onthebeach & Belly,
The biggest mistake government made here post war was when the cold war ended.
We should have had ever aircraft we could muster sitting on all those satellite countries freed airfields taking any trade qualified or scientific boffins that wanted to come to Australia.
Instead we took the scum of Europe earlier released from the prisons in Europe by the Russians as they advanced in 56 57.
To add insult to injury we brought in the scum of south east Asia who claimed either refugee status ( when they were mostly North Vietnamese)
or displaced status which we fell for.
The Whitlam and his cronies decided to bring all their relatives and put them on pensions.