PETER Drew is a virtuoso street artist. He's our Banksy. His posters - all over Adelaide - are simple, direct, political and affirming.
They are vintage photos of Asians and an Afghan cameleer. We brought in Afghans when we needed them to open up our vast country and to roll out telegraph and railway lines - and then we went back to hating them.
When Afghans flee our common enemy in war and seek refuge in Australia, we send them to foreign concentration camps. 
Drew's posters all feature the word "Aussie". There are three of his posters in Field St, opposite Chinatown - two Asians and an Afghan proud in his turban. The Afghan has been defaced with graffiti by an illiterate racist: "Australia well be all Mulsim soon. You obey us soon or later your weman will bow to us mens they are lower spices weman." This illiterate, racist fool would be shameful if they didn't speak for millions of people in this country.
The only good thing about the current appalling Islamophobia is that it has given the Asians a rest.
In the '90s, the racist wackos who helped constantly elect the Howard government hated Asians. Remember when Adelaide was littered with National Action posters saying "Asians Out"? Now Muslims are being reviled.
Why must we always hate? Each wave of immigrants/refugees is loathed, treated with great suspicion. It's our national condition.
Yet we are entirely comprised of immigrants and refugees. Every single person in Australia is either an immigrant/refugee or descended from them. Even indigenous Australians came here from somewhere else 40,000-plus years ago. I'm descended from Germans fleeing religious persecution in the 1830s and Irish refugees from the British genocide of the Irish Famine.
When we hate refugees, we hate ourselves. All refugees and immigrants seek a better life. That's no crime.
One of the great recommendations for Australia is that we are warmed and affirmed by the welcome shown to Hieu Van Le as a Vietnamese refugee. We love his story because it speaks to our true and better nature.
He is now one of the most-loved South Australians.
He is a refugee. A boat person. An illegal. Our Governor. And if he'd arrived recently, he'd have been sent to a concentration camp on Manus Island or Nauru and we would never benefit from his vast talent and humanity. We are one of the richest nations on Earth. We proudly sing in our national anthem: "For those who come across the sea/We've boundless plains to share".
We should sing: "For those who come across the sea, we despise you, we're not going to recognise your internationally agreed human rights as refugees and we're sending you to foreign concentration camps.
"And we're going to pay other countries and multinational security firms billions of dollars to keep you in hell, to keep you hopeless, stateless, suicidal, forgotten and insist that you and your children who are dirty, filthy scum opportunists never come to this country to take our jobs and welfare. And if you are bashed or abused or murdered, you have no recourse to Australian law and we really hope you die." That's the policy on which Australian governments have been elected over the past two decades. Offshore detention means out of sight, out of mind.
If these refugees were white Christians fleeing persecution or war in Africa, do you think they'd be sent away?
Pauline Hanson feared Australia being swamped by Asians in 1996. Now she fears Muslims. "No more mosques, halal certification or Muslim refugees," scream her posters.
She even wants a royal commission into the noble faith of Islam. The major parties are no better. They gloat about our harsh treatment of refugees. They want us to fear refugees because fear equals votes. Stop the gloats or we will stop the votes.
Peter Goers can be heard weeknights on 891 ABC PETER.GOERS@NEWS.COM.AU@busbygoers