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  "Reunion" - film by Lisa Wang
Wang, Lisa
 
David Wang's daughter Lisa Wang reflects on her father's apparent desire to be both Australian and Chinese in her film "Reunion" 1998, made 20 years after his death
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 16 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  "White Alien" research resources, National Archives of Australia.
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
"White Alien" research resources, National Archives of Australia. Identifies Victorian issues about managing non-British immigration.
Format: pdf | Size: 23 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 05 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  A Call for Courageous Leadership
Jupp, James
 
The edited version of a talk given in mid-1996, in which Professor James Jupp regrets the downgrading of multicultural programs, and emphasises the need for federal leadership on matters relating to ethnic affairs.
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  A multi-cultural society for the future
Grassby, Al
 
In this key 1973 paper, the Immigration Minister Al Grassby argues that ethnic pluralism is the most desirable philosophy for Australia as it moves towards the year 2000, and the most realistic given the experiences of immigration in the past.
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  A Question of Rights
Aroney, Manuel
 
Amid indications of the possible demise of the Human Rights Commission as part of the 1986 Federal Budget process, the commissioner Manuel Aroney argues the importance of preserving the organisation, saying the money saved would be very little, but the social cost would be great.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  A Quintessential Collision
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
This paper explores processes of cultural collision and reconstitution through an examination of three dimensions of the Vietnamese in Australia - the criminal world of the heroin trade; the rise and fall of Phuong Ngo; and the celebration of Generation 2.
Format: pdf | Size: 192 Kb | Length: 13 pages | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  A report on Globalism and Education, RMIT University
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
A report on Globalism and Education, RMIT University
Format: pdf | Size: 224 KB | Length: 8 Pages | Date Added: 16 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Access and Equity Charter: The Charter principles
NSW Government
 
The Government's access and equity policies aim to ensure that government services meet the needs of Australian's irrespective of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds and help Australians of all backgrounds to have the opportunity to achieve their potential and participate fully in our society.
Format: doc | Size: 21 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Access and Equity Strategy Program Logic
Office of Multicultural Affairs
 
A diagram from the 1994 edition of Achieving Access and Equity - a guide for the Australian Public Service, detailing the objectives of the strategy and how they can be attained.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Access and Equity: Evaluation Summary
Office of Multicultural Affairs
 
The 1992 report of an evaluation of the Access and Equity Strategy’s impact on all government departments and agencies, which concluded it had generally been successful, but which also found shortcomings in areas like language and dealings with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Format: pdf | Size: 456K | Length: 17 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Access and Equity: Opening the door
Theophanous, Andrew
 
The Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Paul Keating in 1995 explains the principles behind the Federal Government’s Access and Equity Strategy, which he says has become the principal means for delivering social justice to non-English speaking background Australians.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Access and Equity: The development of Victoria’s ethnic affairs policies
Sheppard, Gary
 
The conclusions and recommendations of a 1983 review into the implementation of the Victorian Government’s Ethnic Affairs Policy, focusing on the degree of success in its two main aims: access and equity.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Access to Excellence: Overview Report
Castles, Stephen; Cope, Bill and Kalantzis, Mary
 
Excerpts of the Overview Report of the 1994 four-volume study Access to Excellence: A Review of Issues Affecting Artists and Arts from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds examining the concept of artistic excellence and how it can be used both to discriminate against and for artists.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Achievements of the Good Neighbour Movement 1949-72
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
 
A summary by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs of the Good Neighbour Movement, its growth, its activities, and changes to its role from its founding in 1949 to 1972.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Achieving Access and Equity
Office of Multicultural Affairs
 
The overview chapter of a 1994 edition of a guide for the Australian Public Service for dealing with all Australians who use government services, which aims to ensure the Access and Equity Strategy continues to be implemented by all departments and agencies.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Advisory Notes to the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice
Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations
 
The 1994 advisory notes covering guidelines for the portrayal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and of cultural diversity under the federation’s self-regulated Code of Practice.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  AIMA Axed
Dunne, Clare
 
AIMA Council member Clare Dunne deplores the government decision in the 1986 Budget to shut down the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs, especially in view of the uncertainty surrounding its proposed replacement.
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  AIMA Publications List and Projects Undertaken
Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs
 
A 1983 listing indicating the kind of work the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs undertook, on its own or in cooperation with other organisations involved in migrant services.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Aims of the Migration Museum, Adelaide
Migration Museum
 
The aims of Adelaide’s Migration Museum - the first museum in Australia completely dedicated to telling the story of the migrants to this country - in its multiple roles as collector, exhibitor, and educator in the area of migration and multiculturalism.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Alex Castro's discussion
Castro, Alex
 
Read Alex Castro's discussion of Melbourne Italian filmmaker of the 1950s and 1960s Giorgio Mangiamele
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  AMF Home Page
Australian Multicultural Foundation
 
The AMF Home page opens up the full range of projects and initiatives.
Format: pdf | Size: 71 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  AMF publications
Australian Multicultural Foundation
 
After 1996 the national government reduced support for research on multiculturalism - including closing the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. The AMF supports innovative research on issues of multiculturalism and making diversity work for Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Arabs and Muslims in Victoria
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read the Victorian government keynote articles on Arabs and Muslims in Victoria
Format: pdf | Size: 576 KB | Length: 17 Pages | Date Added: 10 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Are YOU a racist?
Harrison, Donyale
 
A quiz on attitudes, included in a handbook Racism Sux published in 1995 by the University of Sydney’s Students’ Representative Council.
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  Army out as Migrants Threaten Riot
Sydney Morning Herald
 
A clipping from the Sydney Morning Herald of 19 July 1952 tells of trouble brewing at the Bonegilla reception camp as migrants lose patience with delays in finding them work.
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  Arthur Calwell and the Origin of Post-War Immigration
Zubrzycki, Jerzy
 
An edited version of a talk given in 1994 by Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki on the background and the events surrounding Arthur Calwell’s push for mass immigration after the Second World War.
Format: pdf | Size: 403K | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Arts - Cultural Maintenance?
Panucci, Frank
 
The Deputy Executive Officer of the Cultural Community Development Unit of the Australia Council in 1995 writes about the evolution of the Council’s multicultural arts policy, in particular its shift from the aim of cultural maintenance to seeing diversity as central to Australia’s cultural product and representations.
Format: pdf | Size: 215K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Arts for a Multicultural Australia 1973-1991
Blonski, Annette
 
A detailed history of the way the Australia Council for the Arts has dealt with issues of multiculturalism and ethnic arts from its establishment in 1973, to 1991.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Arts for a Multicultural Australia, 1998
Australia Council for the Arts
 
The objectives of the 1998 Australia Council Policy on Australian Arts and Cultural Diversity.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Arts for a Multicultural Australia: Policy Principles 1996-99
Australia Council for the Arts
 
The 1996 version of the Australia Council's policy on Arts for a Multicultural Australia, which seeks the promotion of cultural diversity as integral to all Council priorities, and policy and program initiatives, while removing it as a council priority.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Asian Entrepreneurs in Australia
Ip, David; Kitay, Jim; Lever-Tracy, Constance; Phillips, Irene and Tracy, Noel
 
The executive summary of this 1991 report which looks into ethnic small business in the Chinese and Indian communities in Brisbane and Sydney, and finds high levels of successful, independent businesses among these two migrant groups.
Format: pdf | Size: 337K | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Aspects of Australian Multiculturalism - achievements, disappointments, prospects
Hawthorne, Lesleyanne
 
A 1996 article backing calls for the adoption of a conscious strategy to rethink citizenship, including major reforms to public processes, to create a genuinely “multicultural citizenship.”
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Auditing Multiculturalism: the Australian empire a generation after Galbally
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Text of a presentation reflecting on the first 25 years of multicultural policy in Australia. Presented at the FECCA conference, December 2003
Format: pdf | Size: 931 kb | Length: 16 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Auditing Multiculturalism: the Australian empire a generation after Galbally
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Powerpoint of a presentation reflecting on the first 25 years of multicultural policy in Australia. Presented at the FECCA conference, December 2003
Format: ppt | Size: 134 kb | Length: 19 slides | Date Added: 01 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  AusAID: Globalisation and the Aid Program
AusAID
 
Read about Australia's commitment to assist developing countries affected by globalisation.
Format: pdf | Size: 112 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Australia as a Multicultural Society
Australian Ethnic Affairs Council
 
The submission by the Council to the Australian Population and Immigration Council on its 1977 Green Paper on immigration and population, which suggests guidelines for immigration and settlement policies appropriate to a multicultural Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australia at the 2006 Census
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Catch up with Australia at the 2006 Census
Format: pdf | Size: 188 KB | Length: 7 Pages | Date Added: 08 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Citizenship Council announced
Ruddock, Philip
 
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Philip Ruddock, announcing the establishment of the Australian Citizenship Council.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Citizenship Pledge and Certificate of Citizenship
Commonwealth of Australia
 
The Pledge new citizens make in declaring their loyalty to Australia, with two options in the wording, and the text from the Australian Citizenship Certificate.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Content Standard
Australian Broadcasting Authority
 
Excerpts from the Australian Content Standard in effect from the beginning of 1996, set out by the ABA, which regulates the amount of Australian content on commercial television.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Ethnic Affairs Council - Inaugural Meeting
Zubrzycki, Jerzy
 
The first chair of the Council, Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki, outlines what he sees as its major challenge - achieving equality of opportunity for all Australians - at the launch of the organisation in March 1977.
Format: pdf | Size: 217K | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Film Finance Corporation
Australian Film Finance Corporation and Department of Communications and the Arts
 
The mission statement, strategy for recruitment and career development of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, and access and equity policy of this government investment agency in film and television.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Labor Party – Immigration Policy, 1966
Australian Labor Party
 
While praising the contribution of European immigrants to Australia, the ALP’s 1966 immigration policy, quoted in the ALP Year Book (NSW branch) for 1967 states the party’s continuing opposition to a multi-racial society.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Multiculturalism for a New Century: Towards inclusiveness
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
 
In 2003 over 40 languages other than English are taught in Australian schools. Read in this document about the key commonwealth Lote programs. Web reference: http://www.immi.gov.au/multicultural
/_inc/publications/nmac/chapt_3d.htm
Format: doc | Size: 45 kb | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian multiculturalism for a new century: Towards inclusiveness
National Multicultural Advisory Council
 
Read Neville Roach, Chair National Multicultural Advisory Council, report on Inclusiveness
Format: pdf | Size: 767 kb | Length: 137 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Australia’s Decade of Decision
Grassby, Al
 
A report to Parliament in 1973 by the Minister for Immigration, Al Grassby, in which he reviews the history of immigration to Australia; lists policy changes on immigration, citizenship and migrant services introduced by his government; outlines plans for improvement of these services; and looks to future challenges as Australia seeks to establish its identity.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australia’s diversity: good for business
Office of Multicultural Affairs
 
Ten case studies of widely varied Australian businesses that have put productive diversity principles into practice and what they’ve gained as a result, published by the Office of Multicultural Affairs in
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  Australia’s Immigration Future
Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies
 
The ad which appeared in newspapers in 1987, calling for public submissions to the Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australia’s Immigration Policy
Opperman, Hubert
 
The Minister for Immigration, Hubert Opperman, in a speech in May 1966, explains his government’s amended immigration policy, which in March that year opened the door for selective non-European migration.
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  Australia’s Immigration Programme for the Period 1968-1973
Immigration Planning Council
 
The summary of conclusions and recommendations of a 1968 report on future immigration policy, which reaffirms that large scale immigration should continue and recommends government action to facilitate the achievement of immigration targets.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australia’s Multicultural Democracy
Greiner, Nick
 
The Inaugural Lecture on Multicultural Australia given in Jakarta in 1995 by the former NSW Premier, in which he discusses the landmarks in the development of multiculturalism and lists the crucial factors for its continuing success.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australia’s Rich Resource
Fahey, John
 
Edited version of a 1996 address by the Minister for Finance in which he encourages moves towards “unlocking” the potential of Australia’s cultural and linguistic diversity, with all the benefits that brings.
Format: pdf | Size: 278K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Background Information – The Snowy Scheme
Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority
 
In describing the construction history and capabilities of its Snowy Scheme, the Authority points to the contributions made by immigrants from many countries.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Background report by RMIT on multicultural education
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read the background report by RMIT informing the new multicultural education policy in Victoria
Format: pdf | Size: 224 KB | Length: 8 Pages | Date Added: 09 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Baptists in Australia
Hughes, Philip J.
 
