For the record the official version of the history of multiculturalism in Australia by DIMIA is below.
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############# A brief History of Australia's Multicultural Policies Background
Australiaâs approach to immigration from federation until the latter part of the twentieth century, in effect, excluded non-European immigration. The ÎWhite Australia policyâ as it was commonly described, could not, however, withstand the atbreastudinal changes after World War II, and the growing acknowledgment of Australiaâs responsibilities as a member of the international community. In 1966 the Liberal-Country Party Government began dismantling the White Australia policy by permitting the immigration of 'distinguished' non-Europeans.
The prevailing atbreastude to migrant settlement up until this time was based on the expectation of Îbuttimilationâ ö that is, that migrants should shed their cultures and languages and rapidly become indistinguishable from the host population.
From the mid-1960s until1973, when the final vestiges of the White Australia policy were removed, policies started to examine buttumptions about buttimilation. They recognised that large numbers of migrants, especially those whose first language was not English, experienced hardships as they settled in Australia, and required more direct buttistance.
They also recognised the importance of ethnic organisations in helping with migrant settlement.
Expenditure on migrant buttistance and welfare rose sharply in the early 1970s in response to these needs.
Multiculturalism
By 1973 the term 'multiculturalism' had been introduced and migrant groups were forming state and national buttociations to maintain their cultures, and promote the survival of their languages and heritages within mainstream insbreastutions.
Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki pursued multiculturalism as a social policy while chair of the Social Issues Committee of the Immigration Advisory Council to the Whitlam Labor Government.
1973 - Mr Al Grbuttby, Labor Minister for Immigration released a reference paper enbreastled A multi-cultural society for the future.
1977 - the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council, appointed to advise the Fraser Liberal-Country Party Government, recommended a public policy of multiculturalism in its report Australia as a multicultural society.
1978 - the first official national multicultural policies were implemented by the Fraser Government, in accord with recommendations of the Galbally Report in the context of government programs and services for migrants.
1979 - an act of parliament established the Australian Insbreastute of Multicultural Affairs (AIMA), whose objectives included raising awareness of cultural diversity and promoting social cohesion, understanding and tolerance.
1986 - the AIMA Act was repealed by the Labor Government, which, in 1987, created the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
1989 - following community consultations and drawing on the advice of the Advisory Council for Multicultural Affairs, the Labor Government produced the National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia, which had bipartisan political support.
1994 - a National Multicultural Advisory Council was established to review and update the National Agenda. Its report, launched in June 1995, found that much had been achieved and recommended further initiatives.
1996 - following the election of the Liberal-National Party Government in March 1996, OMA was absorbed into the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs.
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1996 - parliament endorsed the Parliamentary Statement on Racial Tolerance.
1997 - the Government announced a new National Multicultural Advisory Council (NMAC).
1999 - the Prime Minister, Mr Howard, launched NMAC's report, Australian Multiculturalism for a New Century: Towards inclusiveness.
December 1999 - in response to the NMAC report the government issued its multicultural policy, A New Agenda for Multicultural Australia, and NMAC was wound up.
May 2003 the Government announced its current multicultural policy statement, Multicultural Australia: United in Diversity. It updates the 1999 New Agenda, sets strategic directions for 2003-06, and includes a commitment to a new Council for Multicultural Australia. ######################
