60 Minutes: Mar 20
60 Minutes has a story that sounds pretty inflammatory this weekend.
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60 Minutes has a story that sounds pretty inflammatory this weekend.
Britain and Germany have apparently “declared multiculturalism a failure.” Hmm… did they have a Referendum we didn’t hear about?
Fan them flames, guys….
The Great Divide
Some say it’s the very thing that makes Australia great. Others believe it threatens our national identity. It seems right now nothing divides opinion like multiculturalism. Our government insists it’s working here, a shining example for the rest of the world, but in some countries like Britain and Germany, they’ve declared multiculturalism a failure, a disastrous social policy that’s torn communities apart. But let’s be frank here. This debate isn’t so much about race as religion and a fear of one in particular – Islam.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producers: Danny Keens, Julia Timms
Eye Spy
Have you ever wondered how it would feel to fly like a bird or to gallop with the wildebeest or hunt with the mighty polar bear? British film maker John Downer imagined all these things and found a way to let us all share in the experience. His wildlife documentaries make you feel like you’re actually there – a part of the flock, the herd or the pride. John gets closer to the animals than anyone else has dared. And as Bob Simon of American 60 Minutes discovered, he does it using technology that looks like it’s been lifted straight from a James Bond blockbuster. The result is an intimate portrayal of animals like we’ve never seen before.
Reporter: Bob Simon, CBS 60 Minutes
Producer: Michael Gavshon
Meltdown
How do you get your head around what is happening in Japan? First, there was the monster earthquake, many thousand times more powerful than the one that devastated Christchurch. Then came the tsunami. More than a week later, we still don’t know how many souls were carried away by the ocean, and now there’s the threat of a nuclear meltdown. Of all the miseries that have been visited on the Japanese people in recent days, this has to be the most terrifying. You can’t see it like a wave, or feel it like an aftershock. All you can do is wait and hope and try not to panic.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producers: Phil Goyen, Steve Burling
It airs 7:30pm Sunday on Nine.
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Respect this country. Go to other countries see how they live. They will never see like Australia .Live by its rules.
Hello! Hello! History has shown us over and over again that multiculturalism does not work ……..does anyone know what happened to the Byzantine Empire……?
@Kenny – Garry actually wrote that. Whether he genuinely believes that or not is another matter but that is what I was responding to.
@Secret Squirrel – “send them back from whence they came in a *leaky* boat”. I don’t think anyone’s suggesting that. We fly them from Christmas Island to Sydney FOC. They arrived without documentation, so like all such arrivals at airports, they should be flown back to where they came from. My mother-in-law can’t get a visa to visit us from the Philippines as she’s “a likely risk to our hospital system” as she had a slight stroke a few years ago. Where’s the equality?
Sick and tired of islamophobia on aussie news shows. Channel 9 seems to get off on this alot, tbh.
As for asylum seekers – I just want to say I’m australian, born and raised. I welcome anyone into My country who needs help. If I was found to be a foreigner in a strange land, running from my own and ended up being locked up for nothing – id be pi**ed too.
I hope for this countries sake it’s only the savages who are so vocal.
@Kenny – the weird thing is most immigrants what to celibate the Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter or don’t care if they see show displays others celebrating. But because of the small minority of politically correct nuts the majority of schools and even shopping centers have stopped public displays and decorations.
Saw the promo on Nine and the guys is just a xenophobic nut like many extremists out there from all religions with a ‘think like me or die’ attitude.
I won’t be watching, I’m sure there will be plenty of talk about it next week and if there isn’t then it’s a nothing story and no one watched! Good going Nine.
I didn’t feel as strongly about the assylum seeker issue, until they started damaging the detention centres. Just shows how ungrateful they are. If they are fleeing from war torn countries as they say, they would be happy to be in the safety of a detention centre. We look after these people better than we look after our homeless.
Perfect timing after what happened at Christmas island.
Re earlier – “from whence they came” I mean of course Indonesia.