An excerpt from a 1996 report by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research profiling the Baptist church in Australia, and outlining possible reasons for its apparent success in attracting new adherents.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Battles Small and Great
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
 
This monograph, subtitled “The First Twenty Years of the Racial Discrimination Act”, was put out by the Commission - along with a video of the same name – to mark the landmark anniversary in 1995; it covers the Act’s history, the reasons for the review announced that year, and records the celebration of the anniversary.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Biamunaga: Journey to the Mountain
Leaver. M
 
Journey to the land of the Yuin people from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Biamunaga: Journey to the Mountain
Leaver. M
 
Journey to the land of the Yuin people from Teaching Heritage
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  Biamunaga: Journey to the Mountain
Leaver. M
 
Journey to the land of the Yuin people from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  BIMPR Projects and Publications
Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
 
The final publications list from the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research (BIMPR) before its closure, covering all projects and publications up until August 1996, including those commissioned but still not completed.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Biography of Italian revolutionary and author Rafaello Carboni
Lorch, Jennifer
 
Read this short biography of Rafaello Carboni, historian of the Eureka uprising.
Format: pdf | Size: 52 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 05 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Birthplace of the Australian Population, 1991 and 1996
Australian Bureau of Statistics and Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
 
Population figures according to birthplace by region and country, derived from census figures from 1991 and 1996.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Blond Musician
Sydney Road Brunswick Music Festival 2006
 
Blond Musician - Sydney Road Brunswick Music Festival
Format: jpg | Size: 40 KB | Length: 550 x 365 | Date Added: 04 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Bordertown
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
 
A summary of the ten episodes of the 1990s ABC television drama series Bordertown which was based on the experiences of the many post-war migrants sent to reception camps as they awaited jobs.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Brave New World
Chan, Angela
 
On the 20th anniversary of the NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council in 1995, its chairperson Angela Chan identifies the need for a Multiculturalism Act, the importance of reconciliation with Aboriginal Australians, and the debate over a Republic as among the major issues for the next millennium.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Brawley's account of the struggle by Annie O'Keefe
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read Sean Brawley's account of the struggle by Annie O'Keefe to stay in Australia in the period leading up to the Wartime Refugee Removal Act of 1949
Format: pdf | Size: 352 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 10 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Brief History of SBS
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
 
The landmarks in the SBS story, from the beginning of experimental ethnic radio broadcasts in 1975, through the establishment of the permanent radio service, the launching of television in 1980, and its development until mid 1997.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane's multicultural strategy
Brisbane City Council
 
A Brisbane City Council document outlining its aims in building a more inclusive city through improving access, equity and participation for residents of all backgrounds.
Format: pdf | Size: 203 KB | Length: 11 pages | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane's refugee strategy
Brisbane City Council
 
A Brisbane City Council document outlining the city's role in refugee affairs and defining ways it can contribute to refugees being able to participate fully in civic life.
Format: pdf | Size: 107 KB | Length: 18 pages | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Britishness in Victorian society
Sara Wills and Kate Darian Smith
 
Historians Sara Wills and Kate Darian-Smith write about the experience of Britishness in Victorian society
Format: pdf | Size: 276 KB | Length: 18 Pages | Date Added: 02 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Buddhists in Australia
Adam, Enid and Hughes, Philip J.
 
An excerpt from a 1996 report by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research on Buddhism in Australia, and on the many forms of the religion brought here by different migrant groups.
Format: pdf | Size: 212K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Building a dynamic multicultural church
Mok, Jeannie
 
Jeannie Mok writes that there is no choice any longer in Australia but for Christians to accept truly multicultural churches.
Format: pdf | Size: 121 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Building the Snowy Scheme – A multi-cultural experience
Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority
 
1990s publicity material from the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority pays tribute to the important role of immigrant workers in building the scheme.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
 
A pamphlet put out by the BIMPR not long before it was closed in 1996, explaining the work of the Bureau.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Carlo Carli on The Italian Impact on public culture in Victoria
Carli, Carlo
 
Format: mov | Size: 6.9 MB|360x286 | Length: 02min38sec | Date Added: 21 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Changing social institutions
Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
 
A brief description of some of the efforts to change the structures and institutions of government at various levels to prevent discrimination.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Chinese image archive
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Explore the Chinese-Australian Historical Images online archive
Format: pdf | Size: 16 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 26 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Chinese Invasion of Australia
Bulletin magazine
 
An editorial from the Bulletin magazine of September 1, 1886 demonstrates the ignorance and prejudices of the day towards Chinese migrants.
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  Chinese people and political change in Australia
Fong, King
 
King Fong speaks on Chinese people and political change in Australia from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Chinese religion and the Wesleyan Mission in Castlemaine, 1868
Penny, Benjamin
 
Chinese religion and Wesleyan Mission. Benjamin Penny discusses the overriding impression of the encounter between the Chinese and Europeans on the goldfields as one of two communities largely living separate lives, in different languages, eating different food, in distinct places of residence, worshiping different gods in different ways. The missionary encounter was one of the very few sites where one community actively reached out to the other.
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 03 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Citizenship and Republicanism in a Multicultural Nation
Jayasuriya, Laksiri
 
This 1993 paper says that with constitutional change likely as the country debates republicanism, it is important to incorporate the pluralism of society within the whole spectrum of institutions, including the concept of citizenship.
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  Closing the Gap from Policy to Practice
Bowen, Chris
 
The Director of the Brisbane Ethnic Music and Arts Centre in 1995 deplores the gap between policy on the arts and reality, and calls for more non-English speaking background representation in the large arts organisations as one way of dealing with this situation as it affects artists from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Combating Racism and Prejudice
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read the full range of materials on how to combat prejudice
Format: pdf | Size: 2 MB | Length: 169 Pages | Date Added: 10 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Committee on Community Relations
Immigration Advisory Council
 
The August 1974 interim report of this Immigration Advisory Council’s Committee, set up to enquire into discrimination against migrants, recommends ways for increasing sensitivity to people of diverse backgrounds across the community.
Format: pdf | Size: 377K | Length: 7 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Common morality of the Abrahamic religions
Gobbo, Sir James
 
Sir James Gobbo reflects on the common morality of the Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Format: pdf | Size: 236 KB | Length: 19 Pages | Date Added: 09 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Arthur Calwell, August 1945
Calwell, Arthur
 
The Minister for Immigration and Information tells Parliament in August 1945 that the war has shown the need for a larger population in Australia for defence and for the expansion of the economy.
Format: pdf | Size: 150K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Arthur Calwell, November 1946
Calwell, Arthur
 
The Minister for Immigration and Information argues in Parliament in November 1946 that an expansion in the immigration intake is necessary for security reasons, though migrants from the UK should continue to be favoured.
Format: pdf | Size: 157K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Beazley, Kim
Beazley, Kim
 
The Leader of the Opposition expresses his support in Parliament for the October 1996 racial tolerance motion, though he says the ALP would have liked it to go further than the wording finally agreed to.
Format: pdf | Size: 20K | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 10 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Gareth Evans
Evans, Gareth
 
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition gives his support in Parliament to the October 1996 racial tolerance motion, though he regrets the lack of reference to multiculturalism and other elements which he says the ALP had wanted included.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Graeme Campbell
Campbell, Graeme
 
The only member of the House of Representatives to vote against the October 1996 racial tolerance motion criticises what he says is the lack of discussion on immigration issues, saying the bipartisan approach to them has stifled debate.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Hanson’s maiden speech
Hanson, Pauline
 
Excerpts from the controversial maiden speech by independent MP Pauline Hanson in Parliament in September 1996.
Format: pdf | Size: 272K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - John Howard
Howard, John
 
The Prime Minister’s address to Parliament in moving the October 1996 racial tolerance resolution in the aftermath of the debate triggered by Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech the
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  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Native Title Bill 1993
Keating, Paul
 
Excerpts from comments by Prime Minister Keating at the Second Reading of the Native Title Bill in 1993, outlining its significance in improving the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.
Format: pdf | Size: 273K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - The case for national racial unity
Deakin, Alfred
 
The words of Alfred Deakin, then Attorney-General in the Commonwealth Government, in Parliament in September of 1901, in support of a White Australia policy.
Format: pdf | Size: 153K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - “The objection I have...”
Watson, John Christian
 
The words of J. C. Watson, who was to become the first Labor Prime Minister in 1904, in support of the Immigration Restriction Bill in 1901, quoted in Gough Whitlam’s The Whitlam Government 1972-1975.
Format: pdf | Size: 147K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate: Government’s Position on Multiculturalism
Hawke, Bob
 
Prime Minister Bob Hawke defends his 1986 Budget and the cuts in it to multicultural programs and services and insists his government continues to be committed to multiculturalism.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate: The Immigration Minister on Professor Blainey
West, Stewart
 
Immigration Minister Stewart West tells Parliament in May 1984 he rejects Professor Blainey’s views, which he says would see immigration policy on its way back to a White Australia, and calls on the Opposition to take a clear stand in the debate.
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  Community according to Sydney Road by Laura Donati
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Laura Donati writes on Community according to Sydney Road, Brunswick.
Format: pdf | Size: 32 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 27 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Community Relations Plan
Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
 
The Queensland Government's strategy, adopted in 1999, to promote positive community relations among all groups in the state.
Format: pdf | Size: 330 KB | Length: 25 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Community Relations Resource Kit
Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
 
A state government guide, including broad principles and practical advice and examples, for those developing community relations plans.
Format: pdf | Size: 513 KB | Length: 71 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Community Relations Strategy
Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
 
A description of the Community Relations Strategy, initiated by the government as a commitment of the 1989 National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Community strategies to combat racism
Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
 
A brief history of some of the major strategies that have been undertaken from within the community to combat racism, from the Freedom Ride of 1965, to 1997.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Constitutional issues associated with integration: the question of citizenship
Rubenstein, Kim
 
This 1994 article looks into a number of issues surrounding the regulations on citizenship in Australia, and examines how the concept of citizenship links with notions of nationhood, inclusion and integration.
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  Criss-cross Dressing the Orient
Abood, Paula
 
The author of the performance the politics of belly dancing: a choreopoem writes in 1996 about the issues of culture, identities and the appropriation of cultural forms she addresses in the work.
Format: pdf | Size: 352k | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Cultural Diversity and Civic Participation
Gopalkrishnan, Narayan
 
The report of a project which explored barriers faced by people of culturally diverse backgrounds in dealing with government, as well as successes, and identified key areas to be addressed for improvement.
Format: pdf | Size: 329 KB | Length: 27 pages | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Cultural Precincts Enhancement Fund
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
The Victorian Government is investing $8 million over three years (2008-2010) to boost the viability and vibrancy of three of Melbourne’s vibrant and long standing cultural precincts. The three precincts - Little Bourke, Lonsdale and Lygon Street - are the cultural hearts of Melbourne’s Chinese, Greek and Italian communities and are known internationally as some of the city’s most captivating and exciting precincts.
Format: pdf | Size: 24 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 08 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Declaration of Principles for a Multicultural South Australia
Government of South Australia
 
