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WELCOME FROM THE DEANWelcome to the Immigration in Diversified Australia: today and tomorrow’s challenges conference. on behalf of the Faculty of arts at the university of Melbourne, the Population, Migration and Multicultural Studies network, and our conference partners i sincerely thank you for your involvement and keen interest in this major event.

In 2012, we established the Population, Migration and Multicultural Studies Network to do exactly this – bring together people with a strong interest in migration research. The Studies Network functions as an interdisciplinary forum for academics whose research falls within the areas of population, migration and multiculturalism in an ethnically and religiously diverse society. The Studies Network continues to explore deeper issues of how sustainable outcomes can arise from ongoing migration to Australia, how regional collaboration can be strengthened, and how continued settlement efforts can be improved. It provides a space for outcome-focused research collaboration between various stakeholders interested in population, migration and multicultural studies. These stakeholders include community groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), politicians, public servants as well as external partners and external researchers.

This Studies Network carries the legacy of previous migration research completed by University of Melbourne-based academics and students. To honour this legacy, the 50th anniversary of the Immigration Reform Group’s 1962 publication Immigration Reform: Control or Colour Bar?, which in important ways led to the abolition of the White Australia Policy, is celebrated at our conference reception, and I am truly delighted to see former members of the Immigration Reform Group take such an active part in this two-day conference.

The Immigration Reform Group, led by members of the University of Melbourne, played a notable role in securing the abolition of the White Australia Policy in 1973. Led by Professor Jamie Mackie and Professor Kenneth Rivett who co-authored the initial 1960 pamphlet Control or Colour Bar and the 1962 book bearing the same name, this movement contributed to the end of Australia’s racially exclusive immigration program and demonstrated the University’s strong interest in leading the way in this research area. Subsequently, two major Commonwealth Government agencies with substantial resources for immigration

and multicultural research were headed by University of Melbourne academics Petro Georgiou, founding Director of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs (AIMA), from 1979 to 1987, and John Nieuwenhuysen, founding Director of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research (BIMPR), from 1989 to 1996. We are now hopeful that with the founding of the Population, Migration and Multicultural Studies Network the legacies of these most important past migration initiatives, the University of Melbourne can continue playing a leading role in these areas.

I would like to thank our partners: the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the Immigration Museum, Foundation House, SBS Australia and the Australian Multicultural Foundation, for their involvement and commitment to making this conference a fantastic and ground breaking event.

This conference has gathered great names, past and present, to provide a platform to continue adding and expanding the knowledge and insight to the area of Population, Migration and Multicultural Studies.

With great pleasure, I wish to welcome all esteemed speakers for the two days, and it is an honour and a privilege for me to welcome you to the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, and in particular to the Immigration in Diversified Australia: Today and Tomorrow’s Challenges conference. I know that we will be enriched by your contribution and I wish you every success in this conference and going forward.

Professor Mark ConsidineDean, Faculty of Arts

WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE ASIA INSTITUTEit is with great pleasure that i welcome you to the Immigration in Diversified Australia: Today and tomorrow’s challenge conference proudly hosted by the asia institute-based Population, Migration and Multicultural Studies network. this meeting of eminent scholars and community leaders is a major highlight of the asia institute’s academic calendar. Please accept my sincere thanks for your attendance and participation.

The Asia Institute, a School of the Faculty of Arts, is the primary centre for studies in Asian and Middle Eastern languages and cultures at the University of Melbourne. As the importance of Asia and the Middle East to Australia continues to grow, we strive to provide leadership in the study of the rich intellectual, legal, political, cultural and religious traditions of these vital regions. Our teaching programs include Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian and Japanese languages as well as Asian and Islamic Studies. Academic staff at the Asia Institute are active researchers with expertise in a wide variety of fields. Moreover, our dedicated program of community engagement includes ongoing series of free seminars and public lectures featuring high-profile guests speaking on important topical issues.

It is a great privilege for the Asia Institute to join our partners to host this great conference on a theme of national and international significance.

The conference celebrates the work of the University of Melbourne-based Immigration Reform Group and the 50th Anniversary of their publication Control or Colour Bar? which contributed to the end of the White Australian Policy. The vision and dedication of the student activists in the early 1960s paved the way for the subsequent growth and diversification of Australia’s ties with Asia, including the incorporation of some two million settlers from the region which has become Australia’s most important trading partner.

