Not as much courage as, say, climbing out of a sodden trench in Fromelles, France, on July 19, 1916, and straight into German machine-gunfire (which for about 5500 young Australian men was the last thing they ever did).

Sadly, though, this courage is thin on the ground on our clean and prosperous streets.

PARAPET

Two men who have dared stick their heads above this parapet are Stephen Chavura and Stephen McInerney, who both work at Campion College.

This is a small tertiary college in western Sydney offering a classical, traditional and liberal arts education.

This was standard educational content during the entire period of Australia’s development into a free and prosperous nation.

Both men have, in one way or another, argued in favour of a less diverse society, one in which the qualities that we have traditionally valued can flourish more easily.

If Chavura and McInerney were Indians saying they wanted Harris Park, the suburb of Sydney that most resembles Mumbai, to become even more ethnically Indian they’d have had little to worry about from the media or its allies.

In self-loathing Australia, extolling the virtues of the culture that built this country is akin to Nazism. And, somehow, warrants the urgent attention of no less than a federal minister.

“There is no place for racism in higher education or anywhere else in our society,” federal Education Minister Jason Clare told The Guardian, adding that a “compliance process” for the college was underway.

Wherever courage is in short supply, “compliance” is sure to be in demand.

The zeal with which Australian institutions adhere to multiculturalism becomes increasingly belligerent as their doctrinal flaws become harder and harder to deny.

There has been much coverage in the United States this week, at least among independent commentators, about a story in the City Journal by Chris Rufo and Ryan Thorpe

They have exposed the ease with which immigrants who don’t share Western values can exploit the goodwill of our multicultural delusion for the most evil of purposes.

It goes like this.

Five years ago, Minnesota established the Medicaid Housing Stabilisation Services. It was the first program of its kind in the US to provide housing for seniors, addicts, the disabled and the mentally ill.

Officials said it would cost less than US$2.6m a year – but, by last year, it had ballooned to a ridiculous US$104m.

Needless to say, when investigators found corruption was the cause of this blowout, it wasn’t names like Smith or Jones they wound up typing onto the charge sheets.

Rather, they were names like Aden, Ali, Dayib, Mohamed, Falade and Adow.

Moreover, prosecutors were flabbergasted to find that these “upstanding” citizens had also managed to find ways to milk free money from various other State systems, including one called the “EIDBI autism program”.

SCAMS

Both of these scams should sound familiar to Australians. This US system is based on the same suicidal empathy with which Julia Gillard launched the NDIS in 2012, and its budget grows at a similarly exponential rate.

Autism too has become noteworthy here.

In the 1980s, less than 0.05 per cent of Australian kids had autism. Now it’s almost 4 per cent.

Autism makes up 40-45 per cent of the cost of the NDIS. Rumours abound that it’s no coincidence that the increasing incidence of a condition that is relatively easy to fake has happened while we filled the country with people from countries where scamming is common.

The kicker, though, will make you shudder in disbelief.

The Minnesota scammers were not using their ill-gotten gains to buy McMansions and Rolex watches, which would be bad enough. Instead, they were sending it to Somalia to finance Islamic terrorism.

“According to multiple law-enforcement sources, Minnesota’s Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of ‘hawalas’, informal clan-based money-traders, that have wound up in the coffers of [al-Qaida-linked Islamic terror group] Al-Shabaab,” the piece said.

The Minnesota State government went from suicidal empathy to genocidal empathy without even breaking a sweat.