The principles of South Australia’s ethnic affairs policy adopted in 1995, and a statement of its commitment to ensuring all government activities are inclusive of and value cultural diversity.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
 
The declaration adopted and proclaimed by the Conference of UNESCO at its twentieth session in 1978, in an effort to combat racism, which it notes is evident in many forms around the world.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Defending multiculturalism
Mok, Jeannie
 
Community activist Jeannie Mok tells about the recurring challenges to multiculturalism over the years and of her involvement in defending the principles it represents.
Format: mov | Size: 4.1 MB | Length: 2 min 32 s | Date Added: 15 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Delivering Services for Diversity: Good Practice in EAPS
Community Relations Commission For a multicultural NSW
 
Read some examples of good practice in EAPS
Format: pdf | Size: 45 kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Demography 1975-95
Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
 
Population statistics for 1975 to 1995, including net migration figures, from a BIMPR pamphlet Immigration in Brief 1995.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Details of Italian arrivals in Australia
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Details of Italian arrivals in Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 132 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 15 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Diversity of Sydney Road Brunswick
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read about the diversity of Sydney Road Brunswick
Format: pdf | Size: 436 KB | Length: 2 Pages | Date Added: 03 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Domestic violence in immigrant communities
Easteal, Patricia
 
The author of the 1996 book Domestic violence and the overseas-born, criminologist Patricia Easteal, tells of her findings from interviewing survivors and analysing data, and summarises her recommendations for dealing with the problem.
Format: pdf | Size: 302K | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Don’t settle for less
Review of Migrant and Multicultural Programs and Services
 
A summary of the 1986 Report of the Review of Migrant and Multicultural Programs and Services chaired by Dr. James Jupp, which through its recommendations on services and on the establishment of a new body to monitor progress in the participation of immigrants in Australian life, puts a strong focus on access and equity issues.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Dorothy MacRae-McMahon
McRae-McMahon, Dorothy
 
Part of a chapter in the 1995 book Australians Against Racism – Testimonies from the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Australia in which the Reverend Dorothy McRae-McMahon tells of two years of harassment and vilification by an extreme right-wing group.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Dynamics of Multiculturalism in Australia
Birrell, Robert
 
This 1995 paper argues that early immigration programs in Australia laid the foundation for an ethnic movement which has since shaped government cultural and immigration policies.
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  Early Muslim pioneers
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Cameleers from northern India and Afghanistan, usually of Muslim faith, played a critical role in the development of the colony. They were essential for voyages of exploration such as Bourke and Wills in 1861.
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 25 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Eastern Orthodox in Australia
Godley, Stephen and Hughes, Philip J.
 
This excerpt from a 1996 report by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research tells the history of Eastern Orthodoxy in Australia and of the various migrant groups which have set up branches of the church here.
Format: pdf | Size: 221K | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ecumenical Migration Centre, Melbourne - the first 20 years
Langfield, Michele
 
The history of the Centre from the 1960s to the late 1980s, outlining its evolution from a small Christian-based group to an organisation providing a wide range of services to migrant communities of all backgrounds in Melbourne.
Format: pdf | Size: 440K | Length: 14 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Eddie Mabo Human Rights Lecture
Pearson, Noel
 
In this 1995 talk, Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson reviews the history of the struggle for native title, and pays tribute to Eddie Mabo for the crucial role he played, saying the Mabo ruling has laid the foundation for the future of all Australians.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Effects of Immigration on Australia: the Research Consensus as at May 1996
Williams, Lynne S.
 
This 1996 article discusses the key effects of immigration on Australia including aspects such as: economic, labour market, social, infrastructure, population growth and environment.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Emilio Russo house in Coburg
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Emilio Russo built a new house in Coburg in 1980 where he lives to this day. Like many houses built by Italian migrants, it has columns, a lemon tree and a superb vegetable garden at the back.
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  Ending of White Australia by Don Dunstan - 2
Dunstan, Don
 
Hear Don Dunstan former premier of South Australia describe the ending of the White Australia plank of the ALP Platform.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: 20 secs | Date Added: 20 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Equal Disappointment Opportunity
Schwab, Pete
 
1988 article from Newswit, the New South Wales Institute of Technology student newspaper, about the alleged suppression of this report into the failings of federal Department of Community Services programs for immigrants and their children.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Executive Summary
Cummings, Karen; Gibbings, Beth; Jakubowicz, Andrew and Meekosha, Helen
 
Executive summary of this 1987 report, which examines issues of access for migrants to services of the federal Department of Community Services and finds some of the problems with these programs lie with the department itself.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Summary of Recommendations
Cummings, Karen; Gibbings, Beth; Jakubowicz, Andrew and Meekosha, Helen
 
Recommendations of this 1987 report, proposing improvements to programs of the federal Department of Community Services for immigrants and their children, and to the way they are run.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  ESL - A Major Equity Program
Alcorso, Caroline and Brennan, John
 
On the eve of the 1986/87 federal Budget, this article examines the crucial role of the English as a Second Language program in New South Wales schools, and the difficulties the State government would face in funding it if the Commonwealth went ahead with cuts.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria
Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria
 
Background information on the ECC of Victoria, including the Mission Statement, aims, role and function, and Statement of Purposes of the organisation.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic conflict and the Australian media
Jakubowicz, Andrew and Seneviratne, Kalinga
 
Excerpts of this 1996 paper, which examines how the various media cover stories involving ethnic or racial conflict and finds numerous shortcomings due to a range of factors, from media ownership, to lack of representation of minorities, to poor complaint handling procedures.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Editorials - a selection of opinion
Infocus
 
A compilation by the NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council’s magazine Infocus of opinion in the ethnic media in late 1996 in response to the Hanson debate, with most expressing serious concern over the resurgence of racism and calling for more leadership from the Prime Minister.
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  Ethnic radio will benefit both migrants and Australians
Mackellar, Michael
 
A press release in February 1977 issued by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Michael Mackellar, tells of the goals and benefits of ethnic radio.
Format: pdf | Size: 216K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic rights - Recommendations for a Multi-Cultural Australia
Ethnic Action Movement, Fitzroy Ecumenical Centre
 
First drafts of the Policy and Principles and of a platform on ethnic rights by the Ethnic Action Movement, a group of activists from various ethnic communities formed in 1973 and based at the Fitzroy Ecumenical Centre in Melbourne.
Format: pdf | Size: 323K | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Evaluation of Post Arrival Programs and Services – Summary
Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs
 
An evaluation in 1982 by the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs of the implementation of the Galbally Report three years after it came out finds much to praise, but also points out failings and recommends ways of overcoming them.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Evolution of a Policy
Lynch, Phillip
 
The Minister for Immigration, Phillip Lynch, in 1971 reviews the changes in the immigration intake since the government allowed for some non-European migrants in 1966, and outlines what he sees as important issues for maintaining social cohesion in view of the changes this has brought.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Fact Sheet: Migrant Community Services
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
 
Fairfield MRC Webpage - In 2003 a network of 30 MRCs (migrant resource centres and 4 MSAs (migrant service agencies) in all states and territories provides information and support for overseas-born residents of Australia, particularly for recent arrivals. An example of a the services and activities of a MRC in 2003.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Fear and Loathing in Ipswich: Exploring Mainstream and Anabranch in the Race Debate
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
This 1996 article examines the racism debate surrounding Pauline Hanson as part of a shift in “mainstream” values in Australian society, underway since the 1996 election of the Howard government, and the media role in interpreting and influencing the debate.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  FECCA Log of Claims, 1996 Federal Election Kit
Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia
 
Launched by FECCA ahead of the 1996 Federal Election, the log of claims lists issues on which it sought commitments from the major political parties on a wide range of policies affecting migrants.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  FECCA response to the discussion paper “Towards a National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia”
Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils
 
The Federation’s 1988 submission on the discussion paper preceding the National Agenda focuses on three elements: the setting of goals, a legislative charter, and a national policy on languages.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Federal Budget 1986/87 Implications for Ethnic Affairs
Ethnos magazine
 
An analysis of the 1986 Federal Budget in Ethnos, the magazine of the NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission, concludes that the federal commitment to multiculturalism is vanishing, with the Budget marking the end of the government’s support for multicultural programs and services.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Female Genital Mutilation: Your Questions Answered
Ethnic Affairs Commission of New South Wales
 
The contents of a leaflet issued by the Commission in 1995 describing the practice of female genital mutilation, its side effects, and what Australian governments are doing about it.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Fifty Years of Post-War Migration
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs
 
A fact sheet outlining a brief history of Australia’s post-war migration program, issued in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the program.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  First Annual Report 1979-1980 – AIMA
Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs
 
The Introduction to the First Annual Report, 1979-1980, of the Institute of Multicultural Affairs outlines the legislation establishing the Institute and summarises the activities of the first year in setting up the body according to that legislation.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  First Anti-Chinese legislation passed in 1855
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Examine the first Anti-Chinese legislation passed by the new colony of Victoria in 1855
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  First Biennial Meeting of AIMA - Opening Address
MacPhee, Ian
 
In this address to the members of AIMA in 1981, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Ian MacPhee speaks of the role of the Institute in helping achieve a balance between acceptance of the diversity of migrants on the one hand, and on the other - their critical role in being part of the creation of a distinctive Australian culture.
Format: pdf | Size: 267K | Length: 8 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  First Report on the progress and assimilation of migrant children in Australia
Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council
 
A 1960 study by a special committee of the Immigration Advisory Council examines the adaptation of migrant children to Australia, through their progress in education, language skills, social skills, and so on, and finds that generally they do well.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  For the New Australia
Keating, Paul
 
In late 1996, the former Prime Minister warns against allowing fear, ignorance and prejudice to govern attitudes, saying the “myth of the monoculture” has no place in the new Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 376K | Length: 14 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  From Saigon to Sydney
Williams, Indigo
 
A story of growing up in Australia post-Vietnam War as an adopted Vietnamese child in a non-Asian family in Sydney.
Format: doc | Size: 97 Kb | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Future Directions for Multiculturalism
Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs
 
Excerpts from the Final Report of the Council of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs in 1986, which express concern over a change of direction in government strategy and offer recommendations for future policies on multiculturalism.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Galbally Report and its implications for the Ecumenical Migration Centre
Langfield, Michele
 
Michele Langfield writes in “The Ecumenical Migration Centre, Melbourne: The First Twenty Years” of the improvements in migrant services brought about because of the 1978 Galbally Report, but also points out shortcomings.
Format: pdf | Size: 149K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Gigantic Step Forward
Migrant Workers’ Conference
 
A summary of the proceedings of the 2nd Migrant Workers’ Conference, held in Melbourne in 1975, describes the meeting’s achievements, chief among them, the setting up of a permanent body - the Migrant Workers’ Committee - to pursue migrant rights.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Giving praise where praise is due: Australian Arabic Council Media Awards 1995
Cass, Naomi
 
A report on the launch in 1995 of the Australian Arabic Council’s media awards, at which chairperson Roland Jabbour speaks of stereotyping in the media - such as the growth of what he calls “Arabphobia” - and its role in shaping racist attitudes.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Glenda Banks interviews Mabel Wang 1987
Banks, Glenda
 
The Big Dragon brought to Melbourne in 1979 was the catalyst for the city’s Chinese New Year celebrations in the years since.
Format: pdf | Size: 10.1 MB | Length: 595 x 842 | Date Added: 23 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Government attacks nation’s public culture
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
This article from late 1996 says the Howard government has halted implementation of any multicultural agenda for the arts and asks are “multicultural arts to disappear under new regime?”
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Government Commitment to Multicultural Affairs
Ruddock, Philip
 
