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  Abdel-Fattah, Randa
Living in a material world
 
Randa Abdel-Fattah writes about what it means to be an Australian Muslim today, in the face of discrimination based on misunderstood perceptions about extremism.
Format: pdf | Size: 180 KB | Length: 11 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Abdullah, Tazin
Not Without Her Make-Up
 
This is a satire written to mimic articles, reports and stories generally written about Muslim women by women from Western non-Muslim backgrounds. It is, to some extent, an attempt to convey to the readers how it feels to be ’othered’ and to be judged superficially in accordance with only one’s own perceptions.
Format: pdf | Size: 52 Kb | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Abood, Paula
Criss-cross Dressing the Orient
 
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 |
 
  Adam, Enid and Hughes, Philip J.
Buddhists in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Alcorso, Caroline and Brennan, John
ESL - A Major Equity Program
 
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 |
 
  Alcorso, Caroline
Migrant women, marginality and public policy
 
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 |
 
  Alcorso, Caroline
Newly arrived immigrant women in the work force
 
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 |
 
  Alcorso, Caroline; Castles, Stephen; Collins, Jock; Gibson, Katherine and Tait, David
Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic Small Business in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Alien Immigration Commission
Social and Economic Effect of Increase in Number of Aliens in North Queensland
 
A 1925 government report which expresses fears about non-English-speaking immigrants, and recommends caution in choosing who should be accepted, and measures for those already in the state.
Format: pdf | Size: 3.1 MB | Length: 28 pages | Date Added: 20 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Andreoni, Helen
"Outside the Gum Tree" - the visual arts in multicultural Australia
 
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 |
 
  Anmar, Abu
Survivors of the SIEVX
 
From the transcript of a videotape of survivors of the SIEVX disaster at Bogor, Indonesia in the week following the shipwreck. By Abu Anmar, of the Australian Aal Al Bayt Centre and Imam Muhammad Al-Sumyany. Translated by Keysar Trad of the Lebanese Muslims Association.
Format: doc | Size: 22 kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 22 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  ANTAR
ANTaR - Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation Website
 
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation is an independent, national network of mainly non-Indigenous organisations and individuals working in support of justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 240 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 19 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Anti-Racism Resources
List of anti-racist groups
 
A list of Anti-Racism groups and resources.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Antonios, Zita
Raising the issue of race
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Armstrong, Helen
Mapping Migrant Memories: crossing cultural borders
 
Excerpts from Helen Armstrong’s article on the places valued by migrant Australians from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Aroney, Manuel
A Question of Rights
 
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 |
 
  Arts Nexus
Arts Nexus
 
An edition of a magazine put out by Arts Nexus, an organisation for arts and cultural development in Far North Queensland.
Format: pdf | Size: 3.1 MB | Length: 36 pages | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Arts Queensland
Marketing Cultural Diversity
 
An Arts Queensland publication, providing advice for practitioners of the arts on marketing their work to people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the broader community.
Format: pdf | Size: 450 KB | Length: 32 pages | Date Added: 05 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Arts Queensland
Multicultural Arts
 
A government booklet which outlines the grants provided by Arts Queensland through its Multicultural Communities Arts Program, and a list of the groups and projects which received funding in 2003-04.
Format: pdf | Size: 190 KB | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Ashton, Paul
On the Record: a practical guide to oral history
 
Excerpts from Paul Ashton’s discussion of the value of oral sources in constructing histories from teaching heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ashton, Paul
On the Record: a practical guide to oral history
 
Excerpts from Paul Ashton’s discussion of the value of oral sources in constructing histories from teaching heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  ATSIC
ATSIC - The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Website
 
This is the official website for ATSIC, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.
Format: pdf | Size: 174 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 19 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Attorney-General's Department
Racial Hatred Bill Fact Sheet
 
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 |
 
  AusAID
AusAID: Globalisation and the Aid Program
 
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 Council for the Arts
Arts for a Multicultural Australia, 1998
 
The objectives of the 1998 Australia Council Policy on Australian Arts and Cultural Diversity.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australia Council for the Arts
Arts for a Multicultural Australia: Policy Principles 1996-99
 
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 |
 
  Australia Council for the Arts
Arts in a Multicultural Australia: Policy Objectives
 
Extensive consultations with artists and arts workers revitalises the Council's Multicultural Advisory Committee in 2002. Arts in a Multicultural Australia policy is launched and includes a 5-year strategic plan for three key areas: skilling, promotion and engagement.
Format: doc | Size: 25 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Australia Council for the Arts
Policy on Arts for a Multicultural Australia
 
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 |
 
  Australia Council for the Arts
“Don’t give up your Day Job”: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia
 
An economic study of professional artists in Australia
Format: doc | Size: 21 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Australia Council for the Arts (MAV)
Mix It Up on Cultural Citizenship
 
Multicultural Arts: Cultural Citizenship for the 21st century Transcripts: Mix It Up project presented by Milos Milandinovic, The Arts Centre; Ruth Rentschler, Deakin University; Stefan Romaniw, Multicultural Arts Victoria. Presentation made by Multicultural Arts Victoria to symposium on Multicultural Arts for the Australia Council at Parliament House, Canberra
Format: pdf | Size: 139 KB | Length: 6 Pages | Date Added: 18 January 2011 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian APEC Study Centre
What does globalisation mean to Australia?
 
A summary of pro and anti-globalisation arguments.
Format: pdf | Size: 52 Kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Broadcasting Authority
Australian Content Standard
 
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 Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
...About Woomera
 
A transcript from the Four Corners TV program.
Format: pdf | Size: 148 KB | Length: 11 pages | Date Added: 23 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Bordertown
 
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 |
 
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Interview: MacPhee
 
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 |
 
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Kuraby Mosque after the fire
 
Link to the transcript of an ABC interview with Mohammad Abdalla, in which he outlines the role in educating the community about Islam that the Kuraby Mosque has taken on since it was rebuilt, after an arson attack in 2001.
Format: pdf | Size: 48 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Key Facts
 
61% of Australians born in an overseas country are from a non-English speaking country says the 2001 census. See the comparitive statistics in the table.
Format: pdf | Size: 8 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Bureau of Statistics and Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
Birthplace of the Australian Population, 1991 and 1996
 
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 |
 
  Australian Bureau of Statistics
Population in a decade of globalisation
 
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures on the country's resident population, their sex and country of birth, from 1991 to 2001.
Format: pdf | Size: 41 KB | Length: 1 sheet | Date Added: 14 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Bureau of Statistics
Queensland's population diversity
 
Australian Bureau of Statistics historical data on Queensland from colonial status in 1859 to Federation.
Format: pdf | Size: 66 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Bureau of Statistics
Queenslands population diversity
 
Australian Bureau of Statistics population data on Queensland from the mid-1950s to 2003.
Format: pdf | Size: 282 KB | Length: 13 sheets | Date Added: 04 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Bureau of Statistics
Queensland's population in the first half of the 20th century
 
Australian Bureau of Statistics data on where immigrants to Queensland came from, and overall numbers in the state from 1901 to 1947.
Format: pdf | Size: 171 KB | Length: 9 sheets | Date Added: 03 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Bureau of Statistics
Unemployment and participation rates
 
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 |
 
  Australian Council on Population and Ethnic Affairs
Multiculturalism for all Australians
 
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 |
 
  Australian Ethnic Affairs Council
Australia as a Multicultural Society
 
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 |
 
  Australian Federal Police
National Security Public Information Campaign - Print Advertisement
 
Print advertisement from the National Security Information Campaign, September 2004.
Format: pdf | Size: 124 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 18 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Film Commission
Strategic Plan 1995-1998
 
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 |
 
  Australian Film Finance Corporation and Department of Communications and the Arts
Australian Film Finance Corporation
 
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 Institute of Multicultural Affairs
AIMA Publications List and Projects Undertaken
 
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 |
 
  Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs
Evaluation of Post Arrival Programs and Services – Summary
 
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 |
 
  Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs
First Annual Report 1979-1980 – AIMA
 
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 |
 
  Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs
Future Directions for Multiculturalism
 
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 |
 
  Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party Multiculturalism policy
 
Australian Labor Party Multiculturalism policy, 1996 from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party – Immigration Policy, 1966
 
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 Labor Party
Multicultural Australia
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Multicultural Foundation
AMF Home Page
 
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 |
 
  Australian Multicultural Foundation
AMF publications
 
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 |
 
  Australian Multicultural Foundation
Muslim Youth in Australia
 
A 2005 Forum for young Muslim Australians identifies critical issues of widespread alienation and also their desire to contribute to Australian society.
Format: pdf | Size: 100 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 06 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Multicultural Foundation
Religion, Cultural Diversity and Safeguarding Australia
 
This ground-breaking report shows how the AMF saw many of the most difficult issues of today, and prepared for them - here a report from how Australian communities are dealing with religious diversity.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Australian Multicultural Foundation
The challenges of religious diversity
 
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 |
 
  Australian Multicultural Foundation
Volunteers and the community
 
Communities depend on volunteers to meet many social needs - and here are strategies for mainstream organisations to involve ethnic communities, and ethnic communities to build their own capacities.
Format: pdf | Size: 160 KB | Length: 6 pages | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Babacan, Hurriyet and Obst, Patrica
Death, Dying and Religion
 
Sections of a book describing beliefs and practices in several non-Christian religions to help health professionals in their work with diverse patients.
Format: pdf | Size: 6.36 MB | Length: 12 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Bailey, Carol
"Food's great, but ..." Evolving attitudes to multicultural Australia, 1985 - 1995
 
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 |
 
  Banks, Glenda
Glenda Banks interviews Mabel Wang 1987
 
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 |
 
  Battiston, Simone
Simone Battiston's analysis of Ignazio Salemi case
 
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 |
 
  BBC
BBC News: America's day of terror
 
Timeline of September 11th, 2001. Published on the BBC news website. The website contains links to streaming video of some of the day's events.
Format: pdf | Size: 251 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 18 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  BBC
BBC News: Major attacks blamed on al-Qaeda
 
Since the attacks in the US on 11 September 2001, the world has seen a wave of bombings which have been blamed on or linked to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
This article is published on the BBC News website.
Format: pdf | Size: 120 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 18 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  BBC
BBC News: Who is a terrorist?
 
