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This chapter illustrates how Australia Day became a tool for the Australian government to promote its immigration and integration policies in the second half of the twentieth century. The two forms of political memory, civic and cultural memory, that exp
When the Australian Bicentennial Authority first published its national program of projects and events, it was a product of modern special interest politics. It had a special program on multiculturalism to satisfy the ethnic lobby; another to satisfy the feminists; another for the trade unions; anot...
"Multiculturalism", writes Pnina Werbner, is "an important rhetoric and an impossible practice" (Werbner and Moddod 22). As I open my morning paper on Australia Day 2006, I am reminded of just how important, and how impossible, Australian multiculturalism remains three decades after its incep...
” Or as we say in here in Australia —“ G'Day ” Welcome to this unique guide to the “ Land Down Under ” for Chinese learners of English. In these pages, you will learn not only the history, culture and language of Australia, but also intriguing details about the people and pla...
aAustralia is a multi-cultural country. Immigration to Australia not only sustain the population growth, but also to improve the aging of the population. Immigration and Multiculturalism in this country have injected new vitality. The Government of Australia encourage people of different racial or eth...
According to the research conducted by Australia Day Council of NSW in 2008, 80% of Aussie believe that they have a strong culture which includes honesty, being down to earth, healthy sports and multiculturalism, Australia is the only place where lungfish can be found in the form of living ...
Our multiculturalism, and in turn our food. For example, may parents were migrants who came to this country in the late 1950’s (I am a first generation Australian). I grew up eating a lot of Eastern European and Chinese food as well as many Anglo-Saxon favourites. I loved piroshki ...
"Lunar New Year is a special time for many people in NSW to celebrate life, family, and culture. It is also a time to express gratitude, hope, and joy," said NSW Minister for Multiculturalism Steve Kamper. "Lunar New Year has become an integral part of the NSW cultural calendar." ...
This paper examines the marginalisation of multicultural and multilingual discourses that occurred in Australia in the mid-1990s and that continues to the present day. The contemporary struggle between national and multicultural identities is considered against the background of the re-emergence of natio...