Australia and the resilience of existing Australian community values. Despite how they are articulated, many of these concerns are not racist. Born of ignorance, certainly, but not racist. Take for example some recent group participants of mine: the retired Digger taking pride in the courage and dignity of the people he 'liberated' in East Timor who in the same breath says he has had enough of 'towelheads' coming to his country. Or the blue-collar worker fast approaching retirement who fosters a young Aboriginal girl and is dipping into his retirement savings for her private school fees yet wants to vote for Pauline Hanson because "she's had some good ideas about immigration". Unable to clearly articulate the arguments for and against immigration voters gravitate towards the simple ideas they hear in the media - "Australia, love it or leave it" is a common refrain. Again this is a failure of government communication. Nationally politicians have failed to communicate not only the quantum of people arriving in Australia, but the make-up of these arrivals: the predominance of skilled workers over family reunion arrivals and the comparatively small humanitarian program the majority of which are offshore resettlements. Many Australians have wildly exaggerated ideas about the numbers arriving here and the level of government assistance they get. In the vacuum created by the absence of government communication resentment grows. Multiculturalism has, since the Howard era, fallen out of political fashion. But it is precisely by celebrating the outstanding and unusual success that Australia has