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John Lack on resistance to racism

John Lack and Mara Moustafine.

Historian John lack remarks on the resistance to racism that is now part of Victorian culture

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Date Added:

02 March 2009

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mov (Quicktime);

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5.1 MB

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01min59sec

Transcript

Lack:

00:08

What I like about Victorian, the feel of Victoria and Melbourne is that and I think it’s Bracks who gives the lead here, you know, that we’re just not going to tolerate racism and intolerance, we’re just not going to – we’re just not going to give it any measure of approval at all. It’s not our world. We’re interested in becoming, we’re not interested in looking back at old rivalries and prejudices and so on, we’re interested in becoming, we’re interested in talent, we’re interested in encouraging –

00:52

And I think that spirit and I think it’s shared in the opposition too, that spirit sort of pervades public policy and publicly approved policy and I think that’s you know, part of the battle is the battle of propaganda. I don’t think propaganda is a shameful word. Propaganda, if propaganda spreads good values, then it’s a good thing and if propaganda is constructive and positive and encourages people to be positive and constructive then it’s good. And I think the vibes are good. And the opposition shares it.

01:32

That’s the other interesting thing about Victoria, the resistance to racism in the immigration policy has come very largely from within Victoria. It came within the Liberal Party from the member for Kooyong, Petro Georgio. Wonderful. We hadn’t seen that element of independence in the Liberal Party for a long time, it was very welcome.

01:58

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