Comments on: And the Wankley Award goes to… Paul Sheehan http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/and-the-wankley-award-goes-to-paul-sheehan/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: N Roberts http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/and-the-wankley-award-goes-to-paul-sheehan/#comment-3233 N Roberts Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3233 Migrants sick of migrants hey?<br /><br />What a world we live in. Good to see the 'I am alright thanks Jack' mentality is cross-cultural. Migrants sick of migrants hey?

What a world we live in. Good to see the ‘I am alright thanks Jack’ mentality is cross-cultural.

]]> By: gARy johnSOn http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/and-the-wankley-award-goes-to-paul-sheehan/#comment-3234 gARy johnSOn Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3234 dear janE, is jane your real name ?///? good...you dont get da point coz we love da foreigner and we love da stranger in dis country but dese days even da mwigwants are sick of mwigwation open ya eyes grasshopper dear janE, is jane your real name ?///? good…you dont get da point coz we love da foreigner and we love da stranger in dis country but dese days even da mwigwants are sick of mwigwation open ya eyes grasshopper

]]> By: Venise Alstergren http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/and-the-wankley-award-goes-to-paul-sheehan/#comment-3235 Venise Alstergren Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3235 N. Roberts: Yep. One of the first things I learned in my student protest days was that hell had no fury like a European (usually German or further to the east,) for, in those days, Vietnamese, Greeks or Italians.. Made me wonder about the Germans!<br />Paul Sheehan; where does that name come from, Ireland? Could at least square his political agenda. It was under the government of John Winston Howard that migration to Australia really took off. That Kevin Rudd will continue on this path is undoubted. God botherers are alway pro- immigration. Personally I don't give a f*ck where our immigrants come from; it's just that at our present rate We are multiplying so fast we'll breed ourselves into extinction. John Brumby; can you read?<br /><br />It was under the rule of Malcolm Fraser that the citizens of Lebanon flooded into Australia. They had been at<br />war for yonks, had no place else to go and Fraser told his henchmen not to bother with all the usual checks about health, etc. Having seen the video clips about Crunalla (spelled wrong-but thank Chr*st I've never been there, and don't know how to spell it.) I have since felt that it was the white guys who weren't Australian.<br />And, please correct me if I'm wrong Mr Sheehan, Malcolm Fraser led a Liberal/Coalition government.<br /> N. Roberts: Yep. One of the first things I learned in my student protest days was that hell had no fury like a European (usually German or further to the east,) for, in those days, Vietnamese, Greeks or Italians.. Made me wonder about the Germans!
Paul Sheehan; where does that name come from, Ireland? Could at least square his political agenda. It was under the government of John Winston Howard that migration to Australia really took off. That Kevin Rudd will continue on this path is undoubted. God botherers are alway pro- immigration. Personally I don’t give a f*ck where our immigrants come from; it’s just that at our present rate We are multiplying so fast we’ll breed ourselves into extinction. John Brumby; can you read?

It was under the rule of Malcolm Fraser that the citizens of Lebanon flooded into Australia. They had been at
war for yonks, had no place else to go and Fraser told his henchmen not to bother with all the usual checks about health, etc. Having seen the video clips about Crunalla (spelled wrong-but thank Chr*st I’ve never been there, and don’t know how to spell it.) I have since felt that it was the white guys who weren’t Australian.
And, please correct me if I’m wrong Mr Sheehan, Malcolm Fraser led a Liberal/Coalition government.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/and-the-wankley-award-goes-to-paul-sheehan/#comment-3236 Daniel Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3236 Amazing. "Opinion columnist for a major Australia newspaper" must be the easiest job in the world. No need for data, for research, for any kind of specialised knowledge at all, just a basic command of the English language and a knack for appealing to the lowest common denominator. Amazing. “Opinion columnist for a major Australia newspaper” must be the easiest job in the world. No need for data, for research, for any kind of specialised knowledge at all, just a basic command of the English language and a knack for appealing to the lowest common denominator.

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/and-the-wankley-award-goes-to-paul-sheehan/#comment-3237 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3237 Angels tread .... I'm having a colour blind 'i'm not a racist but ... nothing ' kind of existence, nor do I like floury faced Paul very much.<br /><br />However he is echoing a real phenomenon in Sydney - notwithstanding lead letters by certain ex Democrat Senators who fight the good fight against systemic racism in the Deep North slumming it down here in the Sydney Morning Herald. But what exactly is that thing?<br /><br />I'll say it again - hyper levels of immigration are a racket long dreamed of by Big Retail and Big Real Estate - structural desperation of poor folks like systemic unemployment. Take Big Frank Lowy and Big Harry Trigaboff at their word ... they both aspire to a 50-100M population country - to hold our own in the big tough world they say patriotically. As immigrants made good way back when, they know a fair bit about it too.<br /><br />But that's all 20C mindset. It doesn't work. It's dumb. I like my neighbours, barely a pinky amongst them. I think it's not really about immigration - it's about over population. I took careful note of Sheehan's due regard for refugee levels stagnating. In short I think there is ample room for colour blind criticism of hyper immigration. And Pauline is not on my dance card either. Angels tread …. I’m having a colour blind ‘i’m not a racist but … nothing ’ kind of existence, nor do I like floury faced Paul very much.

However he is echoing a real phenomenon in Sydney - notwithstanding lead letters by certain ex Democrat Senators who fight the good fight against systemic racism in the Deep North slumming it down here in the Sydney Morning Herald. But what exactly is that thing?

I’ll say it again - hyper levels of immigration are a racket long dreamed of by Big Retail and Big Real Estate - structural desperation of poor folks like systemic unemployment. Take Big Frank Lowy and Big Harry Trigaboff at their word … they both aspire to a 50-100M population country - to hold our own in the big tough world they say patriotically. As immigrants made good way back when, they know a fair bit about it too.

But that’s all 20C mindset. It doesn’t work. It’s dumb. I like my neighbours, barely a pinky amongst them. I think it’s not really about immigration - it’s about over population. I took careful note of Sheehan’s due regard for refugee levels stagnating. In short I think there is ample room for colour blind criticism of hyper immigration. And Pauline is not on my dance card either.

]]> By: smiley http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/and-the-wankley-award-goes-to-paul-sheehan/#comment-3238 smiley Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3238 I want to read honest opinions from knowledgeable journalists that haven't been subjected to more self censorship than legally necessary. Keep stirring Crikey, but please don't get all PC on us dumb impressionable subscribers. I want to read honest opinions from knowledgeable journalists that haven’t been subjected to more self censorship than legally necessary. Keep stirring Crikey, but please don’t get all PC on us dumb impressionable subscribers.

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