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  Mackellar, Michael
Ethnic radio will benefit both migrants and Australians
 
A press release in February 1977 issued by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Michael Mackellar, tells of the goals and benefits of ethnic radio.
Format: pdf | Size: 216K | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  MacPhee, Ian
First Biennial Meeting of AIMA - Opening Address
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: 267K | Length: 8 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  MacPhee, Ian
Liberals misunderstand Australian society
 
In this 1993 article, former Immigration Minister Ian MacPhee regrets what he sees as the Liberal Party’s abandonment of its former approach to multiculturalism and says this lack of understanding of Australia’s multicultural identity will keep the party out of office.
Format: pdf | Size: 163K | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  MacPhee, Ian
Liberals misunderstand Australian society
 
In this 1993 article, former Immigration Minister Ian MacPhee regrets what he sees as the Liberal Party’s abandonment of its former approach to multiculturalism and says this lack of understanding of Australia’s multicultural identity will keep the party out of office.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  MacPhee, Ian
Some Political Dimensions of Multiculturalism
 
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.
Format: pdf | Size: 183K | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 26 March 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Mahmoud, Ali-Salaam
Islam: The religion revealed to Muhammad
 
A powerpoint description of the religion of Islam.
Format: ppt | Size: 651 Kb | Length: 13 slides | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Changing social institutions
 
A brief description of some of the efforts to change the structures and institutions of government at various levels to prevent discrimination.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Community Relations Strategy
 
A description of the Community Relations Strategy, initiated by the government as a commitment of the 1989 National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Community strategies to combat racism
 
A brief history of some of the major strategies that have been undertaken from within the community to combat racism, from the Freedom Ride of 1965, to 1997.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Perpetrators of racism
 
The identification of some of the groups which perpetrate racism in Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
School strategies to combat racism
 
An indication of some of the programs that have been undertaken in schools to combat racism, with a focus on the Whole School Anti-Racism Project in New South Wales in 1995.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Using the law...
 
A summary and discussion of government action against racism through legislation, inquiries, and the establishment of the Human Rights Commission - later the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
What is racism?
 
An article defining racism, in the past and in the present, and how it can influence the behaviour of individuals or groups.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia Project Team
Youth campaigns to combat racism
 
A few examples of anti-racist campaigns directed at youth, most of who are at risk as perpetrators of racist violence.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia website
The Blainey debate
 
Link to views and information elsewhere on this website on the debate triggered by historian Geoffrey Blainey’s 1984 comments on Asian immigration.
Format: pdf | Size: 44 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 12 June 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Making Multicultural Australia website
The Hanson debate
 
Links to some of the material elsewhere on this website on the controversy unleashed by Pauline Hanson and her views after her election to Federal Parliament in 1996.
Format: pdf | Size: 38 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Maley, William
Australian Refugee Policy: Myths and Realities
 
An article from Social Alternatives Vol. 21 No.4, Spring 2002
Format: pdf | Size: 204 Kb | Length: 6 pages | Date Added: 21 April 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Maniaty, Tony
The Greek in me
 
Tony Maniaty ponders his changing perceptions over the years of his identity as the son of a Greek migrant to Queensland.
Format: pdf | Size: 227 KB | Length: 14 pages | Date Added: 24 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Manne, Robert
Open Season on Muslims in the newest phobia
 
One of the most significant ways the world has changed since the terrible crime of 9/11 has been the rise of Islamophobia in the Western world.
Format: pdf | Size: 68 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 22 November 2004 | | VIEW |
 
  Marinos, Lex
Robert De Niro's Waiting
 
Actor Lex Marinos writes in 1995 about the obstacles that Australians of non-English speaking background face in the film, television and theatre industries, and speculates that an actor like Robert De Niro would have had an uphill battle for recognition had his family immigrated to Australia instead of the US.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  McKeown, Brian
‘So you want to write a history of your school?’
 
Excerpts from Brian McKeown’s article on writing a school history from Teaching Heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  McRae-McMahon, Dorothy
Dorothy MacRae-McMahon
 
Part of a chapter in the 1995 book Australians Against Racism – Testimonies from the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Australia in which the Reverend Dorothy McRae-McMahon tells of two years of harassment and vilification by an extreme right-wing group.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Mecca, Laura
Laura Mecca on emergence of the Italian Historical Society
 
Laura Mecca describes the emergence of the Italian Historical Society
Format: pdf | Size: 104 KB | Length: 5 Pages | Date Added: 17 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Meekosha, Helen; Cummings, Karen; Gibbings, Beth and Jakubowicz, Andrew
Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Executive Summary
 
