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In response to multiculturalism, and the pressure of the claims and protests of indigenous peoples in Australia, what it means to say one is Australian and therby to express some sense of national identity - has shifted dramatically. The argument has emerged in recent years the Australian distinctiveness lies in the diverse, not the common, ancestry of its people. We are, it is said, Australian in our multiculturalism. In such a society, we now say, everyone is a member of a cultural community, each of us hs an ethnicity which is more spec...