It takes time for people to move on from these issues, look at the offspring of many Croatians and serbians or Greeks and Masodonians, they're still carrying around their problems as much as any person from an Afgani, Persian or other Islamic middle Eastern background.
I work with plenty of New immigrants and refugees and honestly, the ACA TT ones are few and far between the ones that actually want to be Australian and Asimilate into our culture (geez I hate that term).

Also a massive number of Irish migrants brought the troubles with them. FFS we have the orange order etc here to this day and people don't kick up a fuss about that.

A couple of months back I had a couple of Irish blokes in my bar who would shout "UP THE R-A!!" every time they had a drink. We asked them to stop but it went on for about half an hour until another group of irishmen came in and put their heads through a table.

It's just stupid, my parents used to be part of the Irish Association until they realised it was just being used as a way to carry on all the bullshit they left Ireland to get away from.

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Maribyrnong Council snubs Australia Day celebrations

by: Bridie Byrne, Maribyrnong Leader
From: Leader
January 23, 2013 12:00AM

MARIBYRNONG Council has been labelled un-Australian for its failure to embrace any community celebrations on Australia Day.

..Residents claimed the council should host a family event along the Maribyrnong River to mark the national day given its festival city agenda.

The council wants to become the carnival capital of Melbourne and has tried to lure more festivals to its events calendar.

Its line-up is jam packed with music concerts and multicultural events from the St Jerome's Laneway Festival to the East Meets West Lunar New Year Festival but public Australia Day celebrations have not made the cut.

Maribyrnong Residents Association spokeswoman Edith Pringle said with a growing population the council should be doing more to recognise the historic day.

"The community is getting bigger and bigger on Australia Day and the council needs to keep pace with that," she said.

"They should be celebrating the day in a much larger way than it does at the moment.

"A lot of people would view this as un-Australian."

The council will hold a citizenship and civic awards ceremony but both are invitation only.

Wyndham Council puts on a fireworks display, live music and a free barbecue, Hobsons Bay has a beach day with sandcastle competitions and Brimbank hosts a family barbecue and entertainment at the Kevin Wheelahan Gardens in Sunshine West.

Leader is awaiting comment from Maribyrnong Council.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/west/maribyrnong-council-snubs-australia-day-celebrations/story-fngnvmj7-1226559068743

Australia, although it has its faults is the greatest country in the world

I don't believe in Love it or Leave it and I don't think we're full, I think we have plenty of room for anyone who genuinely wants a better life like my Father and grand Father did.

Yeah, it's bullshit. If you want to continue all the agitations from your old country that you or your compatriots left the country to get away from, go the fuck back there.

I came here as a young child immigrant. I love this country and think that people who don't should reconsider their choice to live here.

Anyone with gripes about how this country is run needs to go to the USA or Europe to get a taste of a struggling economy.

I think we are nearing capacity in terms of maintaining our current lifestyle with the current infrastructure and way of thinking. There is only so much water that can be captured in our dams and only so much fertile land around the capital cities.

Australians are way too patriotic for their own good at times... Who gives a fuck? As long as it's safe to walk the streets at night and you're doing all right financially, I'm fairly happy.

Most of that fertile land has houses on it - especially in Adelaide.

Australians are incredibly un-partiotic. Look at the apathetic response in this thread.

There's bogan nationalism, which makes us all cringe. But there's no patriotism.

Australians are incredibly un-partiotic. Look at the apathetic response in this thread.

There's bogan nationalism, which makes us all cringe. But there's no patriotism.

Harsh judgment awaits idiots with no respect for the fallen

by: SIMON BLACK From: The Daily Telegraph January 24, 2013 12:00AM

THE two men might have thought it was funny at the time but police have called them "disrespectful knuckleheads" for vandalising a memorial to fallen WWI soldiers.
Now they want them arrested.

The two men were caught on CCTV climbing on the Martin Place Cenotaph last Saturday before placing a traffic cone on the figure's head. Police said the men also bent the bayonet on the bronze model's rifle.

The pair also interfered with plants in a nearby flowerbed.

Police attempted to repair the bayonet on the night by straightening it while a passerby removed the traffic cone - which was taken away for forensic analysis.

The Sydney Cenotaph is the centre for Anzac Day commemorations and was unveiled 86 years ago.

Police are hoping to speak with three men who stopped and talked to the two men as they walked past.

"We are hoping the three men might recognise themselves and contact us or someone might know who they are and get them to speak with us," Rocks Police crime manager Detective Inspector Damian Loone said.

"It is important we find out what they know about the damage to the Martin Place Cenotaph."

It was the second time in four months the Cenotaph has been vandalised and the RSL has called for the strictest possible penalties to apply to the vandals.

"They looked like brainless yahoos, probably with a gutful of grog, just being stupid," NSW president of the RSL Don Rowe said.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/harsh-judgment-awaits-idiots-with-no-respect-for-the-fallen/story-e6freuy9-1226560383732

For many of us we're just rapt to have a long weekend with out families or at the football, or beach etc.. rather than waving a flag or standing to attention singing our anthem...mind you I do love hearing/singing our anthem at the football.

I think that majority of the responses and attitude ammounts to 'I don't give a fuck about this country', people with little to no national pride or appreciation for all the things that they take for granted. And most of them have never had to fend for themselves in another country.