PC insanity the death knell of Aussie ethos

THE three- hour SBS program on The Ghan train trip from Adelaide to Darwin is vital viewing for anybody contemplating the 54- hour train ride.

It is rewatchable at SBS On Demand.

Our wish to ride has been dulled by the uncomfortable- looking bench seat squabs and the uninspiring I REFER to the stupidity as to the extent that political correctness has been developed by the desperately weak organisers of the “Brisbane/ Gold Coast Games”.

Enough has been aired re the madness that is associated with these so called “guidelines” but when we look at the effects on our culture, which is so obviously destroying itself from scenery of inland Australia. The dining cars look diabolic, with two pairs of table settings across the train, causing couples to sit askew.

There was no actual vision of people trying to use their cutlery; they would have to take turns to bend their elbows.

Otherwise it looks like a terrific experience until you factor in the within by pandering to every demand of the invited new citizens, because doing otherwise may offend, it has to stop for our own existence.

As an immigrant from the “old country” arriving in 1968, I was subjected to criticism and at times ridicule, but having the desire to become an “Aussie” I just sucked it up and returned the compliments, and gratefully fares, plus the getting to, and from, the end points.

The base rate is for a pensioner couple costing $ 3800 one way in the monsoon season; check it online.

I don’t expect many Centrelink customers will be queued up. C. HAYCOCK,

Pimlico. was accepted as a “a half- decent Aussie – for a Pom”. Some peers couldn’t hack it and returned to their place of birth.

I would have needed to bring an army to take over the country in 1968. All you need in 2018 is “political bloody correctness”.

This applies to all westernised cultures and, of course, all that is required is an influential, small, weak population of politically correct devotees who unfortunately have lost, if ever they had it, that Anzac spirit that believed and cared for our culture and values, which had the view, should you wish to be an Australian, accept those values and culture without favour and you may be accepted as a half- decent Aussie. JOHN JAUNCEY,

Deeragun.