Report by Allan Little from the BBC news website.
Format: pdf | Size: 613 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 18 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  BBC
Making Terror, Breaking Terror
 
Extract from BBC series on terrorism and terror groups.
Format: pdf | Size: 144 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 18 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Beattie, Peter
Beattie's had a gutful of Americanisms
 
A media statement from the Queensland Premier deploring what he sees as the overuse of American words and expressions, and calling on the media and educators to hold on to Australian language.
Format: doc | Size: 24 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 20 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Beattie, Peter
Multicultural Summit
 
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 |
 
  Beazley, Kim
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - 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 |
 
  Beazley, Kim
Racial Tolerance
 
Racial Tolerance: a commonwealth parliamentary debate from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Benley, Peter and Hughes, Philip J.
Uniting Church of Australia
 
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 |
 
  Bertelli, Lidio
It's Not the Thought That Counts
 
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 |
 
  Bertone, Santina and Griffin, Gerard
Immigrant Workers and Trade Unions
 
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 |
 
  BIMPR Bulletin
Hindus and Sikhs in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Birrell, Robert
Dynamics of Multiculturalism in Australia
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Birrell, Robert
Multiculturalism: A Flawed Solution to Ethnic Diversity
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Blainey, Geoffrey
Race And Debate
 
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 |
 
  Blonski, Annette
Arts for a Multicultural Australia 1973-1991
 
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 |
 
  Bortolanza, Barbara; Choat, Ada De Munari and O'Brien, Ilma Martinuzzi
Italian Pioneers in the Innisfail District
 
Segments from a history of early Italian settlers and their descendants in the Innisfail region, from the late nineteenth century onwards.
Format: pdf | Size: 514 KB | Length: 27 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Bouma, Gary D.
Mosques and Muslim Settlement in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Bowen, Chris
Closing the Gap from Policy to Practice
 
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 |
 
  Brandle, Max
Pacific Islanders in Queensland
 
This chapter in a state government publication outlines the history of the migration of people from the South Pacific to Queensland and briefly describes the main islands from which they have come.
Format: pdf | Size: 389 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 20 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brennan, John and Alcorso, Caroline
ESL - A Major Equity Program
 
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 |
 
  Brisbane Actionweb for Refugee Collaboration
Brisbane Actionweb for Refugee Collaboration
 
Link to the BARC! website which helps groups and organisations working with refugees and asylum seekers to keep in touch and coordinate their activities.
Format: pdf | Size: 38 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane City Council
Brisbane Stories: The Chinese Connection
 
A link to a section of a community website sponsored by the Brisbane City Council, which looks at the city's Chinese communities and their contributions.
Format: pdf | Size: 49 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane City Council
Brisbane: regional and world city
 
Link to the City Council's statement of its goals for the future: "Living in Brisbane 2010", including its vision for the city's position as a regional and world city.
Format: pdf | Size: 47 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane City Council
Brisbane's multicultural strategy
 
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 City Council
Brisbane's refugee strategy
 
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 |
 
  Brisbane City Council
Deck to deck
 
Link to a Brisbane City Council community website which tells the stories of migrant families, with "decks" symbolic of their travels to their new homes, of the lifestyles they have taken up in Brisbane, and of the city's cultural links with the world.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane City Council
Islam in Brisbane
 
A 2004 Brisbane City Council publication aimed at helping Muslims feel welcome in the city and providing information on Islam for the wider community.
Format: pdf | Size: 986 KB | Length: 16 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane City Council
Migrant welcome
 
A link to Brisbane City's website where information on services to help newcomers can be accessed in several languages.
Format: pdf | Size: 39 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane City Council
Myths about refugees
 
The link to a document available on the Brisbane City Council website in several languages which explains the origins of negative perceptions of refugees and refutes these myths through factual information.
Format: pdf | Size: 39 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane City Council
Scattered People
 
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 |
 
  Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre
Artists link up
 
Link to a website set up by BEMAC allowing artists to connect through posting their artwork.
Format: pdf | Size: 33 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre
Cultural diversity in the arts
 
Text from the website for BEMAC - the Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre - and a link to it. This organisation provides services and advocacy for artists and groups.
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  Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre
Kosovski Bozuri Folkloric
 
Serbian community dance group and an explanation of its aims to retain an appreciation of the Serbian culture among its members.
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  Brooks, Clive
Understanding Immigrants and the Labour Market
 
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 |
 
  Bulletin magazine
Chinese Invasion of Australia
 
An editorial from the Bulletin magazine of September 1, 1886 demonstrates the ignorance and prejudices of the day towards Chinese migrants.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Bulletin magazine
Premier and the Pariah
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
BIMPR Projects and Publications
 
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 |
 
  Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research and Australian Bureau of Statistics
Birthplace of the Australian Population, 1991 and 1996
 
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 |
 
  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 |
 
  Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
Demography 1975-95
 
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 |
 
  Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
Settler arrivals by region of birth
 
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 |
 
  Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research
Settler arrivals by selected country of birth: Top 10 sources in 1994/5
 
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 |
 
  Bureau of Immigration and Population Research
Immigrant Families: A Statistical Profile
 
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 |
 
  Burke, David and Hughes, Philip J.
Presbyterians in Australia
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Calwell, Arthur
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Arthur Calwell, August 1945
 
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 |
 
  Calwell, Arthur
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Arthur Calwell, November 1946
 
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 |
 
  Calwell, Arthur
How Many Australians Tomorrow?
 
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 |
 
  Calwell, Arthur
Letter to the Federated Ironworkers’ Association
 
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 |
 
  Campbell, Graeme
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Graeme Campbell
 
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 |
 
  Campbell, Graeme
Racial Tolerance
 
Racial Tolerance: a commonwealth parliamentary debate from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Canterbury City Council
Muslims in Australia
 
A brief history of the Muslim Community in Australia, published at the Islamic Council of NSW website.
Format: pdf | Size: 212 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Carli, Carlo
Carlo Carli on The Italian Impact on public culture in Victoria
 
Format: mov | Size: 6.9 MB|360x286 | Length: 02min38sec | Date Added: 21 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Cass, Naomi
Giving praise where praise is due: Australian Arabic Council Media Awards 1995
 
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 |
 
  Castles, Stephen; Cope, Bill and Kalantzis, Mary
Access to Excellence: Overview Report
 
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 |
 
  Castles, Stephen; Alcorso, Caroline; Collins, Jock; Gibson, Katherine and Tait, David
Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic Small Business in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Castles, Stephen; Cope, Bill; Kalantzis, Mary and Totaro, Paolo
The End of Multiculturalism? or... From Margins to the Centre
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Castro, Alex
Alex Castro's discussion
 
Read Alex Castro's discussion of Melbourne Italian filmmaker of the 1950s and 1960s Giorgio Mangiamele
Format: pdf | Size: 24 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 15 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Chan, Angela
Brave New World
 
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 |
 
  Chinese Museum
Melbourne’s 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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Choat, Ada De Munari; Bortolanza, Barbara and O'Brien, Ilma Martinuzzi
Italian Pioneers in the Innisfail District
 
Segments from a history of early Italian settlers and their descendants in the Innisfail region, from the late nineteenth century onwards.
Format: pdf | Size: 514 KB | Length: 27 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Choy, Harry
‘The Lions of Retreat Street: a Chinese temple in inner Sydney’
 
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 |
 
  Chuong, John
The Vietnamese community
 
An overview of the historic events in Vietnam which resulted in many refugees fleeing, and of the customs and traditions they brought with them, from a 2001 Queensland Government publication.
Format: pdf | Size: 282 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 27 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Cleland, Bilal
Islam in Australia
 
An excerpt of a history by Bilal Cleland which describes early contacts with and influences of Muslims in northern Australia. A second excerpt outlines the importance of Afghan camel teams in the opening up of the interior.
Format: pdf | Size: 580 KB | Length: 26 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Cochrane, Peter
Voices of the Past in Anglo Primal Scream
 
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 |
 
  Collins, Jock; Alcorso, Caroline; Castles, Stephen; Gibson, Katherine and Tait, David
Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic Small Business in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Collins, Jock
Why Blainey is Wrong
 
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 |
 
  Committee for the Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Vietnamese Refugee Settlement in Queensland
Looking back on 30 years of migration
 
A brief history of the settlement of the Vietnamese in Queensland, who arrived after escaping the war in their homeland.
Format: pdf | Size: 9.1 MB | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 27 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Committee of Review of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs
Report of the Committee of Review of AIMA
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Committee of Review of the Special Broadcasting Service
Report by the 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 |
 
  Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies
Australia’s Immigration Future
 
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 |
 
  Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies
Immigration - A Commitment to Australia: Executive Summary
 
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 |
 
  Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies
Immigration - A Commitment to Australia: Recommendations
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Committee to Advise on Australia’s Immigration Policies
Immigration - A Commitment to Australia: Terms of Reference
 
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 |
 
  Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training
Schools material on Asia
 
Link to the Voices and Visions website, which describes a series of CD-ROMs put out by the Commonwealth Education Department, containing senior secondary materials on Asian cultures and societies.
Format: pdf | Size: 49 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council
First Report on the progress and assimilation of migrant children in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Commonwealth of Australia and Queensland Art Gallery
Appreciating Asian-Pacific art
 
Ways to study and look at contemporary Asian-Pacific art, from the Asia-Pacific Triennial Contemporary Art exhibition, held at the Queensland Art Gallery in September 2002.
Format: pdf | Size: 453 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 20 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth of Australia
Australia and Refugees, 1901–2002: An Annotated Chronology Based on Official Sources
 
This detailed chronology is based on official sources and covers a long and complex period of Australian immigration and refugee experience, the years 1901 to 2002.
Format: pdf | Size: 3.4 Mb | Length: 161 pages | Date Added: 27 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth of Australia
Australian Citizenship Pledge and Certificate of Citizenship
 
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 |
 
  Commonwealth of Australia
Immigration Restriction Act, 1901
 
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 |
 
  Commonwealth of Australia
Migration Act 1958, The Schedule, Section 3
 
This schedule shows the number of changes to legislation dealing with immigration from the original Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 until 1958.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth of Australia
MULTICULTURAL AUSTRALIA: UNITED IN DIVERSITY
 
