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  Battles Small and Great, The First Twenty Years of the Racial Discrimination Act (Excerpt)
Murphy, Lionel
 
Lionel Murphy, former Attorney General Introducing the Racial Disrimination Act and its definition.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 29 secs | Date Added: 03 June 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  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 |
 
  Christianity and multiculturalism
Mok, Jeannie
 
Jeannie Mok tells how she and her husband became involved in founding a congregation in Brisbane with a variety of language and ethnic groups.
Format: mov | Size: 3.8 MB | Length: 2 min 19 s | Date Added: 16 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Confronting racism
Mok, Jeannie
 
Jeannie Mok describes the way that the Pauline Hanson controversy unified ethnic communities, horrified at the implications of her anti-multiculturalism views.
Format: mov | Size: 4 MB | Length: 2 min 19 s | Date Added: 16 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Conservative Multiculturalism
Fraser, Malcom
 
Malcom Fraser discussing equity and social justice.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 1 min | Date Added: 03 June 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Day of the Aboriginal (Excerpt)
Bandler, Faith
 
Faith Bandler, New South Wales Director of the campaign for the "yes" vote in the referendum of May 1967, which approved a constitutional amendment to include Aborigines in the Australian Census and thus give them the vote.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 42 secs | Date Added: 28 June 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Defending multiculturalism
Mok, Jeannie
 
Community activist Jeannie Mok tells about the recurring challenges to multiculturalism over the years and of her involvement in defending the principles it represents.
Format: mov | Size: 3.4 MB | Length: 2 min 32 s | Date Added: 15 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Early cultural diversity in Queensland
Brandle, Max
 
Max Brandle describes some of the groups of European migrants who came to Queensland between 1859 and the First World War.
Format: pdf | Size: 4.23 MB | Length: 2 min 36 s | Date Added: 10 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Ethnic groups join forces
Xynias, Nick
 
Nick Xynias tells about the way the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland came to be.
Format: mov | Size: 3.5 MB | Length: 2 min 12 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 - People Screen
Spano, Joe
 
Joe Spano, on his experiences with acting.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 34 secs | Date Added: 15 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 |
 
  Hansonism
Brandle, Max
 
Max Brandle sees the popularity of One Nation politician Pauline Hanson as having been primarily based on the fear for jobs among the lowest paid, rather than on racism.
Format: mov | Size: 2.1 MB | Length: 1 min 16 s | Date Added: 16 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Identity
Hall, Jaslyn
 
Jaslyn Hall, broadcaster and journalist, speaks on the different categories of Australians.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 59 secs | Date Added: 12 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Migrant Settlement
Galbally, Frank
 
Frank Galbally, Chairman of the Review of Post Arrival Programs and services for Migrants, discussing migrants settlement into Australias way of life, including rights.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 34 secs | Date Added: 03 June 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 |
 
  Mosque attack, September 2001
Abdalla, Mohammed
 
Mohammed Abdalla recalls the arson attack on his mosque in the wake of 9/11 and how the community turned this destructive act into a way of building bridges with the wider community.
Format: mov | Size: 4.4 MB | Length: 3 min 30 s | Date Added: 16 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Programs and Services
Jupp, James
 
Dr James Jupp, Chair, Committee to Review Migrant and Multicultural Programs and Services, speaks on the topic of immigration and Ethnic Specific Services.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 49 secs | Date Added: 06 June 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Multiculturalism comes to Queensland
Brandle, Max
 
Maximilian Brandle speaks about migration in the 1960s and the volunteers who welcomed new arrivals.
Format: mov | Size: 4.1 MB | Length: 2 min 24 s | Date Added: 15 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multiculturalism in public policy
Babacan, Hurriyet
 
Hurriyet Babacan tells about the process of moving multicultural policy from theoretical aims to ensuring it is applied in tangible ways in the provision of government services.
Format: mov | Size: 8.3 MB | Length: 4 min 04 s | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Office for Multicultural Affairs
Shergold, Peter
 
