Topic tags: Fiona Katauskas, African migrants, racism
If there's one thing that the recent election campaign and its outcome demonstrated, it's the depth of the divisions that exist in our Australian community.
Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines. The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the 24-hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism.
What does it mean to be an Australian in times like these? What are the values that unite us?
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I suppose this says that when any newcomers to Australia demonstrate that they [he/she] join in with what Australian society perceives to be 'Australian' they are wholeheartedly accepted. When they choose to live in a ghetto and not embrace Australian society, then they are rejected. Exactly the same thing that happens in every country of the world regardless of race, religion, skin colour or any other descriptor. Good on the African AFL players - they are crackers at the game, just like our own Aboriginal players and the high flying white Anglo-Saxons.
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