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A Call for Courageous Leadership
Jupp, James |
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The edited version of a talk given in mid-1996, in which Professor James Jupp regrets the downgrading of multicultural programs, and emphasises the need for federal leadership on matters relating to ethnic affairs. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Arthur Calwell and the Origin of Post-War Immigration
Zubrzycki, Jerzy |
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An edited version of a talk given in 1994 by Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki on the background and the events surrounding Arthur Calwell’s push for mass immigration after the Second World War. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 403K | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | |
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Australian Ethnic Affairs Council - Inaugural Meeting
Zubrzycki, Jerzy |
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The first chair of the Council, Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki, outlines what he sees as its major challenge - achieving equality of opportunity for all Australians - at the launch of the organisation in March 1977. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 217K | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | |
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Australia’s Immigration Policy
Opperman, Hubert |
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The Minister for Immigration, Hubert Opperman, in a speech in May 1966, explains his government’s amended immigration policy, which in March that year opened the door for selective non-European migration. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | |
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Australia’s Multicultural Democracy
Greiner, Nick |
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The Inaugural Lecture on Multicultural Australia given in Jakarta in 1995 by the former NSW Premier, in which he discusses the landmarks in the development of multiculturalism and lists the crucial factors for its continuing success. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Australia’s Rich Resource
Fahey, John |
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Edited version of a 1996 address by the Minister for Finance in which he encourages moves towards “unlocking” the potential of Australia’s cultural and linguistic diversity, with all the benefits that brings. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 278K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | |
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Carlo Carli on The Italian Impact on public culture in Victoria
Carli, Carlo |
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Format: mov | Size: 6.9 MB|360x286 | Length: 02min38sec | Date Added: 21 April 2009 | |
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Common morality of the Abrahamic religions
Gobbo, Sir James |
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Sir James Gobbo reflects on the common morality of the Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam |
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Format: pdf | Size: 236 KB | Length: 19 Pages | Date Added: 09 March 2009 | |
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Eddie Mabo Human Rights Lecture
Pearson, Noel |
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In this 1995 talk, Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson reviews the history of the struggle for native title, and pays tribute to Eddie Mabo for the crucial role he played, saying the Mabo ruling has laid the foundation for the future of all Australians. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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First Biennial Meeting of AIMA - Opening Address
MacPhee, Ian |
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In this address to the members of AIMA in 1981, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Ian MacPhee speaks of the role of the Institute in helping achieve a balance between acceptance of the diversity of migrants on the one hand, and on the other - their critical role in being part of the creation of a distinctive Australian culture. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 267K | Length: 8 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | |
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For the New Australia
Keating, Paul |
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In late 1996, the former Prime Minister warns against allowing fear, ignorance and prejudice to govern attitudes, saying the “myth of the monoculture” has no place in the new Australia. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 376K | Length: 14 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | |
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Future Directions for Multicultural Policy
Jupp, James |
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James Jupp suggests multicultural policy for the future, taking into account the various dimensions of contemporary policy and debate. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 93 KB | Length: 6 pages | Date Added: 05 March 2006 | |
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Globalisation or Globaphobia: Does Australia have a choice ?
Downer, Alexander |
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Speech by The Hon Alexander Downer, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the National Press Club, Canberra, 1 December 1997. |
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Format: doc | Size: 30 Kb | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 20 April 2004 | |
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Globalization and Australia
Oxley, Alan |
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Alan Oxley's Powerpoint presentation at the Australian APEC Centre, Monash University. |
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Format: ppt | Size: 372 Kb | Length: 32 slides | Date Added: 20 April 2004 | |
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Government Response to the Report of the CAAIP
Ray, Robert |
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Senate statement by Robert Ray, Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs in December 1988 outlining the Federal Government's response to the FitzGerald Inquiry recommendations. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | |
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Identity and Change
Dang, Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen |
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A talk by visual artist Caroline Dang at a 1996 public forum on art and culture based on the Vietnamese- Australian experience, in which she tells of the confusions and the benefits of dual identity and explores the role of multiculturalism in her artistic work. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 229K | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | |
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Implementing Multicultural Policy
O'Brien, Patrick |
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Patrick O'Brien, a Queensland Health policy advisor, explores the way the state's multicultural policy influences the operations of the public sector. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 209 KB | Length: 11 pages | Date Added: 05 March 2006 | |
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Islam: The religion revealed to Muhammad
Mahmoud, Ali-Salaam |
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A powerpoint description of the religion of Islam. |
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Format: ppt | Size: 651 Kb | Length: 13 slides | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | |
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John Howard on Multiculturalism
Howard, John |
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Statement on Multiculturalism from the Prime Minister in 1996 in response to an invitation to submit his views to Making Multicultural Australia ,and his address at the 1997 launch of an issues paper Multicultural Australia: the way forward. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Launch of the National Languages Institute of Australia
Hawke, Bob |
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Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s speech opening the National Languages Institute of Australia in 1990, in which he outlines its role and emphasises the importance of language training for Australia’s future. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | |
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Migrant Services and Programs - Statement by the Prime Minister
Fraser, Malcolm |
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On presenting the Galbally Report to Parliament in 1978, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says his Government accepts the Review’s proposals on migrant services, and the financial commitments required to implement them. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | |
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Migrant Women’s Shuffle: 2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back
Georgopoulos, Debbie |
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The national coordinator of the Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women tells the 1996 Women in Migration Conference that while there have been significant gains for NESB women in the past decade, the focus on economic efficiency should not allow other important goals for social prosperity to be forgotten. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 337K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | |
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Multicultural Summit
Beattie, Peter |
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Queensland Premier Peter Beattie opens his government's first multicultural summit, in Brisbane in 2001. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 44 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | |
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Multicultural Television – The most exciting idea in broadcasting...
