East Asia Forum

Australia’s fragile multicultural consensus under threat

Anti-immigration rallies around Australia in late August and mid-October exposed public divides over migration, social cohesion and national identity. The rise of anti-immigration sentiment ...
The Conversation

Ghassan Hage is one of Australia’s most significant intellectuals. He’s still on a quest for a multicultural society that hopes and cares

I have known Ghassan Hage since the early 1980s, when I first met him when I was director of the Centre for Multicultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. I interviewed him recently for a ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

As we mark shloshim for Bondi Beach, we also ask: Can Australia’s multicultural project survive?

This was the impassioned plea that garnered rapturous applause from several thousand mourners who converged in the pouring rain at Bondi Beach on Sunday evening to mark shloshim — the 30 days of ...