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| 17/11/2008 Consign disability discrimination to the bin |
| LAST week The Australian noted Immigration Minister Chris Evans's comment that Down syndrome was not grounds for failing the health requirement of the Migration Act. He's quite correct, in that there is no mention of Down syndrome, nor indeed of disability, in the act. Like race before it, disability has become the new unmentionable in Australian migration policy.. Click here for more. |
| 20/10/2008 Fraser laments decline of 'multi' in SBS culture |
| FORMER prime minister Malcolm Fraser, whose government established SBS, has endorsed a statement warning that the public broadcaster was in danger of losing its way, with "mainstream replacing multicultural". Click here for more. |
| AUSTRALIA'S citizenship test overhal |
| AUSTRALIA'S citizenship test set-up by the Howard government is set for a major overhaul after a review found it to be flawed and discriminatory.. Click here to view |
| New Immigrants Contibution to Commonwealth |
| A report by respected economic analyst Access Economics shows that new migrants to Australia deliver hundreds of millions of dollars to the Commonwealth budget and the broader economy every year.. Click here to view |
| Immigrants at Naru |
| At my first meeting with Department officials as Minister for Immigration, I asked who was detained at the immigration detention centre on Nauru and at what stage were their claims for asylum.. Click here to view |
| Ethnic Community Council of Queensland/Queensland Police Service Cup |
| Thirty–two soccer teams from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds will compete for the Ethnic Community Council of Queensland/Queensland Police Service Cup over the Queen's Birthday long weekend.. Click here to view |