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A month or two ago, I warned of plans to merge Australia, New Zealand, PNG and a dozen smaller island nations into a Pacific Union. These plans have now been taken significantly further. The Australian Labor Party, one of the two major political parties here, has released a policy paper

setting out the design of what they call a Pacific Community.

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Kathe Boehringer, the Head of the Law Department at Macquarie University, has written a spirited defence of her colleague, Professor Andrew Fraser.

Here is part of what she has penned:

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An update on events from this part of the world.

First, the New Zealand election result. The best party on offer was New Zealand First, which wants dramatically reduced immigration. The party received the third highest vote and won seven seats, but its leader lost his seat. The two main parties still dominate the vote, but both rely on the support of smaller parties to form office.

Second, there’s bad news on the Drew Fraser front. Deakin University has pulled his article from its law journal because of legal advice that it would contravene anti-discrimination laws. So even an academic, peer reviewed article is not allowed to be published because of such laws. Goodbye free speech.

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In 2003, with little publicity, an Australian Senate committee made a momentous decision.

With support from all parties, the committee recommended the formation of a Pacific Economic and Political Community – the PEPC.

The committee summarised its final report as follows:

“In essence, it proposes a Pacific community which will eventually have one currency, one labour market, common strong budgetary and fiscal discipline, democratic and ethical governance, shared defence and security arrangements, common laws and resolve in fighting crime, and, health, welfare, education and environmental goals.”

Note that there would be a single currency and a single labour market. Sound familiar? It’s very much like the European Union, I think, except that the differences between the participating countries would be much greater.

Australia would effectively federate into a super-state, not only with New Zealand, but with Papua New Guinea and thirteen other Pacific Island nations.

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How do you like this for a double standard.

In yesterday’s Melbourne Age Professor Andrew Jakubowicz defended the policy of multiculturalism. In his article he assumed that mass immigration was inevitable, leaving a choice between assimilation of migrants or the fostering of many different ethnic communities.

Having limited debate to these options, Jakubowicz claimed that attempts at assimilation hadn’t worked because, “immigrants didn’t enjoy being told they had to abandon everything that had been their soul and being”.

So for migrants, ethnic identity is their soul and being. But what about the locals? Is their ethnic identity also defended in this way by the professor?

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Steve Edwards, an occasional visitor to this site, has come up with a brilliant new Australian flag design.

(You need to know Paul Keating to really get this one.)

I’m sometimes bemused when I hear people talk of Australia as being a possible last holdout for Europeans. It’s true, as John Ray likes to point out, that we have a stricter control over illegal immigration than America or even Britain.

But this is only to ensure that the massive legal migration programme continues undisturbed.

Look, for instance, at what we poor Melbournians had to wake up to this morning. Our Labor Party Premier, Steve Bracks, wants to make immigration the “centre of government policy” (the centre of state government policy, when the state government is not even responsible for migration).

He wants to use immigration to add an extra 700,000 residents to Melbourne to overtake Sydney’s size, and an extra 1,300,000 over the next 20 years to take the state’s population to 6,000,000.

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The cause of the month in Australia is refugees. The left are pulling no punches in their latest campaign. Over 300 activists have descended on the private home of the immigration minister, Amanda Vanstone, in Adelaide, and there have been violent protests outside the Baxter detention facility in the north of South Australia.

Which makes me wonder if any of these left-wing protesters are aware of what happened in Paris earlier this month. The left there organised a large protest by high school students against education reforms. But things didn’t go according to plan.

The student protest turned violent ... when up to 1000 young immigrants showed up, some with clubs, to beat up and rob the protesters. One young Tunisian immigrant admitted “I didn’t go for the protest but to take cell phones and hit people. There were little groups running, agitating the crowd. And in the middle of these clowns, little Frenchies looking like victims” (see here and here for some very interesting reports).

The racist contempt the “casseurs” showed for the French student protesters, and their willingness to violently disrupt a left-wing protest, might be something for the Australian left to consider as they agitate on behalf of illegal immigrants.