Fringe extremism in Australia

Okay after a couple of nice non-political posts, I come back to hate-based fringe groups and the question of how far free speech should extend...

A New South Wales (that's an Australian state) radio station presenter has been revealed to be the administrator of racist, anti-immigration groups on Facebook, according to this linked article from The Age newspaper. These groups are called "Fuck Off, We're Full", "Stop the Islamisation of Australia while we still can", "Australian Conservative United Party", the "Australian Protectionist Party" and "Australians against Multiculturalism".

The article says "she ridiculed foreigners who did not have a good grasp of English, claimed the Islamic faith was destroying the Australian way of life and said that attacked Indian students should go back home to study." (Indian students have been targeted in recent acts of street violence)

Management of the station are planning to discipline the presenter, whatever that means.

The article concludes with "In April, a contractor for one of Australia's largest Defence Department-linked companies was suspended after she was alleged to have been involved as an administrator of the neo-Nazi web forum "Blood & Honour"." I emphasise here that this was a separate and unrelated case and there is no Right-wing conspiracy being illuminated here.

The radio station in question is noted for multicultural programming. The presenter says in her defence that it is "unfortunate" that patriotism was now regarded as racism, and "This country is beautiful the way it is, and like most average citizens, [I] do not want our society to change to suit others' needs."

I'll take that apart and retort thus...

1/ I am of the opinion that most educated Australians would regard it as unfortunate instead that racism can get ennobled as patriotism. We KNOW what patriotism is and is not, Miss Presenter.

2/ I too do not want our society changed to suit others' needs. Specifically YOUR needs, which apparently are to give yourself a national identity based on vilifying Australians from other cultures - and foreigners - and condoning acts of violence against foreign students, in 'our' name.

Free speech...? No. She is condoning and perhaps inciting acts of violence based on race and linguistic disposition.
Private vs public life? No. Both are in the public domain and there is clear conflict of interest with the policies of her employer.
Sad? Yes.
We should be better than this.