Multiculturalism disintegrates

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So much for the grand plan for national development:

Peter Dutton says it is “completely unacceptable” that no arrests and visa cancellations have happened since the protests in Melbourne and Sydney on Sunday where some waved Hezbollah flags or portraits of slain terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah.

On both sides:

Australia has suggested the world should set “a clear timeline for the international declaration of Palestinian statehood” in a sign of increasing frustration about the stalled peace process.

The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, will float the idea in a speech to the UN general assembly in New York on Saturday Australian time (Friday US time). Benjamin Netanyahu was also due to address the gathering amid mounting concern about an escalating regional war.

Australian apathy is the heart of multiculturalism and it is being tested to the hilt.

These culture wars are now piling up dry tinder. How long before some idiot strikes it with a violent match?

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We might end up with a civil war based entirely on irrelevancies.

Meanwhile, Australian living standards keep falling and bought politicians happily featherbed as “Australia” ceases to exist.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.