Syp your leader Abbott sticks up for the Muslims . He loves them.
There were violent scuffles outside a Melbourne venue last night as protesters tried to prevent people from entering the building to hear the anti-Islamic MP speak.
Mr Abbott says Mr Wilders is free to "say his piece", but says Australia's experience of multiculturalism is different from the Netherlands.
"Obviously he's entitled to his viewpoint, but I think that the Muslims in this country see themselves rightly as fair dinkum, dinky-di Australians, just as the Catholics and the Jews and the Protestants and the atheists," Mr Abbott told Fairfax radio.
"We see ourselves as Australians.
"We don't like to divide ourselves on the basis of race, of faith, of colour, of class, of gender.
"That's one of the great strengths of our country.
"We are always conscious of what we have in common, rather than the things that divide us."
