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Multiculturalism - Interview for Making Multicultural Australia (Excerpt)

Arthur Faulkner.

Arthur Faulkner speaks briefly on Multiculturalism in the Fraser Government

Created:

1995

Date Added:

25 June 2002

Source:

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia

Format:

mov (Quicktime);

File size:

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Length:

15 secs

Transcript

ARTHUR FAULKNER
Senior Policy Officer, Victorian Department of Human Services, and former researcher, Centre for Urban Research and Action

I think that the Fraser Government - which came in in a controversial situation in 1975 - in the field of multiculturalism actually not only continued the work begun under Whitlam but, I think, strengthened and enhanced it.

CONTINUATION OF INTERVIEW AS TEXT

And, again, when Hawke takes over in 1983, you have a situation where a lot of what Fraser had set about was dismantled or at least attempted to be dismantled.

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1994.