The author writes: "Xenophobia is the natural state to be in and a change in consciousness is required to step out of it."

I suspect what the author labels 'xenophobia' is actually the natural - and perfectly healthy - instinct of self-preservation.

You see, as much as Western elites like to pretend that ethnicity is irrelevant, the truth is that humans remain, at base, tribal creatures. And ensuring the preservation of one's own tribe, culture and nation is a universal trait among all peoples. It's only people of European stock who suppress their self-preservation instincts in favour of utopian universalism. This bizarre worldview is particularly prevalent among the elites in Australia. Of course, in a hundred years, when mass immigration has transformed Australia into a largely Asian nation, the Asian countries from whence these immigrants came will still be ethnically Asian.

As for the rise of Hansonism, it was the inevitable backlash against the undemocratic immigration policies pursued by the major parties. The same plutocratic policies which continue to serve an odd-fellow alliance of big business elites, multiculturalist social engineers and ethnic minority groups. And I predict that as an increasing number of Australians begin to feel threatened by the ethnic and cultural transformations brought about by mass immigration, public discontent and anger will once again reach boiling point.

Dear Dresdener,

Xenophobia is prevalent, but the racial expression of it is not universal. In ancient Rome and in other cultures such as that of the Goths there was little or no racism. A Roman citizen could be black skinned or blond and blue eyed and be accepted as a Roman. As long as a man could handle a sword and was loyal to the Goths his ethnicity didn't matter. The emphasis on race is in modern European cultures but is not universal. In the early twentieth century black American musicians would go to France and be accepted.