Digital resources tagged with ‘multiculturalism’

A Land of Milk and Honey and English Lessons

Australia needs new migrants to populate the country and build a more prosperous nation. English lessons are available everywhere, including through correspondence and radio courses.

An Australian Greek Wife

Toula, an Australian-born Greek wife, is a Workers' Compensation officer. Breaking free from traditional Greek women's roles, she desires a career and creative freedom.

Bonegilla Migrant Camp

More than 300,000 migrants had their first taste of Australian life at the Bonegilla Migrant Camp in Victoria before moving out to transform Australia socially and culturally.

Cane Cutters and Mateship

A group of men get together in a pub and form a cane - cutting gang. Five million tons of sugarcane have to be cut by hand in back breaking conditions in North Queensland.

Choosing who you want to be

The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975.

Civil War in Sudan

Sudanese refugees talk about the impact of the civil war on their families and of creating a new life in Australia.

Cuc Lam's Suitcase

It may be just a small red vinyl suitcase but for Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam it’s a symbol of a new beginning in a new country.

Edmund Barton and the Velvet Soap Advertisement

The Velvet Soap advertising campaign is a tongue-in-cheek reminder of Edmund Barton’s hand in formulating the White Australia policy.

Ethnic Community Broadcasting

Liz Jacka talks about how SBS was established to cater to minority communities as part of multicultural policy in the late 1970s.

Ethnic Discrimination

The issue of refugees and displaced people is one of the most complicated before the world community today. Every year millions of refugees from around the world search for a new homeland. About 13,000 of these people make new lives in Australia.

Giovanni's Tile Business Grows

Well-paid but back-breaking sugarcane work in North Queensland provided the initial resources for Giovanni's business. He and his family went on to create a now highly- successful imported tile business.

Kids are never yours forever – they're on loan

The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon in Vietnam, in 1975.

Media and ethnic broadcasting

Australians tune in to a radio address from Immigration Minister Arthur Caldwell in 1949. Liz Jacka describes how the world opened up for SBS' audience through its early broadcasts.

Repetitious Work Affects Migrant Women

Female migrant workers discuss the pain in their hands after long hours of sewing and repetitive factory work.

SBS Charter

John Safran, Megan Spencer and Scott Goodings discuss the nature of programming at SBS.

Song for the King -- Vika and Linda Bull interview

Vika and Linda Bull talk about the importance of their heritage and connection to Tonga.

Sport and Multiculturalism

How accessible is sport for people from different cultural backgrounds?

Taslima Nasrin - Bangladeshi doctor, poet and refugee

The Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin recounts her 1960s childhood and her awakening to women's oppression.

Taslima Nasrin - the price of freedom

Bangladeshi poet Taslima Nasrin reflects about her mother’s life and her own responsibility, through her writing, to changing the lives of women globally.

Two birthdays, two names and one child

The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975.

Two fathers, two mothers - one child

The effects of Australia’s role in the mass adoption of Vietnamese babies during the fall of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975.