Welcome to the conference and I trust you will find the Immigration in Diversified Australia: Today and Tomorrow’s Challenges Conference to be an enriching and rewarding academic and community gathering.

Professor Pookong KeeDirector, Asia Institute

DAY ONE - THURSDAY 20 JUNE 2013

8:30am – 9:00am Conference Registration The Spot Basement Theatre, 198 Berkeley St, University of Melbourne

9.00am – 9.30am Welcome and Conference Opening

Address by Professor Mark Considine, Dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

9:30am – 10.30am Session 1

Migration to Australia in a Historical Perspective: The Origins of the Colour Bar

Chair: Professor Pookong Kee, Director, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne

Professor Marilyn Lake, ARC Professorial Fellow, History Program, University of Melbourne

The Hon Stephen Charles QC, Retired Supreme Court Judge and Member of the Immigration Reform Group

Question & Answer Session

10.30am – 11.00am Morning Tea Break

11.00am – 12.00pm Session 2

Current Temporary and Permanent Settlement Patterns in Australia: What Challenges?

Chair: Professor Ruth Fincher, President, Academic Board and Professor of Geography, University of Melbourne

Professor Graeme Hugo AO, ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, University of Adelaide

Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne, International Workforce, University of Melbourne


12:00pm – 1:00pm Session 3

Access to Public Goods and Social Equity: How to Identify and Address Needs?

Chair: Mr Hakan Akyol, Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship, Victoria

Ms Maria Dimopoulos, Managing Director, MyriaD Consultants, Member of the Federal Government’s 2011 Access and Equity Inquiry Panel

Professor Paul Smyth, Professor of Social Policy at the University of Melbourne, and General Manager of the Research & Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence


1:00pm – 2:00pm Lunch Break

DAY 1

2.00pm – 3.30pm Session 4

The Politics of Migration and Social Cohesion: Changes and Choices?

Chair: Professor Mark Considine, Dean of the Faculty of Arts

Professor James Jupp AM, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University

Professor Andrew Markus, Pratt Foundation Research Chair of Jewish Civilisation, Monash University

Mr Kon Karapanagiotidis OAM, Founder and CEO of the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre, Melbourne


3:30pm – 4:00pm Afternoon Tea Break

4:00pm – 5:00pm Session 5

Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Australia: How to Facilitate Inclusion and Understanding?

Chair: Dr Tamara Kohn, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, Development Studies and Social Theory, University of Melbourne

Archbishop the Most Reverend Dr Philip Freier, Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne

Sheikh Abdi Nur Weli, Imam, Islamic Council of Victoria, Member of the Board of Imams of Victoria


5.00pm – 6:00pm Session 6

Migration, Integration and Diversity: What Works? What Can We Do Better?

Moderator: Mr Peter Mares, Writer and an adjunct fellow at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research

Professor Liu Hong, Chair, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Ms Marion Lau OAM JP, Deputy Chairperson, Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria

Mr Josef Szwarc, Manager, Research & Policy, Foundation House Survivors of Torture

Ms Hutch Hussein, Senior Manager-Refugees, Immigration & Multiculturalism, Brotherhood of St Laurence


7.00pm – 9:00pm Conference Reception at Queen’s Hall, State Parliament House to commemorate the University of Melbourne based Immigration Reform Group and the 50th Anniversary of their publication ‘Control or Colour Bar?’ which contributed to the end of the White Australia Policy. By Invitation only.

Chair: Professor Kwong Lee Dow AO, Former Vice Chancellor, University of Melbourne

Mr Neil Angus MP, Member for Forest Hill, representing the Premier of Victoria

The Hon John Cain, Former Premier of Victoria

The Hon Sir James Gobbo AC CVO KStJ QC, Chair, Australian Multicultural Foundation, Former Governor of Victoria and Judge of the Supreme Court, Victoria and member of the Immigration Reform Group

The Hon Howard Nathan QC, Retired Supreme Court Judge and Former Member of the Immigration Reform Group

DAY TWO - FRIDAY 21 JUNE 2013

9.00am – 10.00am Migration to Australia: What Challenges and Choices?

