I had to laugh when Peter Bowden claimed that multiculturalism was a factor in economic success. The USA, the richest country on earth, is tearing itself apart with multiculturalism and identity politics. The Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are laughing their heads off. One thing is for sure, Asians as a group are smarter than Caucasians and they are too smart to import the notoriously dysfunctional minority groups that do little except create public service welfare jobs, and expand the legal systems of western countries. More police. More lawyers. More interpreters. More prisons, and prison guards.

Multiculturalism is a handicap, not a blessing, Peter. Every multicultural nation on earth right now is trying to devolve into separate, unicultural nation states, proving that mixing racial and cultural oil and water was never going to work.

I would not be too optimistic about our mineral wealth, either, Peter. Everywhere we dig a hole it is a sacred site and subject to regulation by a plethora of government departments. Look at the Adani Mine fiasco and ask yourself if any overseas investor wants any part of that?

As for moral capital, here we are facing the threat of a new, expansionist Nazi Party in Asia and you can bet that Australia's embrace of homosexual marriage will really encourage our new enemy into realising correctly that we as a nation are weak, effeminate, and stupid.

As for Labor making a better government. They will repeat the US democrat success of using identity politics to divide us and rule us. They will force the whites and Asians to pay ever higher taxes to purchase the votes of the ever expanding public service, and the votes of the dysfunctional minorities who are their new electorate.

You were off with the fairies when you actually had the chutzpah to claim that "first nations" people could tell the people from advanced societies a thing or two about anything. They can not even run their own communities without holding out the begging bowl to the white man while screaming abuse at him.

Let's say that there was a town somewhere in Australia populated entirely with white Anglo-Saxon residents, Peter.

In that town, there were 23 year old grandmothers with grandchildren born with foetal alcohol syndrome. There was rampant sexual abuse of children with kids under five being routinely screened for gonorrhoea. The women in the town alleged widespread sexual abuse committed upon them by the town's male leaders. These women were 34 times more likely to be hospitalised for domestic violence and 15 times more likely to be murdered than the women in surrounding towns.

The entire adult population of that white town was entirely on intergenerational social welfare, and every two weeks when the government cheques rolled in, the whole town went on a three day drinking binge resulting in widespread violence and riots where government supplied houses were burned to the ground.

The town's children suffered from lice and ringworm. The kids would not go to school, and the government had to bribe parents with extra benefits to make their kids go to school. In addition, the government had to provide cars and chauffeurs to take the kids to school and feed the kids, because their parents didn't bother. These kids were five times more likely to be hospitalised for domestic assaults than the kids from surrounding towns.

The only way that jobs could be created for the town's residents was to either make them public servants or by inventing taxpayer subsidised non jobs like picking up trash if they felt like it. When their young men were farmed out to government subsidised jobs outside of their community, most had to be sent back because 75% of them failed drug and alcohol testing.

Then I think that any intelligent and rational person would conclude that the town's population was a bunch of low IQ morons, commonly referred to as white trash.

But woke people like good your self, who think that displaying how non racist you are is more important than accepting self evident reality, will look for any reason to explain away aboriginal dysfunction, except the screamingly obvious one.

We would have a National Service & wouldn't need to import fruit pickers from overseas if young Australians had decent advise from their Whitlam era insipid parents !

I thought that people who believed things like that had names like Bobby Ray and made videos on YouTube about how you could make free power for yourself with special arrangements of magnets. At least it gives me some insight into the value some have for fifty year climate predictions.

Just another pointless Academic !

To get a balanced comment on renewables and their ability to supply Australia's energy needs, please navigate to The New Daily website and read Alan Kohler's article about energy economics. It puts much of the comment on this issue here into perspective: he knows what he is talking about unlike ...