Pity John Howard had not worked more with his workers a bit, then he would have heard terms like the boss always holding the whiphand or the big end of the stick.

That was why the Arbitration Court was devised along with all our other laws.

It is said that all laws from ordinary people are limited.

Thus the philosophical saying that love is limited, as sex is limited, and as even the deeply religous one faith can be very limited, as Charlie Court found out when he led a police contingent to Nookenbah to chase the Kimberly blacks away from a drilling rig.

He found that ordinary white people were also against him.

It is so sad that Howard and his mob made that same old mistake, to not take lessons from history.

"Now, with a Mandarin-speaking prime minister who has worked as a diplomat in Beijing and Stockholm, Australia would seem to have its best shot yet at finally becoming a part of its region."

Since its creation, Australia has struggled to come to terms with its geography. It responded first by excluding Asians. These days, however, the fashion among the elites has gone to the opposite extreme, to the point where they have claimed that Australia is "part of Asia" and must embrace its "Asian destiny."

This myopic and simplistic "Australia is a part of Asia" argument presupposes that our external economic links will expand if we become Asian in our outlook. In a misguided attempt to better "fit in" to the region, Australian elites have spent the last several decades trying to erase our nation's European culture and heritage in favour of all things Asian.

In reality, Asian countries will never accept Australia as one of their own as long as Australia remains a Western nation with a predominantly European-descended population. Perhaps our elites really are attempting to 'Asianise' Australia through mass immigration, but I suspect it would require some form of ethnic cleansing against Australia's founding population to completely extirpate our European heritage.

Can the author compare Australia's multicultural policy and compare it with that of the Roman Empire. She could also let us know why the Roman Empire collapsed. Not enough Romans, perhaps?

I think the "Borg" from Star Trek have a point...