Session 7 Chair: Ms Carmel Guerra, CEO Centre for Multicultural Youth, and Board Member of Migration Council Australia

Professor Farida Fozdar, Professor and Future Fellow of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia

Professor Graeme Hugo AO, ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, University of Adelaide

Ms Nyadol Nyuon, Board Member, The African Think Tank and Ambassador for the Social Studio


10:00am – 10:30am Morning Tea Break

10:30am – 11:30am Our Humanitarian Program: Now and in the Future?

Session 8 Chair: Mr Paris Aristotle AM, Director of Foundation House - the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture

Mr Jim O’Callaghan, Assistant Secretary, Humanitarian Branch, Refugee, Humanitarian and International Policy Division, Department of Immigration and Citizenship

Mr Richard Towle, Regional Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific

Ms Louise Olliff, Settlement Policy Officer, Refugee Council of Australia

11:30am – 12:30pm

Parallel Sessions

9 & 10

The FBE Theatre 1, Building 105, 111 Barry Street Carlton

9. Sustainable Suburbs: Migration, Urban Planning and Housing

The Spot Basement Theatre

10. Tertiary Education and Overseas Students in Australia: What Changes?

Chair: Dr Loucas Nicolaou, CEO, Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia

Chair: Professor Kwong Lee Dow AO, Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne

Dr Shirley Sun, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Professor Glenn Withers AO, Professor of Economics, Crawford School, Australian National University and founding CEO of Universities Australia

Dr Maree Pardy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne

Professor Fazal Rizvi, Professor of Education, University of Melbourne

Dr Jacqueline Nelson, Senior Research Officer, Challenging Racism Project, University of Western Sydney



12:30pm – 1:00pm Lunch Break

1:00pm – 2:00pm The Power of Stories: The Migrant Experience

Session 11 Chair: Dr Sara Wills, Senior Lecturer, Associate Dean (Advancement), Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Mr Anton Enus, Journalist and News Presenter, SBS

Mr Peter Khalil, Director, Corporate Affairs, Strategy and Communications, SBS

Dr Arnold Zable, Writer, novelist and human rights advocate, President of the Melbourne Centre of PEN International

Professor Raimond Gaita, Professorial Fellow Melbourne Law School and The Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Ms Padmini Sebastian, Manager, Immigration Museum

2:00pm – 3:00pm Australia and the Asian Century: People Movement Connections

Session 12 Chair: Ms Jenny McGregor, CEO, Asialink

Professor Binod Khadria, Professor of Economics and Education, and Chairperson, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Mr Chin Tan, Chairperson, Victorian Multicultural Commission

Dr Hass Dellal OAM, Executive Director, Australian Multicultural Foundation


3:00pm – 3:30pm Afternoon Tea Break

3:30pm – 4:30pm Sustainable Migration into the Future

Session 13 Question & Answer Session

Moderator: Mr Anton Enus, Journalist and News Presenter, SBS

The Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC, CH, GCL, PC, served as Australia’s 22nd Prime Minister from 1975 – 1983 after 28 years as the Federal Member for Wannon

Professor Peter Singer AC, Laureate Professor, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne and Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Centre for Human Values, Princeton University

Mr Paris Aristotle AM, Director of Foundation House - the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture

4:30pm – 4:45pm Concluding Remarks

Professor John Nieuwenhuysen AM, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Member of the Board, Australian Multicultural Foundation, Chair of the Board, Bill Kent Foundation

DAY 2

19 June 2013

Witness Seminar: Remembering the Immigration Reform Group

This session brings together former student activists and members of the Immigration Reform Group who will recall the activities of that Group and discuss its influence and importance.

The seminar is to be video-recorded and preserved in the University of Melbourne Archives for researchers to access in the future. Transcripts and excerpts will be published on the university website.

2:00pm – 3:30pm Room G08, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton

RSVP http://go.unimelb.edu.au/9ynn

Contact [email protected], 03 8344 4154

2 June – 1 July 2013

The Protest Exhibition: The Campaign Against the White Australia Policy at the University of Melbourne

The exhibition will be open during library opening hours on the first floor of the Baillieu Library from Wednesday 12 June to Monday 1 July 2013.

