Spotlight - Australia's struggle with multiculturalism / WorkPermit, 27 Feb 2007
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Recent Australian political discourse, sacking of government officials and changing of department names shows that Oz - like many others - is coming to grips with an increasingly globalized world. Recent events suggest a shift from embracing the concept of multiculturalism in Australia to a focus on cultural unity. Australia, like the United States, is a country founded on immigration. Similarly, its population began as largely Anglo and Irish in background, owing to its status as a penal colony for the British Empire in the late 18th century."