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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

It's got more cosmopolitan, and it's lost its uniqueness, but Australia is still a great place.

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.