It is truly a disturbing state of affairs when we are no longer able to celebrate Christian traditions in our Childcare Centres for fear of offending non-Western minority groups.

Australia is a Western country with a Christian heritage. If non-Western immigrants are offended by our Western Christian culture, they should not move to Australia.

It really should be a no-brainer. Don't want to assimilate into the Western Christian culture of mainstream Australia? Then don't come.

The problem lies with state-sanctioned multiculturalism. By re-defining Australia as a "multicultural country" (an oxymoron if ever there was one), our political and academic elites have signalled to newcomers that we have no culture or traditions of our own and that Australia is basically a "blank slate" for immigrants to expand their own cultures into. Thus, in the name of "diversity" and "tolerance", we have allowed non-Western peoples to move in en masse and dictate to us what we can and cannot celebrate in our own country.

Talk about unconditional surrender.

Byron M. Roth, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Dowling College and author of "The Perils of Diversity", on the link between multiculturalism and political correctness:

"Not surprisingly, the multicultural program these elites promote is, by its very nature, profoundly undemocratic, in that it imposes changes on society that citizens most assuredly do not want and which they resist when given the opportunity to do so. Hence the extraordinary repression of dissent in the immigration debate and the totalitarian imposition of political correctness wherever elites have power."

According to Roth, state-sanctioned multiculturalism can only be maintained through coercion:

"From the perspective of inclusive fitness, unfamiliar others are potential free-riders and, out of a concern that they will be exploited by others, people reduce considerably their altruistic attitudes and behavior in a general way in more diverse communities. This loss of trust is a symptom of a breakdown in social cohesion and is surely a forerunner of the sort of ethnic conflict that is always likely to break out if allowed to do so. This is undoubtedly the reason why multicultural nation-states are forever promoting tolerance and ever more punitive sanctions for the expression of ethnic hostility, even going so far to as to discourage the expression of opinion about the reality of ethnic and racial differences. Currently these measures are directed at the host population when they express reserva­tions about the wisdom of mass immigration, but this will surely change as it becomes ever more obvious that it is the presence of competing ethnic groups that is creating the tension and not the expressed reservations of the majority population. The real danger for modern democracies is that in their zeal to promote multicultural societies, they will be forced to resort to the means that have characterized all empires attempting to maintain their hegemony over disparate peoples."