Thanks Michael. I don't know if you read the comments, but I'd be interested especially in understanding the social base of the Government which I understand is mostly rural Malays, and that urban (ie working class and middle class) Malays turned to the Opposition.

Could this perhaps be because of the growing industrialisation of Malaysia? Do you have any thoughts and figures on this?

Something similar may have happened in Fiji when the Labor Party won the elections in 1989 (?), breaking down the old divides. The military coups were the response of the old landed class.

We have an echo of the same issue here as the national party loses its relevance as we become a more and more industrialised society and agriculture itself becomes more and more dominated by large companies.

A man has a house. He wants to improve it and migrant labor (aka modern slavery) is enlisted under the guise of house-citizenship to upgrade and improve it.

The owner naturally charges flat tax which he calls rent and 10% GST on everything the migrants spend as a usage tariff.

The migrants are pissed off but its better than the third world they came from so they get together and PLOT to branch stack house meetings to TAKE OVER the man's house.

It takes several decades but soon the man is outnumbered so he can either move out and become homeless or stay and fight for his home and probably be killed or have his life penalised to an extent that is unliveable.

He quickly does some calculations and all the accumulated taxes don't add up to 1% of the value of his home. He has fallen into the age old immigration TRAP.

Finally he decides to get a mortgage on his house for a well equipped army, chucks the trouble makers out, puts the recalcitrants in cattle cars and sends them to human incinerators or feeds them to sharks and advertises for more tenants.

The new tenants know by now that they mustn't STEAL what does not belong to them. They know their contract is for board, lodging and some work on the house only and that this does not entitle them to abuse the generosity and clearly defined non-racist democratic values of the owner. Those democratic values being defined as quiet enjoyment of the house and not the right to form branch stacked race based enclaves intended to take over the man's house.

Continuing..

This historical analogy is aeons old. From Rome to Germany this game has played out. In Fiji, Malaysia and Britain it is unfolding.

Australia does not have the right to judge Malaysia because there are moves afoot within the next 20 years to precipitate the EXACT same skullduggery against Anglo Australians, whom I have no doubt will successfully maintain ownwership of their own country against several prominent elite racial groups headed and herded by certain business moguls.

Now Rudd had his chance to wake up to reality on the immigrant issue. He has failed Australia miserably. Rudd does not understand that his money-grubbing-immigrate-for-GST ways will not cover even 1% of the cost of sorting out the racial mess that is now brewing in this nation. Foreign interests rightly look at shortsighted morons like Howard and now Rudd and say to themselves " These Aussies are simpletons. We don't mind paying all the taxes and GST they WANT because we's takin' over and gettin' it back ..Ha Ha"

Instead of teaching puerile Australian history, politicians should be promoting WORLD history, because our best and fairest immigration policies and thus the fate of this nation rests therin.

Some points stand out from an analyisis of world history.
1. You do not immigrate in the midst of a drought and global climate change. Economic & security advancements must come from technology and NOT foreign Laboor in uncertain times.
2. Temporary work visas should not entitle immigrants to congest major cities when they are needed in country towns and mining sites.
3. Migrants should not be allowed to speculate on property for 10 years after arrival.
4. When immigration IS appropriate, clear guidelines about ownership of this country must be spelt out. Australians must learn the importance of clarifying these matters so we don't end up like Malaysia.
5. Support Malaysia & Fiji in its ownership of its country and get rid of la-la-land Rudd.

For God's sake stop being so naive.