The Rise and Fall of Multicultural Education in the Australian Schooling System

Prior to the mid-1970s, the political philosophy of multiculturalism and the allied notion of multicultural education were both unknown on the Australian sociopolitical and educational scene. Their genesis was, of course, generated by Australia’s massive post-World War II immigration movement, another Golden Age of Migration that has now come to an end even though immigrants and refugees continue to arrive on Australian shores in significant numbers despite public disquiet on environmental and unemployment grounds.