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12 - FEATURED SPEAKERS

neil anguS

Neil was elected to the Victorian Parliament as the State Member for Forest Hill in November 2010. Soon after his election, Neil was appointed as a member of the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee of the Victorian Parliament. In June 2011 Neil was appointed by the Parliament to the board of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, VicHealth.

Prior to entering Parliament, Neil was a chartered accountant in public practice for over twenty five years, specialising in audit and investigations. Neil is also a certified fraud examiner and has many years of experience dealing with complex financial situations.

Neil has been actively involved in the community for many years, serving on the board of a wide range of not for profit organisations, including his children’s school, his local church and other local organisations.

PariS ariStotle

Paris Aristotle AM is the Director of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc (also known as Foundation House), a position he has held since he helped found the organisation in 1987.

For more than 20 years Paris has held senior positions on Government advisory bodies in the refugee resettlement and humanitarian fields. Currently Paris is Chair of the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship’s Council on Asylum Seekers and Detention (MCASD). Paris is also a member of the Federal Government’s Refugee Resettlement Advisory Council (RRAC), the Residence Determination Reference Group (RDRG) and the Onshore Protection Consultative Group (OPCG).

Paris has extensive experience in the area of refugee resettlement and the provision of services to survivors of torture and trauma. He has been a regular presenter and contributor to UNHCR meetings and publications over many years.

In 2002 Paris was made a Member of the Order of Australia and in 2003 was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal; both honours recognising his longstanding work with refugees and asylum seekers, in particular survivors of torture and trauma.

JoHn cain

John Cain Jnr was the 41st Premier of Victoria, holding office from 1982 to 1990. During Cain’s time as Premier, his government carried out many reforms particularly in the areas of education, environment, law reform and public administration. These reforms included liberalised shop trading hours and liquor laws, equal opportunity initiatives, changes to the practices of various institutions in Melbourne, which discriminated against women, and occupational health and safety legislation.

Cain was born in Melbourne, the son of former Victorian Premier John Cain Snr. He is a law graduate of the University of Melbourne. and practiced law in suburban Melbourne. From 1971-72 he was Chairman of the Victorian Law Institute. He was also a member of the Law Council of Australia and a member of the Australian Law Reform Commission.

John Cain has published a number of books including John Cain’s Years: Power, Parties and Politics (Melbourne University Press 1994), On with the Show (Prowling Tiger Press 1998) and Off Course: From public place to marketplace at Melbourne University(with John Hewitt) (Scribe Publications 2004).

FEATURED SPEAKERS - 13

Mark conSidine

Mark Considine is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. His research areas include governance studies, comparative social policy, employment services, public sector reform, local development, and organisational sociology. Mark is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (Victoria) and the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.

StePHen cHarleS

As the son of English migrants, Stephen came to Australia in 1949 at the age of 12. He began legal studies at Melbourne University in 1956. In his third year he became involved in University politics and met a number of Asian students. He developed an intense dislike of the White Australia Policy and joined the Immigration Reform Group, which published Control or Colour Bar in 1960. After leaving university, he practised as a barrister and in 1995 became a judge of the Victorian Court of Appeal. Two of his 5 children came from Vietnam in 1974.

Bulent (HaSS) dellal

Dr Bulent (Hass) Dellal OAM was appointed Executive Director of the Australian Multicultural Foundation in 1989, an organisation established to promote a strong commitment to Australia as one people drawn from many cultures. Between 2002-2004 he was also appointed a part time Special Adviser for the Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau by the Conference of Commissioners of Police, Australasia and the South West Pacific Region.

Dr Dellal has had extensive experience throughout Australia and internationally on multicultural affairs and has spearheaded a number of initiatives for the benefit and development of the general community. He serves on a number of committees and boards including Deputy Chairman Board of Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), member of the Australian Multicultural Council and Board of Directors NAATI.


kwong lee dow

As an Australian born Chinese, Kwong Lee Dow has long had interests in multicultural Australia. He is currently a Board member of the Australian Multicultural Foundation, earlier he was the Chair of the Asia Education Foundation and even earlier, Chair of the Migrant Skills and Qualifications Board (Victoria).

At the University of Melbourne he has been Professor and Dean of Education, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and briefly Vice-Chancellor.

