Spacehamster’s Blog

There’s been plenty of debate lately about the threat terrorism represents to our society. My opinion is that this type of inflammatory and slightly naive sort of comments don’t help -

RELIGION should be made a factor in migration to Australia, according to a Liberal MP who says non-Christian applicants should be subject to greater scrutiny. Liberal backbencher Alby Schultz also called yesterday for citizenship laws to be tightened, with more thorough background checks on people from countries with “a history of anti-Christian behaviour”.

“We’ve got to tighten up on the way all people that come into this country — particularly those people coming from a country with a history of anti-Christian behaviour — apply for citizenship,” Mr Schultz told The Australian, adding that there was strong support among government MPs for tougher laws.

So what this Government representative is proposing is a Christian Australia policy? Wasn’t the White Australia policy bad enough? People migrating to this country should be evaluated based on their individual actions, not solely on the basis of what religion they’ve chosen to join. We expect our politicians, as “responsible” Community Leaders, to offer constructive criticism of the problems and tensions that exist within our society. This type of potentially abusive polemical proletysing isn’t particularly helpful.