00:02Adut Atem's family fled war-torn Sudan in 2002 as refugees.
00:08Canberra has been home ever since.
00:11But rising anti-immigration rhetoric and a racist confrontation
00:14earlier this month has shaken her.
00:17How do you feel safe if somebody out of nowhere is attacking you
00:23aggressively, racially?
00:24A man tipped coffee on her windscreen and yelled racial slurs
00:29at a Canberra intersection.
00:30Somebody's shouting f***ing blugs, you know, and swearing.
00:35And I kept my cool because I have children in the car
00:39I cannot respond to outside work.
00:41The annual Lowy Institute report found support for multiculturalism
00:45in Australia has experienced its sharpest decline on record.
00:50We cannot be a multicultural society.
00:53Recent polling suggests more Australians prefer One Nation leader
00:57Pauline Hanson's stance on immigration to that of both major parties.
01:02When politicians say something, it doesn't stay within the press gallery.
01:08The following morning, somebody on the bus is abused.
01:13You know, why don't you go to where he came from?
01:15I feel even embarrassed to talk about it because it is a white
01:20Australian policy coming back in disguise.
01:23Multicultural leaders say the rhetoric is breeding fear
01:27and scapegoating migrants for Australia's economic and housing problems.
01:32They're urging politicians to be more proactive in condemning it.
01:36By being quiet, you're actually giving permission for those people to go and attack.
01:45Longtime multiculturalism advocate Sam Wong says part of the puzzle is getting more diverse voices in power.
01:52With the influx of this unfortunate monocultural talk, they now realise that they've got to stand up to be counted.
02:01If there is anything that builds Australia today to be what it is, it is because we are very diverse.
02:07A recipe advocates say they'll keep fighting for.
02:10wonder that they're going to cover.
02:13that's not a question or why.
02:13Nobody will be like the answer.
02:13Maybe there will be.
02:13Do not have a question or not a question.
02:14You
