Many of us came from convict backgrounds, sent in to exile for stealing a coat or a loaf of bread or a silver spoon.
Some came for murder and robbery or prostitution. Tough people.
Many came from China to work on the Gold Fields.
Some came from Italy to work on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electricity scheme.
Some came from Hungary during the Revolution.
Some came from Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
But they came for a chance to work and start a new life.
And they worked hard !!
The Greeks, Serbs, and Irish, so many more that it would be impossible to name.
There were no hand-outs, no privileges offered.
These people were given a chance to start a new life, in Australia, to become Australians. And Australians they became.
They learned English and embraced our country while offering the gift of their food and culture and music.
We accepted that gift and sat together at the same table and laughed and drank their wine, ate their food, danced to their music and married and loved their people. As they did us.
I have spoken with friends from Hungarian, Italian etc, backgrounds and, while they embrace and celebrate their roots, they consider themselves Australian.
The common denominator with this terrible situation that we find ourselves in is that our current immigrant population do not want to embrace our culture but to destroy it.
They do not want to learn our language, but to annihilate it.
They do not want to work but to get us to work for them.
When our feminists ignore the genital mutilation, oppression of women, rape of little children of both sexes, we have a problem.
When our Politicians condemn an elected member of the Dutch Parliament for coming to Australia to speak his views, we have a problem.