Gyngell, Bruce |
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In this talk to the National Press Club in Canberra in August 1980 the first head of SBS Television, Bruce Gyngell, tells of the significance of SBS TV, the role it will play after its launch, in October 1980. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Multiculturalism and Reconciliation in Australia
Deane, William |
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In November 1996 the Governor-General Sir William Deane makes a plea for tolerance and mutual respect, saying anyone who attacks the qualities which underpin multicultural Australia diminishes the whole nation. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 217K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 25 March 2002 | |
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Multiculturalism: a unifying force?
Themal, Uri |
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Uri Themal rejects the notion that multiculturalism is divisive, rather that it can be used to reduce tensions in Australia caused by international crises. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 23 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 05 March 2006 | |
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National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia launch
Hawke, Bob |
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Excerpts from the Prime Minister’s speech at the launch of The National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia in 1989 in Sydney |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | |
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National Consultations: Racism and Civil Society
Jonas, William |
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Australia participates in the United Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 31 August - 8 September 2001 in Durban, South Africa |
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Format: pdf | Size: 64 kb | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | |
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Opening Address, 1988 FECCA Congress
Hawke, Bob |
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Prime Minister Bob Hawke, in opening the 1988 FECCA Congress, attacks the opposition and its leader John Howard for backing away from multiculturalism, and expresses his government’s commitment to the policy, outlining its plans in a number of areas of multiculturalism and immigration. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 31 March 2002 | |
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Our Sanitised Multiculturalism
Hall, Jaslyn |
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Media commitment to cultural diversity
from Teaching Heritage
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Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | |
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Paradox of Australian Multiculturalism
Kerkyasharian, Stepan |
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In this 1994 speech, Stepan Kerkyasharian, Chairperson of the NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission examines what he sees as the paradox between Australia’s racist past and its multicultural present. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Perspectives of Multiculturalism in Australia
Fraser, Malcolm |
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In addressing the 1988 FECCA Congress, former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser compares contemporary attitudes to multiculturalism to when he inaugurated the organisation in 1981, saying he is disappointed at some continuing resistance to the policy, but expressing his confidence in its future because of all the benefits it brings Australia. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | |
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Peter Van Vliet on the ethnic communities council and government legislation
Van Vliet, Peter |
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Format: pdf | Size: 4.9 MB|360x286 | Length: 01min53sec | Date Added: 21 April 2009 | |
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Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's view of multiculturalism
Fraser, Malcolm |
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Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser presents his view of multiculturalism, one reflecting his experience of Melbourne diversity |
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Format: pdf | Size: 160 KB | Length: 5 Pages | Date Added: 22 February 2009 | |
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Reconciliation at the Crossroads
Dodson, Patrick |
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The Chairperson for Aboriginal Reconciliation tells the National Press Club where the process stands in April 1996, and presents five proposals to put the nation more firmly on the track to reconciliation. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Religious Citizenship
Hudson, Wayne |
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Wayne Hudson calls on Australia to develop a new notion of pluralist religious citizenship which would serve as a model for the rest of the world, at a 2001 Queensland multicultural summit. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 97 KB | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | |
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Second Women in Migration Conference
Ruddock, Philip |
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In the speech launching this conference in 1996, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Philip Ruddock, gives an indication of his government’s policy directions in his portfolio. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | |
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Some Political Dimensions of Multiculturalism
MacPhee, Ian |
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Addressing FECCA’s 1988 Annual Congress, former Immigration Minister Ian MacPhee calls for tolerance in the face of incidents indicating a lack of understanding of multiculturalism, and suggests ways that could help in increasing acceptance of the policy and its reality in Australia. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 183K | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | |
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Tenth Anniversary of NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council
Wran, Neville |
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An excerpt from comments by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran in 1985 to the Tenth Anniversary Ball of the Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW, in which he speaks of the Whitlam government as forever turning around attitudes to ethnic communities. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | |
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The Minister for Immigration speaks on a multi-cultural society
Grassby, Al |
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A Multicultural Society for the Future, Prepared for a symposium in Melbourne
11 August 1973 from Teaching Heritage
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Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 17 July 2002 | |
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Twenty-fifth Anniversary of NSW Good Neighbour Council
Papadopoulos, George |
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At a conference on this anniversary in 1975, George Papadopoulos - then a part-time commissioner in the Social Welfare Commission - examined participation by migrants in decision-making and offered some suggestions. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | |
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Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Good Neighbour Council of South Australia
Whitlam, Gough |
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In a speech opening the 25th anniversary celebrations of South Australia’s Good Neighbour Council on 13 July 1974, the Prime Minister reviews his government’s achievements in migrant affairs and defends the controversial decision to reorganise the Department of Immigration. |
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Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 30 March 2002 | |
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Understanding and implementing good governance for Indigenous communities and regions
Deane, William |
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Read Sir William Deane's speech at the 2002 Conference on Indigenous governance |
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Format: pdf | Size: 134 kb | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 26 February 2004 | |
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Women and Multiculturalism
Kemp, Melody |
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Melody Kemp compares her experiences on women's issues in Asia and in Australia and queries the implications of some of the directions of government and the media here for the future. |
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Format: pdf | Size: 171 KB | Length: 8 pages | Date Added: 05 March 2006 | |
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"Food's great, but ..." Evolving attitudes to multicultural Australia, 1985 - 1995
Bailey, Carol |
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This paper by social researcher Carol Bailey compares two reports by Mackay Research conducted ten years apart and finds that there are still many areas of public concern over the policy of multiculturalism.
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Format: pdf | Size: 50K | Length: 18 pages | Date Added: 10 March 2002 | |
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