He has been active in education developments in Victoria, Australia, and in Hong Kong and briefly, in Saudi Arabia. More recently for the Australian government he led a Review of Student Income Support Reforms, and for the Victorian Government led the development of a Tertiary Education Plan for Victoria, and more detailed Plans for Outer South-East Melbourne, and for Gippsland.

anton enuS

Anton Enus has been working full-time in news since January, 1984. He’s hung around newsrooms ever since, from the early days in radio, to a three-year stint in the parliamentary press gallery in Cape Town, South Africa; to his current role anchoring SBS World News Australia (since 1999).

He has presented or co-presented special broadcast events for SBS such as the Cronulla Riots fall-out, the US primaries & presidential election, Australia’s hung parliament poll in 2009 and Go Back To Where You Came From: The Response.

In addition, he has hosted annual events such as the Diversity at Work Awards, the UN Media Peace Awards, the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism for the past eight years and the Sydney Writers’ Festival for the past 5 years.

Maria diMoPouloS

Maria Dimopoulos is a leading international consultant specialising in social impact planning, research, and intersections of diversity and the law. She is an outstanding communicator and facilitator and possesses an extraordinary ability to captivate her audience.

Maria possesses extensive experience in international policy formulation, government research and evaluation for social planning and community education. Maria has worked extensively with issues concerning violence against women and in 2008-09 served on the Federal Government’s National Council to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children. In 2011 she was appointed by the Federal Minister for Multicultural Affairs to the Government’s Access and Equity Inquiry Panel to conduct an inquiry into government services to ensure they are responsive to the needs of all Australians.


rutH FincHer

Ruth Fincher is Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne and President of its Academic Board. She was previously Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (2003-2006), Professor of Urban Planning (1997-2006) and establishment Director of the University’s Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (2008-9).

With research and teaching interests in the urban outcomes of immigration policy and multiculturalism, diversity and difference in cities and their planning, Professor Fincher publishes internationally in journals of geography and urban studies. Her most recent book is Planning and Diversity in the City: Redistribution, Recognition and Encounter, co-authored with Kurt Iveson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Farida FoZdar

Farida Fozdar (aka Tilbury) is a sociologist and one of Australia’s leading researchers on issues of refugee settlement and race relations more broadly. Farida has published widely including both academic and policy and service-sector oriented documents. Her research focuses on race relations and migrant settlement, citizenship and nationalism, social exclusion, religion and issues to do with refugees and asylum seekers. In 2011 she took up an ARC Future Fellowship at the University of Western Australia, exploring national, transnational and postnational identities.

aBStractThis paper considers the ways in which discourses around migration have changed in the 50 years since the Immigration Reform Group’s contribution to ending the White Australia Policy. Using data from a number of recent research projects, it notes that while significant gains have been made in terms of diversification and social inclusion, there remains an exclusionary strain in policy, practice and discourse in Australia that suggests that the closing words of the “Immigration: Control or Colour Bar” document “Whoever you are, and however you might fare when you get here, keep out!” remain a reality for some. The paper concludes with an outline of the principles behind current policies and practices, and whether such principles should be reconsidered.


MalcolM FraSer

Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser served as Australia’s 22nd Prime Minister from 1975-1983 after 28 years as the Federal Member for Wannon.

Since leaving government Mr Fraser has played an eminent role in international relations including chairing the United Nations hearings in New York, Co-Chairman of the Commonwealth Committee of Eminent Persons in 1989 and Chairman of the United Nations Committee on African Commodity Problems. Mr Fraser was Chairman of CARE Australia from 1987-2001 and President of CARE International from 1990-1995.

Mr Fraser is a Senior Advisor of the International Crisis Group, Honorary Chairman of InterAction Council and a member of the Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.

Mr Fraser has received numerous Honorary Degrees and Awards including Professorial Fellow, Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law in 2007 and Honorary Doctor of Laws in 2011, at University of Melbourne.

Mr Fraser has written two books, “Common Ground” in 2002 and “Malcolm Fraser the Political Memoirs” with Margaret Simons in 2010. Mr Fraser writes articles for The Age, The Conversation and Project Syndicate.


PHiliP Freier

The Most Reverend Dr Philip Freier was installed as Archbishop of Melbourne on 16 December 2006.