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 |
 
  Commonwealth of Australia
Native Title Act 1993
 
The preamble to the Native Title Act of 1993, which explains the history behind it and outlines the government’s intentions through the Act.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth of Australia
Racial Discrimination Act, 1975
 
Selected sections of Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act, including those relating to employment, housing, and the provision of goods and services.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth of Australia
Special Broadcasting Service Act, 1991 - The Charter
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Commonwealth of Australia
White Australia
 
Links to documents on the National Archives of Australia website which outline legislation and other government action to install a White Australia policy - to remain in force for well over half the twentieth century.
Format: pdf | Size: 39 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Community Relations Commission For a multicultural NSW
Delivering Services for Diversity: Good Practice in EAPS
 
Read some examples of good practice in EAPS
Format: pdf | Size: 45 kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Community Relations Commission For a multicultural NSW
National Multicultural Marketing Awards
 
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 |
 
  Cope, Bill; Castles, Stephen and Kalantzis, Mary
Access to Excellence: Overview Report
 
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 |
 
  Cope, Bill
Letter to friends and supporters of BIMPR
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Cope, Bill; Castles, Stephen; Kalantzis, Mary and Totaro, Paolo
The End of Multiculturalism? or... From Margins to the Centre
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
Reconciliation and its Key Issues
 
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 |
 
  Council for Multicultural Australia
Terms of reference
 
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 |
 
  Coupe, Bronwyn; Jakubowicz, Andrew and Randall, Lois
Nextdoor Neighbours
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Cummings, Karen; Gibbings, Beth; Jakubowicz, Andrew and Meekosha, Helen
Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Executive Summary
 
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 |
 
  Cummings, Karen; Gibbings, Beth; Jakubowicz, Andrew and Meekosha, Helen
Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Summary of Recommendations
 
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 |
 
  Dang, Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen
Identity and Change
 
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 |
 
  Deakin, Alfred
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - The case for national racial unity
 
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 |
 
  Deane, William
Multiculturalism and Reconciliation in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Deane, William
Understanding and implementing good governance for Indigenous communities and regions
 
Read Sir William Deane's speech at the 2002 Conference on Indigenous governance
Format: pdf | Size: 134 kb | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Dellal, Hass
Hass Dellal on his childhood
 
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 |
 
  Department of Communications and the Arts and Australian Film Finance Corporation
Australian Film Finance Corporation
 
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 |
 
  Department of Education and the Arts, Queensland Government
Asian-Australian studies
 
A link to a section of the Queensland Department of Education and the Arts website that outlines the aims of the study program on Asia and Asian-Australian relations undertaken in the state's schools.
Format: pdf | Size: 44 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Department of Education and Training Australia
Racism no way
 
Link to the Queensland section of a Commonwealth initiative to combat racism in schools, containing a list of programs in the state with similar goals and the links to them.
Format: pdf | Size: 37 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Department of Education and Training Australia
Spotlight on Racism
 
Community leader Evelyn Scott tells of her experiences of racism and gives advice on how to deal with it, from the "Racism no way" website.
Format: pdf | Size: 239 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Department of Education and Training Australia
Torres Strait Islanders
 
Information on the Torres Strait Islander community, from the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training's "Racism no way" initiative.
Format: pdf | Size: 95 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs
Fifty Years of Post-War Migration
 
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 |
 
  Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs
National Consultations on Multiculturalism and Citizenship
 
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 |
 
  Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
Achievements of the Good Neighbour Movement 1949-72
 
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 |
 
  Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
Living in Harmony - an overview
 
This document is the Government’s outline of the antiracism education and awareness campaign, released at the launch of the campaign.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
Australian Multiculturalism for a New Century: Towards inclusiveness
 
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 |
 
  Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
Fact Sheet: Migrant Community Services
 
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 |
 
  Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
Fact Sheet: Over Fifty Years of Post War Immigration
 
A Fact Sheet containing facts and statistics on Australia's immigration after World War Two.
Format: pdf | Size: 32 Kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
The Wacol Migrant Centre, 1949-1987
 
Introduction to a book comprising the stories of some of the thousands of people who lived for a time at the Wacol Migrant Centre, near Brisbane, over its nearly 40 year existence.
Format: pdf | Size: 110 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Department of State Development, Queensland
Commitment to overseas markets reaps rewards
 
An example of calling on the skills and knowledge of the state's culturally diverse population to help do business, citing the successes of a developer of library management systems in Asia.
Format: pdf | Size: 301 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 20 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Department of State Development, Trade and Innovation
Key export markets
 
Link to a Queensland Government webpage outlining key export markets for the state, including Australia's Asian and Pacific neighbours, and further linking to information about specific markets.
Format: pdf | Size: 48 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 20 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Department of State Development, Trade and Innovation
Queensland's exports
 
A government information sheet on the state's exports in 2004/05, including to significant Asian markets, showing the importance of these to the Queensland economy.
Format: pdf | Size: 66 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 20 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Departments of Employment Services and Youth Affairs; and Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs
Ministers announce national policy on languages
 
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 |
 
  Diafrix
Diafrix MySpace page
 
Diafrix My Space page explores the music of the group, their influences and their fan relationships.
Format: pdf | Size: 29 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 12 January 2011 | | VIEW |
 
  Dickinson, Jan and Dignan, Don
The Italian community
 
A history of Italian migration to Queensland, from the late nineteenth century to the present day, from a 2001 state government publication.
Format: pdf | Size: 1.2 MB | Length: 14 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Dignan, Don and Dickinson, Jan
The Italian community
 
A history of Italian migration to Queensland, from the late nineteenth century to the present day, from a 2001 state government publication.
Format: pdf | Size: 1.2 MB | Length: 14 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Dodson, Patrick
Reconciliation at the Crossroads
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Downer, Alexander
Globalisation or Globaphobia: Does Australia have a choice ?
 
Speech by The Hon Alexander Downer, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the National Press Club, Canberra, 1 December 1997.
Format: doc | Size: 30 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 20 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Dunn, Kevin and Forrest, Jim
Queensland racism: a graphical analysis
 
Attitudes towards cultural diversity in different parts of the state are mapped and analysed, based on information from a 2001 survey.
Format: pdf | Size: 159 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Dunne, Clare
AIMA Axed
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Dunstan, Don
Ending of White Australia by Don Dunstan - 2
 
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 |
 
  Easteal, Patricia
Domestic violence in immigrant communities
 
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 |
 
  Economou, Nick
The Myth of the Ethnic Vote
 
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 |
 
  Edmund Rice Centre
Debunking More Myths about Asylum Seekers
 
The second edition of a publication by the Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education and the Australian Catholic University on asylum seekers.
Format: doc | Size: 360 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 23 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Edmund Rice Centre
Debunking the Myths about Asylum Seekers
 
A joint publication of Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education and the School of Education, Australian Catholic University.
Format: doc | Size: 644 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 23 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Education Queensland
Under the skin
 
Link to an Education Queensland website which outlines teaching of anti-racism units in the state's schools.
Format: pdf | Size: 37 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Equity and Diversity Unit University of Technology, Sydney; South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission and UNICEF
National Days, Festivals and Celebrations
 
A selection of the major holidays and festivals celebrated by various multicultural and ethnic communities in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Action Movement, Fitzroy Ecumenical Centre
Ethnic rights - Recommendations for a Multi-Cultural Australia
 
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 |
 
  Ethnic Affairs Commission of New South Wales
Female Genital Mutilation: Your Questions Answered
 
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 |
 
  Ethnic Affairs Commission of New South Wales
NSW Charter of Principles for a Culturally Diverse Society
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Affairs Commission of New South Wales
Participation: Report to the Premier 1978
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Affairs Commission of NSW
NSW Charter of Principles for a Culturally Diverse Society
 
Charter of Principles for a Culturally Diverse Society–Handbook 1997 from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Broadcasting Association of Queensland
Masters of their own Broadcasting Destiny
 
A history of ethnic community broadcasting in Australia and Queensland.
Format: pdf | Size: 3.4 MB | Length: 18 pages | Date Added: 04 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Broadcasting Association of Queensland
The Emergence of the Ethnic Press: World War II and Beyond
 
An account of the way language difficulties and the aim to maintain community links among post-war migrants to Queensland led to the creation of many new ethnic media outlets.
Format: pdf | Size: 2.5 MB | Length: 20 pages | Date Added: 27 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
Listening to Emerging Voices
 
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 |
 
  Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
 
Link to the homepage of the ECCQ, which groups individuals and ethnic organisations across Queensland and represents their interests.
Format: pdf | Size: 36 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd
The ECCQ from the 1970s to today
 
A brief history of the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland from its founding in 1976.
Format: pdf | Size: 66 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd
The mission of the ECCQ
 
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 |
 
  Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd
The work of the ECCQ
 
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 |
 
  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 Newsweek
State and Federal support for Major ethnic initiatives
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnos magazine
Federal Budget 1986/87 Implications for Ethnic Affairs
 
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 |
 
  Evans, Ray
Anti Chinese riot in Brisbane, 1888
 
Ray Evans describes a day of violence against the Chinese, part of a wave of racist sentiment across Australia, during a year of "racial panic."
Format: pdf | Size: 92 KB | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Evans, Gareth
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Gareth Evans
 
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 |
 
  Facci, Franca
Illawarra Migrant Resource Centre (Annual Report)
 
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 |
 
  Fahey, John
Australia’s Rich Resource
 
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 |
 
  Falk, Catherine
Hmong Funeral in Australia in 1992
 
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 |
 
  FECCA
FECCA DRAFT POLICIES: RACISM, RECONCILIATION AND MULTICULTURALISM
 
FECCA conference 2002 drafts a policy on Racism, Reconciliation and Multiculturalism. Read about the issues and the responses in this policy draft.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner
State of the Nation: Employment
 
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 |
 
  Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations
Advisory Notes to the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice
 
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 |
 
  Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils
FECCA response to the discussion paper “Towards a National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia”
 
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 |
 
  Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia
FECCA Log of Claims, 1996 Federal Election Kit
 
