Our values or go home: Costello:
"PETER Costello has lashed out at 'mushy misguided multiculturalism,' warning that Australian values are 'not optional' — and that migrants who do not share them should be stripped of their citizenship."
Very 1950s/1960s. People used to offer British people a zac (5 cents) as a down payment on their return trip home if they said anything against Australia. Took years for that approach to immigrants to change and it was a major breakthough for the Brits, the Italians and the Greeks when that wore off and we were accepted as citizens until some MP made British people aliens until they were naturalised Australian citizens . Until then they had been citizens because this was a Commonwealth country. Plus ça change....
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