History 237 Melbourne

The History of Australia and New Zealand

Week 5 

Multicultural Australia

Dr. Bruce Haulman
 

Welcome to Week 5 of The History of Australia
Multicultural: 1946 - 2004

You need to do nine things:

 


1. Readings:

Read Stuart Macintyre A Concise History of Australia Chapter 8

Click on this link to go to the Macintyre Study Guide for Chapter 8

Read the Chapter "Past" in The Little Aussie Fact Book, read the section on Western Australia; and read the section on Tasmania.

 




2. Visit the "Populate or Perish" web site of The John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library at

http://john.curtin.edu.au/
1940s/populate/index.html

Browse through the page and learn about "Populate or Perish."  Also explore the rest of the site for information about Australia's home front during and after the war. Then develop a short summary of what you discovered and be prepared to discuss it in class.


© Library and Information Service of Western Australia


© Library and Information Service of Western Australia


3. Visit the "Communist Party Dissolution Act 1959" web site at

 http://www.pa.ash.org.au/afssse/
democracy/case_studies/proj01_02/
htaa/case%20study%20htaa%
20cameron%20MASTER.pdf

Browse through the site and find why the "Anti-Communist Referendum" was so representative of Australian attitudes.  Then develop a short summary of what you discovered and be prepared to discuss it in class.

 


Prime Minister Robert Menzies
© The Menzies Foundation


4.  Visit the Australia War Memorial's Vietnam web site at

http://www.awm.gov.au/
atwar/vietnam.htm 

Browse through the site and find out about Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.  Then develop a short summary of why you think Australia was involved in Vietnam and be prepared to discuss it in class.

 

               

Diggers, Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, November 1966
© Australia War Memorial


5. Visit The Department of Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs "Abolition of the 'White Australia' Policy" web site at:

http://www.immi.gov.au/facts/
08abolition.htm

Browse through the site and discover what the 'White Australia' Policy was and why it ended.

Then develop a short summary of what you discovered and be prepared to discuss it in class.

 


© Post-Age Pty Ltd


6.  Visit the "Whitlam Dismissal" web site at

http://whitlamdismissal.com/ 

Browse through the site and find why  Whitlam was dismissal and why it is a significant event in Australia History.  Then develop  a short summary of what you discovered and be ready to discuss it in class.


Gough Whitlam, 1972
 

7. Visit the Department of Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs, Council for Multicultural Australia web site at

http://www.immi.gov.au
/multicultural/cma/ 

Browse through the site and learn about Australia's Multicultural Policy.

 



© DIMIA Australia
 
 

8. Visit "The Australian Republican Movement" web site at

http://www.republic.org.au/homepagehtml.htm

Browse through the site and find the key issues surrounding the proposal for an Australian Republic.

 


New Flag Designs ©AusFlag
 
 

9.  Visit the ANTaR's Mabo and Wik web site at

http://www.antarvictoria.org.au/wikmabo.html

Browse through the site and find the implications of the Mabo and Wik decisions that you think are significant.

 



Eddie Mabo
 
 
Be prepared to discuss these readings and web sites and be ready for Quiz #4 over these materials.


©Australian Explorer

These assignments plus site visits are Week 5 of this class.

© Bruce E. Haulman 2009