Executive summary of this 1987 report, which examines issues of access for migrants to services of the federal Department of Community Services and finds some of the problems with these programs lie with the department itself.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Meekosha, Helen; Cummings, Karen; Gibbings, Beth and Jakubowicz, Andrew
Equal Disappointment Opportunity?: Summary of Recommendations
 
Recommendations of this 1987 report, proposing improvements to programs of the federal Department of Community Services for immigrants and their children, and to the way they are run.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Menart, Vladimir
Notes on the Definition of “Ethnic”
 
In 1975, the deputy chairperson of the NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council, Vladimir Menart, discusses the different meanings of the word “ethnic”, and underlines the importance of a shared understanding of the term as a basis for the Council’s functioning.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Menzies, Gavin
1421 Website
 
Website for the book and TV show "1421" which tells about Chinese Admiral Zheng He and his voyages towards Australia as part of his global adventures.
Format: pdf | Size: 41 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 20 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Messariti, Anna
Performing Artists - “We are Here, We are Visible”
 
The Conclusion of the fourth volume of the 1994 report Access to Excellence: A Review of Issues Affecting Artists and Arts from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds, examining the situation of performing artists and the obstacles to their recognition.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Migrant Workers’ Conference
Gigantic Step Forward
 
A summary of the proceedings of the 2nd Migrant Workers’ Conference, held in Melbourne in 1975, describes the meeting’s achievements, chief among them, the setting up of a permanent body - the Migrant Workers’ Committee - to pursue migrant rights.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Migration Magazine
Misunderstanding, misinformation shroud report: author
 
An article on the views of one of the authors of the 1988 FitzGerald Report, Tony Bonnici, who attacks the negative response to it by some in the ethnic communities.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Migration Museum
Aims of the Migration Museum, Adelaide
 
The aims of Adelaide’s Migration Museum - the first museum in Australia completely dedicated to telling the story of the migrants to this country - in its multiple roles as collector, exhibitor, and educator in the area of migration and multiculturalism.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Milbank, Adrienne
Parliamentary Library Report on Anti-Racism
 
Adrienne Milbank discusses the value of an anti-racism campaign in Australia during the rise of racism and controversy over immigration
Format: pdf | Size: 156 KB | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 22 February 2009 | | VIEW |
 
  Mitchell, Tony
Local Noise interviews Khalid Abdulwahib, MC Azmarino, 2007
 
Sydney academics Tony Mitchell and Alastair Pennycook interview Khalid Abdulwahib on the work of Melbourne hip hop group Diafrix.
Format: pdf | Size: 20 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 12 January 2011 | | VIEW |
 
  Mitchell, Tony
Wogs Still Out of Work: Australian Television Comedy as Colonial Discourse
 
This 1992 article says much of the television comedy about migrants confirms negative stereotypes about migrant groups, and explores the changes that occurred when the stage show Wogs out of Work was adapted to fit the requirements of TV and became Acropolis Now.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Mo, Yimei
Harvest of Endurance: A History of the Chinese in Australia 1788-1988
 
The history of the Chinese in Australia and of their contribution to Australian society, written by Mo Yimei to accompany a 50-metre long scroll, painted in traditional style by Mo Xiangyi for the Australia-Chinese Friendship Society for the Bicentennial.
Format: pdf | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 01 April 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
Building a dynamic multicultural church
 
Jeannie Mok writes that there is no choice any longer in Australia but for Christians to accept truly multicultural churches.
Format: pdf | Size: 121 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
Building services for Muslim women
 
A biography of Galila Abdel Salam, who established the Islamic Women's Association of Queensland and has done much other work aimed at helping educate, inform and support Muslim women.
Format: pdf | Size: 1.65 MB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
Defending multiculturalism
 
Community activist Jeannie Mok tells about the recurring challenges to multiculturalism over the years and of her involvement in defending the principles it represents.
Format: mov | Size: 4.1 MB | Length: 2 min 32 s | Date Added: 15 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
Volunteering and advocating
 
Community activist Jeannie Mok tells of her volunteer work and campaigns on behalf of migrant communities since her arrival in Queensland from Malaysia in 1981.
Format: pdf | Size: 331 KB | Length: 5 pages | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
"Multicultural Trailblazer" - Eddie Liu
 
A biography of Eddie Liu and an account of his many activities for the Chinese and wider communities from his arrival in Queensland in the 1940s.
Format: pdf | Size: 629 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 06 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
"Multicultural trailblazer" - Jose Zepeda
 
