The Chinese PLA Navy just launched two fighters from an aircraft carrier near Okinawa and radar locked two Japanese F-15s who scrambled to intercept. It is out of control.
Great piece once again Mike. Japan is indeed a great nation of wonderful people… and smart enough to realise that tolerating the intolerant will lead to no tolerance in no time.
Comparing Japan with Australia is fraught. Japan has a unified culture going back thousands of years. Australia’s European culture is a couple of hundred years old and it has existed as a nation for just over a hundred. Japan has a large population in a small area. Australia the exact opposite. Japan has a powerful work culture with most getting very few holidays. Australian work culture is much less intense. Workers in Japan usually have an intense commitment to quality in whatever they may be doing. Australia, less so.
Japan is integrating, for the first time, a relatively small population of immigrant workers. Australia already has large immigrant populations, some going back many decades. So the first question that arises from this piece is, what policies would you introduce to make Australian culture more similar to Japanese culture? The second is do you believe that a majority of Australians would want these policies.
So 250 years, a totally different environment, a very far from
representative sample both at the beginning and on going….and you think there is no difference? And then the random comment about schools. It’s the kind of comment you get from those whose last contact with a school was as a student 50 or 60 years sgo.
Yeh that’s why so many Australians are migrating to the UK. Reality check, Australia is better by every social and economic metric, that includes happiness and prosperity.
Excellent article. Australia could do no better than emulate Japan’s culture. I’m no fan of most Asian cultures, but Japan is different: it is now one of few exemplary nations worldwide.
There are many good things to be observed in both China and Japan. And memories of the discomfort attached to being invaded and subjugated in both countries. Of the two, I suspect that China is more cosmopolitan and generous in its approach to foreigners and less likely to embark on invasions. Let's not let the minutiae figure too large in our imaginations. Deterrence is the name of the game. Neither are the elephant in the room.
Japan already sells more nappies to old people than for babies. Its economy has stood still since the 1990s. The population in 2060 is expected to be approx 85 million compared to 120 million today. Australia by contrast will be over 50 million compared to 27 million now. We are a growing, dynamic, younger, more open society. That the horse I would back. Our hardest working are our immigrants.
The Chinese PLA Navy just launched two fighters from an aircraft carrier near Okinawa and radar locked two Japanese F-15s who scrambled to intercept. It is out of control.
Great piece once again Mike. Japan is indeed a great nation of wonderful people… and smart enough to realise that tolerating the intolerant will lead to no tolerance in no time.
Our leaders are a piss weak lot, particularly our current PM. Appeasement without strength to back it up will lead to Australia being overrun.
We are being overrun. China is already here with the religion of peace.
Do you want to explain that further or was it just a throw away?
Great read @Mike Newman and spot on.
Our leaders from the Uniparties are weak as water, in particular Albo, Wong and Ley!!
Thank you Chris for the illuminating piece. No good wishing we had a government like Japans.
In contrast.............
Australia seems to accept every lost soul from anywhere (except white South Africans).
Now that Trump has poured crap all over the 3rd world countries can we expect a flood of labour voters over the next year or two.
Comparing Japan with Australia is fraught. Japan has a unified culture going back thousands of years. Australia’s European culture is a couple of hundred years old and it has existed as a nation for just over a hundred. Japan has a large population in a small area. Australia the exact opposite. Japan has a powerful work culture with most getting very few holidays. Australian work culture is much less intense. Workers in Japan usually have an intense commitment to quality in whatever they may be doing. Australia, less so.
Japan is integrating, for the first time, a relatively small population of immigrant workers. Australia already has large immigrant populations, some going back many decades. So the first question that arises from this piece is, what policies would you introduce to make Australian culture more similar to Japanese culture? The second is do you believe that a majority of Australians would want these policies.
Finally, Idle pontification is a dangerous sport.
Back to basics - 1066 and all that - our culture goes back a lot further than 1788 - back to the Anglo-Saxon kings. Schools need to do their job.
So 250 years, a totally different environment, a very far from
representative sample both at the beginning and on going….and you think there is no difference? And then the random comment about schools. It’s the kind of comment you get from those whose last contact with a school was as a student 50 or 60 years sgo.
Yes they have gone downhill!
Yeh that’s why so many Australians are migrating to the UK. Reality check, Australia is better by every social and economic metric, that includes happiness and prosperity.
Agreed ... Britain is even more dumbed down.
Excellent article. Australia could do no better than emulate Japan’s culture. I’m no fan of most Asian cultures, but Japan is different: it is now one of few exemplary nations worldwide.
There are many good things to be observed in both China and Japan. And memories of the discomfort attached to being invaded and subjugated in both countries. Of the two, I suspect that China is more cosmopolitan and generous in its approach to foreigners and less likely to embark on invasions. Let's not let the minutiae figure too large in our imaginations. Deterrence is the name of the game. Neither are the elephant in the room.
Japan already sells more nappies to old people than for babies. Its economy has stood still since the 1990s. The population in 2060 is expected to be approx 85 million compared to 120 million today. Australia by contrast will be over 50 million compared to 27 million now. We are a growing, dynamic, younger, more open society. That the horse I would back. Our hardest working are our immigrants.