Brian Ross wrote on Jun 28^th, 2014 at 4:06pm:


Back in the 'good old days'?      

Empty? No-one home?

These days?

These days even Australians have become ethnic, or so we're told. Though, still we obstinately remain a nation of mongrels. As such, we're protective of our yard.

Yet you find fault with such an attitude when it's the most natural in the world.

Grand Duke Imam Mahdi wrote on Jun 28^th, 2014 at 6:13pm:


Really?  Then why can I count several ignorant racist assumptions in your post?   

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Nope.  I know the meanings of the words.  Do you?

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Yes, but it's a pity you aren't one of them.

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I disagree.   

Grand Duke Imam Mahdi wrote on Jun 28^th, 2014 at 6:13pm:


That’s right. Some of your best friends are ignorant.

Not that there’s anything wrong with it.

Lionel Edriess wrote on Jun 28^th, 2014 at 7:37pm:


Not if they’re the enemy. If they’re on the wrong side there will be consequences.

Lionel Edriess wrote on Jun 28^th, 2014 at 7:37pm:


I wasn't.  I was trying to educate you on the issue of Terra Nullius as against your claim that the indigenes had dispossessed their predecessors using such a concept.   

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Take it up with the UK government, Lionel.  You're still not understanding the difference between a claim of Terra Nullius and one of conquest...   

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I assume then, I won't be getting an invite, Lionel.  There is of course considerable difference between a private party, on private land and a nation which invites immigration and makes allowance for it in it's laws.

Tell me, Lionel, if someone was to say, turn up at your backgate during your BBQ and ask to be admitted because my life was in danger, would you refuse me entry?

What about if it was a woman wearing a Burqa or a man wearing a Bernoose?

Going to refuse them entry?  Even if their life was in danger? 

What happened to the Australian tradition of hospitality?   

Lionel Edriess wrote on Jun 28^th, 2014 at 7:37pm:


A society is a lot wider in it's attitudes, views, interests than your backyard Barbie invitation list.

So, I suppose you've never invited any crazy relatives to your backyard Barbies?   You know, the Aunt who babbles in the corner about "In our day..." or the Cousin who tries to grope your wife?  Every family has similar members or have you abandoned them the way you want to bar anybody else who is different to you?   

polite_gandalf wrote on Jun 27^th, 2014 at 7:12pm:

Well done Gandy. 5 Bonus points.

There were three major waves of migration of quite different ancient people who came to the Australian continent from southeast Asia. More than 40,000 years ago, when sea levels were much lower and Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania comprised one landmass, called Sahul, the first to arrive were a slightly-built people of pygmoid stature with dark skin and very frizzy hair. They were Negritos (named after the Spanish “little negro”), and they provided the initial population for the whole of this Greater Australia. About 20,000 years ago, a second type of people arrived from Asia. These newcomers, called Murrayians, were comparatively lightly skinned, wavy-haired, stocky in build, with a lot of body hair. They drove the Negritos before them until the latter retreated to the highlands of New Guinea, the rainforests of North Queensland and to then ice-capped Tasmania. The Murrayians became the dominant population on the east coast of Australia, and the open grasslands and parklands of the south and west of the continent. Then, about 15,000 years ago, a third wave of hunter-gatherers arrived. They were comparatively tall, straight-haired and dark skinned, with very little body hair. Named Carpentarians, they colonised northern and central Australia.
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history-wars/2002/06/the-extinction-of-the-australian-pygmies/