A description of the achievements of Jose Zepeda in helping other migrants and refugees since his arrival from El Salvador in the mid-1980s.
Format: pdf | Size: 528 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
"Multicultural trailblazer" - Nick Xynias
 
A biography of ethnic leader Nick Xynias and a description of his work for the rights of migrants settling in the state and for services for them.
Format: pdf | Size: 650 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
"Multicultural Trailblazer" - Sultan Mohammed Deen
 
A biography of community leader Sultan Mohammed Deen, describing his activities consolidating Muslim services in Brisbane and in voluntary and charitable works for the wider community.
Format: pdf | Size: 643 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Mok, Jeannie
"Multicultural Trailblazer" - Warren Joe Lomas Leo
 
A description of the work of Warren 'Joe' Lomas Leo in the campaign to get recognition for South Sea Islanders and in setting up sporting clubs and teams for his community in North Queensland.
Format: pdf | Size: 621 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements
Social cohesion - an Australian challenge
 
Australian society faces many stresses associated with rapid change, globalisation, and continuing high levels of immigration. How should it respond and ensure social cohesion and wider harmony? A joint project between the Foundation, the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, funded by the Scanlon Foundation, aims to understand the way in social cohesion around the world can be bolstered, and apply those insights to Australia.
Format: pdf | Size: 2.2 MB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 17 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements
The Global Metropolis project
 
The world's major cities are cities of immigrants and diversity. In 2007 the AMF in conjunction with Monash University hosts the Melbourne gathering of Metropolis on the theme: Migration, Economic Growth and Social Cohesion.
Format: pdf | Size: 45 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 05 July 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Moore, Clive
Deportations after Federation
 
Clive Moore writes about efforts to prevent the mass deportations of South Sea Islanders in the wake of the 1901 restrictive legislation.
Format: pdf | Size: 84 KB | Length: 13 pages | Date Added: 20 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Moore, Clive
South Sea Islanders in Queensland
 
Clive Moore tells the history of Pacific Islanders from when they were brought over as indentured labour between 1863 and 1904, to the present, and discusses the problems and issues they currently face.
Format: pdf | Size: 169 KB | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Community Relations Plan
 
The Queensland Government's strategy, adopted in 1999, to promote positive community relations among all groups in the state.
Format: pdf | Size: 330 KB | Length: 25 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Community Relations Resource Kit
 
A state government guide, including broad principles and practical advice and examples, for those developing community relations plans.
Format: pdf | Size: 513 KB | Length: 71 pages | Date Added: 08 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Diversity wins Chinese contracts
 
A government publication showing how cultural diversity can boost business, in this case with knowledge about China leading to a Primary Industries' Department unit winning a major training contract there.
Format: pdf | Size: 250 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 20 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Implementing multiculturalism
 
A state government report reviewing achievements in applying multicultural policy in government agencies and pointing to further ways to improve.
Format: pdf | Size: 1 MB | Length: 44 pages | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
New and Emerging Communities in Queensland
 
A Queensland government report that identifies newly arrived, small communities of migrants, and looks at needs that might be overlooked.
Format: pdf | Size: 616 KB | Length: 83 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Queensland's multicultural advantage
 
A state government fact sheet on the benefits of a diverse population in doing business and carrying on trade with the rest of the world.
Format: pdf | Size: 160 KB | Length: 2 pages | Date Added: 14 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Queensland's Multicultural Policy
 
The state government's 2004 policy on multiculturalism and language services: Multicultural Queensland - making a world of difference.
Format: pdf | Size: 261 KB | Length: 20 pages | Date Added: 01 May 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
South Sea Islanders
 
Links to a section of the Queensland Government website which outlines the contributions of the state's South Sea Islanders, in spite of their regularly encountering discrimination throughout their history.
Format: pdf | Size: 51 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
The South Sea Islander community
 
Links to a section of the Queensland Government's website which outlines the history of South Sea Islanders in the state.
Format: pdf | Size: 51 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Multicultural Development Association
The Multicultural Development Association
 
The history, aims and work of this Queensland organisation, which assists migrants and refugees in a range of practical aspects of settlement.
Format: pdf | Size: 101 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 01 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Museum of Brisbane
Buddhism in Brisbane
 
A brief history of Buddhism in Brisbane and an explanation of the collection of Buddhas on display in a 2005 Museum of Brisbane exhibition.
Format: pdf | Size: 415 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Museum of Brisbane
Many meanings of Buddha
 
Messages from those who loaned their Buddhas to the Museum of Brisbane exhibition about what the Buddhas mean to them personally.
Format: pdf | Size: 533 KB | Length: 41 pages | Date Added: 15 March 2006 | | VIEW |

 
 
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