If Australia had not been blessed with its small black community, we would have had to invent them. And we would probably go for a bigger contingent next time. After all, Australia is a prosperous, largely European country and if there is one feature of all such countries these days it is that they are riven with guilt for their own prosperity and feel obliged to atone for it, first by hating themselves for their success and second by taking up the black cause as an exercise in atonement.