 16, 2005
The cultural conservatives thunder away about the doctrine of multiculturalism being really to blame for the tensions that exploded this week at Cronulla. The tensions were defined into existence by multiculturalist policies and ideas. Multiculturalism has bred ethnic ghettos characterised by high levels of unemployment, welfare dependency, welfare abuse, crime and violence. It's time, they say, to creat a unified nation with a single set of social and cultural values.
Yawn. It just points the finger at exclusively at the problems within a single ethnic community.
Nicholson
Not that the left liberals are much better. They go on about the deep seated racism of the Australian people, which like sun cancer,just below the skin, bursts into the open due to the reactionary tendences of the mass when fueled by evil politicians and shock jocks.
Yawn.
Both reactions sound like response-by-numbers pieces set to stirring emotional airport music conducted by Christian romantics. The music is entitled the Lucky Country, and its about a golden land of sunshine, surf and soaps, good food, good wine and good living.
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Gary, Howard has lost the political narrative twice, once with One Nation, and now with the Cronulla outbreak. The Liberal nationalism has walked a fine line between outright and aggresive exclusion of minority groups in Australia and just ignoring them. It had just been refugees and other outsiders, but that is spilling over into Australian citizens being excluded (at the hands of DIMIA and now a citizen vigilante group).
Twice that rhetoric has bubbled over into local actions that became national. It is my firm opinion that the rhetoric and actions of the government, and in particular Howard, led to the environment where those outcomes were possible.