In response to opposition leader Kim Beazley’s attempt to force migrants and visitors to agree to some statement of values as a visa condition, the Chaser’s Dominic Knight has put together a draft set of core Australian values:
- Respect other cultures if completely assimilated into Australia’s own.
- Respect for other religions as long as they’re not fundamentalist (except Christianity).
- Respect for Australian institutions such as Don Bradman, Phar Lap, Steve Irwin and Peter Brock.
- Respect Australia’s democracy — unless I have a Senate majority.
- Respect the equal treatment of women, except when depicted in Ralph, FHM and ZOO. I note note that “equal” does not extend to pay, hiring policies, seats in parliament or adequate childcare facilities.
- Respect hard work, especially when directed towards avoiding tax.
- Respect Australia’s Laws, and also its Jones and Mitchell.
- Respect Australia’s armed forces no matter where America may deploy them.
- Respect Australia’s parliaments, except the “fun-sized” NT and ACT parliaments which no-one respects.
- Above all respect Australians’ most important value – the value of their mortgage repayments.
(I’ve added links to the above list for the benefit of our overseas readers)
Source: Crikey
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I would love to hear what exactly constitutes ‘Australian Values’ that Muslims are portrayed as so hopelessly not successfully adopting. It is not fair that we are left in the dark and constantly recieve the end of the stick. Maybe John Howard or Kim Beazley should issue the public with a list of these so called values.
If Australia so truly values giving people a fair go; Muslims are clearly not getting a fair go.
If Australia values kids dressing to get laid and starting to get banged at the age of 15 so when theyre 25 theyve had 30 knobs in them…No thank you, shove it up your rear end.
You forgot one:
Moaning about the “whinging Poms”, when the England cricket team retain the Ashes on Australian soil
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