Watso says "grahammac is going to the country side."I already...

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.