Correction "....110%".

My point was from a practical perspective: It's not possible to un-ethnicise australia, considering the ethnic population that's already here. So I'm assuming Davo and All are promoting more selective immigration into australia. I wonder what the criteria for immigration into australia would be. Colour of skin? Criminal record? And what about the existing ethnic population? Or are you just going to keep dreaming and sprouting?

I would like to congratulate Andrew fraser on his timely and correct article. Throughout human history, some people have had the courage to provide reasoned arguments against the prevailing orthodoxies, and they have been screamed down as heretics because of it.

The two points which I most agree with is that.

Firstly, Multiculturalism has been an obvious failure in every country which gas been cursed with it. Why we should want to duplicate obvious failure is beyond me.

Secondly, that some ethnic groups are very disproportionately asociated with violent crime. Whether this fact is primarily the rusult of culture or genetics is anyone's guess. But geneticists today are now ruefully admitting that there does indeed appear to be a strong link between genetic makeup and criminality.

The howls of indignation about Mr Frasers argument from the politically exquisite, reminds me of the true story of the priest who refused to look through Galileo's telescope and put his sacred faith to the test. The priest would not stoop to observe what he did not wish to see.

Heavens above, I can not recall mentioning Skin colour,but while we are on the subject, I would like Drew Fraser critics to NOW file a Racial complaint and advocate the destruction of the following nations. Chinese Nationalism, Japanese Nationalism,Malasian Nationalism,(Yes Recalsitrant) and here we go Arab, Saudi Islamic Nationalism,What about Kosovo Islamic Nationalism,Etc,etc,etc, or even South African Nationalism (Negro)ooooo dear, I forgot, they are not Anglo white's so they must be correct in their racial views,Bugger that Professor for not telling me that, I am embarrased now.
I gather most would despise Racial Apartheid in South Africa,When Mandella was locked up, just seems Ironic they are in favour in the lefti land Multi Culti anti Anglo Utopia, but Racial Apartheid is acceptable if it is Whites (Christian or Jew) being suppressed,Hay and cop this, By their own Blood, hay Good on you. Great job.

BRILLIANT ARTICLE!!

To the liberalists in the ivory towers who say it is "false" - It's NO surprise NOT to see you address the content of the article...

I may prefer that the world were not so, but that doesn't mean that it is not so... I am a realist.

I listen to reasoned scientific argument and not to emotive response from those who chose to 'stick their heads in the sand' and prefer that it were not so.

All I say is - address the content of the article or SHUT UP!!

As a previously undistinguished Law academic, Fraser makes a pretty ordinary anthropologist. While his appallingly racist ideas will undoubtedly find support among many of this forum's more verbose contributors, he fails to establish any real objective basis for the supposedly innate and/or commonsense understandings of the notion of race itself.

In short, while he makes many pronouncements about the supposed biological underpinnings of what constitutes the cultural category of "race", he provides little authoritative evidence to support them. Like most racists, he conflates phenotype and genotype with ethnicity and culture, and lumps them together in his thinking as 'scientific' - when in fact he's just constructing a personal folk category like any other.

Which is not to say that 'race' (and therefore 'racism') doesn't exist as a powerful and mostly negative force in Australian society - it's just that it is a culturally constructed and arbitrary notion, rather than one which has much explanatory power in biological terms.

Having said all that, I am however of the opinion that Fraser's sloppy article should have been published in a real journal, so that real anthropologists could be bothered giving it the thorough drubbing that it deserves. I very much doubt that comments from us hoi polloi in forums like these carry much weight in the real world.

Congratulations to Onloine Opinion for publishing Fraser's article - free speech is still alive, at least outside our Universities.

That said I am glad Australia is wide open to immigration from many different countries even if that imposes some stress - and I have in mind Samuel Huntington's thesis on (a real) clash of civilisations. I look out every Sunday morning on my congregation (I'm a Christian minister) and I see half a dozen nationalities, black and white and in between and I say praise God who made us all as His image bearers.