Previously the Bishop of the Northern Territory, he was ordained priest in 1984, and has been a bishop since 1999 when he became Bishop of the Northern Territory. His previous positions include Examining Chaplain to the Archbishop of Brisbane (1993-1999); Area Dean of the Burnett, Diocese of Brisbane; Rector, Christ Church Bundaberg, Diocese of Brisbane; and Rector St Oswald’s Banyo, Diocese of Brisbane.

Prior to ordination he trained as a teacher and was employed as a teacher at Thursday Island, Kowanyama, and Yarrabah and then as an advisory teacher in Aboriginal education with the Queensland Education Department.

His qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy from James Cook University; a Master of Educational Studies from the University of Newcastle; a Bachelor of Divinity from the Melbourne College of Divinity; and Diploma in Education from the University of Queensland; and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the Queensland Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

His ministry has involved ministering to people in a wide variety of contexts, both formal and informal, including cross cultural. He Chaired the Board of Delegates of the Australian College of Theology from 2002 to 2007 and is currently Chair of the Doctrine Commission of the General Synod. In 2000 he completed a PhD at James Cook University for a thesis entitled ‘Living with the Munpitch: The History of Mitchell River Mission, 1905-1967’. He maintains a keen interest in Australian Anglican history. From 2000 to 2003 he was an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Law, Business and Arts at the Northern Territory University.

raiMond gaita

Raimond Gaita is Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and The Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne and Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Gaita’s books include: Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Romulus, My Father, which was made into a feature film of the same name, A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love & Truth & Justice, The Philosopher’s Dog, Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics and, as editor and contributor, Gaza: Morality Law and Politics and Muslims and Multiculturalism. His most recent book is After Romulus.


JaMeS goBBo

Sir James Augustine Gobbo, AC, CVO, KStJ, QC is a retired Australian jurist and was the 25th Governor of Victoria. He attended Xavier College before studying law at the University of Melbourne. In 1951 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, with which he attained a Master of Arts degree at Magdalen College, Oxford University. After many years as a barrister and later as a Queen’s Counsel, he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He served from July 1978 until he retired from the bench in February 1994.

James Gobbo served as Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria from 1995 until he was appointed Governor of Victoria in 1997. He served as Governor of Victoria until 2000. After leaving office, he took up the position of Commissioner for Italy for the Victorian Government until June 2006 and has since continued on various boards and councils.

In 2006, he was the Chair of the Council of the National Library of Australia and the Council of the Order of Australia and Chair of the Australian Multicultural Foundation.

carMel guerra

Carmel Guerra is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) based in Melbourne. CMY was the first organisation in Australia to work exclusively with migrant and refugee young people, by providing services and advocating for the needs of these young people.

Carmel has over 20 years of experience in the community sector. She has served on numerous boards and committees for the Government and non-Government sectors on a federal, state and local level.

In 1994 Carmel was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate issues of refugee and migrant youth overseas. In 2003 she earned a Centenary Medal for services to young people, migrant and refugee communities, and in 2005 was entered into the Victorian Women’s Honour Roll for her services to the community.

leSleYanne HawtHorne

Lesleyanne Hawthorne (PhD, MA, BA Hons, Dip Ed, Grad Dip Mig Stud) is an expert on global skilled migration, foreign credential recognition, labour market integration, and the study-migration pathway. She is Professor (International Workforce) at the University of Melbourne, and has completed a wide range of studies for the Australian Government assessing skilled migration policy outcomes. Most recently she has undertaken cross-national projects commissioned by UNESCO, the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Governments, the US Migration Policy Institute, the International Organization of Migration and the European Union, the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (APEC), the World Health Organization, and the Global Forum of Federations.