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 |
 
  Flinders, Matthew
Excerpt from Matthew Flinders' log, 1802
 
Explorer Matthew Flinders describes some of the people with whom he came into contact in what would later become northern Queensland, in his A Voyage to Terra Australis.
Format: pdf | Size: 1.16 MB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Fong, King
Chinese people and political change in Australia
 
King Fong speaks on Chinese people and political change in Australia from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Forrest, Jim and Dunn, Kevin
Queensland racism: a graphical analysis
 
Attitudes towards cultural diversity in different parts of the state are mapped and analysed, based on information from a 2001 survey.
Format: pdf | Size: 159 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Fraser, Malcolm
Migrant Services and Programs - Statement by the Prime Minister
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Fraser, Malcolm
Multiculturalism: Australia’s Unique Achievement
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Fraser, Malcolm
Perspectives of Multiculturalism in Australia
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Fraser, Malcolm
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's view of multiculturalism
 
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 |
 
  Ganter, Regina
Turn the map upside down
 
Regina Ganter revisions Australia's history from a northern point of view.
Format: pdf | Size: 193 KB | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 21 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Georgopoulos, Debbie
Migrant Women’s Shuffle: 2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back
 
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 |
 
  Gibbings, Beth; Cummings, Karen; Jakubowicz, Andrew and Meekosha, Helen
Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Executive Summary
 
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 |
 
  Gibbings, Beth; Cummings, Karen; Jakubowicz, Andrew and Meekosha, Helen
Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Summary of Recommendations
 
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 |
 
  Gibson, Katherine; Alcorso, Caroline; Castles, Stephen; Collins, Jock and Tait, David
Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic Small Business in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Gobbo, Sir James
Common morality of the Abrahamic religions
 
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 |
 
  Godley, Stephen and Hughes, Philip J.
Eastern Orthodox in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Good Neighbour Council of South Australia
Twenty-five years of service to migrants
 
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 |
 
  Goodman, James
The WEF: Capital’s First International ?
 
Outlines the role played by the World Economic Forum (WEF). It was used by the 'S 11' protest against the forum as a backgrounder.
Format: doc | Size: 24 Kb | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 20 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Gopalkrishnan, Narayan
Cultural Diversity and Civic Participation
 
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 |
 
  Gopalkrishnan, Narayan
Globalisation from above and below
 
Narayan Gopalkrishnan examines the impacts of economic globalisation, especially the increasing numbers of global poor it has produced, and puts forward some possible responses to this at the community level.
Format: pdf | Size: 120 KB | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 14 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Government of South Australia
Declaration of Principles for a Multicultural 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 |
 
  Government of Tasmania
Principles for Tasmania's Culturally Diverse Society
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Grassby, Al
A multi-cultural society for the future
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Grassby, Al
Australia’s Decade of Decision
 
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 |
 
  Grassby, Al
The Minister for Immigration speaks on a multi-cultural society
 
A Multicultural Society for the Future, Prepared for a symposium in Melbourne 11 August 1973 from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Greiner, Nick
Australia’s Multicultural Democracy
 
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 |
 
  Griffin, Gerard and Bertone, Santina
Immigrant Workers and Trade Unions
 
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 |
 
  Griffith University
Griffith University Multi-Faith Centre
 
Link to information on Griffith University's Multi-Faith Centre, set up in 2002 as a venue for research by people of diverse religious traditions and for inter-faith dialogue and education.
Format: pdf | Size: 43 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Gunew, Sneja
Performing Australian Ethnicity: 'Helen Demidenko'
 
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?
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Gyngell, Bruce
Multicultural Television – The most exciting idea in broadcasting...
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Hall, Doug and Queensland Art Gallery
Asia-Pacific Contemporary Art
 
Introduction from the director of the Queensland Art Gallery, Doug Hall, to the 2002 Asia-Pacific Triennial Contemporary Art exhibition, which included work from sixteen artists from the region.
Format: pdf | Size: 112 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 20 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Hall, Jaslyn
Our Sanitised Multiculturalism
 
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 |
 
  Hall, Jaslyn
Our Sanitised Multiculturalism
 
Media commitment to cultural diversity from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Hamilton, Paula
‘The Knife Edge: debates about memory and history’
 
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 |
 
  Hanson, Pauline
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Hanson’s maiden speech
 
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 |
 
  Harbaum, Carl
Viva ECC - A National Perspective
 
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 |
 
  Harrison, Donyale
Are YOU a racist?
 
A quiz on attitudes, included in a handbook Racism Sux published in 1995 by the University of Sydney’s Students’ Representative Council.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Hatzimanolis, Efi
Multiple Ethnicity Disorders: Demidenko and the cult of ethnicity
 
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 |
 
  Hawke, Bob
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate: Government’s Position on Multiculturalism
 
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 |
 
  Hawke, Bob
Launch of the National Languages Institute of Australia
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Hawke, Bob
National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia launch
 
Excerpts from the Prime Minister’s speech at the launch of The National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia in 1989 in Sydney
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Hawke, Bob
Opening Address, 1988 FECCA Congress
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Hawthorne, Lesleyanne
Aspects of Australian Multiculturalism - achievements, disappointments, prospects
 
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 |
 
  Hawthorne, Lesleyanne
Qualifications recognition for skilled NESB women
 
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 |
 
  Hawthorne, Lesleyanne
Soap Opera in a Multicultural Australia: Home and Away v Heartbreak High
 
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 |
 
  Henderson, Ronald
Poverty in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Howard, John
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - John Howard
 
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
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Howard, John
John Howard on Multiculturalism
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Howard, John
Racial Tolerance
 
Racial Tolerance: a commonwealth parliamentary debate from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Hudson, Wayne
Religious Citizenship
 
Wayne Hudson calls on Australia to develop a new notion of pluralist religious citizenship which would serve as a model for the rest of the world, at a 2001 Queensland multicultural summit.
Format: pdf | Size: 97 KB | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Hughes, Philip J.
Baptists in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Hughes, Philip J. and Adam, Enid
Buddhists in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Hughes, Philip J. and Godley, Stephen
Eastern Orthodox in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Hughes, Philip J. and Schild, Maurice E.
Lutherans in Australia
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Hughes, Philip J. and Burke, David
Presbyterians in Australia
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Hughes, Philip J. and Benley, Peter
Uniting Church of Australia
 
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 |
 
  Hugo, Graeme
Understanding Where Immigrants Live
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Battles Small and Great
 
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 |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Community consultation
 
A participant in the Isma - Listen consultations, conducted by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, suggests a strategy to address prejudice.
Format: mov | Size: 444 KB | Length: 21 s | Date Added: 07 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Cyber-racism: Racial Hatred on the Internet
 
HEREOC considers issues of cyber-racism through racial vilification legislation together with internet regulation regimes. Read some legal cases and also a presentation on cyber-racism by Dr Jonas
Format: pdf | Size: 53 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Face the Facts: Questions and Answers about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
 
Read questions and answers about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Format: pdf | Size: 254 KB | Length: 11 pages | Date Added: 19 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Face the Facts: Questions and Answers About Refugees and Asylum Seekers
 
Nine questions and answers about refugees and asylum seekers, and links to further material.
Format: pdf | Size: 348 KB | Length: 10 KB | Date Added: 23 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
How the Racial Discrimination Act Serves all Australians
 
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 |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
How to make a complaint
 
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 |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Islamophobia: is it racism?
 
A web forum considering Islamophobia as a new form of racism.
Format: pdf | Size: 156 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Isma - Listen
 
Documents resulting from community consultations carried out by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in 2003 on ways to eliminate prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australians.
Format: pdf | Size: 679 KB | Length: 32 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Isma - Listen: National consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australians
 
A consultation hosted by the Islamic Council of NSW, Lakemba, 10 June 2003.
Format: pdf | Size: 336 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Key Events and the Racial Discrimination Act
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Racial Hatred Act Information Sheet
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
Racial Hatred Act: a guide for people working in the Australian media
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
What is the Racial Discrimination Act?
 
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 |
 
  Human Rights Watch
The Story of Fatima
 
The Story of Fatima (not her real name) taken from Human Rights Watch interview no. 6, Cisawa, Indonesia, April 11, 2002. It details her flight from Iraq.
Format: doc | Size: 33 Kb | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 22 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Hussein, Jamila
Woman and Islam: Muslim Women in Multi-faith Australia
 
A powerpoint presentation that describes muslim women in Australia
Format: ppt | Size: 44 Kb | Length: 15 slides | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Ibrahim, Mahmoud
Arab Muslims in Queensland
 
Mahmoud Ibrahim outlines the practices of Islam and the origins of Arab Muslims in Queensland, as well as their history, institutions and traditions.
Format: pdf | Size: 63 KB | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | 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 |
 
  Immigration Advisory Council
Committee on Community Relations
 
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 |
 
  Immigration Advisory Council, Committee on Social Patterns
Inquiry into the departure of settlers from Australia
 
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 |
 
  Immigration Museum, Victoria
Immigrant women and their role in the rise of multiculturalism
 
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 |
 
  Immigration Planning Council
Australia’s Immigration Programme for the Period 1968-1973
 
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 |
 
  Infocus
Ethnic Editorials - a selection of opinion
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ip, David; Kitay, Jim; Lever-Tracy, Constance; Phillips, Irene and Tracy, Noel
Asian Entrepreneurs in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Ip, David
Taiwanese community
 
David Ip explores the settlement difficulties of immigrants from Taiwan over the 1990s and makes comparisons with those arriving from Mainland China and Hong Kong.
Format: pdf | Size: 432 KB | Length: 21 pages | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
"White Alien" research resources, National Archives of Australia.
 