Press Release in May 1996 from the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Philip Ruddock, defending the decision to move the Office of Multicultural Affairs to his department, effectively closing down OMA.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Government Response to the Report of the CAAIP
Ray, Robert
 
Senate statement by Robert Ray, Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs in December 1988 outlining the Federal Government's response to the FitzGerald Inquiry recommendations.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Growing Grassroots
Kerkyasharian, Stepan
 
Chairperson of the Ethnic Affairs Commission of NSW Stepan Kerkyasharian pays tribute to the role of the ECC of NSW, on its 20th anniversary in 1995, in creating a government- community partnership in ethnic affairs.
Format: pdf | Size: 2218K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Harnessing Ethnic Power
Wojak, George
 
Former chairperson of both the ECC of NSW and FECCA, George Wojak writes in 1995 that the Council demonstrates how people can maintain their differences and yet not only join together in causes and issues, but also show the way for others.
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  Harvest of Endurance: A History of the Chinese in Australia 1788-1988
Mo, Yimei
 
The history of the Chinese in Australia and of their contribution to Australian society, written by Mo Yimei to accompany a 50-metre long scroll, painted in traditional style by Mo Xiangyi for the Australia-Chinese Friendship Society for the Bicentennial.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Hass Dellal on his childhood
Dellal, Hass
 
Hass Dellal describes being the Australian in Turkey and the Turk in Australia as part of his childhood.
Format: pdf | Size: 17.6 MB|360x286 | Length: 06min43sec | Date Added: 03 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Headlines about SBS
Various newspapers
 
A sampling of the type of news coverage SBS has attracted over the years, especially at key moments, such as the controversies over the proposed amalgamation with the ABC, and the introduction of sponsorship and advertising.
Format: pdf | Size: 159K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Heidi Zogbaum reviews the Kisch case of 1934
Zogbaum, Dr. Heidi
 
Heidi Zogbaum reviews the Kisch case of 1934 and its impact on Australian public culture
Format: pdf | Size: 408 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 06 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Hindus and Sikhs in Australia
BIMPR Bulletin
 
A 1996 article in the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research Bulletin, describing a new publication in its religious community profiles series, which outlines the composition and beliefs of the Hindu and Sikh communities.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  History of Melbourne's Chinese restaurants
Nichol, Barbara
 
Barbara Nichols strolls through the history of Melbourne's Chinese restaurants
Format: pdf | Size: 416 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 10 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  History of Moreland
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Moreland City Council and Brunswick locality
Format: pdf | Size: 16 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 16 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Hmong Funeral in Australia in 1992
Falk, Catherine
 
n this paper Dr. Catherine Falk of Melbourne University’s Faculty of Music tells of the adaptations made by Hmong people living in Australia to their elaborate rituals, as she describes the events surrounding the funerals of three Hmong youths who died in a boating accident.
Format: pdf | Size: 394K | Length: | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  How Many Australians Tomorrow?
Calwell, Arthur
 
Excerpted from a 1945 book by Arthur Calwell, the Minister for Immigration and Information, How Many Australians Tomorrow? in which he outlines the history of Australia’s population growth till then and explains his views on increasing the numbers through immigration.
Format: pdf | Size: 329K | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  How the Racial Discrimination Act Serves all Australians
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
 
A fact sheet issued out by the Commission which outlines the complaint handling process under the Racial Discrimination Act, with examples of cases that have been dealt with by conciliation or by public hearings.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  How to make a complaint
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
 
A fact sheet issued by the Commission which outlines the procedure of laying a complaint under the Racial Discrimination Act and the ways in which the Commission can deal with it.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Identity and Change
Dang, Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen
 
A talk by visual artist Caroline Dang at a 1996 public forum on art and culture based on the Vietnamese- Australian experience, in which she tells of the confusions and the benefits of dual identity and explores the role of multiculturalism in her artistic work.
Format: pdf | Size: 229K | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Illawarra Migrant Resource Centre (Annual Report)
Facci, Franca
 
The chairperson of the centre, Franca Facci, reviews changes in the organisation and the issues it addressed over the preceding year, in the centre’s 1995 Annual Report.
Format: pdf | Size: 213K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Immigrant families and change
Khoo, Siew-Ean
 
This 1994 article looks at issues surrounding families and the migration process, including family sponsorship patterns, the family as the migrating unit, and changes in family structure resulting from migration.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Immigrant Families: A Statistical Profile
Bureau of Immigration and Population Research
 
The summary of findings of a 1994 report profiling the family situation of the overseas-born, including aspects like living arrangements and economic characteristics.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Immigrant women and their role in the rise of multiculturalism
Immigration Museum, Victoria
 
Read about immigrant women and their role in the rise of multiculturalism and programs for immigrants and refugees
Format: pdf | Size: 40 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 22 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Immigrant Women’s Speakout Association NSW
Immigrant Women’s Speakout Association NSW
 
The contents of a leaflet put out by this NSW information and lobby organisation, outlining its background, objectives and activities.
Format: pdf | Size: 154K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Immigrant Workers and Trade Unions
Bertone, Santina and Griffin, Gerard
 
The executive summary of this 1992 report, which finds that in terms of members’ relationships with trade unions, there is little difference between NESB and other workers, but that unions could improve the way they deal with issues affecting their migrant members.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Immigration - A Commitment to Australia: Executive Summary
Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies
 
The executive summary of this 1988 report, also known as the FitzGerald Report, after the committee’s chairman Dr. Stephen FitzGerald. It argues for increased migration, but with a tighter economic focus, and queries the public understanding and acceptance of the idea of multiculturalism.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Immigration - A Commitment to Australia: Recommendations
Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies
 
The 73 recommendations of the 1988 FitzGerald Report, covering changes to immigration policy and planning - they call on the government to reaffirm its commitment to non-discriminatory policies, and to base them on Australia’s national interest.
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  Immigration - A Commitment to Australia: Terms of Reference
Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies
 
Terms of Reference set by the Government in 1987 for the Committee and brief bibliographical information on the committee members, headed by Dr. Stephen FitzGerald.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Immigration Museum's Timeline 1950s and 1960s
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Explore the Immigration Museum's timeline of the 1950s and 1960s
Format: pdf | Size: 24 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 12 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Immigration Restriction Act, 1901
Commonwealth of Australia
 
Excerpts of the 1901 Act, defining who would, from then on, be considered a “prohibited immigrant” to Australia, from The Australian Welfare State, Key Documents and Themes, edited by John Wilson, Jane Thomson and Anthony McMahon.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Immigration timeline
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Explore the Immigration Museum's timeline of the 1970s and 1980s
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 16 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Incitement to Racial Hatred: Issues and Analysis
Pettman, Ralph
 
A 1982 paper analysing the arguments over controlling incitement to racial hatred, examples of how other countries have dealt with it, and suggestions for measures that could be taken in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Inquiry into the departure of settlers from Australia
Immigration Advisory Council, Committee on Social Patterns
 
This 1973 report looks at the rate, pattern, and causes of departure of settlers and recommends ways the government can improve services to migrants to slow the rate of departures.
Format: pdf | Size: 291K | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Inside SBS – A picture of the Outside
Spigelman, Guy
 
This article examines the way SBS radio covered the racism debate in late 1996 and finds a variety of responses among the different language groups broadcasting on the network.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Interim Ethnic Television Service to start 29 April
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
 
This press release, issued by the Special Broadcasting Service in 1979, announces the starting date of experimental television programs and provides a preview of what viewers can expect.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Intermarriage in Australia
Penny, Janet
 
An article outlining the results of a 1996 report called Intermarriage - A Study of Migration and Integration in Australia, which looked into the motives, experiences, and implications of intermarriage.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
United Nations
 
The terms of this United Nations international convention, which came into force in January 1969, and which Australia signed in 1966, and ratified in September 1975.
Format: pdf | Size: 334K | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Signatories
United Nations
 
The list of signatory countries, their dates of signing and ratification, and reservations they expressed (including by Australia) on this United Nations international convention, which came into force in 1969.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Interview: MacPhee
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
 
The transcript of an ABC radio interview, in which the Shadow Minister for Communications Ian MacPhee explains why he believes the merger of the SBS and ABC, included in the 1986 budget, is bad policy.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Introduction
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read Prof Andrew Jakubowicz's introduction to the Making of Multicultural Australia
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  Introduction
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
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  Italian Immigration Fact sheet 1850-1900
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Italian migrants began arriving in Australia in the mid-1800s. They were motivated by the need for work, the search for new opportunities, and the deprivations caused by war, poverty, crop failure and natural disaster.
Format: pdf | Size: 56 KB | Length: 5 Pages | Date Added: 04 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Italian perspectives on Australian identity
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read how Gaetano Rando explains Raffaello Carboni’s perception of Australia and Australian identity
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  Italian speakers on the goldfields of the Great Dividing Range
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read Annamaria Davine's "micro-historical " study of Italian speakers on the Walhalla goldfields in the 1860s.
Format: pdf | Size: 808 KB | Length: 14 Pages | Date Added: 04 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  It's Not the Thought That Counts
Bertelli, Lidio
 
Journalist and community activist Lidio Bertelli in 1979 summarises the literature on migration and ethnic relations written in the decade or so preceding the Galbally Report, with the aim of providing background for the report, and to help in an understanding of the issues covered by it.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: 11 pages | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  John Brumby on the Victoria's Multicultural Policy
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
The Premier of Victoria John Brumby called on all Victorians to have their say on the Victoria's multiculural policy by providing feedback on a new discussion paper launched in August 2008
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 08 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  John Howard on Multiculturalism
Howard, John
 
Statement on Multiculturalism from the Prime Minister in 1996 in response to an invitation to submit his views to Making Multicultural Australia ,and his address at the 1997 launch of an issues paper Multicultural Australia: the way forward.
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  John Lack's reflections of the 1950s
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read John Lack's reflections on coming of age in Melbourne of the 1950s
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  Judaism in Australia
Rubinstein, W. D.
 
