Watso says "grahammac is going to the country side."
I already live in the Bush Capital where trees abide. We live in a big house on a 1150 square metre site with trees, garden, ducks, chooks and 30,000 litres in our five rain-water tanks (after recent rain) and we've exterminated power bills by putting three solar hot-water panels and 30 electric panels on our roof. And we host five overseas uni students under our roof too. So our roof is very hard-working and so is my wife.
What has that got to do with Vietnamese refugees?
To ease our work load, we have a part-time Vietnamese refugee gardener and a part-time Cambodian refugee to clean our large home. My first job as a Boat Person from the staid Eastern States was lumping bags of frozen fish-heads in a Perth cold-storage works and (like our home workers) I was glad to have the job as money was short.
When we built the Student Extension to our home, the builder was Vietnamese and all the building workers (except one) were Italian, Aboriginal, Portugese, Croatian plus other migrants and refugees. The only Dinkum Aussie was the roof tilers labourer who needed several stubbies to get going and left the empties for me to clean up when he left the site. I have worked as a Builders Labourer in Melbourne where beer was usual.
What "Stop The Boats" people like Abbott fail to grasp is migrants and refugees have changed Australia from a monocultural British ghetto into a vibrant and multicultural land forever. Abbott belongs in the National Museum.