"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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
A Quintessential Collision
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
A report on Globalism and Education, RMIT University
 
A report on Globalism and Education, RMIT University
Format: pdf | Size: 224 KB | Length: 8 Pages | Date Added: 16 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Arabs and Muslims in Victoria
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Arts and cultural diversity in Victoria
 
The Festival of All nations provided the artistic dimension of the political thrust towards multiculturalism. By 2010 the Fringe was mainstream, as Candy Bowers shows.
Format: jpg | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 06 September 2010 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Auditing Multiculturalism: the Australian empire a generation after Galbally
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Auditing Multiculturalism: the Australian empire a generation after Galbally
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Australia at the 2006 Census
 
Catch up with Australia at the 2006 Census
Format: pdf | Size: 188 KB | Length: 7 Pages | Date Added: 08 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Background report by RMIT on multicultural education
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Brawley's account of the struggle by Annie O'Keefe
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Chinese image archive
 
Explore the Chinese-Australian Historical Images online archive
Format: pdf | Size: 16 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 26 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Combating Racism and Prejudice
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Community according to Sydney Road by Laura Donati
 
Laura Donati writes on Community according to Sydney Road, Brunswick.
Format: pdf | Size: 32 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 27 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Cultural Precincts Enhancement Fund
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Details of Italian arrivals in Australia
 
Details of Italian arrivals in Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 132 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 15 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Diversity of Sydney Road Brunswick
 
Read about the diversity of Sydney Road Brunswick
Format: pdf | Size: 436 KB | Length: 2 Pages | Date Added: 03 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Early Muslim pioneers
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Emilio Russo house in Coburg
 
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.
Format: jpg | Size: 76 KB | Length: 550x366 | Date Added: 15 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew; Cummings, Karen; Gibbings, Beth and Meekosha, Helen
Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Executive Summary
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew; Cummings, Karen; Gibbings, Beth and Meekosha, Helen
Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Summary of Recommendations
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew and Seneviratne, Kalinga
Ethnic conflict and the Australian media
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Fear and Loathing in Ipswich: Exploring Mainstream and Anabranch in the Race Debate
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
First Anti-Chinese legislation passed in 1855
 
Examine the first Anti-Chinese legislation passed by the new colony of Victoria in 1855
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 03 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Government attacks nation’s public culture
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
History of Moreland
 
Moreland City Council and Brunswick locality
Format: pdf | Size: 16 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 16 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Immigration Museum's Timeline 1950s and 1960s
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Immigration timeline
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Introduction
 
Read Prof Andrew Jakubowicz's introduction to the Making of Multicultural Australia
Format: doc | Size: 33Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 04 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Introduction
 
Format: doc | Size: 33 Kb | Length: | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Italian Immigration Fact sheet 1850-1900
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Italian perspectives on Australian identity
 
Read how Gaetano Rando explains Raffaello Carboni’s perception of Australia and Australian identity
Format: pdf | Size: 140 KB | Length: 21 Pages | Date Added: 05 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Italian speakers on the goldfields of the Great Dividing Range
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
John Brumby on the Victoria's Multicultural Policy
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
John Lack's reflections of the 1950s
 
Read John Lack's reflections on coming of age in Melbourne of the 1950s
Format: pdf | Size: 56 KB | Length: 6 Pages | Date Added: 12 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Key legislation for White Australia
 
Key legislation for White Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 24 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 05 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Keynotes on Religions of Victoria
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Melbourne's Dai Loong Association Inc.
 
Melbourne Dai Loong Association - Continuing a 100-year tradition of dragon parades in Melbourne, Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 27 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 27 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Memorial to Gov. Darling by Chinese merchants of Ballarat, 1863
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Multicultural Arts Victoria
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Muslims in Australia
 
Muslims in Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 40 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 11 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Myths about Migration and Australia
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew; Coupe, Bronwyn and Randall, Lois
Nextdoor Neighbours
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Origins
 
Explore the Origins of Victoria's immigrant communities
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 30 January 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Passages for the dictation test
 
Passages for the dictation test
Format: pdf | Size: 24 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 05 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Petition to the Governor, 1861 from European and Chinese residents of Ararat
 
Read this petition from Europeans and chinese urging the Governor to reduce the residence (or poll) tax on Chinese in the colony
Format: pdf | Size: 692 KB | Length: 7 Pages | Date Added: 02 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Petition to the Governor, from Chinese residents of Victoria on education for miners
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Racism, Multiculturalism and the Immigration Debate
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Serap Baycan with Kangaroo at Melbourne Zoo
 
Serap Baycan with Kangaroo at Melbourne Zoo, (with permission S Ozdemir)
Format: jpg | Size: 88 KB | Length: 550 x 379 | Date Added: 17 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
South China Morning Post Report 1979
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Special Broadcasting Service in the Banana Republic - Quo Vadis?
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
State, Multiculturalism and Ethnic Leadership in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Statistics from the 2006 Census
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Statistics on Italians in Australia
 
Statistics on Italians in Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 132 KB | Length: 3 Pages | Date Added: 06 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Sydney Road Brunswick music festival - Slides
 
Explore the 2006 Sydney Road Brunswick music festival
Format: swf | Size: | Length: 10 Slides | Date Added: 03 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
The Age Dec 3 1938
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
The Argus Dec 7 1937
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
The Chinese Museum's story of Melbourne's Chinatown
 
Melbourne’s Chinatown – Little Bourke Street area (Victoria) (c.1854 - )
Format: pdf | Size: 32 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 27 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
The state and the welfare of immigrants in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
The Turkish population - background
 
Understand the background to The Turkish immigration
Format: pdf | Size: 16 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 02 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Timeline
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Timeline
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Timeline (the end of 1990s and into the 21st century)
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Timeline of the 1980s and 1990s
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
UN report on racial discrimination
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Victoria as the heartland of diversity (before 1900)
 
Commentary
Format: pdf | Size: 12 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 29 January 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Victoria at the 2006 Census
 
Catch up with Victoria at the 2006 Census
Format: pdf | Size: 160 KB | Length: 8 Pages | Date Added: 08 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Victoria Religious Ceremonies -- Slide 5
 
Format: pdf | Size: 70 KB | Length: 550 x 400 | Date Added: 19 January 2011 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Victorian Government Human Rights Explanatory Video
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Victorian Government Human Rights Homepage
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Vietnamese in Australia: a generation of settlement and adaptation
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Weblinks and References - Asylum Seekers
 
Weblinks and references for further reading on asylum seekers
Format: doc | Size: 24 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 22 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Weblinks and References – Globalisation
 
Weblinks and references on globalisation
Format: doc | Size: 26 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 20 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Weblinks and References – Refugees
 
Weblinks and references for further reading on refugees
Format: doc | Size: 24 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Weblinks and References – The Vietnamese in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
Weblinks and References: Islam
 
Weblinks and references for further information on Islam
Format: doc | Size: 24 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Jakubowicz, Andrew
What their deaths tell us about Chinese miners in Victoria
 
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 |
 
  Jayasuriya, Laksiri
Citizenship and Republicanism in a Multicultural Nation
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Jayasuriya, Laksiri
Key issues in Citizenship and Republicanism
 
Key issues in Citizenship and Republicanism by Emeritus Prof Laksiri Jayasuriya from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Jayasuriya, Laksiri
Multiculturalism in Australia
 
n this 1985 article, Western Australian sociologist Prof. Laksiri Jayasuriya explores the philosophy and rationale of multiculturalism and underlying social policies.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Jegorow, Bill
The rock on which we stand
 
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 |
 
  Jonas, William
Face the Facts: Website Introduction
 
Dr Bill Jonas the Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner says that in 2003 race and racism are still burning issues in Australian society. The furore over refugees, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim prejudices abound and need to be addressed. Read Face the Facts at the HREOC website to debunk some of the myths
Format: pdf | Size: 30 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 March 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Jonas, William
National Consultations: Racism and Civil Society
 
Australia participates in the United Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 31 August - 8 September 2001 in Durban, South Africa
Format: pdf | Size: 64 kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Jonas, William
"I want respect and equality": A Summary of Consultations with Civil Society on Racism in Australia
 
"I want respect and equality " summarises the oucomes of national consultations on racism across Australia in 2001. The 29 recommendations come from public meetings, written submissions and focus groups suggests that racism is a serious problem that affects any people in Australia. Read the Forward and Introduction from this publication.
Format: pdf | Size: 72 kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Jonathan Pickering
Globalisation: A threat to Australian culture?
 
Read Jonathan Pickering's essay on the relationship between globalisation and Australian culture.
Format: pdf | Size: 148 KB | Length: 14 pages | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Jones, Paul
The Chinese in Victoria
 
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 |
 
  Jupp, James
A Call for Courageous Leadership
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Jupp, James
Future Directions for Multicultural Policy
 
James Jupp suggests multicultural policy for the future, taking into account the various dimensions of contemporary policy and debate.
Format: pdf | Size: 93 KB | Length: 6 pages | Date Added: 05 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Jupp, James
Multiculturalism: A look at research in the future
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Kaddour, Sarwet
The Portrayal of Muslim Women in the Media
 
The views of a 21 year old Muslim woman, "born and raised in the land Down Under".
Format: doc | Size: 20 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Kalantzis, Mary; Castles, Stephen and Cope, Bill
Access to Excellence: Overview Report
 
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 |
 
  Kalantzis, Mary; Castles, Stephen; Cope, Bill and Totaro, Paolo
The End of Multiculturalism? or... From Margins to the Centre
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Kapetopoulos, Fotis
A personal history of multicultural arts in Victoria
 
Fotis Kapetopoulos, a long time activist around multicultural arts, describes and analyses the rise of culturally diverse arts as an important dimension of the Victorian arts scene.
Format: pdf | Size: 246 KB | Length: 16 pages | Date Added: 11 January 2011 | | VIEW |
 
  Keating, Paul
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - Native Title Bill 1993
 
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 |
 
  Keating, Paul
For the New Australia
 
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 |
 
  Kemp, Melody
Women and Multiculturalism
 
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 |
 
  Kerkyasharian, Stepan
Growing Grassroots
 
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 |
 
  Kerkyasharian, Stepan
Paradox of Australian Multiculturalism
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Khoo, Siew-Ean
Immigrant families and change
 
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 |
 
  Kitay, Jim; Ip, David; Lever-Tracy, Constance; Phillips, Irene and Tracy, Noel
Asian Entrepreneurs in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Kondos, Alexandros
The Greek community
 
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 |
 
  Langfield, Michele
Ecumenical Migration Centre, Melbourne - the first 20 years
 
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 |
 
  Langfield, Michele
Galbally Report and its implications for the Ecumenical Migration Centre
 
