<P> Inequality in Australia increasingly has an ethnic face . Aborigines continue to occupy the lowest rung on the socio - economic ladder . Despite the points system for assessing immigrants, some ethnic minorities have high rates of unemployment and criminality . Many white Australians are losing out to competition from immigrants . Selective public schools show spectacular overrepresentation of Chinese and other Asian students, an imbalance that feeds through to elite universities and thence to the professions . Ethnic socioeconomic stratification is growing as the population becomes more diverse . </P> <P> In contrast to the multicultural doctrine which promotes ethnic diversity, Salter has expounded the case for limiting diversity within the nation - state, asserting that "multi-ethnic societies are often confronted with the problem of discrimination and group conflict ." According to Salter: </P> <P> Cross-cultural comparisons reveal the wisdom of Australia's first prime minister Edmund Barton who believed that ethnic homogeneity must be the cornerstone of Australian nation - building . More ethnically homogeneous nations are better able to build public goods, are more democratic, less corrupt, have higher productivity and less inequality, are more trusting and care more for the disadvantaged, develop social and economic capital faster, have lower crime rates, are more resistant to external shocks, and are better global citizens, for example by giving more foreign aid . Moreover, they are less prone to civil war, the greatest source of violent death in the twentieth century . </P> <P> Writer Greg Clancy has argued that, since its introduction, multiculturalism has been manipulated for personal and individual group advantage at the expense of Australian society and its institutions . In his book The Conspiracies of Multiculturalism, Clancy linked multiculturalism to corruption, increased crime, a damaged social order, campaigns of public deception, the undermining of national security and threats to free speech . According to Clancy, multiculturalism favours some groups in Australian society over others and that the "multicultural group had a special status developed for them". </P>

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