I have several readings on 3 psychology forum websites relating to the same “Social Engineering” ideas. I use steve9 as a handle. If this website readers wish to find my readings, mainly devoted to how education messes with intelligence of human brains, start reading from my earliest readings.

Here is one reading.

http://www.psychforums.com/living-with-mental-illness/topic161872.html

Other posts on this website, click on: general; living with mental illness.

I've read an interesting article put our by the
Department of Social Services. I'd like to
share parts of it with you. You can Google the
rest of it for yourselves. It is worth a read.
It deals with the subject of "A Better Australia."

Anyway - we're told that -

Australia in the last 4 decades has become a vastly different
place from the British Isles in which our institutions
originated. Just as Britain is having to adapt to its
changing population, our institutions are now required to
respond to the needs of a culturally and linguistically
diverse society.

What we need to be looking at is ways of seeking social
cohesion, not social engineering. It is in the interests
of all Australians that the three tiers of government -
Commonwealth, State, and Local, intervene where necessary to
manage our diversity in the interests of cultural
tolerance, social justice, and economic efficiency.
And for that we need to plan.

Overseas experience has shown the often tragic consequences
that occur when societies are unable or unwilling to integrate
newcomers, especially in situations in which some minority
groups find themselves restricted by barriers of prejudice
or culture from enjoying the same opportunities as
the host society.

Our own recent history has revealed instances in which
lack of fore-sight has resulted in unfairness and
unnecessary inefficiency, the prodigious wastage of overseas
skills being perhaps the most telling example.

That does not mean we should dismantle or repudiate our
institutions in order to start afresh. Instead we should
make our institutions work better for us by enhancing their
capacity to respond flexibly to the needs of an ethnically mixed
population.

We need a positive policy response. Inaction can only
exacerbate the problem.