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 |
 
  Leaver. M
Biamunaga: Journey to the Mountain
 
Journey to the land of the Yuin people from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Leaver. M
Biamunaga: Journey to the Mountain
 
Journey to the land of the Yuin people from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Leaver. M
Biamunaga: Journey to the Mountain
 
Journey to the land of the Yuin people from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Lever-Tracy, Constance; Ip, David; Kitay, Jim; Phillips, Irene and Tracy, Noel
Asian Entrepreneurs in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Liberal/National Party Coalition
Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Policy
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Lippmann, Walter and ten other prominent Australians
Press Release, 4 May 1972
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Lo Bianco, Joseph
Making language policy: Australia’s experience
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Lo Bianco, Joseph
National Policy on Languages
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Local Government Association of Queensland
Local Councils and Multiculturalism
 
A description of the Local Area Multicultural Partnership (LAMP) between the state government, councils, and the Local Government Association to promote community relations, and a link which provides access to: “Council of the Month”, highlighting the activities for which councils have been recognised.
Format: pdf | Size: 47 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Long, Malcolm
Reflections of Australia
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Lorch, Jennifer
Biography of Italian revolutionary and author Rafaello Carboni
 
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 |
 
  Lynch, Phillip
Evolution of a Policy
 
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 |
 
  Mackellar, Michael
Ethnic radio will benefit both migrants and Australians
 
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 |
 
  MacPhee, Ian
First Biennial Meeting of AIMA - Opening Address
 
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 |
 
  MacPhee, Ian
Liberals misunderstand Australian society
 
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 |
 
  MacPhee, Ian
Liberals misunderstand Australian society
 
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: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  MacPhee, Ian
Some Political Dimensions of Multiculturalism
 
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 |
 
  Mahmoud, Ali-Salaam
Islam: The religion revealed to Muhammad
 
A powerpoint description of the religion of Islam.
Format: ppt | Size: 651 Kb | Length: 13 slides | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Changing social institutions
 
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 |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Community Relations Strategy
 
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 |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Community strategies to combat racism
 
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 |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Perpetrators of racism
 
The identification of some of the groups which perpetrate racism in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
School strategies to combat racism
 
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 |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Using the law...
 
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 |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
What is racism?
 
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 |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Youth campaigns to combat racism
 
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 |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia website
The Blainey debate
 
Link to views and information elsewhere on this website on the debate triggered by historian Geoffrey Blainey’s 1984 comments on Asian immigration.
Format: pdf | Size: 44 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 12 June 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia website
The Hanson debate
 
Links to some of the material elsewhere on this website on the controversy unleashed by Pauline Hanson and her views after her election to Federal Parliament in 1996.
Format: pdf | Size: 38 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Maley, William
Australian Refugee Policy: Myths and Realities
 
An article from Social Alternatives Vol. 21 No.4, Spring 2002
Format: pdf | Size: 204 Kb | Length: 6 pages | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Maniaty, Tony
The Greek in me
 
Tony Maniaty ponders his changing perceptions over the years of his identity as the son of a Greek migrant to Queensland.
Format: pdf | Size: 227 KB | Length: 14 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Manne, Robert
Open Season on Muslims in the newest phobia
 
One of the most significant ways the world has changed since the terrible crime of 9/11 has been the rise of Islamophobia in the Western world.
Format: pdf | Size: 68 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Marinos, Lex
Robert De Niro's Waiting
 
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 |
 
  McKeown, Brian
‘So you want to write a history of your school?’
 
Excerpts from Brian McKeown’s article on writing a school history from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  McRae-McMahon, Dorothy
Dorothy MacRae-McMahon
 
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 |
 
  Mecca, Laura
Laura Mecca on emergence of the Italian Historical Society
 
Laura Mecca describes the emergence of the Italian Historical Society
Format: pdf | Size: 104 KB | Length: 5 Pages | Date Added: 17 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Meekosha, Helen; Cummings, Karen; Gibbings, Beth and Jakubowicz, Andrew
Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Executive Summary
 
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 |
 
  Meekosha, Helen; Cummings, Karen; Gibbings, Beth and Jakubowicz, Andrew
Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Summary of Recommendations
 
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 |
 
  Menart, Vladimir
Notes on the Definition of “Ethnic”
 
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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  Menzies, Gavin
1421 Website
 
Website for the book and TV show "1421" which tells about Chinese Admiral Zheng He and his voyages towards Australia as part of his global adventures.
Format: pdf | Size: 41 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 20 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Messariti, Anna
Performing Artists - “We are Here, We are Visible”
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Migrant Workers’ Conference
Gigantic Step Forward
 
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 |
 
  Migration Magazine
Misunderstanding, misinformation shroud report: author
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Migration Museum
Aims of the Migration Museum, Adelaide
 
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 |
 
  Milbank, Adrienne
Parliamentary Library Report on Anti-Racism
 
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 |
 
  Mitchell, Tony
Local Noise interviews Khalid Abdulwahib, MC Azmarino, 2007
 
Sydney academics Tony Mitchell and Alastair Pennycook interview Khalid Abdulwahib on the work of Melbourne hip hop group Diafrix.
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 12 January 2011 | | VIEW |
 
  Mitchell, Tony
Wogs Still Out of Work: Australian Television Comedy as Colonial Discourse
 
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 |
 
  Mo, Yimei
Harvest of Endurance: A History of the Chinese in Australia 1788-1988
 
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 |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
Building a dynamic multicultural church
 
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 |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
Building services for Muslim women
 
A biography of Galila Abdel Salam, who established the Islamic Women's Association of Queensland and has done much other work aimed at helping educate, inform and support Muslim women.
Format: pdf | Size: 1.65 MB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
Defending multiculturalism
 
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 |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
Volunteering and advocating
 
Community activist Jeannie Mok tells of her volunteer work and campaigns on behalf of migrant communities since her arrival in Queensland from Malaysia in 1981.
Format: pdf | Size: 331 KB | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
"Multicultural Trailblazer" - Eddie Liu
 
A biography of Eddie Liu and an account of his many activities for the Chinese and wider communities from his arrival in Queensland in the 1940s.
Format: pdf | Size: 629 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
"Multicultural trailblazer" - Jose Zepeda
 
A description of the achievements of Jose Zepeda in helping other migrants and refugees since his arrival from El Salvador in the mid-1980s.
Format: pdf | Size: 528 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
"Multicultural trailblazer" - Nick Xynias
 
A biography of ethnic leader Nick Xynias and a description of his work for the rights of migrants settling in the state and for services for them.
Format: pdf | Size: 650 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
"Multicultural Trailblazer" - Sultan Mohammed Deen
 
A biography of community leader Sultan Mohammed Deen, describing his activities consolidating Muslim services in Brisbane and in voluntary and charitable works for the wider community.
Format: pdf | Size: 643 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
"Multicultural Trailblazer" - Warren Joe Lomas Leo
 
A description of the work of Warren 'Joe' Lomas Leo in the campaign to get recognition for South Sea Islanders and in setting up sporting clubs and teams for his community in North Queensland.
Format: pdf | Size: 621 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements
Social cohesion - an Australian challenge
 
Australian society faces many stresses associated with rapid change, globalisation, and continuing high levels of immigration. How should it respond and ensure social cohesion and wider harmony? A joint project between the Foundation, the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, funded by the Scanlon Foundation, aims to understand the way in social cohesion around the world can be bolstered, and apply those insights to Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 2.2 MB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 17 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements
The Global Metropolis project
 
The world's major cities are cities of immigrants and diversity. In 2007 the AMF in conjunction with Monash University hosts the Melbourne gathering of Metropolis on the theme: Migration, Economic Growth and Social Cohesion.
Format: pdf | Size: 45 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Moore, Clive
Deportations after Federation
 
Clive Moore writes about efforts to prevent the mass deportations of South Sea Islanders in the wake of the 1901 restrictive legislation.
Format: pdf | Size: 84 KB | Length: 13 pages | Date Added: 20 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Moore, Clive
South Sea Islanders in Queensland
 
Clive Moore tells the history of Pacific Islanders from when they were brought over as indentured labour between 1863 and 1904, to the present, and discusses the problems and issues they currently face.
Format: pdf | Size: 169 KB | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Community Relations Plan
 
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 |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Community Relations Resource Kit
 
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 |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Diversity wins Chinese contracts
 
A government publication showing how cultural diversity can boost business, in this case with knowledge about China leading to a Primary Industries' Department unit winning a major training contract there.
Format: pdf | Size: 250 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 20 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Implementing multiculturalism
 
A state government report reviewing achievements in applying multicultural policy in government agencies and pointing to further ways to improve.
Format: pdf | Size: 1 MB | Length: 44 pages | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
New and Emerging Communities in Queensland
 
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 |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Queensland's multicultural advantage
 
A state government fact sheet on the benefits of a diverse population in doing business and carrying on trade with the rest of the world.
Format: pdf | Size: 160 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 14 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Queensland's Multicultural Policy
 
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 |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
South Sea Islanders
 
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 |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
The South Sea Islander community
 
Links to a section of the Queensland Government's website which outlines the history of South Sea Islanders in the state.
Format: pdf | Size: 51 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Development Association
The Multicultural Development Association
 
The history, aims and work of this Queensland organisation, which assists migrants and refugees in a range of practical aspects of settlement.
Format: pdf | Size: 101 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Museum of Brisbane
Buddhism in Brisbane
 
A brief history of Buddhism in Brisbane and an explanation of the collection of Buddhas on display in a 2005 Museum of Brisbane exhibition.
Format: pdf | Size: 415 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Museum of Brisbane
Many meanings of Buddha
 
Messages from those who loaned their Buddhas to the Museum of Brisbane exhibition about what the Buddhas mean to them personally.
Format: pdf | Size: 533 KB | Length: 41 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Nagata, Yuriko
The Japanese in Torres Strait
 
Yuriko Nagata writes about the establishment of the Japanese presence in Torres Strait in the nineteenth century and the community's development from the 1880s to the 1990s.
Format: pdf | Size: 145 KB | Length: 20 pages | Date Added: 20 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  National Archives of Australia
"White Alien" Immigration Policy
 