A brief history of the Jewish community in Australia, dating back to the First Fleet, from a 1995 report by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research.
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  Key Events and the Racial Discrimination Act
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
 
A brief history of anti-discrimination measures in Australia, from 1966 when Australia signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, from the Commission’s State of the Nation 1995 - A Report on People of Non-English Speaking Backgrounds.
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  Key issues in Citizenship and Republicanism
Jayasuriya, Laksiri
 
Key issues in Citizenship and Republicanism by Emeritus Prof Laksiri Jayasuriya from Teaching Heritage
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  Key legislation for White Australia
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Key legislation for White Australia
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  Keynotes on Religions of Victoria
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
These Keynotes were originally developed to accompany the text Combating Prejudice in Schools: The Middle East in Focus, first published in 1992. They have been revised and updated to take into account the current legislative and educational frameworks and guidelines.
Format: pdf | Size: 28 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 09 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Launch of the National Languages Institute of Australia
Hawke, Bob
 
Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s speech opening the National Languages Institute of Australia in 1990, in which he outlines its role and emphasises the importance of language training for Australia’s future.
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  Laura Mecca on emergence of the Italian Historical Society
Mecca, Laura
 
Laura Mecca describes the emergence of the Italian Historical Society
Format: pdf | Size: 104 KB | Length: 5 Pages | Date Added: 17 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Letter to friends and supporters of BIMPR
Cope, Bill
 
The last Director of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research, Bill Cope, hails the Bureau's work as he expresses his regret at its impending closure in 1996.
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  Letter to Prime Minister Hawke
Passaris, Jack
 
A letter from the acting chairperson of the NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council in 1988 to the Prime Minister informing him of a public meeting that was held on the question of the Equal Disappointment Opportunity? report, which called for its publication and distribution.
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  Letter to the Federated Ironworkers’ Association
Calwell, Arthur
 
This letter in 1949 to the Federated Ironworkers’ Association gives the union assurances that the use of immigrant labour should be no threat to Australian workers; quoted in "Labour and Immigration", a seminar paper given by Dr Andrew Markus.
Format: pdf | Size: 147K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Liberals misunderstand Australian society
MacPhee, Ian
 
In this 1993 article, former Immigration Minister Ian MacPhee regrets what he sees as the Liberal Party’s abandonment of its former approach to multiculturalism and says this lack of understanding of Australia’s multicultural identity will keep the party out of office.
Format: pdf | Size: 163K | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Liberals misunderstand Australian society
MacPhee, Ian
 
In this 1993 article, former Immigration Minister Ian MacPhee regrets what he sees as the Liberal Party’s abandonment of its former approach to multiculturalism and says this lack of understanding of Australia’s multicultural identity will keep the party out of office.
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  List of anti-racist groups
Anti-Racism Resources
 
A list of Anti-Racism groups and resources.
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  Listening to Emerging Voices
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
 
The report of a project of the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland, which canvassed the concerns and needs of less well established migrant groups and suggested ways of meeting those needs.
Format: pdf | Size: 145 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  LIVING DIVERSITY: AUSTRALIA’S MULTICULTURAL FUTURE
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
 
Read the 2002 Living Diversity SBS survey showing multicultural uses of media. This study gives us a glimpse of the ‘diversity within diversity’ of Australians’ engagement with multiculturalism, their senses of identity and belonging, the ways they engage with others of different backgrounds and their uses of media in a multicultural society
Format: pdf | Size: 354 kb | Length: 80 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Living in Harmony - an overview
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
 
This document is the Government’s outline of the antiracism education and awareness campaign, released at the launch of the campaign.
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  Lutherans in Australia
Hughes, Philip J. and Schild, Maurice E.
 
An excerpt from a 1996 report by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research on Lutheranism in Australia, which tells of the difficulties facing this shrinking community.
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  Making language policy: Australia’s experience
Lo Bianco, Joseph
 
The author of the report which became the foundation of the National Policy on Languages gives an account in 1990 of the development of the policy and of some of the social processes involved in producing it.
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  Making Multiculturalism Work
Tzannes, Ross
 
On the 20th anniversary of the ECC of NSW in 1995, former chairperson Ross Tzannes hails multiculturalism as the basis for Australia’s national cohesion, but says there is still a crucial need for acceptance that the policy applies to all Australians.
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  Melbourne's Dai Loong Association Inc.
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Melbourne Dai Loong Association - Continuing a 100-year tradition of dragon parades in Melbourne, Australia.
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  Melbourne’s Chinese Museum
Chinese Museum
 
Extracts from promotional material for Melbourne’s Chinese Museum, outlining its mission to document, preserve, research and display the history and material culture of Australians of Chinese descent.
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  Memorial to Gov. Darling by Chinese merchants of Ballarat, 1863
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read this "Memorial" to Governor Darling by Chinese merchants of Ballarat, urging police action on illegal gambling
Format: pdf | Size: 268 KB | Length: 4 Pages | Date Added: 02 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Migrant Services and Programs - Statement by the Prime Minister
Fraser, Malcolm
 
On presenting the Galbally Report to Parliament in 1978, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says his Government accepts the Review’s proposals on migrant services, and the financial commitments required to implement them.
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  Migrant Services and Programs - Summary
Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services for Migrants
 
A summary of the themes and recommendations of this 1978 report, also known as the Galbally Report, which focussed on ways of helping migrants settle into Australian life, of maintaining their cultures, and of ensuring they had the same rights and access to services as other Australians.
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  Migrant Services and Programs - Terms of Reference
Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services for Migrants
 
The Terms of Reference for this Review, which produced the report Migrant Services and Programs in 1978, also known as the Galbally Report, for its chairman Frank Galbally.
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  Migrant Services and Programs – Migrant Resource Centres
Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services for Migrants
 
An excerpt from the 1978 Galbally Report sets out the part to be played by the centres, as part of its overall proposals to improve services for migrants.
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  Migrant women, marginality and public policy
Alcorso, Caroline
 
In this 1995 article, Coordinator of the NSW Working Women’s Centre, Caroline Alcorso, discusses why developments in industrial relations policy have done little to advance the working conditions of non-English speaking background women.
Format: pdf | Size: 224K | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Migrant Women’s Shuffle: 2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back
Georgopoulos, Debbie
 
The national coordinator of the Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women tells the 1996 Women in Migration Conference that while there have been significant gains for NESB women in the past decade, the focus on economic efficiency should not allow other important goals for social prosperity to be forgotten.
Format: pdf | Size: 337K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Migration Act 1958, The Schedule, Section 3
Commonwealth of Australia
 
This schedule shows the number of changes to legislation dealing with immigration from the original Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 until 1958.
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  Minister Ray Hails Start of New Era in Immigration
Ray, Robert
 
A news release from Immigration Minister Robert Ray in December 1989 promoting fundamental changes to Australia's immigration laws about to come into effect, and based on the recommendations of the FitzGerald Inquiry.
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  Ministers announce national policy on languages
Departments of Employment Services and Youth Affairs; and Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs
 
Media release in 1987 from federal Ministers Mick Young and Clyde Holding on funding for various components of the National Policy on Languages, and the establishment of an advisory council on languages and multicultural education.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Misunderstanding, misinformation shroud report: author
Migration Magazine
 
An article on the views of one of the authors of the 1988 FitzGerald Report, Tony Bonnici, who attacks the negative response to it by some in the ethnic communities.
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  Mosques and Muslim Settlement in Australia
Bouma, Gary D.
 
An excerpt from this 1994 book published by the Bureau of Immigration and Population Research, in which the author examines the relationship between Muslim Australians and other Australians and looks into the future of Islam in this country.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Policy
Liberal/National Party Coalition
 
This document contains the promises of the Liberal and National Parties’ Coalition in the areas of multiculturalism and settlement, ahead of the 1996 Federal Election.
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  Multicultural Arts Victoria
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) provides critical development opportunities for artists from culturally diverse backgrounds, to establish themselves in the Victorian arts scene.
Format: pdf | Size: 27 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 12 January 2011 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Australia
Australian Labor Party
 
An excerpt from a Labor Party policy document “Multicultural Australia” in which the ALP lists its achievements and promises in the area, ahead of the 1996 Federal Election.
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  Multicultural Australia - the Next Steps: Towards and Beyond 2000
National Multicultural Advisory Council
 
The Preface and Summary of Recommendations of this 1995 review of the 1989 National Agenda, which evaluates progress in implementing the Agenda and makes recommendations on what still needs to be done as Australia approaches the 21st century.
Format: pdf | Size: 333K | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Australia: the way forward
National Multicultural Advisory Council
 
A discussion paper issued in late 1997, calling for submissions towards a report to be prepared by the Council, to advise the government on a policy on cultural diversity for the next decade.
Format: pdf | Size: 490K | Length: 13 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  MULTICULTURAL AUSTRALIA: UNITED IN DIVERSITY
Commonwealth of Australia
 
United in Diversity updates, reaffirms and strategises multicultural policy. It gives emphasis to promoting community harmony and the benefits of cultural diversity.
Format: pdf | Size: 536 kb | Length: 12 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Summit
Beattie, Peter
 
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie opens his government's first multicultural summit, in Brisbane in 2001.
Format: pdf | Size: 44 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Television – The most exciting idea in broadcasting...
Gyngell, Bruce
 
In this talk to the National Press Club in Canberra in August 1980 the first head of SBS Television, Bruce Gyngell, tells of the significance of SBS TV, the role it will play after its launch, in October 1980.
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  Multicultural Victoria Inquiry Report
Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission
 
The report of a 1995 inquiry into the adequacy and appropriateness of state government services to non-English speaking background Victorians and recommendations for improving those services.
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  Multiculturalism and Reconciliation in Australia
Deane, William
 
In November 1996 the Governor-General Sir William Deane makes a plea for tolerance and mutual respect, saying anyone who attacks the qualities which underpin multicultural Australia diminishes the whole nation.
Format: pdf | Size: 217K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Multiculturalism Betrayed
Shergold, Peter and Wojak, George
 
This editorial from Ethnic Spotlight, the newsletter of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia, condemns the 1986 Federal Budget cuts to multicultural programs, saying the responsibility for building a multicultural Australia has been shifted to organisations such as FECCA.
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  Multiculturalism for all Australians
Australian Council on Population and Ethnic Affairs
 
A 1982 report by the Ethnic Affairs Task Force of the Council, under the Chairmanship of Jerzy Zubrzycki, which sets out what it calls a “charter for our developing Australian nationhood,” emphasising that multiculturalism must be understood to apply to all, not just to ethnic groups.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Multiculturalism in Australia
Jayasuriya, Laksiri
 
n this 1985 article, Western Australian sociologist Prof. Laksiri Jayasuriya explores the philosophy and rationale of multiculturalism and underlying social policies.
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  Multiculturalism: A Flawed Solution to Ethnic Diversity
Birrell, Robert
 
This 1994 article argues that multiculturalism as a way of helping migrants gain acceptance is no longer needed, and that on the contrary, the policy now has negative outcomes in keeping ethnic groups apart.
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  Multiculturalism: A look at research in the future
Jupp, James
 
An article by Prof. James Jupp of ANU’s Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies in 1995, examining the role of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research (BIMPR) from its inception in 1989, and the changing research requirements in the field of immigration and multicultural studies.
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  Multiculturalism: a unifying force?
Themal, Uri
 
Uri Themal rejects the notion that multiculturalism is divisive, rather that it can be used to reduce tensions in Australia caused by international crises.
Format: pdf | Size: 23 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 05 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multiculturalism: Australia’s Unique Achievement
Fraser, Malcolm
 
In this inaugural speech to the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs in 1981, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser reviews the history and benefits of immigration, and says building on these achievements can help realise the full extent of multiculturalism’s advantages.
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  Multiple Ethnicity Disorders: Demidenko and the cult of ethnicity
Hatzimanolis, Efi
 
A 1996 article examining stereotypes of ethnicity and ethnic writing, particularly in the context of the Helen Demidenko affair and the glowing reception her work received before her identity as Helen Darville was revealed.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Muses magazine
Tardent, Henry and Various authors
 
Selected pages from Muses magazine, a publication launched in 1927 as a “review of the musical, artistic, literary and intellectual life of Queensland”.
Format: pdf | Size: 2.4 MB | Length: 12 pages | Date Added: 20 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Music - Food for the Soul
Singh, Dya
 
The leader of the Dya Singh World Music group writes in 1996 of the different cultural influences in his music, and of his work with musicians from other traditions to produce music which retains traditional authenticity yet provides a global feel.
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  Muslims in Australia
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Muslims in Australia
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  Myths about Migration and Australia
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Four often used statements to oppose immigration, and the reasons why – when examined - these do not add up.
Format: pdf | Size: 271K | Length: | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
Tench, Captain Watkin
 
One of the commanders in the First Fleet describes the proceedings when the British established the settlement at Sydney Cove in 1788, in Sydney’s First Four Years – a reprint of a Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 1788-1791.
Format: pdf | Size: 268K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia
Office of Multicultural Affairs
 
A definition of multiculturalism, the rights and limits of the policy, and eight goals of multiculturalism, from the 1989 National Agenda.
Format: pdf | Size: 219K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia
Office of Multicultural Affairs
 