Dr Peter Shergold, Foundation Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, looks at the role of the Office, and ethnic support.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 34 secs | Date Added: 07 June 2002 | | 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 |
 
  Queensland eyes New Guinea
Moore, Clive
 
Historian Clive Moore discusses Queensland's imperial adventures in New Guinea.
Format: mov | Size: 6.3 MB | Length: 4 min 31 s | Date Added: 10 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland refugees
Jakubowicz, Andrew
 
An introduction to narratives of self and survival
Format: mov | Size: 10 MB | Length: 7 min 01 s | Date Added: 22 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland's Islander trade
Moore, Clive
 
Clive Moore explores the contradictions of the recruitment of South Sea Islanders for work in Queensland - and their later expulsion.
Format: mov | Size: 3.6 MB | Length: 2 min 59 s | Date Added: 15 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Quiet Revolution (Excerpt)
Wran, Neville
 
Premier Neville Wran of NSW, speaking in the early 1980s about the Ethnic Communities Councils.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 20 secs | Date Added: 03 June 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Race and discrimination
Ganter, Regina
 
Historian Regina Ganter describes discriminatory measures used to categorise the state's diverse population from the 1800s, and the impact of World War Two in changing the demographics in North Queensland.
Format: mov | Size: 3.7 MB | Length: 1 min 59 s | Date Added: 16 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Racial Discrimination
Antonios, Zita
 
Zita Antonios, Race Discrimination Commissioner, speaks about the Racial Discrimination Act.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 1min 26sec | Date Added: 28 June 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Reception for immigrant and refugee young people
Rice, Adele
 
Adele Rice, head teacher of Brisbane's Milperra High School, an intensive English language preparation centre, tells of the terrible impacts their experiences have had on many of her students who have come from countries in conflict.
Format: mov | Size: 9.3 MB | Length: 4 min 01 s | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Rethinking the north of Australia
Ganter, Regina
 
Historian Regina Ganter explains how much of the history told about other parts of Australia does not apply in the same way to the north, where the earliest external links were with lands close by.
Format: mov | Size: 2.65 MB | Length: 1 min 30 s | Date Added: 20 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Seeking for harmony and understanding
Abdalla, Mohammed
 
Mohammed Abdalla, assistant Imam of the Kuraby Mosque in Brisbane, tells about the many ethnic origins of those who make up the mosque community.
Format: mov | Size: 2.5 MB | Length: 2 min 16 s | Date Added: 16 February 2006 | | 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 experience of wartime internment
Merenda, Francesca
 
Francesca Merenda tells of her childhood in northern Queensland and of the shock of being interned during the Second World War at the age of 18.
Format: mov | Size: 19.2 MB | Length: 4 min 32 s | Date Added: 15 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Macassans and trepang fishing
Ganter, Regina
 
Regina Ganter tells about the people who came from what is now Sulawesi to northern Australia to collect sea cucumber and about Flinders' encounter with one such group.
Format: mov | Size: 2.6 MB | Length: 1 min 48 s | Date Added: 10 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Media
Hall, Jaslyn
 
Jaslyn Hall, Broadcaster and Journalist speaks on the Media and its diversity and changes.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 58 secs | Date Added: 12 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  The Media - Advertising Change of Face, episode 1 - "Journey out of Darkness"
Hamill, Alex
 
Managing Director of George Patterson Advertising, speaking about a series of television ads called "Memories", produced for OTC Australia in 1976.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 24 secs | Date Added: 12 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  The Migrant Experience, episode 5 "Something Old, Something New"
Film Australia
 
Rosetta Sung, on growing up in Australia as an Asian.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 26 secs | Date Added: 15 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Vox Populi
Keating, Paul
 
Paul Keating (then Prime Minister), Nick Economou (politics Lecturer, Monash University), and John Howard (then Oppostition Leader) and the ethnic vote.
Format: mov | Size: | Length: 51 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 |

 
 
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