A section from the National Archives of Australia website on immigration policy relating to non-British Europeans up until the early 1960s, with a link to a list of material available in the archives.
Format: pdf | Size: 41 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | 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 Advisory Council
Australian multiculturalism for a new century: Towards inclusiveness
 
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 |
 
  National Multicultural Advisory Council
Multicultural Australia - the Next Steps: Towards and Beyond 2000
 
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 |
 
  National Multicultural Advisory Council
Multicultural Australia: the way forward
 
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 |
 
  National Native Title Tribunal
National Native Title Tribunal: Indigenous land use agreement
 
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 |
 
  New South Wales Department of Education and Training
Racism. No Way! Fact Sheets: Reconciliation
 
This fact sheet from the Racism. No Way! website explores the process of Reconciliation which formally began as a result of the Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991.
Format: pdf | Size: 184 kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 19 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Newton, John
Wogfood - An Oral History with Recipes
 
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 |
 
  Nichol, Barbara
History of Melbourne's Chinese restaurants
 
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 |
 
  NSW Department of Education and Training
Racism. No Way! | Fact Sheet: An introduction to Islam in Australia
 
This fact sheet on the Racism. No Way! website, aims to provide some basic information on the Islamic faith.
Format: pdf | Size: 196 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  NSW Government
Access and Equity Charter: The Charter principles
 
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 |
 
  NSW Minister for Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs
Sunrise newspaper takes out major ethnic business award
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  O'Brien, Patrick
Implementing Multicultural Policy
 
Patrick O'Brien, a Queensland Health policy advisor, explores the way the state's multicultural policy influences the operations of the public sector.
Format: pdf | Size: 209 KB | Length: 11 pages | Date Added: 05 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  O'Brien, Ilma Martinuzzi
Internments in Australia during World War Two
 
Ilma Martinuzzi O'Brien writes on the impact of internment on Italian-Australians and explores what internment reveals about attitudes to citizenship and civil rights.
Format: pdf | Size: 145 KB | Length: 23 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  O'Brien, Ilma Martinuzzi; Bortolanza, Barbara and Choat, Ada De Munari
Italian Pioneers in the Innisfail District
 
Segments from a history of early Italian settlers and their descendants in the Innisfail region, from the late nineteenth century onwards.
Format: pdf | Size: 514 KB | Length: 27 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Obst, Patrica and Babacan, Hurriyet
Death, Dying and Religion
 
Sections of a book describing beliefs and practices in several non-Christian religions to help health professionals in their work with diverse patients.
Format: pdf | Size: 6.36 MB | Length: 12 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Ochert, Morris
Judaism in Queensland
 
Morris Ochert tells the history of the Jewish communities in the state, and outlines their organisations and activities over the years.
Format: pdf | Size: 323 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Office of Multicultural Affairs
Access and Equity Strategy Program Logic
 
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 |
 
  Office of Multicultural Affairs
Access and Equity: Evaluation Summary
 
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 |
 
  Office of Multicultural Affairs
Achieving Access and Equity
 
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 |
 
  Office of Multicultural Affairs
Australia’s diversity: good for business
 
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
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Office of Multicultural Affairs
National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia
 
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 |
 
  Office of Multicultural Affairs
National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia
 
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 |
 
  Office of Multicultural Affairs
National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia: Goals
 
The eight principle goals of multiculturalism contained in the National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia launched in 1989.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Office of Multicultural Affairs
OMA Publications list
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Office of Multicultural Interests of WA
Office of Multicultural Interests of WA Mission
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Office of Women’s Affairs, Northern Territory Government
Report on the Research Conducted in the Development of a Women from NESB Community Education Program
 
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 |
 
  Opperman, Hubert
Australia’s Immigration Policy
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Orana Films
Pioneers of Love
 
Link to the description of an SBS documentary about the marriage of a Russian migrant and an Aboriginal woman in the early twentieth century in North Queensland and the racism and difficulties they faced.
Format: pdf | Size: 41 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Oxley, Alan
Globalization and Australia
 
Alan Oxley's Powerpoint presentation at the Australian APEC Centre, Monash University.
Format: ppt | Size: 372 Kb | Length: 32 slides | Date Added: 20 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  O’Donoghue, Lois
Recognising Indigenous Rights
 
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 |
 
  Panucci, Frank
Arts - Cultural Maintenance?
 
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 |
 
  Papadopoulos, George
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of NSW Good Neighbour Council
 
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 |
 
  Parliament of Australia: Senate
Inquiry into the Progress Towards National Reconciliation
 
The Senate refers the matter of National Reconciliation to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References committee for inquiry.
Format: pdf | Size: 48 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Passaris, Jack
Letter to Prime Minister Hawke
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Pearson, Noel
Eddie Mabo Human Rights Lecture
 
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 |
 
  Penny, Benjamin
Chinese religion and the Wesleyan Mission in Castlemaine, 1868
 
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 |
 
  Penny, Janet
Intermarriage in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Pettman, Ralph
Incitement to Racial Hatred: Issues and Analysis
 
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 |
 
  Phillips, Irene; Ip, David; Kitay, Jim; Lever-Tracy, Constance and Tracy, Noel
Asian Entrepreneurs in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Pix Magazine
Year of the Millionth Migrant
 
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 |
 
  Queensland Art Gallery
A Long Life: the See Poy portraits
 
Link to the story of two paintings of a Chinese family from early in the twentieth century and the historical times they reflect, and the collaborative effort which resulted in their restoration.
Format: pdf | Size: 38 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Art Gallery and Commonwealth of Australia
Appreciating Asian-Pacific art
 
Ways to study and look at contemporary Asian-Pacific art, from the Asia-Pacific Triennial Contemporary Art exhibition, held at the Queensland Art Gallery in September 2002.
Format: pdf | Size: 453 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 20 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Art Gallery
Asia-Pacific art at the Queensland Art Gallery
 
Link to the Asia-Pacific Triennial Contemporary Art section of the Queensland Art Gallery website, providing a look at past exhibitions and previews for the future.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Art Gallery and Hall, Doug
Asia-Pacific Contemporary Art
 
Introduction from the director of the Queensland Art Gallery, Doug Hall, to the 2002 Asia-Pacific Triennial Contemporary Art exhibition, which included work from sixteen artists from the region.
Format: pdf | Size: 112 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 20 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Art Gallery
The art of Ken Thaiday
 
Link to a webpage of the Queensland Art Gallery displaying the work of Torres Strait Islander artist Ken Thaiday, who creates headdresses and other costume and music elements of traditional island dances.
Format: pdf | Size: 37 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Bureau of Ethnic Affairs
Queensland Ethnic Affairs Policy
 
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 Museum
Bridging Cultures
 
Link to the story of Phyllis Ah Loy, a Queenslander of Japanese descent, and her experience of internment, along with her family, when she was a child, after Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Format: pdf | Size: 64 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Museum
Daring Diving
 
A section of the Queensland Museum website "Queensland Stories" in which a former pearl diver tells about the dangers of this type of work in the first half of the twentieth century.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Museum
Pearl Shellers
 
A section of the Queensland Museum website "Queensland Stories" about the Japanese who settled on Thursday Island and worked in the pearl-shell industry there.
Format: pdf | Size: 50 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Museum
Queensland beckons
 
A section of the Queensland Museum website about Asians and Pacific Islanders who settled in north Queensland in the 19th century and became involved in a variety of industries, from farming to gold digging and pearling.
Format: pdf | Size: 38 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Museum
Restricted Business
 
Link to the Queensland Museum website and the story of George Fong On, who settled in Australia in 1867 and ran a successful business, yet faced severe restrictions under racist legislation most of his life.
Format: pdf | Size: 71 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Museum
Sugar, Shops and Pearls in the 'Alien' North
 
Link to a Museum of Queensland website which tells about the varied groups who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and laid the foundations for some of the diverse communities in the state today.
Format: pdf | Size: 58 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Museum
Sweet 'n Sour
 
Link to the story of one Italian family and their experiences with sugar cane growing and later, internment, on the Queensland Museum website.
Format: pdf | Size: 63 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland Studies Authority
Globalisation in Queensland schools
 
Link to the Queensland Studies Authority, which works on curriculum and testing in Queensland schools. A search using the word "globalisation" will bring up a range of curriculum information on this subject and its teaching.
Format: pdf | Size: 37 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Race Discrimination Commissioner
National Inquiry into Racist Violence: Summary
 
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 |
 
  Race Discrimination Commissioner
Report on the National Inquiry into Racist Violence
 
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 |
 
  Radio Australia
ABC Radio: Globally Speaking - The Politics of Globalisation - Where to Australia?
 
Transcript of a discussion on the issues surrounding globalisation.
Format: pdf | Size: 156 KB | Length: 8 pages | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Randall, Lois; Coupe, Bronwyn and Jakubowicz, Andrew
Nextdoor Neighbours
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ray, Robert
Government Response to the Report of the CAAIP
 
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 |
 
  Ray, Robert
Minister Ray Hails Start of New Era in Immigration
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Reconciliation Australia
Reconciliation Australia: Aims
 
Read the aims of Reconciliation Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 27 kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Reconciliation Australia
Reconciliation Australia: Taking Reconciliation Forward
 
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 |
 
  Reconciliation Australia
Strategic Plan 2001-2003
 
Format: pdf | Size: 586 kb | Length: 8 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Review of Migrant and Multicultural Programs and Services
Don’t settle for less
 
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 |
 
  Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services for Migrants
Migrant Services and Programs - Summary
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services for Migrants
Migrant Services and Programs - Terms of Reference
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services for Migrants
Migrant Services and Programs – Migrant Resource Centres
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Rothwell, Donald
The Law of the Sea and the MV Tampa incident: Location, Location, Location !
 
