HIS 10 - Migration Experience: Multiculturism

Defining multicultural Australia

• Worksheet: Timeline of 1980s-90s immigration (.pdf 101 kB) | Word version (.docx 10 kB)
• Teacher version of the Australian immigration timeline 1980s and 90s
• Text and podcast: Is diversity a danger to the nation? (Teacher reference)
• Professor Blainey speech reported in The Standard, 1984
• Headlines in newspapers about Blainey’s comments
• Extract from Hansard: The government’s reply (.pdf 203 kB) in Parliament on 8 May 1984
• Mick Young comments on fears about Asian immigration and the end of the White Australia policy (1995)
• Extract from ‘Human rights and the Blainey debate’ in Australian Multiculturalism: A Documentary History and Critique, by Lois E Foster
• The 3-2-1 Bridge approach (teaching strategy)
• The Report of the National Inquiry into Racist Violence 18 April 1991 (.pdf 303 kB)
• The worksheet (.pdf 117 kB) for the activity on the report above | Word version (.docx 100 kB)

• Timeline with historical examples to provide the overview of the decade
• Credo for a Nation (1974) Museum Victoria
• Booklet — A J Grassby, ‘Australia’s Multicultural Society’ (1975)
• Teacher overview of the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act (1975)
• Australia’s obligations under the 1966 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
• the Guide to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975
• Learn how to covert PowerPoint files to Flash with Adobe Presenter
• Timeline: Vietnamese immigration to Australia (Pre 1975-2011) ABC
• Short history of Vietnamese immigration to Australia  (.pdf 132 kB) from the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection
• Simple summary and illustration of how Prezi works
• Source: 1970 — refugees from our region, (Image 9: Vietnamese boat people Darwin 1977, Image 11 Indo-Chinese families arriving by plane 1979)
• Source: Vietnamese boat people, Darwin, November 1977 (National Library of Australia, 15 images)
• Source: Once upon a time migration timeline from SBS
• Step Inside: Perceive, Know about, Care about approach to explore images in sources
• Case study: Extract about KG4435 from The Vietnamese Boat People, 1954 and 1975–1992 by Nghia M Vo
• SBS Report Lam Tac Tam recount
• Creating newspapers in the classroom — support
• Newspaper templates — support
• Google newspaper templates — support
• Design a web page with Tools 4U Microsoft Word 2007 — support
• Case study: Migration experience of Mai Ho Museum Victoria
• Case study: Profile of Hieu Van Le and inquiry questions
• Hieu Van Le: Thoughts on cultural heritage
• Hieu Van Le: First experiences of Australia
• Hieu Van Le: Recognising government support
• Hieu Van Le: Short-term challenges
• The full speech (.pdf 56 kB) by Hieu Van Le
• Leaving Cambodia stories of Pol Pot survivors
• Ming Tam Nguyen’s life as a refugee to Australia linked to his favorite musical instrument: the object and his story(National Museum of Australia)
• Submission ‘Australia as a Multicultural Society’ (.pdf 438 kB) to the Australian Population and Immigration Council