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Just go away, Honest John.
John Howard has declared that One Nation’s push for a monoculture is “pointless”, as the nation’s second longest-serving prime minister praised post-World War II migration as a resounding success and advocated for a conservative path for “Australian multiculturalism”.
Mr Howard – the most prominent and effective critic for decades of the multiculturalism pushed by post-Whitlam Labor – says that voters overwhelmingly back migration as long as it is steady and the hatreds of foreign lands and cultures are kept out of Australian society.
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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.
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