To dilly-dally is divine.
"If you want to be an Australian, if you want to raise your children in Australia, we fully expect those children to be taught and to accept Australian values and beliefs... We want them to understand our history and our culture, the extent to which we believe in mateship and giving another person a fair go, and basically if people don't want to support and accept and adopt and teach Australian values then, they should clear off."
- Australian Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson, on ABC Online. Dr Nelson is meeting the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils to find ways to teach Australian values to Muslim school-children.
Clear off? Fine choice of words there from the Education Minister, obviously reflecting a very warm and welcoming Antipodean belief system in culture and immigration.
But just what the bloody dinkum does "Australian values" mean? "Mateship"? "A fair go"? If that's the best you've got, then why not hand every kid a can of Toohey's and force him to sit through an Aussie Rules match? Please, Dr Nelson sir, could you spell these values out to me? I no understand.
I sure as hell don't understand a government that refuses to officially apologise to the thousands of Aboriginal families whose children were stolen from them between 1910 to 1970s. Imagine, up till thirty years ago, Aboriginal kids were still being forcibly taken from their own families - to live with white families!! Oh, and let's not forget the White Australia migration policy that was only abolished in 1973.
So then, cultural assimilation Aussie-style, anyone? Tell you what, while there's still time, why not also grab these Muslim kids from their families and stick them with the white ones. That'll teach them a lesson in good old-fashioned Aussie values and beliefs.
Mind you, Dr Nelson is the same fella supporting the teaching of intelligent design in Australian schools. Intelligent design, or how an omniscient being created galaxies, dinosaurs and the platypus.
Puck has a couple of interesting things to say about intelligent design and culture/race in Australia.
- Australian Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson, on ABC Online. Dr Nelson is meeting the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils to find ways to teach Australian values to Muslim school-children.
Clear off? Fine choice of words there from the Education Minister, obviously reflecting a very warm and welcoming Antipodean belief system in culture and immigration.
But just what the bloody dinkum does "Australian values" mean? "Mateship"? "A fair go"? If that's the best you've got, then why not hand every kid a can of Toohey's and force him to sit through an Aussie Rules match? Please, Dr Nelson sir, could you spell these values out to me? I no understand.
I sure as hell don't understand a government that refuses to officially apologise to the thousands of Aboriginal families whose children were stolen from them between 1910 to 1970s. Imagine, up till thirty years ago, Aboriginal kids were still being forcibly taken from their own families - to live with white families!! Oh, and let's not forget the White Australia migration policy that was only abolished in 1973.
So then, cultural assimilation Aussie-style, anyone? Tell you what, while there's still time, why not also grab these Muslim kids from their families and stick them with the white ones. That'll teach them a lesson in good old-fashioned Aussie values and beliefs.
Mind you, Dr Nelson is the same fella supporting the teaching of intelligent design in Australian schools. Intelligent design, or how an omniscient being created galaxies, dinosaurs and the platypus.
Puck has a couple of interesting things to say about intelligent design and culture/race in Australia.
Yah, I saw the damn thing on MediaWatch last night. It's getting ridiculous and I'm getting increasingly annoyed.