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Although Australia is a settler society, there has been bitter and passionate debate as to whether multiculturalism is an appropriate policy orientation for Australia. This essay will start by using information from the Australian Government, Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) website, lecture 10A and (Markus, 1994), to look at the evolution of Australian policies up to today and outline the Current multicultural policy. The essay will then discuss Pauline Hanson and new racism (Stratton, 1998) and look at the reasons why Pauline Hanson’s one nation party gained the support it did. Following this, the essay will illustrate people’s fears of multiculturalism and immigration by quoting questions asked by Australians and published in ‘issues in society’, (Dispelling the myths about immigration’1999), as well as survey results published in The British Journal of Sociology (Phillips 1996, 122). Finally, the essay will then conclude that the reason for the......

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