Excerpts from the 1989 National Agenda, including the Executive Summary and a description of three dimensions of multiculturalism underpinning it – cultural identity, social justice, and economic efficiency.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia launch
Hawke, Bob
 
Excerpts from the Prime Minister’s speech at the launch of The National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia in 1989 in Sydney
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  National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia: Goals
Office of Multicultural Affairs
 
The eight principle goals of multiculturalism contained in the National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia launched in 1989.
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  National Consultations on Multiculturalism and Citizenship
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs
 
A report on the results of public consultations across the country in 1982 on questions of multiculturalism and Australian citizenship, which according to the main author, Jerzy Zubrzycki, found widespread support for multiculturalism, though some continuing opposition.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  National Days, Festivals and Celebrations
Equity and Diversity Unit University of Technology, Sydney; South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission and UNICEF
 
A selection of the major holidays and festivals celebrated by various multicultural and ethnic communities in Australia.
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  National Inquiry into Racist Violence: Summary
Race Discrimination Commissioner
 
A summary of this 1991 report, which finds that the incidence of racist violence in Australia is a serious problem, and recommends major reforms to deal with it.
Format: pdf | Size: 243K | Length: 6 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia
National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia
 
A description of the work and the mandate of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia, founded in 1990.
Format: pdf | Size: 149K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  National Multicultural Marketing Awards
Community Relations Commission For a multicultural NSW
 
The National Multicultural Marketing Awards highlight the recognition and success of multicultural marketing. The Awards recognise the efforts of businesses and organisations that seek to harness the benefits of Australia’s cultural diversity.
Format: pdf | Size: 184 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  National Native Title Tribunal: Indigenous land use agreement
National Native Title Tribunal
 
Native land use title 2003 agreements are among the most important native title options for Indigenous communities developers, infrastructure suppliers and local, State and Commonwealth agencies.
Format: pdf | Size: 106 kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 27 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  National Policy on Languages
Lo Bianco, Joseph
 
Excerpts of the 1987 report which provided the basis for the National Language Policy; it underscores the need for a good knowledge of English and for all students to study at least one other language, and points out the social and economic benefits of language skills for Australia.
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  Native Title Act 1993
Commonwealth of Australia
 
The preamble to the Native Title Act of 1993, which explains the history behind it and outlines the government’s intentions through the Act.
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  New and Emerging Communities in Queensland
Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
 
A Queensland government report that identifies newly arrived, small communities of migrants, and looks at needs that might be overlooked.
Format: pdf | Size: 616 KB | Length: 83 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Newly arrived immigrant women in the work force
Alcorso, Caroline
 
A section of this 1989 report which reviews the literature - academic, community-based, and government - about migrant working women in the 1970s and 80s.
Format: pdf | Size: 405K | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Newspaper clippings, 1948
Sydney Morning Herald
 
Quotes from the Sydney Morning Herald in 1948 reflect the debate on immigration: it was needed as long as it didn’t threaten working conditions or bring in a “foreign outlook"
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  Nextdoor Neighbours
Coupe, Bronwyn; Jakubowicz, Andrew and Randall, Lois
 
Segments of a 1992 report canvassing the experiences of ethnic Australians as audiences of mass media, which finds the media are not seen to be accurately reflecting Australian society and recommends ways of ensuring the media are more representative.
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  Notes on the Definition of “Ethnic”
Menart, Vladimir
 
In 1975, the deputy chairperson of the NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council, Vladimir Menart, discusses the different meanings of the word “ethnic”, and underlines the importance of a shared understanding of the term as a basis for the Council’s functioning.
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  NSW Charter of Principles for a Culturally Diverse Society
Ethnic Affairs Commission of New South Wales
 
The NSW Charter of Principles for a Culturally Diverse Society and the sequence of events leading up to the State government in 1997 enshrining the four principles into law.
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  NSW Charter of Principles for a Culturally Diverse Society
Ethnic Affairs Commission of NSW
 
Charter of Principles for a Culturally Diverse Society–Handbook 1997 from Teaching Heritage
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  Office of Multicultural Interests of WA Mission
Office of Multicultural Interests of WA
 
The Mission Statement of Western Australia’s Office of Multicultural Interests, which was set up in 1991 to provide the state government with advice on the needs of the multicultural community.
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  OMA Publications list
Office of Multicultural Affairs
 
The final publications list of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, cataloguing the work of the office, on its own or in conjunction with others, from its foundation to its closure in 1996.
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  Opening Address, 1988 FECCA Congress
Hawke, Bob
 
Prime Minister Bob Hawke, in opening the 1988 FECCA Congress, attacks the opposition and its leader John Howard for backing away from multiculturalism, and expresses his government’s commitment to the policy, outlining its plans in a number of areas of multiculturalism and immigration.
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  Origins
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Explore the Origins of Victoria's immigrant communities
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  Our Sanitised Multiculturalism
Hall, Jaslyn
 
Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald on the eve of the 1995 Global Cultural Diversity Conference, broadcaster Jaslyn Hall deplores the unrepresentative nature of the Australian electronic media, though she lists some signs which indicate change is slowly afoot.
Format: pdf | Size: 225K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Our Sanitised Multiculturalism
Hall, Jaslyn
 
Media commitment to cultural diversity from Teaching Heritage
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  Paradox of Australian Multiculturalism
Kerkyasharian, Stepan
 
In this 1994 speech, Stepan Kerkyasharian, Chairperson of the NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission examines what he sees as the paradox between Australia’s racist past and its multicultural present.
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  Parliamentary Library Report on Anti-Racism
Milbank, Adrienne
 
Adrienne Milbank discusses the value of an anti-racism campaign in Australia during the rise of racism and controversy over immigration
Format: pdf | Size: 156 KB | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 22 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Participation: Report to the Premier 1978
Ethnic Affairs Commission of New South Wales
 
The main recommendations of a report that looked into multiculturalism in every aspect of life in New South Wales, and led to the establishment of Australia’s first Ethnic Affairs Commission in 1979.
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  Passages for the dictation test
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Passages for the dictation test
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  Performing Artists - “We are Here, We are Visible”
Messariti, Anna
 
The Conclusion of the fourth volume of the 1994 report Access to Excellence: A Review of Issues Affecting Artists and Arts from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds, examining the situation of performing artists and the obstacles to their recognition.
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  Performing Australian Ethnicity: 'Helen Demidenko'
Gunew, Sneja
 
The positioning of minority cultures is symptomatic of the paradox at the heart of national cultures. Do they 'belong' in terms of assimilation and appropriation or do they constitute the exclusionary framework of 'foreign bodies' which both encloses and defines a national culture?
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  Perpetrators of racism
Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
 
The identification of some of the groups which perpetrate racism in Australia.
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  Perspectives of Multiculturalism in Australia
Fraser, Malcolm
 
In addressing the 1988 FECCA Congress, former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser compares contemporary attitudes to multiculturalism to when he inaugurated the organisation in 1981, saying he is disappointed at some continuing resistance to the policy, but expressing his confidence in its future because of all the benefits it brings Australia.
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  Peter Van Vliet on Changes in public life in Victoria
Van Vliet, Peter
 
Format: mov | Size: 4 MB|360x286 | Length: 01min31sec | Date Added: 21 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Peter Van Vliet on the ethnic communities council and government legislation
Van Vliet, Peter
 
Format: pdf | Size: 4.9 MB|360x286 | Length: 01min53sec | Date Added: 21 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Petition to the Governor, from Chinese residents of Victoria on education for miners
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read this petition by Chinese residents of the colony asking for government support for the supply of Chinese type to print laws in Chinese, and for the government to provide teachers for evening classes for Chinese miners in Chinese and English to improve their literacy and education.
Format: pdf | Size: 284 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 02 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Policy on Arts for a Multicultural Australia
Australia Council for the Arts
 
The 1993 version of the Australia Council’s policy in this area, a policy which was initiated in 1989 with the stated aim of supporting and developing the artistic activities of people of non-English speaking background.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Political Pathfinder
Samios, Jim
 
NSW Shadow Minister for Ethnic Affairs Jim Samios writes in 1995 of the role of the ECC of NSW over the two decades from its foundation, as a pathfinder in leading the way on progressive multicultural policies.
Format: pdf | Size: 211K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Poverty in Australia
Henderson, Ronald
 
This section of a 1975 report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty looks at the situation of migrants in terms of housing, employment opportunities, language problems, and social welfare needs; reviews existing services and organisations; and recommends improvements.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Premier and the Pariah
Bulletin magazine
 
Part of an editorial from The Bulletin magazine of May 26, 1888 which backs restricting the Chinese in Australia, but criticises the government of NSW Premier, Sir Henry Parkes, over what it considers blunders in the way it has gone about deciding its policy in the matter.
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  Presbyterians in Australia
Burke, David and Hughes, Philip J.
 
An excerpt from a 1996 report by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research on Presbyterianism, which examines the struggle for a new identity by a church that has recently seen big changes and drops in numbers.
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  Press Release, 4 May 1972
Lippmann, Walter and ten other prominent Australians
 
Press release issued by a group of prominent Australians in 1972 in protest against comments by former Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell opposing “coloured migrants,” and in condemnation of the “emotive language” being used in the immigration debate.
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  Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's view of multiculturalism
Fraser, Malcolm
 
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser presents his view of multiculturalism, one reflecting his experience of Melbourne diversity
Format: pdf | Size: 160 KB | Length: 5 Pages | Date Added: 22 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Principles for Tasmania's Culturally Diverse Society
Government of Tasmania
 
The principles governing Tasmania’s ethnic affairs policy, published in 1994, which aim to guide the development of policies and services in the public sector, through the State’s Office of Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs.
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  Qualifications recognition for skilled NESB women
Hawthorne, Lesleyanne
 
This 1996 article looks into the reasons why female migrants have even more difficulty than their male counterparts in getting their overseas qualifications assessed and recognised, and canvasses what some of the responses to try to remedy this have been.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Ethnic Affairs Policy
Queensland Bureau of Ethnic Affairs
 
The policy, adopted by the State Government in 1993, is a set of six principles with the stated aim of seeking to ensure that all Queenslanders have fair and equitable access to all opportunities offered in the State.
Format: pdf | Size: 204K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland's Multicultural Policy
Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
 
The state government's 2004 policy on multiculturalism and language services: Multicultural Queensland - making a world of difference.
Format: pdf | Size: 261 KB | Length: 20 pages | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Race And Debate
Blainey, Geoffrey
 
In this 1994 article, historian Geoffrey Blainey regrets the lack of debate on immigration, criticising those he believes limit such discussion, and questioning their perception of what constitutes racism.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Racial Discrimination Act, 1975
Commonwealth of Australia
 
Selected sections of Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act, including those relating to employment, housing, and the provision of goods and services.
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  Racial Hatred Act Information Sheet
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
 
An information sheet on the 1995 Racial Hatred Act which explains what is unlawful under the Act, and what action can be taken under it.
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  Racial Hatred Act: a guide for people working in the Australian media
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
 
A guide published in 1996 explaining the implications of the Act for journalists and providing case studies to illustrate some of the important issues in the reporting of race matters.
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  Racial Hatred Bill Fact Sheet
Attorney-General's Department
 
A fact sheet put out ahead of the Racial Hatred Act coming into force in 1995, covering issues such as how the legislation will work, why changes are required and freedom of speech.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Racism, Multiculturalism and the Immigration Debate
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
In this 1985 bibliographic essay, sociologist Andrew Jakubowicz surveys the debate over the years multiculturalism came to prominence as a social program, and looks at how in the mid ‘80s anti-immigration views and economic factors have become increasingly linked
Format: pdf | Size: 344K | Length: 11 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Raising the issue of race
Antonios, Zita
 
