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  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.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 29 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  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 |

 
 
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