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Living in a Dream Country: Assessing Stressors Affecting Mental Health in Migrants

Migration disrupts attachments to support networks and requires acculturation to a new culture with associated problems of economic survival and social mobility in unfamiliar socio-economic system.

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Young Children, the Arts and Culture

Report on two South Australian projects in a unique education and arts industry partnership.

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Re-thinking Diversity in Higher Education: The ‘Deficit-Discourse’ Shift

Instead of perceiving diversity as a problem, or deficit, the shift recasts the first year experience at university as the experiences of engaging mainstream university discourses and literacies.

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Community Attitudes and Changing Audiences: Integrating Australia’s Multicultural Diversity in Media Policy

Examines the relationship between the everyday operations of media industries and the routine approaches to the development of advertiser friendly audiences.

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An Individual Bahá’í Perspective on Spiritual Aspects of Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development: Towards a Second Enlightenment

This paper focuses on the spiritual value of cultural diversity and will explore how such reflection impacts development policy on the local, national and international levels.

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Cultural Sustainability and Protected Area Management: Emerging Local Issues from Isla Navarino, Chile

This paper presents case study research about emerging local issues faced by inhabitants of Isla Navarino, Chile, including tourism and the declaration of the area as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

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The Impact of SBS

SBS Television has been the champion of multiculturalism in Australia, fostering intercultural understanding and the celebration of Australia’s diversity.

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Built in or Bolted on: Managing Equity and Diversity in Vocational Education and Training Delivery

Supporting cultural diversity in organisations has been “bolted on” to existing management practices. The next challenge is to ensure that the value of diversity is “built in” to management functions.

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Linking Cultural and Ecological Sustainability

Argues for recognition of the links between ecological and cultural systems in theories of development. The concept of sustainability implies a holistic approach to modelling economic, biological and cultural processes.

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The Challenge of Religious Revitalisation to Multicultural and Multifaith Australia

Religious diversification and revitalization have radically changed the face of society and politics in Australia and globally since the 1970s. This paper looks at the reasons underlying these changes.

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