If you want to see our future, a quick look at Lebanon will give you a pretty good idea.

Some of the comments here are quote illogical. Lebanon as a model for the future of Australia? Lebanon is a tiny country caught up in the mess of the middle east where various ethnic groups have been at each other's throats for millenia, aggravated by the last 100 years or so of European colonial powers fighting their wars there. There couldn't be a less likely analogy for Australia.
As for the Chinese, why would they invade when they can get what they need by buying land and growing food here? China has never been interested in overseas colonialism, but has focussed on securing its borders if necessary by controlling its neighbours to do so. An (unnecessary) overseas military expedition to Australia would risk making its borders vulnerable.
Read some history, guys!

Cossomby, most of these guys are paranoid, scared little boys who can't see reason beyond their racist noses.
I would love to see a new Australian National Anthem that embraced multiculturalism and all the history it has in our nation. I would even learn the words then!

Mr Opinion,

For someone who claims to be a a socio-cultural analyst, you're remarkably ignorant of the principles of analysis. Real analysts don't start with the conclusion and ignore all the evidence that doesn't fit it!

You also seem to be equally ignorant of socio-cultural factors. You wrongly assume people stay in distinct ethnic groups rather than interbreeding.

But worst of all you make racist assumptions about people's loyalties based on their Chinese ethnicity. Don't you realise that Taiwan is "primarily peopled by Chinese" yet is overwhelmingly opposed to the Chinese government and its Communist Party?

Dear all,

Time will tell. And I bet I'm correct in my predictions.

The warning signs are there and the problem is that you lot cannot read the writing on the wall.

In Australia our immigration experience has been a
broad one. Originally is was Anglo-Celtic, but
after the war our immigration experience diversified.
All these immigrant communities have made successful
contributions to Australian life. This has occurred
because as Peter Costello argued at the Sydney
Institute our freedom and tolerance was protected
within a legal framework that was accepted by all.

I see this continuing in the future.

We will continue to have one law that we will all be
expected to abide by. It is the law enacted by the
Parliament under the Australian Constitution.
We will continue to remain a secular state..

Religion will continue to instruct its adherents on
faith, morals, and conscience. But there will not be a
separate stream of law derived from religious sources
that will compete with of supplant Australian law
in governing our civil society. The source of our law will
continue to be the democratically elected legislature.

We will continue to ask all of our citizens to subscribe
to a framework that can protect the rights and liberties
of all.

We will continue to have a robust tolerance of difference
in our society.

As Peter Costello summed up in a speech:

"Despite all the obloquy shovelled on the head of politicians,
these are the men and women who work the machinery of our
liberal democratic way of life. They reflect public opinion
and at their best - lead public opinion - and transmute it
into laws that shape our society and our country...
I have no doubt we can find the solutions that suit us,
provided we do not succumb to the siren calls of demagogues,
charlatans and ideologues."

I believe that the best years for our country are still
in front of us.