This is all very bright and sunny but it overlooks huge parts of the population that are horribly xenophobic and outright racist. Google "Cronulla riots" or "Pauline Hanson" to get a view of the other side of this coin.
Well, jihazay, speaking as an Australian, I call you out as being completely full of shit. The "illridewithyou" scam DID get some short-term notoriety, organised soon after the event by a moslem-related young lady as a tactic, and to play the victim card. See also the "illpolishyourgun" movement by, oh, let's say hundreds of thousands, at the NEXT moslem atrocity in Sydney, the point-blank murder of an accountant as he left work. (/sarc). In fact, the MSM pushed this (incorrect) meme, probably to support their pro-moslem bias. It died off when they stopped hypeing it, and later reported that a number near-zero acted it.
And for you, willfree, treat google and wikipedia as a tool of lefty, cultural marxists; don't take as pure gospel any slanted remarks about xenophobic or racist Australians. Sure, there's SOME, just like YOUR country, but NOT "huge parts of the population".
Am I the only person that thinks it's weird that all these people reacted to protect Muslims though no Muslims were ever threaten but this is in reaction to a Muslim holding non-Muslims hostages?
what some people voted for disgusted me
And for you, willfree, treat google and wikipedia as a tool of lefty, cultural marxists; don't take as pure gospel any slanted remarks about xenophobic or racist Australians. Sure, there's SOME, just like YOUR country, but NOT "huge parts of the population".