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This study examines the politics of multiculturalism in Australia. Multiculturalism, first introduced to Australia in 1975 as a solution for ethnic identity conflicts between "old" Australians and new comers, has remained highly contested in the political arena to this day. Specifically, the propone...

This study examines the politics of multiculturalism in Australia. Multiculturalism, first introduced to Australia in 1975 as a solution for ethnic identity conflicts between "old" Australians and new comers, has remained highly contested in the political arena to this day. Specifically, the proponents of multiculturalism, mostly Labour Party and other small left-wing party members, have seen multiculturalism as the best political idea that is able to solve the identity conflicts between groups of people with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. On the contrary, conservative politicians have thought the opposite. While the nation-building function of multicultualism has been in question in the political sphere, many critiques of Australia"s multicultural policies have pointed out "race" as a key concept explaining lack of Australian people"s support for multiculturalism. Their point is that white supremacy is still persistent in contemporary Australia so that the tensions and conflicts between the people with different cultural backgrounds would not be solved by any political ideas and public policies unless they include measures breaking down a social hierarchy of race. However, it has been seen that Australian multicultural policies put an emphasis on cultural diversity, while oppressing the pre-existing racial conflicts. Consequently, multicultural policies ignoring the racial issues in the society are said to make the lines of racial demarcation clearer to some extent. Moreover, conservative politicians have attacked multiculturalism for threatening Australia"s national unity as a winning strategy for the elections. This is important to explain a recent retreat of multiculturalism in Australia.

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