Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism
Australia, like many countries, has benefited from the range of its people’s ancestry. Although we have had immigrants from a variety of nations even before we became one, due such events as the Gold rush, it was the policies introduced by the Chifley Government in the wake of World War Two that established us as a nation willing to accommodated those from all over the world.
Gough Whitlam’s quota system and the end of racially based selection which favoured white Europeans in the 1970’s also added to the appeal of Australia as a nation in which to settle, particularly from neighbouring Asian nations. These trends have continued into the present and have done much to shape the cultural identity of Australia, as we now know it.

Multiculturalism has had a dramatic effect on Australia’s culture. With the increase of immigration there was an increase in cultural diversity. With this increase of cultural diversity it offered Australia. This increase in cultura...