In 2005-06 Professor Hawthorne was appointed to an Expert Panel of Three by Federal Cabinet to complete the most extensive evaluation of Australia’s skilled migration program in 20 years (all fields). In 2012 she was designated Australian Expert on foreign credential recognition by the IOM, and appointed International Expert to the newly formed Australian Qualifications Framework International Alignment Committee.


liu Hong

Liu Hong is Tan Kah Kee Endowed Chair Professor and the Chair of School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

He was a Professor of East Asian Studies and the Founding Director of Centre for Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester (2006-2010) and taught at the National University of Singapore from 1995 to 2006. He has published 12 books and more than eighty articles in journals such as World Politics, The China Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Critical Asian Studies, and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. His recent publications include Social Integration of the Ethnic Chinese in Europe [co-editor, in Chinese] (2011); China and the Shaping of Indonesia, 1949-1965 (2011); and The Conceptualization and Practices of Transnational Asia (2013).

aBStractThis essay focuses on Singaporean Chinese perceptions of new immigrants from China and the Government’s strategies in integrating the newcomers into the nation-state. The discourses on new Chinese immigrants have produced three inter-linked narratives: (1) the newcomers are socially and culturally different from the mainstream and earlier generations of immigrants; (2) newcomers have intensified the already severe competition for scarce resources; and (3) newcomers are politically and sentimentally attached to China, whose rise as a global power only serves to reinforce such linkages. These discourses collectively construct a widespread belief that new immigrants from China may be brothers of a sort (in that they are ethnic Chinese) – but of a different sort. I argue that common ethnicity and shared culture play little, if any, role in shaping local Singaporeans’ view of the new diaspora; instead, political pragmatism and new identity politics are the key factors influencing public attitudes and policy options with respect to new migrants.

At the broadest level, this essay argues that different forces – state, civil society, and individuals – shape national and ethnic identities, and that the Singapore state is operating on the assumption that it can assimilate China Chinese to “Singaporean” ethnicity. However, in the eyes of “individual” Singaporeans, there is more heterogeneity “among the Chinese” than the “homogeneity” assumed by the state. The Singapore case is unique and universal at the same time, and thus provides fertile ground for further comparative explorations in unveiling the complex relationship between the national, the ethnic, and the transnational. It is unique in that it is the only nation-state in the world outside Greater China in which ethnic Chinese are in the majority and in a position to shape the country’s socio-political policies, including institutionally addressing worries and discontents about immigrants from the PRC raised by their co-ethnic Singaporean nationals. It is universal in that the differentiating discourses on new immigrants are a familiar strategy employed by the descendants of Chinese migrants to establish racial authenticity and a power position. Placing universal Chinese solidarity and identity in question, this strategy serves to widen the divides between locals and newcomers, so that the only meaningful space for interaction is through functions organized by Chinese embassies or visiting dignitaries.


graeMe Hugo

Graeme Hugo is ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Professor of the Discipline of Geography, Environment and Population and Director of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre at the University of Adelaide. His research interests are in population issues in Australia and South East Asia, especially migration. He is the author of over three hundred books, articles in scholarly journals and chapters in books, as well as a large number of conference papers and reports. In 2002 he secured an ARC Federation Fellowship over five years for his research project, “The new paradigm of international migration to and from Australia: dimensions, causes and implications”. His recent research has focused on migration and development, environment and migration and migration policy.

In 2009 he was awarded an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship over five years for his research project “Circular migration in Asia, the Pacific and Australia: Empirical, theoretical and policy dimensions”. He is Chair of the Demographic Change and Liveability Panel of the Ministry of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities and was appointed to National Housing Supply Council in 2011. In 2012 he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to population research, particularly the study of international migration, population geography and mobility, and through leadership roles with national and international organisations.

HutcH HuSSein

Hutch Hussein is the Brotherhood of St Laurence’s Senior Manager, Refugees, Immigration & Multiculturalism, undertaking refugee policy advocacy and oversees the Ecumenical Migration Centre and African Australian Community Centre. Social work trained, over the past 14 years she has worked with at risk young people, family violence victims and in the field of adult mental health and settlement of newly arrived refugees. Hutch has also worked for nearly four years as a Ministerial Adviser in the Victorian State Government in the Education and Women’s Affairs portfolios. Prior to her BSL role, she was the Deputy CEO & Advocacy, Innovation & Marketing General Manager at Spectrum MRC, where she held management roles for seven years.

Hutch has a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work and is also a recipient of the Vincent Fairfax “Ethics in Leadership” Fellowship. Born in Australia to Turkish-Cypriot Muslim parents, Hutch regards herself as a cultural Muslim.


JaMeS JuPP

Dr. James Jupp AM was born and brought up in south London. He graduated from the London School of Economics and emigrated to Melbourne in 1956. He taught political science at the University of Melbourne, the University of York (UK), Waterloo University (Canada) and the University of Canberra. Since retiring in 1997 he has been attached to the Australian National University.

