//That's why I say things like 'Sydney is one of the great Chinese cities of the world' and use the term Sino-Australia to describe what the country will be like in several decades.//

Melbourne is one of the great Greek cities of the world - they have a higher population of Greeks than any other city in the world outside of Greece, and have held that record for many years.

Despite the high concentration of Greeks in Melbourne, Australia has yet to become the Hellenic-Australia.

I have no reason to dispute your data, but I am somewhat less convinced by your extrapolation. Could you please state all the assumptions upon which you have based this extrapolation?

//It is for that reason alone that I suspect, and hope, he'll be a good deputy PM.//

Well he couldn't be any worse than cow Ju-Lie Bishop.

Wow, it's really easy to insult female politicians who have names containing then right phonemes. No wonder all the tories had so much fun kicking that football around for so long. All you need is a woman with the right name, and you don't have to apply any effort or imagination to think clever puns. Tories hate effort and imagination.

Dear Aidan,

The inevitability is that Australia is headed down the path of becoming a Sino-Australian nation within the next few decades. You, Suseonline, Toni Lavis, et al are in denial about this and try to disguise the fact under a rubric of an imagined community. You're like the climate change denialists who refuse to admit that humans are having an adverse impact on the ecosystem.

Dear Toni Lavis,

You need to come up with a map like I did in order to demonstrate your point.

Dear Suseonline,

Everything that could be said about Barnaby Joyce could be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Foxy dear, I have issues with the Nationals. Given they dropped the “country party” descriptive they still allude to represent rural Australia. I find that their charter on this to be tenuous as National Party politicians and political staffers have jumped directly into a role that involves them advocating for the Energy companies. Coal seam gas has fractured rural Australia and whom did we find in the employ of the Energy companies, former National party leaders, John Anderson and Mark Vaile. The Nationals have no credibility in the bush and no tenure in the cities. Although I do like Barnaby’s frank and direct manner.

Thanks to everyone for your various views.

I don't know that much about Barnaby Joyce
except for the fact that he says what he thinks
even if at times people don't like the direct
approach. I'd rather have that from a politician
then being lied to.

//You need to come up with a map like I did in order to demonstrate your point.//

Why? The map is just graphical representation of Sydney's Chinese population, but it should be possible for university educated people to talk about Sydney's Chinese population or Melbourne's Greek population without having pretty pictures to look at.

Now why don't you stop dodging the question, and state all the assumptions upon which you have based your extrapolation?

While your're at it, why don't you put some of that superior education you're always banging on about to some use, and explain why lots of Chinese people in Sydney will turn Australia into Sino-Australia, but lots of Greeks in Melbourne hasn't turned Australia into Hellenic-Australia.