Powerpoint Presentation by Associate Professor Donald R. Rothwell, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
Format: ppt | Size: 1.37 Mb | Length: 11 slides | Date Added: 22 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Rubenstein, Kim
Constitutional issues associated with integration: the question of citizenship
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Rubinstein, W. D.
Judaism in Australia
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Ruddock, Philip
Australian Citizenship Council announced
 
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 |
 
  Ruddock, Philip
Government Commitment to Multicultural Affairs
 
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 |
 
  Ruddock, Philip
Restructure of immigration research activities
 
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 |
 
  Ruddock, Philip
Second Women in Migration Conference
 
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 |
 
  Rutland, Suzanne
Moriah College: History and Heritage
 
Excerpts from Suzanne Rutland’s case study of the Jewish school, Moriah War Memorial College from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Samios, Jim
Political Pathfinder
 
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 |
 
  Sara Wills and Kate Darian Smith
Britishness in Victorian society
 
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 |
 
  Schild, Maurice E. and Hughes, Philip J.
Lutherans in Australia
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Schwab, Pete
Equal Disappointment Opportunity
 
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 |
 
  Seneviratne, Kalinga and Jakubowicz, Andrew
Ethnic conflict and the Australian media
 
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 |
 
  Sheppard, Gary
Access and Equity: The development of Victoria’s ethnic affairs policies
 
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 |
 
  Shergold, Peter and Wojak, George
Multiculturalism Betrayed
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Shergold, Peter
That Was The Week That Was
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Shnukal, Anna
Torres Strait Islanders
 
Anna Shnukal outlines the history of this group of north Queensland people, and tells of their current concerns, organisations and aspirations.
Format: pdf | Size: 352 KB | Length: 23 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Sidoti, Chris
Refugee policy: Is there a way out of this mess?
 
A paper presented by Chris Sidoti, the National Spokesperson, Human Rights Council of Australia, at the Racial Respect Seminar, Canberra 21 February 2002
Format: pdf | Size: 31 Kb | Length: 11 pages | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Singh, Dya
Music - Food for the Soul
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Sklovsky, Grisha
Submission to Colston Committee re: SBS/ABC merger
 
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 |
 
  Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority
Background Information – The Snowy Scheme
 
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 |
 
  Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority
Building the Snowy Scheme – A multi-cultural experience
 
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 |
 
  Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority
The Snowy Search is On!
 
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 |
 
  South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission; Equity and Diversity Unit University of Technology, Sydney and UNICEF
National Days, Festivals and Celebrations
 
A selection of the major holidays and festivals celebrated by various multicultural and ethnic communities in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
Brief History of 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 |
 
  Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
Interim Ethnic Television Service to start 29 April
 
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 |
 
  Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
LIVING DIVERSITY: AUSTRALIA’S MULTICULTURAL FUTURE
 
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 |
 
  Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
SBS Radio Schedule
 
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 |
 
  Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
SBS Web Page
 
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 |
 
  Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
SBS: The World News on the web
 
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 |
 
  Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
SBS: Voice and Vision
 
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 |
 
  Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)
THE DIGITAL AGE: The Australian Digital TV Experience
 
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 |
 
  Spigelman, Guy
Inside SBS – A picture of the Outside
 
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 |
 
  State Library of Queensland
Across the Coral Sea
 
The website of an exhibition of historic photographs showing how South Sea Islanders came to Queensland, and their lives and work in the nineteenth century.
Format: pdf | Size: 39 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Sub-committee on White Alien Immigration
White Alien Immigration Report, 1944
 
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 |
 
  Sydney Morning Herald
Army out as Migrants Threaten Riot
 
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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  Sydney Morning Herald
Newspaper clippings, 1948
 
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"
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Sydney Road Brunswick Music Festival 2006
Blond Musician
 
Blond Musician - Sydney Road Brunswick Music Festival
Format: jpg | Size: 40 KB | Length: 550 x 365 | Date Added: 04 March 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Tait, David; Alcorso, Caroline; Castles, Stephen; Collins, Jock and Gibson, Katherine
Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic Small Business in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Tardent, Henry and Various authors
Muses magazine
 
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 |
 
  Tavan, Gwenda
End of White Australia - by Gwenda Tavan
 
Gwenda Tavan summarises her argument about the end of White Australia
Format: pdf | Size: 100 KB | Length: 1 Page | Date Added: 16 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Taylor, Penny
‘Telling it like it is’
 
Excerpts from Penny Taylor’s discussion of indigenous people’s perspectives on recounting the past from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Tench, Captain Watkin
Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
 
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 |
 
  Terry Hastings and Kate Dimech
Veiled ambition - story of a Lebanese woman
 
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 |
 
  Themal, Uri
Multiculturalism: a unifying force?
 
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 |
 
  Theophanous, Andrew
Access and Equity: Opening the door
 
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 |
 
  Totaro, Paolo; Castles, Stephen; Cope, Bill and Kalantzis, Mary
The End of Multiculturalism? or... From Margins to the Centre
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Tracy, Noel; Ip, David; Kitay, Jim; Lever-Tracy, Constance and Phillips, Irene
Asian Entrepreneurs in Australia
 
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 |
 
  Tzannes, Ross
Making Multiculturalism Work
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR)
U.S. Committee for Refugees, Country Report: Australia
 
U.S. Committee for Refugees, Country Report: Australia. Information and figures for refugees in Australia. From refugees.org.
Format: pdf | Size: 55 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 23 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR)
World Refugee Survey
 
The US Committee for Refugees website links to the annual World Refugee Survey. Facts, figures and statistics.
Format: pdf | Size: 57 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 23 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  UNESCO
Culture, Trade and Globalisation
 
Questions and answers on culture, trade and globalisation from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) website.
Format: pdf | Size: 156 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  UNICEF; Equity and Diversity Unit University of Technology, Sydney and South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission
National Days, Festivals and Celebrations
 
A selection of the major holidays and festivals celebrated by various multicultural and ethnic communities in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  United Nations
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
 
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 |
 
  United Nations
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Signatories
 
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 |
 
  United Nations
Second Decade to Combat Racism & Racial Discrimination
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 
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 |
 
  United Nations Economic and Social Council
RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION
 
Report by Mr. Maurice Glèlè-Ahanhanzo, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/5.
Format: pdf | Size: 358 Kb | Length: 64 pages | Date Added: 20 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice
 
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 |
 
  UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES, GENEVA
Guidelines on Policies and Procedures in dealing with Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum
 
Prepared by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva
Format: pdf | Size: 284 Kb | Length: 21 pages | Date Added: 22 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Unknown
Brunswick Music Festival (slide 14)
 
Format: jpg | Size: 33 KB | Length: 550 x 400 | Date Added: 19 January 2011 | | VIEW |
 
  Unknown
Brunswick Music Festival, 2006 (slide 03)
 
Format: jpg | Size: 25 KB | Length: 300 x 400 | Date Added: 19 January 2011 | | VIEW |
 
  Unknown
Brunswick Music Festival, 2006 (slide 19)
 
Format: jpg | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 19 January 2011 | | VIEW |
 
  Van Vliet, Peter
Peter Van Vliet on Changes in public life in Victoria
 
Format: mov | Size: 4 MB|360x286 | Length: 01min31sec | Date Added: 21 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Van Vliet, Peter
Peter Van Vliet on the ethnic communities council and government legislation
 
Format: pdf | Size: 4.9 MB|360x286 | Length: 01min53sec | Date Added: 21 April 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Various authors and Tardent, Henry
Muses magazine
 
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 |
 
  Various authors
Nahan's Story
 
Interview with Nahan, one of the many thousands of boat people Australia received during the 1970’s and 1980’s from Vietnam.
This interview was conducted by Oyvind Aas, Rebecca Hanlon and Sheree Went as part of the unit Online Journalism 1 at the University of Technology Sydney in 2001.
Format: doc | Size: 20 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Various newspapers
Headlines about SBS
 
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 |
 
  Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission
Multicultural Victoria Inquiry Report
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Victorian Multicultural Commission
Victorian Multicultural Commission Act of 1993
 
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 |
 
  Wang, Lisa
"Reunion" - film by Lisa Wang
 
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 |
 
  Watson, John Christian
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate - “The objection I have...”
 
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 |
 
  West, Stewart
Commonwealth Parliamentary Debate: The Immigration Minister on Professor Blainey
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Whitlam, Gough
Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Good Neighbour Council of South Australia
 
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 |
 
  Whitlam, Gough
Whitlam Government 1972-1975: Immigration Policy and Al Grassby
 
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, Gough
Whitlam Government 1972-1975: The Racial Discrimination Act
 
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, Gough
Whitlam Government 1972-1975: “My government liberalised Australia’s immigration laws”
 
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 |
 
  Wikipedia
2002 Bali Terrorist Bombing - Wikipedia
 
This article on the 2002 Bali bombing is published at wikipedia.org.
Format: pdf | Size: 810 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 18 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Williams, Lynne S.
Effects of Immigration on Australia: the Research Consensus as at May 1996
 
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 |
 
  Williams, Indigo
From Saigon to Sydney
 
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 |
 
  Williams, Lynne S.
Understanding the Economics of Immigration
 
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 |
 
  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 |
 
  Wojak, George
Harnessing Ethnic Power
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Wojak, George and Shergold, Peter
Multiculturalism Betrayed
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Woodford, Charles
Impact of restrictive legislation
 
Letter on the effects of the Pacific Islanders Act on the Solomon Islands from C. Woodford (Commissioner Western Pacific) to A. Barton (Prime Minister), 28 November 1901.
Format: pdf | Size: 396 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 19 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Worthington, Glenn
Globalisation: Perceptions and Threats to National Government in Australia
 
This paper considers the challenges that globalisation poses to national interests, security and identity and surveys possible responses to these concerns.
Format: pdf | Size: 284 Kb | Length: 17 pages | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Wran, Neville
Tenth Anniversary of NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council
 
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 |
 
  Wurramarrba, Charlie, Galiyawa
The Maccassar Story
 
An Indigenous Australian born in 1893 describes what his father told him and what he remembers of visits by the Macassan (Indonesian) traders who came to the Northern Territory until 1906, his story recorded by Judith Stokes in This is What Happened, by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 10 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Young, Mick
Review of Australia’s Immigration Policies - Message from the Minister
 
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 |
 
  Zebra, Mark
Author Test Item Modified
 
This is a test document.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 03 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Zogbaum, Dr. Heidi
Heidi Zogbaum reviews the Kisch case of 1934
 
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 |
 
  Zubrzycki, Jerzy
Arthur Calwell and the Origin of Post-War Immigration
 
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 |
 
  Zubrzycki, Jerzy
Australian Ethnic Affairs Council - Inaugural Meeting
 
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 |

 
 
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