MatthewB,

I'm appalled at that terrible action of playing Deutschland Uber Alles rather than the Israeli national anthem at the soccer match. If I can make a national apology, even though I am only one Aussie, please accept my heartfelt distress that this happened. There are bigots everywhere, and insensitive people, and it would be nice to live in a fantasy land believing that it doesn't happen in my own back yard, but I know it does. I think I can state with a great degree of certainty that for every one person who thought that was clever, witty, funny or a neat nasty trick there would have been at least 100 people, more than 100, who were saddened or appalled by it.

Thank you for seeing the bigger picture and not rating all Australians as being bigots - although there are more here than I like to contemplate.

Helen