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  Chinese settlers and sojourners
Evans, Ray
 
Historian Ray Evans describes the arrivals of Chinese in Queensland in the nineteenth century and the restrictions and racism they faced.
Format: mov | Size: 12.6 MB | Length: 4 min 18 s | Date Added: 16 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Defending multiculturalism
Mok, Jeannie
 
Community activist Jeannie Mok tells about the recurring challenges to multiculturalism over the years and of her involvement in defending the principles it represents.
Format: mov | Size: 3.4 MB | Length: 2 min 32 s | Date Added: 15 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Festival of the Arts - Debates
Marinos, Lex
 
Lex Marinos, actor, talks about non Australian roles and foreign actors.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 29 secs | Date Added: 11 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Festival of the Arts - Does tradition evolve?
Chandrabhanu
 
Shadows on the earth, shadows in the sky..., the TA-KA-DM cross-cultural dance project, Fairfield, Sydney. Artistic Director Dr. Chandrabhanu says he drew from "the old, the new, and a synthesis of ideas" to create a "new expression" in the experimental work.
Format: mov | Size: 1.3 MB | Length: 24 secs | Date Added: 11 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Festival of the Arts - Does tradition evolve?
East Timorese Cultural Centre dance group
 
The East timorese Cultural Centre dance group performs as part of the TA-KA-DM cross-cultural dance project, Fairfield, Sydney.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 22 secs | Date Added: 11 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Festival of the Arts - Does tradition evolve?
Greek community dance group
 
Greek community dance group performs in Darwin, at the Bougainvillea Festival.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 35 secs | Date Added: 11 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Festival of the Arts - Does tradition evolve?
Irish Australian Club dance group
 
The Irish Australian Club dance group performs at the Folklorika Festival of Wollongong.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 68 secs | Date Added: 11 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Festival of the Arts - Migration-Enriching Australia
Dya Singh World Music group
 
The Dya Singh World Music group performs at a concert to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Planned Immigration. The group takes a hypnotic, spiritual music of North India as a starting point, then adds a variety of influences from around the world to create unique, original music.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 59 secs | Date Added: 11 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Festival of the Arts - The Arts End of Identity
Hung Le
 
Hung Le, actor and comedian speaks on his strategies to make Australians understand Vietnamese issues.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 36 secs | Date Added: 11 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Festival of the Arts - "Traps"
Ronin Films
 
Footage from the Film Traps, 1993.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 52 secs | Date Added: 15 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Milestones in Queensland
Themal, Uri
 
Community leader Uri Themal reviews some of the major developments which built multicultural policy in the state into a coordinated approach across government and the community.
Format: mov | Size: 12.6 MB | Length: 5 min 29 s | Date Added: 16 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Pearling in the Torres Strait
Ganter, Regina
 
Regina Ganter describes the start of the pearling industry in Queensland and both the mix of peoples who worked in it, and the exploitation of these labourers.
Format: mov | Size: 3.4 MB | Length: 2 min 01 s | Date Added: 15 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Racial Discrimination Act 1975
Dodson, Mick
 
An Interview with Mick dodson on Racial Discrimination.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 40 secs | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Respecting Differences
Panorama Productions
 
A clip from a film made for the NSW State Government on its response to ethnic community action. From Respecting Differences, Panorama Productions for the Ethnis Affairs Division.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 28 secs | Date Added: 12 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Starting the AMF as a Bicentennial project
Australian Multicultural Foundation
 
Communities gained government support for a foundation to advance Australia's multicultural reality, instead of a "one-off" festival … and it is still going strong 20 years on.
Format: mov | Size: 8.7 MB | Length: 2 min 12 s | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The lion dance
Kwok, Jen Tsen
 
A celebration of good fortune - traditional display of colour and skill, part of events marking 30 years of Vietnamese settlement in Queensland, Brisbane, 14 August 2005.
Format: mov | Size: 7.1 MB | Length: 3 min 08 s | Date Added: 29 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Power of Water
Film Australia; SBS Television and Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority
 
Building the Snowy Scheme
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 22 secs | Date Added: 03 June 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Viewpoints on Mullticultural Australia - The Hanson debate
SBS Television
 
There have been demonstrations against racism all over Australia in response to Pauline Hanson's views. These demonstrations are from Sydney and Ipswich, Queensland on November 23, 1996 and from Melbourne on December 8, 1996.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 62 secs | Date Added: 12 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  What does Multiculturalism mean to you?
Australian Multicultural Foundation
 
People associated with the AMF talk about their visions of multicultural Australia.
Format: mov | Size: 18.5 MB | Length: 5 min 21 s | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  World News - Just you try!
SBS Television
 
Demonstrations in Sydney during the Yugoslav war between Serbia and Croatia.
Serbian 7 February 1993,
Croatian 5 October 1991.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 28 secs | Date Added: 12 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  World News - Just you try!
SBS Television
 
Greek and Macedonian communities in conflict over the issue of the recognition of Macedonia; the conflict focussed on the use of the name "Macedonia" and the symbols on the flag of the republic.
Greek community, Adelaide, 5 March 1994;
Macedonian community, Melbourne, March 1994.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 24 secs | Date Added: 12 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  World News - Just you try!
SBS Television
 
Tamils march in Sydney over the struggle between Tamils and the Sri Lankan government over the autonomy of the Tamils.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 22 secs | Date Added: 12 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  World News - Just you try!
SBS Television
 
Muslims protest the treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli government, Jews protest the treatment of Jews in Syria.
Muslims, Canberra 13 March 1994;
Jews, Sydney 15 March 1992.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 35 secs | Date Added: 12 July 2002 | | VIEW |

 
 
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