The Australian government of prime minister Kevin Rudd favours the notion of a “big Australia” — with a population rising from today’s 22 million to 35 million in 2050.

He plans mammoth numbers of immigrants to overcome our “labour and skills shortages”.

Already Australia is a nation with no culture except a shared belief that greed is good — and that the welfare state will feed us whether we work or not.

Most Australians still watch television, picking up their daily dose of me-first, celebrity-fixated, relativistic, materialistic, I-know-my-rights, she’ll-be-right-ism.

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We know about Europe, but refuse to learn by their mistakes.

Like France’s “ZUS’s” (“Zones Urbaines Sensible, i.e. “Sensitive Urban Zones”). Over 750 neighbourhoods in France –with 5 million people living in them — which the French government no longer controls. The heavily Muslim city of Marseilles has 12 of them.

In England today, more Muslims than Christians attend religious gatherings each week. 60 percent of British Muslims want “Sharia” law, as practised in parts of Saudi Arabia, Iran etc.

In Australia we already have whole suburbs and shopping centres crammed with non-English speaking, non-Christian, ethnic communities.

So is it too late already? Arguably Yes. Anyway, Mr Rudd is committed to making it worse.

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What could be done if we had a government which wanted to make Australia a better place for rational, spiritual beings to live in — a habitat suitable for creatures created by God for the purpose of seeking union with him and loving one another?

Firstly, we might give preference to migrants from Christian backgrounds. It hardly matters whether they are black, white, brown or brindle — but they need to be Catholic.

Is this stepping back to the unfashionable concept of a “White Australia”?  No. I just told you, colour is not the issue.

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And we need to get our children away from television and other screens.

And out of co-educational classes where the boys are permanently distracted and learn little.

We need thousands (millions?) of recruits to the vocations of priests, religious sisters and Catholic teachers.

We need the Old Mass celebrated exclusively in Catholic churches, reminding people that God is not a social-worker in the sky, but a Father – supernatural, demanding, almighty and just — and yearning to share our love.