Slightly off topic but... Many of us don't care about the money. Australia is not a business to be exploited - it is our home. If we have the land we can survive - Australians have traditionally been a very self reliant people. But as the American Indians say "we cannot eat money". If we allow another culture to occupy our land then it is no longer ours. Every culture should have their own country. Global businesses in Australia may try to convince the government that its in our interest to sell off - but they are doing it for their interest not ours. People on the edges of our society will never understand why the relationship with the land is so important. People on the edge of society probably don't feel a strong Australian identity - if they believed in Australia they wouldn't approve of the massive changes that have occurred. We own Australia and we say who comes in - not the Government, the Businesses, the Socialists. If the economy goes into deficit then fine. If there aren't jobs then we can live off the land and look after the old and the young Australians. The children are our immortality. Other cultures don't care about us - why should they - we shouldn't care about them. Australia is a desert nation - you cannot fill it with people due to its holding capacity. Some dispute the Malthusian catastrophe saying its not the food capacity that is important but the GNP = C + G + I + X. I could discuss the macro-economics of Malthus and Ricardo but I've been advised by "ttbn" to keep it short. Every culture should have its own country - Multiculturalism is a failed experiment. Now it just depends on how bad the failure will be for the people of Australia. If we allow the population in Australia to get much higher it will be an ecological and economic disaster. We don't want money we want our country.

CM, are you plugging the Lovely Pauline? If not, why not? She certainly needs plugging!

Good to see The Mad Katter, giving One Nation short shift. Not likely to vote for Bob, however me thinks he's good value, if nothing else.

Dear Paul1405,

Senator Hanson certainly has had quite a week.

It will be interesting to see what happens next.

Had my morning walk in the rather dirty waters of facebook and gee it is heated on the subject of one nation,still finding the ultra optimists who think she will become Prime Minister, but hugely out numbered by those who think she will be the only member of her party left after the next election she has a six year term in that house unsure if her last complying member has three or six years Mark Latham? if he gets on board it could become Latham's Loathsome lay about,s

Hi Belly,

Mark Latham has been a major Labor disappointment. The Party gave him politically everything he has, even a shot at the very pinnacle of Australian politics. and where is his gratitude, in the gutter. The alarm bells were ringing in 2004 when Latham lost a winnable election, worse still, he took the party backwards!
To describe him as a 'Labor Rat' is an understatement. The grub has tried to get into bed with the unprincilpled political charlatan the un-liberal, un-democratic David Leyonhjelm, now he is trying to cuddle up to the air head herself The Lovely Pauline.
I can have respect for Abbott, Bernardi, even Hanson, at least I know where they are coming from, even if I don't agree with them. Latham is a self serving renegade looking out for number one, and number one only.

The blokes a joke!

Latham certainly has the knack of rattling the monkeys' cages. He and Hanson should team up and really piss off the Left.