IS MULTICULTURALISM GOOD FOR SOCIETY?

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When multiculturalism was initiated in Australia, the ‘good feeling’ about it was that we wanted to be a welcoming nation to those from different backgrounds. The hope was that we would continue to learn from each other in some kind of ‘big melting pot’ as the 1970s song suggested. But the idea that cultures carry beliefs that are grounded in different trust paradigms (different faiths) might put a strain on our Judeo-Christian traditions, was rejected.

This has proved to be radically wrong with people of the Muslim faith. In his book Christ and Culture Revisited, D.A. Carson clearly described at least one point of difference that would not only cause an irretrievable rift between faith systems, but would also be an irreconcilable point of difference within a civil and tolerant society. The issue Carson identified was the use of violence as part of spreading the respective belief system. The Koran clearly states that unbelievers need to convert or they are killed.

Mike Johnson Speaker of the House in the US recently expressed his concern about Muslims, “But when you seek to come to a country and not assimilate, but to impose Sharia law — Sharia law is in conflict with the Constitution — that is the conflict that people are talking about. It is not about people, as Muslims; it is about those who seek to impose a different belief system that is in direct conflict with the Constitution.” Johnson was echoing sentiments he expressed last month, when he noted that the Bible does not demand a nation accept immigrants who refuse to assimilate.

We [devout conservative Christians] reserve the right to proclaim Christ, and we will give our lives to maintain that right; but we have no interest in the ostensible “conversions” achieved at sword-tip, and we distance ourselves from forebears who did not see that point clearly.

What might this mean for Australia, currently? Functionally, if we cut ourselves off from our Judeo-Christian heritage, we will lose the capacity to judge well in terms of the ‘rightness and wrongness’ that has built this society in the last two hundred years. We will increasingly become, like many of our leaders, everyday pagans, accepting and participating in different religious ceremonies and rituals, because ‘they are all the same’, so let’s just keep the people we are with happy.

Without a set of core beliefs grounded in universal respect, we will find no civic good that is common anymore. We will wander in the fog of despair and increasingly stimulate our senses to convince ourselves that we are OK. The mist of our lives will make us blind to the real needs of our youth and elderly.

Given that it is not the law that makes good people, but it is good people that make good society possible, what are those who still believe in the Giver of Good to do? Carson expressed it well when he wrote that perhaps… the most attractive outworking by far is found in the individual Christian or group of Christians who, precisely because they live out their faith, become involved not only in bold witness but also in ways of helping others in the community that cross many thresholds normally controlled by government agencies.

Or, as the apostle Paul wrote, we are saved by grace through faith to do the good works God has planned for us (Ephesians 2:8-10) – and this, quoting Paul’s founder, is to be our offering of salt and light to our world, right here, right now.

The world does not realise that another dimension exists outside of this space/time continuum. Without our creator God revealing the truth about our Cosmos and condition we have no understanding and have come up with evolution and the Big Bang as a theory for its existence without a creator God. There is only one place one can go for the true history of the Cosmos and planet Earth and that is God’s Word , the Bible. Fortunately God has raised up ministries like http://www.creation.com and http://www.answersingenesis.com where people can find evidence from PhD scientists that prove the Bible’s history fits the scientific evidence.

The greatest proof of the truth of God’s Word is fulfilled prophecies. God has given us the history of this Cosmos not only from its miraculous beginning but to its fiery end. Moreover, it is fascinating to follow Biblical end times prophecies playing out in our day. Most of the posts on this blog are given over to providing this information.

LOSING AUSTRALIA: HOW MULTICULTURALISM BEGAN AND HOW AUSTRALIA WAS LOST

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Multiculturalism Introduced: 70’s Whitlam Labor Government

The Whitlam Government dismantled the White Australia Policy and with it, the longstanding expectation of assimilation. In its place, Australia was reframed away from the idea of one people with a shared national identity and toward an ideology of multiculturalism.

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What should have occurred instead was the adoption of a genuinely multiracial policy, one that welcomed people to Australia regardless of background, but with the clear and non-negotiable expectation that upon arrival, they would adopt the Australian way of life and fully integrate into our existing culture, to fully become Australian.

That didn’t happen; instead, they were encouraged to hold onto their existing culture.

Australia Redefined by Multiculturalism: 70’s to 80’s Fraser Liberal Government

Malcolm Fraser didn’t reverse Labour’s experiment. He locked it in. Under Fraser, Australia stopped being described as a culturally unified nation and was redefined as a “multicultural society”. The idea that Australians should share a common culture was discarded.

Multiculturalism Entrenched: 80s to 90s Hawke and Keating Labor Governments

Multiculturalism became explicit state policy, bureaucracies multiplied, advisory councils appeared, and taxpayer-funded ethnic advocacy bodies were entrenched.

Citizenship was redefined away from equality and toward group-based identity politics.

“Diversity” became a moral command handed down by our lords and masters in Canberra.

What Was Lost

Let’s be absolutely clear about what was lost in this process. Australia already had a culture, an Australian culture. A culture shaped by our history, language, institutions, customs, and shared Christian foundation.

It is entirely reasonable to expect that when migrants come to Australia, they adopt that culture and assimilate into our way of life, that is how successful nations function, that is how social trust is built.

What Australians were never asked for was the creation of parallel societies, where people live in Australia but never truly become Australian. (You know what I am talking about — you have seen it.)

People come here because Australia is safer, freer, and more prosperous than the countries they left behind. Yet far too many of those we have chosen to admit have imported the very social, cultural, and political failures that originally forced them to leave. The obvious question is, why bring those problems and those people here at all? It is a good question and one that deserves an answer.

It is perfectly reasonable for us to expect newcomers to leave behind old feuds, vendettas, dysfunctional politics, and to adopt our Australian way of life. That is the social contract. If someone is unwilling to do that, flights leave daily. So I ask you again, why are we allowing such people to come here at all?

Demand better from your leaders, demand an immigration system that serves Australians first, demand assimilation, social cohesion, and loyalty to our nation, not endless appeasement of activists, bureaucrats, and Marxists. A nation that cannot assert who it is will soon be told who it must become.

Stop being afraid of the slurs. Racist. Nazi. Sexist. Misogynist. These words have been screamed into meaninglessness by the Left and now carry no moral authority. Do not be afraid to speak the truth, do not apologise for defending our culture, our country or our people.

Reject the lie that self-respect, love of country, and pride in our Christian foundations amount to hatred. There is nothing virtuous about national suicide and nothing moral about silence in the face of cultural erasure.

The choice is no longer abstract: defend Australian culture now or lose it forever. History will remember those who stayed quiet to avoid being called names, and it will remember those who had the courage to stand when it mattered.

How do you want history to remember you? As a coward or as someone who stood up and made their voice heard?

Article originally published at Let’s Talk About It by Senator Ralph Babet, 22 December 2025

Ralph Babet is a Christian who wants to restore our Christian heritage. I cannot see that happening. In fact, it is amazing that Parliament is still opened with prayer which is a constant reminder of that Christian heritage. These facts: the Greens party members do not enter parliament until after prayer, and the godless bills that are being passed into law demonstrate that most members of parliament no longer believe in the God of our Bible. We are a goat nation under the judgement of God. Floods and fires are just the beginning of judgement.