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The Galbally strategy for migrant settlement

Arthur Faulkner.

Arthur Faulkner gives his thoughts on the Galbally report.

Created:

1994

Date Added:

17 July 2002

Source:

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1994.

Format:

mov (Quicktime);

File size:

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Length:

22 secs

Transcript

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

If you have a look through his appendices of the Galbally Report, you find that a lot of the examples of deprivation, of disadvantage, had to do with migrant worker issues. The whole analysis of what was wrong screamed "migrant worker". And yet practically nothing in the Galbally Report related to migrant workers.

CONTINUATION OF INTERVIEW AS TEXT

Whatever the failures of it were, it marked a clear, official step forward - government policy adopted by a conservative government which seemed to me, more clearly than it did then, to be quite important.

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1994.