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Australia is notorious for being settled by English convicts, but the majority of Australian immigration occurred between 1945 to 1975 when it's population almost doubled from 7½ million to 13 million, mostly immigrants and refugee's. 

Immigration to Australia is a much tougher process now and some of our citizens want to tighten the rules even further. This weekend Australians forgot where they came from. A group of Australians, who are clearly the offspring of immigrants, came out in protest of immigration. 

We have only two constitutional rights in Australia, one is the right to a trial by a jury of our peers, the other is the right to practice or not to, practice the religion of our choosing without persecution. I am ashamed by the behaviour of some of my countrymen, protesting against that constitutional right and race based immigration.
Another group confronted the protest - an anti-racist group, the two groups collided resulting in a violent out burst and several people in multiple states being arrested by police. 
I always believed that one of the richest assets of Australia was its diversity of people and their culture. This is not the Australia I know and love, how can we bounce back from this? What are these racist groups so afraid of? My heart weighs heavily with these recent outbursts and I fear that we may never recover from this insidious virus of hatred that is rapidly spreading nationwide.