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DO WE NEED the word multiculturalism? The federal government is looking to scrap it. Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs, Andrew Robb, says the word "is not often helpful because different people listen to it and give it different meanings". So, what new word are we going to embrace? A former Council of Multicultural Australia member, Yasser Soliman, suggested "Multiculturalism II". That won't help us much. The chatter of "multiculturalism" is usually about how the law, the state and educational systems should treat minority cultures. The law and its practitioners provide a lot of this chatter's text.
Melbourne writer Peter Craven wrote recently, ...