BBC News Oct. 17 2010.

Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says. She said the so-called "multikulti" concept - where people would "live side-by-side" happily - did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate - including learning German.

BBC News. Feb 5.

David Cameron strode firmly into a debate where many politicians tread timidly. In his view, such caution is part of the problem. In frank language he made abundantly clear he believes multiculturalism has failed.

Yahoo News Feb 11 2011

– French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Thursday that multiculturalism had failed, joining a growing number of world leaders or ex-leaders who have condemned it. "My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure," he said in a interview when asked about the policy which advocates that host societies welcome and foster distinct cultural and religious immigrant groups.

Speaking at Georgetown University, Spanish prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said, “Multiculturalism divides our societies, debilitates our societies, multiculturalism does not produce tolerance, nor integration”. The best way to integrate societies and promote integration, he said, is for laws to be administered equally to everyone, irrespective of ethic origin or religion.

We now have seen civil wars, rebellions, coups, or at least national separations in Lebanon, Fiji, Cyprus, Georgia, Afghanistan, Biafra, Rhodesia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Liberia, Kashmir, Punjab, Sudan, Nigeria, Bougainville, East Timor, Yugoslavia, Kurdistan, New Zealand, Bhutan, Angola, Burma, Chechnya, Guadalcanal, Aden, Malaya, Oman, Congo, Northern Ireland, Palestine/Israel, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, East Timor, Thailand and recently, Ukraine. Add to this sundry race riots and acts of terrorism in Britain, the US, Europe and just about every other country on Earth.

Multiculturalism is exactly like Socialism, Brett Bowden. How many times does it need to fail before the people with your three monkey, kumbaya worldview figure that out?

Hi Cobber

You rightly wonder about"...the others?"

Brett was careful not to detail what much larger numbers (than the one) are up to - mainly in Melbourne - so far

News.com 21 July 2016: Home invasions and carjackings prompt police summit in Victoria
http://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/home-invasions-and-carjackings-prompt-police-summit-in-victoria/news-story/bbd91f1c9393932e8f5895411dfae705

"A WAVE of terrifying home invasions and carjackings by teenagers has sparked a policing and community summit in a bid to deal with the attacks.

...Among the arrests were 13 youths, arrested on Tuesday, over a St Albans robbery and car theft.

Public concerns have also been raised about gangs of migrant teens, with reports some parents are sending their teenage children back to countries like Sudan to break the spiral of offending."

"countries like Sudan"

The fact this one has succeeded academically does nothing to prove he is not a gang member. It also has nothing to do with Multiculturalism. Are you suggesting this is not actually a story of integration, & this young man taking advantage of the opportunities we have made available at our expense.

Talk about cherry picking. It is multiculturalism that has given us the worst of not only the African gangs, but the Islander, Aboriginal & Muslim gangs many in lower socioeconomic areas are now suffering. Penrith, San Souci, Hurstville & Auburn in NSW & Logan among others in Brisbane spring to mind.

The mere fact that this is post worthy proves how rare such an outcome really is. Still good fodder for the duping the dumb with such exceptions.

Brett Bowden,
Not far from where you work is a place called Fairfield, where there is a government funded Immigrant Womens Health Service. The head is Dr Eman Sharobeem and the good doctor says she can find a hundred underage marriages at any time. She personally knows of 60 that occurred in the last 3 years. Would you say that the parents of these girls have integrated well and respect our laws.

Also not too far away is both Auburn and Canterbury Hospitals, both have specialist units for treating post FGM problems. Antecdotal evidence indicates that FGM incidence is rising. I suggest this is another example of multiculture in action with no respect for our laws. A recent court sentenced a bloke to 12 months suspended jail for taking his 9month old daughter to Indonesia and inflicting her with type 3 FGM, so yeah our system supports multiculturalism.

I suggest you get out of your ivory tower and look at the real world and you don't have to go far

Yes, there is a clash of cultures and folks who seriously believe they can leave their physical bodies here and still enjoy conjugal relations with 70 vestal virgins, who have their virginity restored immediately after satisfying the prodigious appetite of the lord and Master? None question the mechanics of achieving this of the flesh outcome minus a physical body!?

And this stone age inculcated culture has a psychopathic need to impose its (cannot err cult) belief system on all disbelievers!

We need to deploy space age covert unbeatable lie detection technology to test the bona fides of those who want to join us and our cultural norms! Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! We're asked to take these individuals on trust?

Only to find some among their number have murderous plans for us? That will, they believe, open wide the gates of paradise!?

Not true, given there's no place in paradise, (real or imagined) for those who spill as much of a single drop of innocent blood!

And applies to those who use human shields in an attempt to prevent righteous reprisals!

I believe we need to create a different template that turns desert wasteland the world over, into virtual gardens of eden that supports many millions! On land that once was uninhabitable for man or beast!

And a can do, but only if we ensure it remains a not for profit enterprise until the transformation of the land is complete and permenant!

This approach guarantees minimum living standards and agricultural plentitude for countless millions, who will contribute to that outcome with their labor and better more productive use of their time than planning to destroy or dominate the west!

What shall it benefit mankind if in reaching for another's wealth, prosperity, living standards, and land, all that is actually accomplished is universal destruction of everything!

Harmonious multiculturalism may have a chance, when all of the potential participants are able to apply critical thinking to their (stone age) belief systems!?
Alan B.

I don't see anything in this piece that justifies the claim that multiculturalism works. One isolated incident that took the writer's fancy is far outweighed by many other incidents that not only prove the opposite is true, but that multiculturalism is actually a great danger to the West.