Keywords: Multiculturalism
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AUSTRALIA
- John Stuyfbergen
- 24 March 2011
10 Comments
In a park for a Sunday barbecue, suddenly a few men from our group separated from the rest of us. I asked the woman next to me what they were doing. They were Muslims, and they were praying. Suddenly the men were back. They switched on the radio, and we all listened to and argued about the cricket scores.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 21 February 2011
24 Comments
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen's speech on multiculturalism could be seen as laying the ground for a formal apology for the White Australia Policy. The parallels with the 2008 Apology to the Stolen Generations and the 2009 Apology to the Forgotten Australians are striking.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Scott Steensma
- 03 November 2010
4 Comments
The back label of my taboo-smashing pre-10am cake was covered in an unintelligible language, which I could only presume was Dutch. What I had thought a tasty sounding Breakfast Cake was apparently also known less appetisingly as an 'Ontbijtkoek'. I can neither read nor speak Dutch despite my Dutch migrant heritage.
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- Peter Kirkwood
- 30 July 2010
When it comes to asylum seekers, both Labor and Liberal leaders spruik policy that taps into negative community feelings toward 'the other'. Fr Francis D'Sa offers an alternative vision embracing multiculturalism and religious pluralism.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 21 June 2010
5 Comments
SBS TV's world renowned Subtitling Unit is about to lose one third of its staff. It's perfectly valid for SBS to jettison its subtitlers if it determines that SBS is fundamentally no longer a multicultural broadcaster. It's up to SBS management to come clean on its current purpose.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 11 January 2010
2 Comments
Because we lived so long with a policy of assimilation, our ingrained
racism takes time to shake. We need public policy that
reasserts the principles of multiculturalism. Instead our
Prime Minister is caught out making an ethnic jibe. June 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 01 June 2009
24 Comments
Because we lived so long with a policy of assimilation, our ingrained
racism takes time to shake. We need public policy that
reasserts the principles of multiculturalism. Instead our
Prime Minister is caught out making an ethnic jibe.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Clyne
- 18 November 2008
6 Comments
Bilingualism trains the mind and encourages more flexible problem solving. Such qualities go unnoticed in a society with a strong monolingual mindset. Social inclusion policy must also move beyond the socioeconomic dimension to prevent the exclusion of significant sections of Australian society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 14 November 2008
2 Comments
SBS television has been called many things, including the 'sexual broadcasting
service', because of the risqué foreign language films that it shows. SBS radio is the ultimate melting pot, a symbol of an inclusive Australian
multiculturalism in which different languages and cultures are
respected.
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AUSTRALIA
With the expiry of a five-year ban, former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar
Ibrahim today regains his freedom to contest a Malaysian general
election or internal party election. He is undoubtedly the darling of the foreign press, but many Malaysians doubt his commitment to multiculturalism.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Maria Vamvakinou
- 17 May 2007
Maria Vamvakinou has been Labor Member for Calwell since 2001. Prior to her election, Maria worked for two State Labor Ministers and a Federal Labor Senator. Her main areas of interest are multiculturalism, human rights, foreign affairs, immigration and social justice.
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