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Don Dunstan.
Don Dunstan talks about when the Ethnic radio started.
Created:
1993
Date Added:
17 July 2002
Source:
Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1993.
Format:
mov (Quicktime);
File size:
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Length:
23 secs
Transcript
DON DUNSTAN
South Australian Premier, 1967-68 and 1970-79
When ethnic radio started interstate, they refused any provisions here (in South Australia). I from my experience, found that there were numbers of people, particularly the older women within ethnic minority communities, who'd never effectively learned English and who were terribly isolated as a result.
CONTINUATION OF INTERVIEW AS TEXT
And I felt that they had to have some kind of communication. So the State provided the money to set up Multicultural Radio here in South Australia.
Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1993.
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