Fractured multiculturalism: Conflicting representations of Arab and Muslim Australians in Australian print media

Arab and Muslim migration is not new to Australia, where Muslims have lived for over 140 years, and are one of the fastest-growing minority groups (Ho, 2007). Despite stereotypes of a singular Arab or Muslim identity, Australia's Arab and Muslim populations several ethnically diverse communities. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC, 2004) states that the largest groups are those who identify as being of Lebanese (30%) and Turkish (18%) ancestry, with smaller, yet wellestablished groups of Afghans, Bosnians, Pakistanis and Indonesians. In addition to new from North Africa and the Middle East, numerous Arab and Muslim communities are second- and third-generation Australian. For example, 36 percent of Australian Muslims were born in Australia (HREOC, 2004).