Omigod! The author went to "Lithuania, then to Japan, Shanghai in China and, finally, to Australia". Today mate you'd be told to rack off and be satisfied with being alive, and not go seeking illegal entry to our wonderful white country.

Well said, Irfan & Sneekeepete.

Can't work out Leigh where you're going with your post. "The cost and trouble multiculturalism has caused in its 40 odd years is enormous" 40-odd years? Why not 140? It's closer to 240. It's only since WWII Australia decided to give it a name and harness it; the "cost" of ignoring it would have been immense. Since I'm not a dictatorial politician, you'll need to accept there are some of us who prefer a little variety in life.

Not all monoculturalists are terrorists, but all terrorists are monoculturalists.

I'm yet to hear of a hijacker, suicide bomber or totalitarian zealot who had a multicultural outlook on life...

I normally regard sociological theories, and especially any talk of some sort of "collective psyche" as a load of hogwash, and I probably should continue to do so, however...

Given the suspicion with which newcomers to Australia since 1788 have always been greeted, I'm wondering if there is some sort of psychological-projection-whatsit going on, whereby the mob who are already here project onto the mob who has just arrived, all the undercurrents and unacknowledged tension that persist because this land is yet to be ceded by formal treaty with the original owners.

We have a habit in Australia of blaming entrenched problems going back years on people who just got off the boat five minutes ago. We direct to them the fear of disease, of raping women, of causing trouble, of taking land and wealth; despite the fact that we were doing a pretty brisk trade in all those things before they got here.

I reckon that must be pretty much how some locals around here felt in 1788 towards the settlers too. In other words, are we 'channeling' the hatred and fear that the original owners experienced? Is our denial of that situation driving some sort of over-compensation of hostility toward newcomers now? Does suppressed guilt bubble up as triumphal bluster and bravado? Maybe if we cleaned up our act and reconciled with the first Australians, those ghosts would be put to rest, and we could move on to a new chapter with a less troubled back-story?

I dunno. I don't believe in ghosts, or projection-mawhatsit, or being "in denial", or any of those psychological theories, and I don't know much about them and I care less - but there seems to be some poetic resonance there all the same, yes?

Multiculturlism has finished. Poeple only fight over differences the biggest differences for humans being Race, Culture(<in which religion is apart of). One would ask what a Homogenous, Peacful, Prospeous society can gain from this diversity. Uniformity of its people both racial and cultural served Australia so well for so long and was the very reason why so many people wanted to immigrate. One can clearly see that it is Uniformity of Australia and not diversity that made it so great in the past to the recent present.. so why do we now beleive diveristy is better option for our future?
Young people are being told this at an impressionable and programmable age, that against all reality and statistics that diveristy is good no matter how obsurd it actually is. We look back and we think "OMG THEY ACTUALLY YOUSE TO SACRIFICE PEOPLE SO THE CROPS WOULD GROW"
what will the vast majortity of white australians say in the future, as they reflect on past generations.

what will the future of australia look like.
* Its a police state, no ones fighting(much)..but free speech and way of life is greatly diminshed
* "WOW that imploded"
to youse who say that wont happen, I regretfully inform you that 1 of the 2 will, and i would add the remark "IS THIS A RISK YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE"

Political correctness is one of the more infurating things, but is on the way out, as it affects the majoirty of people in any given situation: if its racial, white people are affected, if its religous christians are affected i.e "no christmas lights" if its sexual preference, hederosexuals are affected "fairy penguin name now banned."
if you are a hederosexual white christian you might feel slightly frustrated< UNDERSTATEMENT
yet, given, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS still remains.

*ps my first ever post, 18year old in touch with reality and not fantasy

Unfortunately Professor you are at the interface where public opinion collides with the fictioneers who wrote the multicultural policy. Professor, you forgot to mention that in the 60s 91% of the public expressed opposition to multicultural ideals but I s’pose that small detail is of little importance.

I hope you aren’t too concerned about the abuse of Shanghai Jews professor. Some of our newly arrived simon-pure guests have indulged in their own brand of abuse. Recently we’ve had the head-line grabbing idiot from the 7th century giving us his version of tolerance. Who can forget one young female tennis player and her family who found nothing worthwhile in us. This girl’s father called us a nation of ‘bitch prostitute and criminal.’ In an artificial society the soft left trope of ‘tolerance’ is to be practiced by the host nation only or so it seems.

Professor, it’s interesting to dwell here a moment and think about the ludicrous situation of an eleutheromaniac whose only desire is to taste freedom. Perhaps he is fleeing oppression in his own country. What is the first thing that upsets him? FREEDOM. Not only that but the oppression he is feeling is the type of oppression he wants imposed on women. Hello tolerance. Has anyone seen tolerance? Toss in the fact that he’s a bigot and a racist. How on earth is your policy going to deliver social cohesion and crush racism?
I wonder if the Royal Flying Doctor Service, as it seeks funds to update its fleet, celebrates the fact that SBS and the various arms of the multicultural industry are well funded. One report puts the funding of multiculturalism at AUD$7.2 billion per year. How many life-saving Beechcraft King Air aircraft would that buy?

Professor, there is little point in identifying evil if we don’t act. An eidetic picture comes to mind of a deported criminal and the campaign to bring him back because he couldn’t speak the language of his birth country. Shouldn’t his situation have been a reason to celebrate ‘difference’?

Professor, you’ll have to learn how to apply tolerance.

"We live in a world now where unease about the “other” has escalated dramatically".

These are the words of the writer, yet it seems, as does most of his article, that his idea of reality is totally inverted.

We don't just live in a society, and world, where there is unease about the ethnic other, we live in a world where entire generations are indoctrinated to hate, to want to kill, the ethnic other.

Where the ethnic other is impure because they don't dress like us, and their morality is inferior to ours.

The problem is, those like the writer can't stand the idea that almost all of the racism in our world today, and in Australia, is perpetrated by non-whites.

Most are unwilling to face up to the fact that comments by Hilali about non-Muslim (non-covered) women asking for rape are widespread, as seen in the 70 or so racially motivated pack rapes that were investigated in 2000-01.

One year!

The idea of supremacy as well, is totally inverted by the writer. Again, Muslims in particular hold to the view that non-Muslims are immoral, and as we saw with the Hilali controversy, not only do nearly all Muslims agree with his views (as he is still there, no protests to have him removed) they, as I (having lived out in the trenches) always have known, most think white western women are sluts and whores.

Tanveer Ahmed, the Muslim Psychiatrist, is a breath of fresh air, as he tells it like it is, namely, that the vast majority of Muslims feel superior to us.

This attitude applies to most non-western ethnicities.

I wonder what the leftist herd tell themselves when they hear the liks of a Tanveer Ahmed. The cowards likely ignore his insight, pretending rather that he is some sort of anomaly.

It's interesting that the writer says many people are against multiculturalism now, and I hope so....