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Immigration in Diversified Australia: Today and Tomorrow’s Challenges, is a free conference being hosted by The Population, Migration and Multicultural Studies Network based at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. It focuses on multiculturalism and diversity within Australia, and will be held on 20-21 June, 2013 in Carlton, Vic.

In 1962, Melbourne University Press (MUP) published a volume by the Immigration Reform Group entitled Immigration: Control or Colour Bar? The Background to ‘White Australia and a proposal for change. It played an important part in the national debate which led to the dismantling of the White Australia Policy. Fifty years on, the Asia Institute-based Population, Migration and Multicultural Studies Network is commemorating the significant achievement of this publication and the Immigration Reform Group’s influence during the 1960s. In its opening sessions, the conference will take as point of departure, developments in the areas of migration flows, policy and research since the abolition of the White Australia Policy. Subsequent sessions will be dedicated to examining and discussing current and future issues pertaining to population, migration, and multiculturalism in Australia.

For more information, view here. Registration is essential.  

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