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Jul 24, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Andrew Jakubowicz
A year ago, the government instigated an independent review of the national multicultural framework. As more than half of Australia’s population is either born overseas or has one parent who was, this policy is important. It underpins how multiculturalism works in almost every part of life. It aims to ensure equity and inclusion for people from minority groups, and attempts to whittle away at structural racism. Now the review report has been released.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Andrew Jakubowicz
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May 28, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Erin Cooper-Douglas |Justin Bergman |Matt Garrow |Andrew Jakubowicz |Erika Martino |Fethi Mansouri | +2 more
Over the weekend at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, high-profile political journalist Laura Tingle told the audience Australia is a racist country, and always has been. It prompted widespread media coverage and criticism from Coalition politicians and media commentators. But is it true? Is Australia fundamentally a racist country? We asked five experts what they think. Here’s what they had to say.
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May 28, 2024 | 
miragenews.com | Erika Martino |Andrew Jakubowicz
Associate Dean of Business (Indigenous Leadership & Engagement) + Yes. I can rely on data to answer this question. The first Gari Yala report, released in 2020 by the Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research and Diversity Council Australia, was based on a survey of 1,033 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander workers across Australia about their experiences at work.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
tolerance.ca | Andrew Jakubowicz
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
theconversation.com | Andrew Jakubowicz
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 and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne, and currently visiting scholar at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, has become the most significant intellectual commentator on multicultural Australia of the second of those generations.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
thetimes.com.au | Andrew Jakubowicz
It is 50 years – two generations – since then Immigration Minister Al Grassby launched the idea of a multicultural Australia[1] at a Melbourne conference in 1973. Ghassan Hage, Professor in Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne, and currently visiting scholar[2] at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, has become the most significant intellectual commentator on multicultural Australia of the second of those generations.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
theaustraliatoday.com.au | Andrew Jakubowicz
By Andrew JakubowiczFifty years after the Whitlam government released its landmark report on multiculturalism in Australia, the Albanese government has launched a major review of its policies to ensure they are serving multicultural communities in the best ways. But will this review provide a multicultural policy “for all Australians”? Or is it just seeking to ensure, as the government put it, that “no one is left behind, and everyone feels that they truly belong”?
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Jun 11, 2023 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Andrew Jakubowicz
Mon Jun 12 Written by Andrew Jakubowicz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney Fifty years after the Whitlam government released its landmark report on multiculturalism in Australia, the Albanese government has launched a major review of its policies to ensure they are serving multicultural communities in the best ways. But will this review provide a multicultural policy “for all Australians”?
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
hashtag.net.au | Andrew Jakubowicz
Fifty years after the Whitlam government released its landmark report on multiculturalism in Australia, the Albanese government has launched a major review of its policies to ensure they are serving multicultural communities in the best ways. But will this review provide a multicultural policy “for all Australians”? Or is it just seeking to ensure, as the government put it, that “no one is left behind, and everyone feels that they truly belong”?