On the 20th anniversary of both the ECC of NSW and the Racial Discrimination Act, Race Discrimination Commissioner Zita Antonios reviews the passage of the Act in 1975 and its application since, but says there is still much to achieve to eliminate racism in Australia.
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  Recognising Indigenous Rights
O’Donoghue, Lois
 
The Chairperson of ATSIC writes in 1995 that Australia is increasingly acknowledging the rights of its original inhabitants.
Format: pdf | Size: 210K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Reconciliation and its Key Issues
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
 
A pamphlet put out by the Council listing and explaining eight key issues which are an essential part of the reconciliation process.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Reconciliation at the Crossroads
Dodson, Patrick
 
The Chairperson for Aboriginal Reconciliation tells the National Press Club where the process stands in April 1996, and presents five proposals to put the nation more firmly on the track to reconciliation.
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  Reconciliation Australia: Taking Reconciliation Forward
Reconciliation Australia
 
A statement from the Directors of the Board of Reconciliation Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 476 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Reflections of Australia
Long, Malcolm
 
In 1995, the Managing Director of SBS, Malcolm Long, writes in the NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council magazine Infocus of the achievements of the multicultural broadcaster.
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  Report by the Committee of Review of the Special Broadcasting Service
Committee of Review of the Special Broadcasting Service
 
The terms of reference, synopsis, and summary of recommendations of a comprehensive review in 1984 of every aspect of SBS - Serving Multicultural Australia - the Role of Broadcasting.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Report of the Committee of Review of AIMA
Committee of Review of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs
 
Excerpts from this 1983 report, including its terms of reference, its membership, and a summary of its main recommendations, among them that AIMA be replaced by a new body, and suggestions for the new body’s structure and functions.
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  Report on the National Inquiry into Racist Violence
Race Discrimination Commissioner
 
The preface and list of findings and recommendations of this 1991 report which the Commission hails as the most comprehensive exposition of the incidence of racist violence, intimidation and harassment ever undertaken in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 303K | Length: 6 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Report on the Research Conducted in the Development of a Women from NESB Community Education Program
Office of Women’s Affairs, Northern Territory Government
 
Segments of this 1996 report, detailing how the Northern Territory’s Office of Women’s Affairs went about devising an information campaign on domestic violence for NESB women.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Restructure of immigration research activities
Ruddock, Philip
 
News release in July 1996 from the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Philip Ruddock, announcing the abolition of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Review of Australia’s Immigration Policies - Message from the Minister
Young, Mick
 
A letter from the Minister for Immigration Mick Young, sent to community organisations in 1987, along with information on government immigration policy and on the FitzGerald inquiry to encourage them to participate in the consultations of the review.
Format: pdf | Size: 278K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Robert De Niro's Waiting
Marinos, Lex
 
Actor Lex Marinos writes in 1995 about the obstacles that Australians of non-English speaking background face in the film, television and theatre industries, and speculates that an actor like Robert De Niro would have had an uphill battle for recognition had his family immigrated to Australia instead of the US.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  SBS Radio Schedule
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
 
SBS radio grows with multicultural Australia and in 2003 broadcasts in 68 languages which is more than any other broadcaster in the world. See an example of the radio programs for Australian, homeland and international news together with current affairs, interviews, community information, sport and music.
Format: pdf | Size: 48 kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  SBS Web Page
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
 
SBS Webpage examples of the sort of material that can be found on the webpage in December 1997 and December 2003. SBS launched the webpage in March 1995. Sixty-eight languages are spoken on SBS Radio with programs in more than 60 languages broadcasting on SBS Television, and Online, SBS New Media provides text and audio-on-demand services in more than 50 languages.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  SBS: The World News on the web
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
 
SBS TV broadcasts news bulletins from 19 countries in 18 languages. Click here to see their latest TV bulletin transcript
Format: pdf | Size: 288 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 24 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  SBS: Voice and Vision
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
 
Voice and Vision portrays rich cameos of multiculturalism in the SBS brochure
Format: pdf | Size: 908 kb | Length: 13 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Scattered People
Brisbane City Council
 
The link to a Brisbane City Council community website, on which refugees and asylum seekers tell about their escapes from their countries of origin and their struggles to be allowed to stay in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 40 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  School strategies to combat racism
Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
 
An indication of some of the programs that have been undertaken in schools to combat racism, with a focus on the Whole School Anti-Racism Project in New South Wales in 1995.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Second Decade to Combat Racism & Racial Discrimination
United Nations
 
The declaration by the United Nations General Assembly of this second decade, to begin in 1983, and an annex listing the programme of action for working towards the goals of the decade.
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  Second Women in Migration Conference
Ruddock, Philip
 
In the speech launching this conference in 1996, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Philip Ruddock, gives an indication of his government’s policy directions in his portfolio.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Serap Baycan with Kangaroo at Melbourne Zoo
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Serap Baycan with Kangaroo at Melbourne Zoo, (with permission S Ozdemir)
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  Settler arrivals by region of birth
Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
 
Figures for arrivals to Australia between 1984/85 and 1994/95 according to region of birth, from a BIMPR pamphlet Immigration in Brief 1995.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Settler arrivals by selected country of birth: Top 10 sources in 1994/5
Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
 
Figures for arrivals to Australia from the top ten source countries from 1984/85 to 1994/5, from a pamphlet put out by the BIMPR Immigration in Brief 1995.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic Small Business in Australia
Alcorso, Caroline; Castles, Stephen; Collins, Jock; Gibson, Katherine and Tait, David
 
The first chapter of a 1995 book which documents the experiences of immigrants involved in small business - both the dreams and the nightmares - and places them in the wider national and international social and economic contexts.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Simone Battiston's analysis of Ignazio Salemi case
Battiston, Simone
 
Read Simone Battiston's analysis of the Ignazio Salemi case. A FILE organiser, deported under the Fraser government in 1977
Format: pdf | Size: 4 MB | Length: 13 Pages | Date Added: 17 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Soap Opera in a Multicultural Australia: Home and Away v Heartbreak High
Hawthorne, Lesleyanne
 
This 1995 article looks at the general failure of soap operas on Australian television to reflect the diversity of Australian society and questions what kind of message this sends to young viewers.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Some Political Dimensions of Multiculturalism
MacPhee, Ian
 
Addressing FECCA’s 1988 Annual Congress, former Immigration Minister Ian MacPhee calls for tolerance in the face of incidents indicating a lack of understanding of multiculturalism, and suggests ways that could help in increasing acceptance of the policy and its reality in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 183K | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  South China Morning Post Report 1979
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read how an old dragon making factory in Fat Shan China was reopened after almost 30 years to make the Big Dragon to represent Victoria's Chinese Community at the 25th Moomba Festival in 1979.
Format: pdf | Size: 4.8 MB | Length: 2 Pages | Date Added: 23 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  South Sea Islanders
Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
 
Links to a section of the Queensland Government website which outlines the contributions of the state's South Sea Islanders, in spite of their regularly encountering discrimination throughout their history.
Format: pdf | Size: 51 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Special Broadcasting Service Act, 1991 - The Charter
Commonwealth of Australia
 
The SBS Charter, drawn up as part of the Special Broadcasting Service Act of 1991 which established SBS as a Corporation, sets out what is required of the network as a national broadcaster.
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  Special Broadcasting Service in the Banana Republic - Quo Vadis?
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Sociologist Andrew Jakubowicz argues that there is little saving to be made from amalgamating SBS and the ABC, saying the proposal in the 1986 Federal Budget represents a cynical political exercise which would constitute a great loss.
Format: pdf | Size: 226K | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  State and Federal support for Major ethnic initiatives
Ethnic Newsweek
 
An item in the magazine Ethnic Newsweek announces that the first National Conference of a Federal Ethnic Communities’ Council is to take place in Sydney over three days in July 1979.
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  State of the Nation: Employment
Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner
 
The chapter on employment in this 1995 report by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, which concludes that labour market outcomes for immigrants of non-English speaking background are still inferior to those for other Australians and that racial discrimination contributes to this situation.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  State, Multiculturalism and Ethnic Leadership in Australia
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Sociologist Prof. Andrew Jakubowicz outlines in this 1995 paper the evolution of ethnic political practice in Australia and the changes it will continue to undergo because of political events in other parts of the world and global trends to greater movements of people.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Statistics from the 2006 Census
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
The People of Victoria: Statistics from the 2006 Census is a major compilation of statistics on birthplace, language, religion and ancestry from the 2006 Census.
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 08 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Statistics on Italians in Australia
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Statistics on Italians in Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 132 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 06 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Strategic Plan 1995-1998
Australian Film Commission
 
Segments of this plan by this federal statutory authority and development agency for the film industry, including its statement of purpose and strategies for Indigenous representation and for diversity and originality in film and television.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Strategic Plan 2001-2003
Reconciliation Australia
 
Format: pdf | Size: 586 kb | Length: 8 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Submission to Colston Committee re: SBS/ABC merger
Sklovsky, Grisha
 
The founding chairman of SBS condemns the 1986 plan to merge SBS and the ABC, saying the cost savings don’t justify the move, that the proposal is part of ongoing obstruction of the network by some senior government members, and that SBS has provided an important bridge linking all Australians.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Sunrise newspaper takes out major ethnic business award
NSW Minister for Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs
 
Media release from the office of Minister Michael Photios announcing the Vietnamese language daily Chieu Duong (Sunrise) has received a special Ethnic Media Award at the 1993 Ethnic Business Awards.
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  Sydney Road Brunswick music festival - Slides
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Explore the 2006 Sydney Road Brunswick music festival
Format: swf | Size: | Length: 10 Slides | Date Added: 03 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Tenth Anniversary of NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council
Wran, Neville
 
An excerpt from comments by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran in 1985 to the Tenth Anniversary Ball of the Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW, in which he speaks of the Whitlam government as forever turning around attitudes to ethnic communities.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Terms of reference
Council for Multicultural Australia
 
New multicultural council is established. The CMA is established in July 2000 to implement the New Agenda of 1999. Read the terms of reference for the Council for Multicultural Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 29 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  That Was The Week That Was
Shergold, Peter
 
The editor of Ethnic Spotlight, the newsletter of FECCA, catalogues the decisions in the 1986 Budget affecting multiculturalism, arguing they amount to an abandonment of the policy by the Federal Government.
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  The Age Dec 3 1938
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read The Age reporting a 1938 campaign by Aboriginal Victorians to petition the Nazi consul in defence of Germany's Jews. Credit: With permission Melbourne Holocaust Museum
Format: jpg | Size: 56 KB | Length: 550 x 366 | Date Added: 22 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  The Argus Dec 7 1937
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read The Argus reporting a 1938 campaign by Aboriginal Victorians to petition the Nazi consul in defence of Germany's Jews. Credit: With permission Melbourne Holocaust Museum
Format: jpg | Size: 36 KB | Length: 321 x 400 | Date Added: 06 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  The challenges of religious diversity
Australian Multicultural Foundation
 
AMF Chair Sir James Gobbo reflects on the relationships between the Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam, in this 2004 talk.
Format: pdf | Size: 240 KB | Length: 19 pages | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Chinese in Victoria
Jones, Paul
 
Read Paul Jones' overview of the Chinese in Victoria and explore the Chinese-Australian Historical Images online archive http://www.chia.chinesemuseum.com.au
Format: pdf | Size: 24 KB | Length: 5 Pages | Date Added: 03 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  The Chinese Museum's story of Melbourne's Chinatown
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Melbourne’s Chinatown – Little Bourke Street area (Victoria) (c.1854 - )
Format: pdf | Size: 32 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 27 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  THE DIGITAL AGE: The Australian Digital TV Experience
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
 
