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An Office for Multicultural Affairs - “What is Wrong with Multiculturalism?”

Colin Rubenstein.

Dr Colin Rubenstein, talks about power within the positions of the Ethnic Affairs and Immigration Commission.

Created:

1993

Date Added:

18 July 2002

Source:

University of Adelaide, 2 December 1993.

Format:

mov (Quicktime);

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Length:

17 secs

Transcript

DR COLIN RUBENSTEIN
Former Senior Consultant, Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs

Only a Prime Minister or a Premier is really in a position to ensure that sensitivity and that incorporation across the board. A minister for Ethnic Affairs and Immigration will have some power in some areas, but is in no position to really influence or heavy more senior ministers.

CONTINUATION OF SPEECH AS TEXT

(Prime Minister Hawke) established the Office of Multicultural Affairs, effectively replacing AIMA (Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs), and in a way which represented progress, made that responsible to the Prime Minister. And I say that’s progress because of the public policy strategy of incorporation and diffusion as a way of sensitising all public policy areas and departments to the needs of multicultural Australia.

From “What is Wrong with Multiculturalism?”, University of Adelaide, 2 December 1993.