Clive@gabriellechan #politicslive pic.twitter.com/8BCfHDgl8U 6.44am GMTI want to track back to George Mega’s book because I promised the prime minister’s comments,which were spellbinding in the context of global terrorism and the pressure on Muslim communities. To recap, Australia’s Second Chance suggests that Australia has been most economically successful when it opened its doors, and first in the 1800s and then in the post WWII era. Diversity is the key.
Openness to the world is one of the astronomical themes in this book.It was originally,back in colonial days, illegal. And I quote - it was illegal to provoke animosity between her majesty’s subjects of different devout persuasions. Of course that is reflected to some degree in the constitution which decrees that there will be no established religion. We created one of the most egalitarian societies in the world, or the first country to supply both full voting rights for men and women and the secret ballot,of course excluding Indigenous people, to our great shame until it was corrected many years later. That openness and multiculturalism based on mutual respect is what has defined most successful societies in the world. When was Istanbul or Constantinople at its greatest? When it was its most diverse.
When was Alexandria at its most successful? When it was its most diverse.
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Source: theguardian.com