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youngmafbog | 12:58 Tue 10th Dec 2013 | News
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http://news.sky.com/story/1179923/university-boat-race-protester-can-stay-in-uk

Why was this man allowed to stay, he is not desirable to our country, clearly doesnt like the way we are so why was he allowed I wonder?

Looks like the clue is in here:

The Australian told an immigration tribunal that if he is deported from the UK his British wife and five-month-old baby daughter will not move to Australia with him because it is a "racist country".

Is Australia any worse than here ? This has to be the lamest excuse ever but as usual the ruigth-on brigade swallow it hook line and sinker.
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Two aspects of this story caused me some amusement. (Well actually “concern” would be a better term).

The first has already been mentioned. The opinion of Mr & Mrs Oldfield that Australians exhibit “passive aggressive” (Eh?) racism seems to have been accepted by the Tribunal judge without question. This is the first I have heard of such a slur on an entire nation. True, Australia demonstrates a rigid approach when dealing with those who try to enter illegally, but that is hardly “passive aggressive racism” (whatever that might be).

But the second is of even more concern. The judge also stated that Mr Oldfield was “of good character”. I must have been away when the term “of good character” was extended to somebody who, just over a year ago, was sentenced to six months in jail and whose conviction would not become spent for another six years.

The judge’s decision on both those grounds was utterly preposterous. Mr Oldfield’s protest was misguided and dangerous and in any case it is no concern of his how the UK runs its affairs (or its Boat Races). The welfare of his wife should have been uppermost in his mind when he undertook his ridiculous stunt but it was not. His misplaced ideology trumped that concern and only now is she and his child (who had not been conceived at the time of his illegal action) been raised as a reason for his continuing presence here. The UK would be far better off without him.
Aussies (many of them) are VERY racist, I know a few and some of the stuff they have said in the past is outrageous. I've had rows with them because of it and generally don't socialise with these particular people any more.
Aborigines have the same opportunites if they choose. Young aborigines work alongside multi-cultural aussies
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What exactly does that prove, Tambo?
"Aborigines are a minority of only 600,000 in Australia's 23 million population. They are the poorest ethnic group in Australia, suffer poor health and lag behind in education. They die years younger than other Australians on average and are more likely to be imprisoned."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australia-gets-first-aboriginal-government-leader-1.1395915
'' irish are hated in some part of oz '' ? I never knew that !!!! I think they like the Scottish though :)
It seems a disproportionate response to me. I would hope he wins his appeal.
I didn't know that either.

My daughter, her boyfriend and his mate went to a bar. They were asked for ID. She handed over her British passport, no problem. The lads handed over their Irish passports and were asked to leave. Even though her accent is as strong as theirs she wasn't asked to leave.
Ummmm, was that in Perth?
As far as I recall the criteria for expulsion was receiving a sentence of over 2 years

As his lawyer said the offense wasn't serious enouh to warrant deportantion and those guidelines were set up to exactly justify what was and what wasn't sufficiently grave to justify deportation.

I recognise that there are some who seem to think that anybody who protests about anything is not conducive to the public good.

Strangely they often seem to spend a lot of their lives grumbling about this or that or saying how the country has gone to 'hell in a handbasket'!
I always try to look at situations like this in reverse, Jake.

If I were to take up residence in a foreign country and began to criticise some of their customs and procedures and then went on to undertake something like the stunt that Mr Oldfield carried out I would expect to receive very short shrift and would not be at all surprised if I was removed.

It's really a matter of manners and expectations. In short, I would not abuse my host's hospitality and would not criticise and disrupt their customs - even if I did pay income tax.
tambo, I think you'll find only one cricketer with aboriginal blood has ever played tests for Australia (Jason Gillespie). They've had more New Zealand-born players in their team, and that's saying something.
hc - it was in Canberra.
Friends of mine have just moved from Australia as they found the day to day subtle, often unthinking, racism too much to handle and didn't want their children picking up those attitudes and ways of thinking.
There are other people way ahead of him in the list of "people who need to be deported".............
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Basically, he's a Snag.........
A friend was deported from Australia for jaywalking and then insulin policeman who stopped her. This man should not, being Australian, not expect to be deported having committed a crime which got him six months jail. Yet another case where family rights have been extended beyond reason And what reason has he to fear racism? He does not look particularly black, but if he did, how is Australia so significantly worse than other countries and in what particular danger would he be?

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