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The landmark Mabo decision

Peter Shergold.

Dr Peter Shergold speaks about the major weakness of the multicultural policy.

Created:

1995

Date Added:

19 July 2002

Source:

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1995.

Format:

mov (Quicktime);

File size:

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Length:

27 secs

Transcript

DR PETER SHERGOLD
Former Chief Executive Officer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

I think it has been a major weakness of multicultural policy that it has been couched in terms of immigrants in ethnic communities, and has in effect excluded Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders... The last thing that the Department of Aboriginal Affairs wanted to know about, or Aboriginal communities wanted to know about, was multiculturalism, but because it was so associated with immigration, and the argument was - well Indigenous people are not just another ethnic group.

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1995.