Assistant Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs minister Julian Hill has warned Australia needs to strengthen the “bridging social capital” that holds our diverse society together, or risk further ...
Anti-immigration rallies around Australia in late August and mid-October exposed public divides over migration, social cohesion and national identity. The rise of anti-immigration sentiment ...
It is 50 years – two generations – since then Immigration Minister Al Grassby launched the idea of a multicultural Australia at a Melbourne conference in 1973. Ghassan Hage, Professor in Anthropology ...
Multiculturalism first made its way into Australian political dialogue in the 1970s, with the idea that the country could, and should, be home to people from all over the world. Inevitably, there was ...
The royal commission’s interim report has provided a diagnosis of what may have gone wrong with our security systems — but the deeper issue is not simply how to protect communities from hatred, but ...
(L-R) Dholi Priya Gakhar, Paediatrician Associate Prof Dr Habib Bhurawala, Cr Sameer Pandey and entrepreneur Gitesh Agarwal share their migrant experiences over the past two decades in Australia, and ...