In a time of increased xenophobia, stopping the boats, and more overt and vocal racism, what’s the role of community based multicultural broadcasting in Australia? Susan Forde is professor of journalism at Griffith University and the director of that university’s Centre for Social and Cultural Research. In the middle of doing in-depth research into the ways that ethnic community radio plays a key part in meeting and servicing the needs of diverse migrant and refugee communities all across the country, in this edition of Communication Mixdown, she takes up some of the answers to that question.