I agree with Spider, we are not seeing 'multiculture' now, we are seeing Tribalism. As people come here, knowing that Australians are as weak as the proverbial and walk around trying not to upset or'marginalise' the delicate members among us.
The agreements with the UN should be torn up and Australian laws be the only and sole laws in this country.Any who do not want to live by our laws should be forced to leave.
The English test is a bit silly, any crook can learn English, it is no criterian of character. Even Hilali can speak enough to get by and you would not want migrants like him.

I wonder why none of the non-english speaking australians, who are lauded in the original article, are present here?

If the tests are about literacy and not sacred Australian values, then I will be against this waste of time and money (where are the conservatives who love saving money? Oh, protectionism trumps economy)

Gee. Reminds me of a yarn. Anders the immigrant moves into a boarding house. He has little English skills. Every so often the Land Lady would go to the window and yell into the backyard. "Lady Emblew! Lady Emblew!". He thought at first dhe was letting him know her name. So he made sure she knew he had understood. "Jawort! Jawort! Jaworl! he would yell back at the landlady. One day he figured maybe she was talking to someone in the back yard. Helooked out the window and looked up all the names of all the things in the backyard. He studies his dictionary and found the words he thought may help "dog", "bark" toilet". He finally asked the landlady what Lady Emblew! meant. He was told though the language barrier with a lot of pointing at the dog and finally was shown it was to quieten the dog.

So the next day when the dog started up he yells "Lady Emblew" "Lady Emblew" thinking it was the dogs name as loud as he could. The dog settled. Later as the language barrier melted away he realised he was actually yelling: "Lay down, Blue."

We're going to miss out on lot of good yarns if the barriers go up. So enriches our culture.

By the way since when do we follow the Japanese example. I thought we were a Nation that had enough character and sense of justice to do things our way.