AUSTRALIA'S growing multicultural society is being endangered by the government's plans to move new migrants to remote areas of the country. In early July,the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Philip Ruddock, announced a range of policy initiatives designed to encourage new migrants to settle away from major population centres such as Sydney and Melbourne. The aim is to populate and improve the economy of the outer regions, but there are signs that the policy will only discourage further immigration.