Awesome Australia

INTEGRATION and reaching out must be a two-way discussion. Integration cannot be a one-way street. As a migrant of more than 50 years past I got the equivalent of today’s hate mail, “Go back where you came from”, “you are stealing our jobs”, and much worse. However I came to Australia and loved being here from day one. It was up to me to make the conscious day-to-day effort to make and enjoy Aussie friends and the Australian way of life. I did not cling to the life I had left, even risking losing friends who wanted to cling to and even promote the way of life they had left behind. Staying within like-minded groups is comfortable and understandable but Australia is the way of life you have chosen and to benefit from all that it has to offer is to disengage from the past and embrace the Australian life and love it for the awesomeness that is Australia. the other to our luggage. All the funky furniture under the sun does not make it an international airport. Rather than cosmetic changes, make it functional as an airport with world-standard access via airbridges rather than running the gauntlet of whatever the weather is doing. Roger Jaensch is now intervening in Hobart City Council by saying heights are too low and this affects affordable housing. The Government can’t have it both ways. They leave communities to decide heights or they don’t. If the high-rise summit eventuates, attendees should ask why the Government still has the Major Projects Bill ready to table in Parliament, which could fast-track over-sized buildings?