No special treatment
I am a 66-years-young Australian taxpayer and descendant of an English World War II bride and a former RAAF bomber Warrant Officer.
I object to my taxpayer dollars being directed towards establishing a ministerial portfolio and administration dedicated to Muslim community affairs.
I believe such a strategy has potential to fracture even more relations between all Australian residents and Muslims in the community.
I wonder what the many migrants and refugees to this country from places like the Sudan, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Italy, Greece, Holland and other equally deserving global communities think?
Modern day political parties seem to be very much knee-jerk in their reaction to many minority groups or squeaky wheels. Multiculturalism has been in this country since the '70s and the Whitlam era.
Why the sudden need for such preferential treatment for one group bound by the same law and order and social issues as the rest of us?
Paul, Heathcote
