The 'riot' there made our TV news & it did not look good, Alison. There
was one big, um 'lunkhead' screaming that real aussies wanted all these
types out. I immediately thought of my friends there & how they (you)
would feel about this.
It does seem to be, as you say, John Howard's Australia, but not all
Australians' one.
Doug
On 11-Dec-05, at 2:57 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> St Denis and now Cronulla, only this time it's the "Aussies" beating
> people
> up. Women and ambulance officers as well, they must be brave blokes...
> I
> can't say how deeply this repulses me. Is it time to emigrate? I am
> certainly, by this definition, un-Australian - ugly indeed.
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/12/11/1134235951620.html
>
> "Todd Russell, a concrete pourer from one of the apartments up the
> road from
> the riot site, was among the first to arrive and was giving away
> sausages
> cooked on a barbecue on the back of his ute, "to get everyone in the
> mood to
> be a real Aussie". He had put up a sign saying "No tabouli".
>
> "He was enthusiastically handing out brochures headed "Immigration out
> of
> control" and "Your teachers are lying to you" to passers-by."Don't
> know what
> this shit is, mate. It's just stuff. I agree with it, whatever it is,"
> Russell said. "Look, these Lebs are coming here and giving us shit and
> we're
> not going to take it any more."
>
> Behind him, John Moffitt of the Australia First Party was smiling to
> himself. He had been handing out political pamphlets to some of the
> flag and
> beer can-bedecked teenagers most of the morning and they were merrily
> distributing them to the committed, the curious and the repulsed.
> "This is a
> great day. Australia is now seeing what the policies of the last 30
> years
> are reaping," Moffitt said."
>
> Indeed -
>
> Best
>
> A
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
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>
>
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