Keywords: Multiculturalism
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 30 July 2010
1 Comment
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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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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
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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
- Sarah Ayoub
- 18 December 2009
5 Comments
Men of dark hair and olive skin travelling in packs, bound by an unbreakable tradition. They have found a niche for themselves in South-West Sydney, and no matter how they are stereotyped, they continue to
meet, greet and roar as they beat, pa-rum-pum-pum-pum, on their drums.
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RELIGION
- Irfan Yusuf
- 14 September 2009
24 Comments
Tony
Abbott has described the New Testament as
'the core document of our civilisation'. As a South Asian Muslim, I'd like to think many Christians would be as incensed by
attempts to treat Christianity as uniquely Western as I am when Islam is treated as uniquely Arab.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Helen Brake
- 03 September 2009
8 Comments
For international students, the eagerness to accept new faces is intensified by a desire to make Australian friends, improve communication skills, and embrace all the opportunities available to them.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Catherine Marshall
- 18 August 2009
5 Comments
One night 11 years ago I joined members of a local police commando to report on a mission to intercept Mozambique refugees travelling into South Africa. It is easier to 'tolerate the intolerance' in under-resourced, refugee-deluged South Africa than in Australia.
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AUSTRALIA
When discussing racism, the response is as important as the
accusation. The slow response
from police and political leaders to the recent spate of
Indian-bashings demonstrates what can occur when racism is tackled
passively.
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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
- Saeed Saeed
- 20 January 2009
6 Comments
Upon hearing my ambition to become a journalist, elders in my community
suggested I adopt a western pen-name to increase my chances of
employment. Obama's win goes a long way to short
circuiting the negativity in African Australian communities bred by
historical grudges and ineffective social services.
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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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