Talk:Daniel Mannix
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Notwithstanding Ali-ops' attempts at censorship, serious POV existed which I have deleted:
"...he counselled Australians of Irish Catholic extraction to stay out of Irish politics."
No source for this highly dubious assertion/opinion.
"In Australia at this time, Catholics were commonly treated as an underclass by the Anglo-Scottish Protestant Ascendancy..."
This is pure POV, and is factually incorrect. There was no Ascendancy in Australia or Scotland, only in Ireland, which as an Irishman, Ali-oops should have known.
216.194.1.148 00:34, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- I'm glad you at least tweaked it for NPOV, Mr. Sieger. It reads a lot better now - I'm okay with it the way it is now. Oh, and quit with the cries of 'censorship', Robert - Ali-oops✍ 07:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Even without an official anglo-australian protestant Ascendancy, protestants dominated Australian business and social life (and still do), and, during Mannix's lifetime, commonly treated Catholics as an underclass. As recently as 1982, the right-wing Federal Government of Malcolm Fraser contained only one Catholic Cabinet Minister (Philip Lynch), despite Catholics forming a third of the Australian population, and being the largest single denomination. 2006-06-11.
It should also be noted that Australia's head of state is the Sovereign of the UK, and the laws of Britain still prohibit Roman Catholics holding this position or being married to the position-holder. Australia's constitution thus still discriminates, just as Britain's does, against Catholics. 2006-06-11.
[edit] Remove protection?
The page has been protected for three weeks now, and no substantive discussion has occurred on the talk page. Can we request unprotection? Calwatch 06:15, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
