As the Productivity Commission warned in 2016, “the ease of communicating with family and friends in the immigrant’s country of origin, and access to news and other media in their home language through the internet, has made it much easier for people who do not feel capable or have no desire to integrate”.

“To the extent that immigrants’ intent to integrate is decreasing,” the commission continued, that “raises an important issue about whether this provides scope for separatism that conflicts with, and/or has the ability to undermine, key norms and longstanding understandings that are important to the functioning of Australian society”.

To make things worse, the changes the Productivity Commission pointed to coincided with the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, which – in the name of maintaining religious purity – elevates separatism into an overriding religious obligation.

Even the most strident advocates of Catholic schooling never promoted a hatred of Protestants, much less a desire for their extermination. But, in contrast, it has become an integral part of Islamist preaching that, in the words of an Islamic text widely available in Australia, “vileness and depravity are inherent to Jewish nature”, accompanying “the Jew” just as “the shadow accompanies a man”.

The overall result is not just a separatism that tears at social cohesion; it is an active hostility to, and incessant attack on, the Australian community. And far from impeding those tendencies, the multicultural project legitimises them and bestows funding and authority on their promoters.

Different cultures must be respectfully considered, not uncritically embraced. The illusion that diversity will bring unity, or even allow basic civility to survive, is as hollow as it is damaging.

Geoffrey Blainey put it well: “People need to feel they belong to their country.” As he said: “The multicultural policy and its emphasis on what is different and on the rights of the new minority rather than the old majority, gnaws at that sense of solidarity that many people crave.”

The Hawke government’s own FitzGerald report on immigration echoed these conclusions. Recommending that even the term multiculturalism be abandoned, it emphasised that “it is the Australian identity that matters most in Australia”. Unless the balance shifted from enshrining difference to promoting a unifying national identity, it was only a matter of time before the centrifugal forces that could tear Australia apart proved overwhelming.

The FitzGerald report shocked Hawke. He repudiated it and buried it in punishment for failing to provide his government with what it expected to hear. The news still may be unwanted. But this much is clearer than ever: closing our eyes and ears to multiculturalism’s failures is a luxury Australia can no longer afford.

Henry Ergas, Alex McDermott

Jews, Catholics, Gays, Indigenous Australians, Immigrants to name a few minorities would tell a few different stories to yourself.  They live actively discriminated against by the majority like yourself.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

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Anglicans mainly discriminated against the Jews.  You seem to think antisemitism is a new arrival in Australia with the Muslim population.  It isn't, it has existed since the colonisation of Australia.  The Anglicans and the Catholics were active anti-Semites throughout our history.  Both groups of Christians actively prayed against the Jews.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 17^th, 2025 at 1:05pm:



The Jews did kill Christ -

they killed God.

Bobby. wrote on Oct 17^th, 2025 at 5:45pm:


Were there any innocent Jews in your narrow anti-Semitic view, Bobby?  Must all Jews carry the guilt for something that occurred over 2,000 years ago?  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 17^th, 2025 at 9:21am:


So how has multiculturalism fixed this? Some Australian's, in the past, had a prob with Poofs and Jews, so let's import a bucket load more people who hate them even more and the world will be at peace! We'll call it multiculturalism! Please don't mention food, anyone can prepare food in different ways, how has multiculturalism enhanced Australian's lives?

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 17^th, 2025 at 5:55pm:

Bobby is a Marxist fifth column  idiot like you, Bbwiyawn.

Setanta wrote on Oct 17^th, 2025 at 6:53pm:


Oh, dearie, dearie, me, how easily you discard living side-by-side with different cultures.  Much easier for to live isolated in your narrow little bubble, hey?  Tsk, tsk, tsk...