A fuller version of my article (including links to supporting materials) now appears as 'Academic notoriety, academic celebrity and social responsibility' on http://law.anu.edu.au/cipl/expertopinion.asp.

The thing failing most in Australian politics, be it through civic society, government or the media, is this idea of being Australian in the way people work together.

Australians appear to be touchy when it comes to authority, yet Australians buy anything that sells a spin for the raw, cheap, crude or nasty.

Australians more often promote subterfuge, deception over any set of facts deserving reasonable public debate. Moral issues of equality and fairness for example, are not issues of open concern in mainstream Australian culture. I argue that, Australians are a hard mob to get involved.

After all isn't the Aussie case more about bagging politico’s, being hard on ya so called mates, chasing chicks and football. Isn't it time to question the feeble minded slogons, ie: "don't be uncool man", "politics is too serious" - or the whiffletree denials constituting a "don't bother me" agenda?

Your argument against Mr Fraser appears quite justified. Is he another dressed as John Laws, who gets paid to provoke red-hearings - hook attention - using sick day measures to get a national response for the coffers of business, advertising and media ratings?

I notice you highlight issues of ethnicity, and the income status through your debate. I think you are correct to include these factors underlying statistics relating to crime, and suggest that there is more to these issues needing proper investigation to understand their cause.

Are we surprised that Australians are so the culturally complacent? Where muli-culturalism is less the icon and more the lie based on a "tanned bimbo" assault, a tourist image tokened for its capricious mainstream values. I mean we may know it's not entirely true, but why do we support it, through talk-back, commercial current affairs programming, advertising and through "barbie doll" party politics?

Australia's cultural cringe has never been more a threat to Australia's future stability, as it is now.

I believe it is time to "Wake Up" Australia, that we are moving more and more into a world where what we won't have, is the choice to turn back.

Discuss however profusely you like. Try this for a fact.

Australia will be mostly non-European 30 years from now ( 50 at most)

Australia will have a higher average IQ and higher standard of living 30 years from now too