The main vested interest being government: votes, replacement with a more docile Left population, and who-knows-what rewards from Big Business. The government is the real villain because it has the control to fill the country to breaking point; the others have to beg, buy or bitch to the government to get more customers.

Divisive multiculturalism helps the goal of divide and conquer as a bonus for the poor- character, self-serving politicians now infesting Canberra.

Australia has never been poorer or more divided. Too much government, not enough productive private enterprise, which has been shut down or sent overseas.

Import more people. Export the means of sustaining them.

Stop illegal immigration (Abbott). Let the legally arrived stay here as illegal ferals long after they should have gone home, and probably for good - protected by the vested interests that want cheap labour and whatever more sinister reasons that the illegals cannot complain about to authorities because they are not supposed to be here.

It's well past time for the author's “ordinary Australians (who just) watch laws being selectively enforced, loopholes openly exploited, and obvious abuses tolerated because powerful sectors benefit financially, confidence in institutions deteriorates”, to do something about it.

Voting One Nation at the next election is the only hope. However, despite the polls, my guess is that the ordinary Richard heads, who have supported bad government for generations, will back down in fright and vote the same way they always have.

A good article that I (mostly) agree with. While there is undoubtably an element of racism in some people’s hostility to migration, we should be able to have a reasonable discussion on the level and composition of our migrant intake without resort to accusations of racism. For most of the past 100+ years Australia has very successfully welcomed and integrated migrants, but there are signs that our policies are no longer operating in the interests of the community as a whole. The article makes a good case that part of the reason lies with vested interests.