Nigel Malan, the managing director of SBS presents a paper on Digital TV to ABU General Assembly, Istanbul. Read an edited version of the paper to get the scope of the interaction of multiculturalism and technology in TV. Free to Air TV in digital technology is available by the end of 2003 to all metropolitan centres excluding Canberra and 13 regional centres around Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 140 kb | Length: 6 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  The End of Multiculturalism? or... From Margins to the Centre
Castles, Stephen; Cope, Bill; Kalantzis, Mary and Totaro, Paolo
 
Two views on the “mainstreaming” of services to migrants in light of the cuts in the 1986 Budget, both criticising the Federal Government’s application of the policy, though Paolo Totaro of the NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission says it can work effectively for migrants, and has done so in his state.
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  The Greek community
Kondos, Alexandros
 
A history of the Greek community in the state through the twentieth century, and current issues and organisations, from a 2001 Queensland Government publication.
Format: pdf | Size: 580 KB | Length: 8 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The mission of the ECCQ
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd
 
The vision, mission and objectives of the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland.
Format: pdf | Size: 172 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Myth of the Ethnic Vote
Economou, Nick
 
In this 1996 article, academic Nick Economou argues that while there are clearly issues that particularly affect ethnic Australians, there is little evidence that any ethnic group can sway election outcomes.
Format: pdf | Size: 234K | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  The rock on which we stand
Jegorow, Bill
 
On the 20th anniversary of the ECC of NSW in 1995, founding chairperson Bill Jegorow emphasises the significance of the event and pays tribute to those who made the Council’s creation possible.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  The Snowy Search is On!
Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority
 
This media release in October 1996 announces the search for those who built the hydro-electric project to join in celebrations of the scheme’s 50th year in 1999.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  The state and the welfare of immigrants in Australia
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
This 1989 paper by sociologist Andrew Jakubowicz outlines the development of government policies in response to the flow of immigrants into Australia, with a focus on the welfare system, and within the context of the basic economic contradictions of Australian society.
Format: pdf | Size: 798K | Length: 28 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  The Turkish population - background
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Understand the background to The Turkish immigration
Format: pdf | Size: 16 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 02 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  The work of the ECCQ
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd
 
Various elements of the sort of work the ECCQ does to assist and support refugees and migrants.
Format: pdf | Size: 406 KB | Length: 6 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Timeline
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Explore the Immigration Museum's timeline of the 1830s to the 1890s
Format: pdf | Size: 24 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 30 January 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Timeline
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Explore the Immigration Museum's timeline of the of the 1900s to 1940s
Format: pdf | Size: 24 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 05 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Timeline (the end of 1990s and into the 21st century)
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Explore the Immigration Museum's timeline at the end of the 1990s and into the 21st century
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 02 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Timeline of the 1980s and 1990s
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Explore the Immigration Museum's timeline of the 1980s and 1990s
Format: pdf | Size: 16 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 22 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Twenty-fifth Anniversary of NSW Good Neighbour Council
Papadopoulos, George
 
At a conference on this anniversary in 1975, George Papadopoulos - then a part-time commissioner in the Social Welfare Commission - examined participation by migrants in decision-making and offered some suggestions.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Good Neighbour Council of South Australia
Whitlam, Gough
 
In a speech opening the 25th anniversary celebrations of South Australia’s Good Neighbour Council on 13 July 1974, the Prime Minister reviews his government’s achievements in migrant affairs and defends the controversial decision to reorganise the Department of Immigration.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Twenty-five years of service to migrants
Good Neighbour Council of South Australia
 
An excerpt from the program for an evening of dance and music to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Neighbour Movement of South Australia in 1974, outlining its work and calling for volunteers.
Format: pdf | Size: 149K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  UN report on racial discrimination
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read the UN report on Australia's record on racial discrimination
Format: pdf | Size: 360 KB | Length: 64 Pages | Date Added: 03 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Understanding Immigrants and the Labour Market
Brooks, Clive
 
A booklet by economist Clive Brooks, published by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research in 1996 as part of its “Understanding...” series, looks into the impact of immigration on the labour market and of the experiences of immigrants within it.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Understanding the Economics of Immigration
Williams, Lynne S.
 
An examination in 1995 of the economic effects of immigration, which concludes that on an economy-wide level, migration confers either slightly positive or neutral effects on the economy.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Understanding Where Immigrants Live
Hugo, Graeme
 
An examination in 1995 of the geographical distribution of immigrants, the causes of their geographical concentrations, and the implications of this for the migrants and for all Australians generally.
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  Unemployment and participation rates
Australian Bureau of Statistics
 
Figures derived from the Bureau of Statistics on unemployment and participation rates, by birthplace, from 1986 to 1995.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Uniting Church of Australia
Benley, Peter and Hughes, Philip J.
 
An excerpt from a 1996 report by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research on the Uniting Church, its involvement in social issues and its declining numbers.
Format: pdf | Size: 205K | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations
 
The 30 articles of this landmark United Nations declaration, adopted by the General Assembly in 1948.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Using the law...
Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
 
A summary and discussion of government action against racism through legislation, inquiries, and the establishment of the Human Rights Commission - later the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Veiled ambition - story of a Lebanese woman
Terry Hastings and Kate Dimech
 
Frida's dream is to run her own fashion business - read the study guide and then see the series
Format: pdf | Size: 1.6 MB | Length: 7 Pages | Date Added: 10 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Victoria at the 2006 Census
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Catch up with Victoria at the 2006 Census
Format: pdf | Size: 160 KB | Length: 8 Pages | Date Added: 08 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Victorian Government Human Rights Explanatory Video
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
This video introduces the Victorian Government's new Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities which becomes fully effective from 1 January 2008 and is aimed at the staff of public authorities.
Format: pdf | Size: 24 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 02 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Victorian Government Human Rights Homepage
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Human Rights are essential in a democratic and inclusive society that respects the rule of law, human dignity, equality and freedom. This section outlines Victoria's contribution to human rights protection, in the form of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (the charter), which was passed by Parliament in July 2006.
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 02 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Victorian Multicultural Commission Act of 1993
Victorian Multicultural Commission
 
Read the Victorian Multicultural Commission Act of 1993, passed by the Kennett conservative government
Format: pdf | Size: 188 KB | Length: 10 Pages | Date Added: 22 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Vietnamese in Australia: a generation of settlement and adaptation
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
This paper explores processes of cultural collision and reconstitution through an examination of four dimensions of the Vietnamese in Australia - the criminal world of the heroin trade; the position of Vietnamese women in the economy of the clothing industry; the rise and fall of criminal and politician Phuong Ngo; and the celebration of Generation 2.
Format: doc | Size: 138 Kb | Length: 18 pages | Date Added: 12 May 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Viva ECC - A National Perspective
Harbaum, Carl
 
Honorary President of FECCA and former NSW ECC chairperson, Carl Harbaum, lists the organisations that have been established to serve migrants in the two decades up to 1995, while questioning their achievements.
Format: pdf | Size: 278K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Voices of the Past in Anglo Primal Scream
Cochrane, Peter
 
This article by historian Peter Cochrane, published in The Australian in response to the 1996 maiden speech of independent MP Pauline Hanson, counters her arguments and places them within a historical context.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Weblinks and References – The Vietnamese in Australia
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Weblinks and References for further study on the Vietnamese in Australia
Format: doc | Size: 24 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  What does globalisation mean to Australia?
Australian APEC Study Centre
 
A summary of pro and anti-globalisation arguments.
Format: pdf | Size: 52 Kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  What is racism?
Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
 
An article defining racism, in the past and in the present, and how it can influence the behaviour of individuals or groups.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  What is the Racial Discrimination Act?
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
 
A fact sheet issued by the Commission which explains what racial discrimination is and how the Racial Discrimination Act works
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  What their deaths tell us about Chinese miners in Victoria
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
Read Valerie Lovejoy's The Things that Unite:Inquests into Chinese Deaths on the Bendigo Goldfields 1854-65
Format: pdf | Size: 852 KB | Length: 18 Pages | Date Added: 03 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  White Alien Immigration Report, 1944
Sub-committee on White Alien Immigration
 
Extracts from this report of 21 September 1944, which put the case for expanding the immigration intake to the countries of southern and eastern Europe, from Jerzy Zubrzycki’s Arthur Calwell and the Origin of Post-War Immigration.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Whitlam Government 1972-1975: Immigration Policy and Al Grassby
Whitlam, Gough
 
An excerpt from former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s book tells of the ALP’s policy of racial tolerance in the early 1970s and the way his Minister for Immigration, Al Grassby, was the target of a racist campaign because of his implementation of that policy.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Whitlam Government 1972-1975: The Racial Discrimination Act
Whitlam, Gough
 
Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam tells in his book The Whitlam Government 1972-1975 of the process his government followed in creating the Racial Discrimination Act in 1975.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Whitlam Government 1972-1975: “My government liberalised Australia’s immigration laws”
Whitlam, Gough
 
Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam describes how his government changed the immigration laws, and boosted services in a number of areas to migrants.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Why Blainey is Wrong
Collins, Jock
 
An excerpt from a 1984 article by economist Jock Collins, in which he argues Professor Blainey has not provided evidence to back his views on immigration, and says this comes amid shifting political positions on the issue.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Willoughby City Council
Willoughby City Council
 
Willoughby City Library’s brochure detailing sources for undertaking family histories from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Willoughby City Council
Willoughby City Council
 
Willoughby City Library’s brochure detailing sources for undertaking family histories from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Wogfood - An Oral History with Recipes
Newton, John
 
The introduction to this 1996 book, in which author John Newton explores the extraordinary influence that food brought by immigrants has had on Australian eating habits.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Wogs Still Out of Work: Australian Television Comedy as Colonial Discourse
Mitchell, Tony
 
This 1992 article says much of the television comedy about migrants confirms negative stereotypes about migrant groups, and explores the changes that occurred when the stage show Wogs out of Work was adapted to fit the requirements of TV and became Acropolis Now.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Women and Multiculturalism
Kemp, Melody
 
Melody Kemp compares her experiences on women's issues in Asia and in Australia and queries the implications of some of the directions of government and the media here for the future.
Format: pdf | Size: 171 KB | Length: 8 pages | Date Added: 05 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Year of the Millionth Migrant
Pix Magazine
 
Excerpts from a special issue of Pix magazine on 3 December 1955 marking the arrival of the millionth migrant to Australia and describing some of the success stories involving the post-war newcomers.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Youth campaigns to combat racism
Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
 
A few examples of anti-racist campaigns directed at youth, most of who are at risk as perpetrators of racist violence.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  "Food's great, but ..." Evolving attitudes to multicultural Australia, 1985 - 1995
Bailey, Carol
 
This paper by social researcher Carol Bailey compares two reports by Mackay Research conducted ten years apart and finds that there are still many areas of public concern over the policy of multiculturalism.
Format: pdf | Size: 50K | Length: 18 pages | Date Added: 10 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  "Outside the Gum Tree" - the visual arts in multicultural Australia
Andreoni, Helen
 
Segments of this 1992 report put out by the National Association for the examining the experiences, difficulties and practices of overseas-born visual artists of non-English speaking background.
Format: pdf | Size: 404K | Length: 11 pages | Date Added: 27 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  ‘The Knife Edge: debates about memory and history’
Hamilton, Paula
 
Excerpts from Paula Hamilton’s discussion of oral history’s role in interpreting and recording the past from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  ‘The Lions of Retreat Street: a Chinese temple in inner Sydney’
Choy, Harry
 
Elders of the Yiu Ming Society speak about their experiences as Chinese in Australia from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  “Don’t give up your Day Job”: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia
Australia Council for the Arts
 
An economic study of professional artists in Australia
Format: doc | Size: 21 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 February 2004 | | VIEW |

 
 
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