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Screen (8 of 10) ...Ethnic rights ...
 


"The Barrier is not Language:
Ford Broadmeadows 1973".
Artist: Stergios Proios, illustrating a
landmark strike at the Victorian car plant.


Hear Commentary:
...Ethnic rights - Listen to Professor Andrew Jakubowicz discuss the events and issues surrounding this topic. Read text commentary
Archival Images: Workers' meeting, 1960s - Workers' Ethnic Rights meeting 1960s - More ...

Audio Interviews:
Ethnic Rights - Alan Matheson speaks about the struggles of the migrant workers in Europe. - More ...

Audio Interviews:
Ethnic Rights - George Zangalis talks about migrant and ethnic rights through the very successful Migrant Workers Committee. - More ...
Policies: Ethnic rights - Recommendations for a Multi-Cultural Australia - First drafts of the Policy and Principles and of a platform on ethnic rights by the Ethnic Action Movement, a group of activists from various ethnic communities formed in 1973 and based at the Fitzroy Ecumenical Centre in Melbourne. - More ...
Book Excerpts: Ecumenical Migration Centre, Melbourne - the first 20 years - The history of the Centre from the 1960s to the late 1980s, outlining its evolution from a small Christian-based group to an organisation providing a wide range of services to migrant communities of all backgrounds in Melbourne. - More ...
Speeches: Tenth Anniversary of NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council - An excerpt from comments by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran in 1985 to the Tenth Anniversary Ball of the Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW, in which he speaks of the Whitlam government as forever turning around attitudes to ethnic communities. - More ...
Miscellaneous Documents: Gigantic Step Forward - A summary of the proceedings of the 2nd Migrant Workers’ Conference, held in Melbourne in 1975, describes the meeting’s achievements, chief among them, the setting up of a permanent body - the Migrant Workers’ Committee - to pursue migrant rights. - More ...
 
...Ethnic rights ...