Re ” a disastrous social policy that’s torn communities apart”. The preschools and schools who have rewritten Christmas carols, won’t mention Easter, change “Merry Christmas” to “Happy Holidays” and “Season’s Greeting”, less one part of the “multicultural community” be offended by Australian traditions. Children at a local preschool freaking out when a burka-clad mother appears. It’s OK to wear a full burka into my local Westpac branch, but not a motor cycle helmet. Look forward to the “60 Minutes” segment raising such issues.
@garry – well, you were editorialising on a political issue rather than just, say, commenting on the way that Sixty Minutes handled the story. It’s no biggie, I’m occasionally guilty of the same thing.
However, I would call your suggestion to send them back from whence they came in a *leaky* boat slightly hysterical, or at least hyperbolic. You’ll be pleased to know that Minister Bowen has said that he will be reviewing the applications of anyone involved in the rioting very closely, altho’ I don’t actually know what that might mean.
@ Trix, I was commenting on the content of a 60 minutes story, that sounds like TV to me. And my views are far from hysterical, at no stage did I say anything offensive about anyone. Myob
Er, @garry, this is a TV blog! If you want to air your (slightly hysterical) views, there’s plenty of websites you can visit.
@garry – Totally agree, as do 98% of the 11,000 who responded to the 7Yahoo News Poll yesterday. I watch “Border Security” and remain bemused how anyone slightly suspicious arriving without a totally-perfect visa is immediately deported to whence they came. The arrivals by boat are uninvited, do not have the necessary documents, yet we clothe, feed and shelter them, and fly them around at taxpayers’ expense. Why are they not deported to whence they came.
Populations in many countries are self segregating into ethnic enclaves as a result of multiculturism. Every muslim I know, and I know many, believes in the caliphate.
Let’s just wait to see the full story go to air and then criticize it – 60 Minutes is often a victim of its own promotion – the promos/intros to stories are always very sensationalistic and tabloid to get viewers. Of course they’re going to use the most attention grabbing parts.
But they must be doing something right seeing as they’ve won the slot for the past 4 weeks.
I do recall Angela Merkel saying something along the lines of multiculturalism failing in Germany but more importantly there is another Sunday Edition of ACA? Is this going to be permanent? Its bad enough 5 times a week without another night of fad diets crooked businessmen and some flippant “road expert” bemoaning this week’s in-vogue “revenue-raiser”
Both countries have a completely different ‘setup’ as here,but of course that doesn’t stop a good beat up.
Viewers of Channel 9 deserve what they get… and this is it!
As for the detainees on Christmas Island burning down buildings, send them all back to where they came from. Why should tax payers pay for their wilful damage. It’s bad enough we have to pay to house and feed them in detention, then re-house most of them in Government housing that should be going to Australians on the waiting list. A lot of people in Japan would love the comfort and three meals a day that these detainees are being provided. Those who haven’t rioted should be allowed to stay, but not the trouble makers, put them on a leaky boat back to wherever.
Oh dear more people watch Sunday Night a few times & look what happens to them.
When I saw the ad for this I wasn’t surprised. “They want us all to be…. Muslims!!!!!!” Ridiculous. Not a single Muslim I know wants to impose their views on me. Would 60 Mins interview a Christian who wanted us to all be Christian? Of course not, they’d be derided as a fringe loon. This is a tiny percent of a population that makes up the tiniest percent of the Australian population. 60 Mins should be educating on the issue, not fear mongering. I mean… they are seriously going to contend that there is a threat of sharia law being imposed? Usher should know better. His blog post has been placed on the site early, clearly in an attempt to show the fair mannered approach he took. The advert presents a completely different picture to the one he would like us to have of his ‘story’.
60 minutes appears to be rapidly morphing into a supersized today tonight/ ACA
The bad thing is people watch this and believe the crap they see.
I can understand the argument but do we really need this multiculturalism debate right now, good timing with recent events on Christmas Island.
Is Liz Hayes in Japan, will we learn anything we haven’t seen nightly on the news?
The most interesting might be the film maker story but after a good start to 2011 60 Minutes is not interesting me much more.
Oh dear, prepare for the measured discourse … not.