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03/21/2008: "Europeans flee to last open frontiers"

If, in Britain, you are struggling to afford your lifestyle; sick of our dank, wet winter; dismayed by urban squalor and creaking public services; if you want to become part of a society that is more interested in where it is going than in looking back over its shoulder, then Australia has a huge amount to offer.

But there is little sign that Rudd has credible ideas about how to rescue the country's 455,000 "indigenous people" from their tragic cycle of poverty, drunkenness, disease, illiteracy and dependency.

The unhappy truth is that the Aborigines are less victims of wilful white Australian brutality, than of finding themselves flotsam on the beach of a ruthlessly advancing civilisation.

[ Advancing toward the same ruin as others, but perhaps there's time it will avoid it. The UK should pay attention to what has gone wrong: unlike Australia, it is obsessed with trying to make failing multiculturalism work. ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=540988&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=464