Dr Jupp has worked on immigrant and ethnic issues since his Arrivals and Departures was published in 1966. His major work in recent years includes three encyclopedias of ethnicity and /or religion. In pursuit of understanding those who migrate to Australia he has travelled extensively in Europe, Asia and Latin America. He finally got to Albania this year, completing his visits to every state in mainland Europe and many islands as well. His doctoral research work was done in Sri Lanka.

aBStractMy personal involvement in migration matters included the 1960s, when White Australia was being dismantled and multiculturalism ushered in.

In that world all Australians and migrants were assumed to be white Christians.

Migrants were chosen carefully from West European applicants and less carefully from post-war refugees, who were seen as problematic. Policy was based on modifying racism and teaching English to NESBs.

The world is different today. Many immigrants and refugees come from outside Europe. Many are not Christians either. Many come from states in chaos or revolutionary situations. More come from states where governments are corrupt and sometimes vicious and people are poor.

We still think and work within the liberal principles of multiculturalism. Do they work for this new and different world?

kon karaPanagiotidiS

Kon Karapanagiotidis OAM is the CEO and Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Kon is proudly Greek, and grew up in a working class family in a small country town in Victoria. Kon’s personal experience of racism and witnessing the exploitation of his parents in factories planted the seeds for his passion for human rights. Kon went on to become a lawyer, social worker and teacher. His work as CEO has been recognized with being a Finalist for Australian of the Year (Victoria) in 2007, invited to participate in the 2020 Summit in 2008, voted one of Australia’s 20 Unsung Heroes as part of the launch in 2008 of the new Portrait Gallery in Canberra and voted as one of Melbourne’s 100 most influential people in The Age Melbourne Magazine. Most recently, Kon was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2010 and an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 2011.


Binod kHadria

Binod Khadria is Professor of Economics at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Director of the International Migration and Diaspora Studies Project.

His publications include The Migration of Knowledge Workers: Second-generation Effects of India’s Brain Drain (Sage, 1999) and several research papers published by ILO, OECD, GCIM, IRD (France), IDE-JETRO (Japan), Harvard International Review, 2010 World Social Science Report, etc. He is Deputy Chair (South Asia) and Regional Coordinator (India) at Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN), and sits on the Boards of International Network on Migration and Development (INMD), Zacatecas (Mexico); International Geographical Union (IGU); the Metropolis International (Canada); IOM Migration Research and Training Centre (MRTC) in South Korea; IOM’s World Migration Report 2010; Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (Philippines); Journal of South Asian Diaspora (India); Journal of International Migration and Integration (Canada); Migration Studies (OUP, UK), and the five-volume Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (2013, Wiley-Blackwell).

In 2009, he launched the annual India Migration Report on the sub-theme Past, Present and the Future Outlook (now in second reprint), and the subsequent volume, India Migration Report 2010-2011: The Americas has been published by Cambridge University Press, New York (2012).

Pookong kee

Pookong Kee is Director of the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne. He was previously Professor of the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies and sometime Director of the Ritsumeikan Centre for Asia Pacific Studies at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. This was preceded by an appointment as Director of the Chinese Heritage Centre in Singapore.

Before his return to Asia in 1999, he had worked in academe and the public sector in Australia, including a stint with the Senior Executive Service of the Australian Public Service. Born and raised in Malaysia, he has a PhD degree in Psychology from the Australian National University, a First Class Honours BA degree in Psychology and a BA with majors in Economics, Politics and Psychology from the University of Adelaide. His recent teaching and research interests include the causes, processes and consequences of the global movement of people, Asian Diasporas, and Asian-Pacific affairs generally.

He currently serves on the International Editorial Board of the Journal of International Migration and Integration,Museums Board of Victoria, Board of Asialink and the Japan Foundation for the Promotion of State of the Art in Medicine and Health Care.


aBStractAccording to the “Australia in the Asian Century White Paper”, the 21st Century “is an Australian opportunity”. It may be equally seen as an opportunity for Asia too to learn from Australia and connect better with the Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific region has a distinction of sending large number of highly-skilled professionals to Western countries. Besides, the region is also experiencing significant amount of intra-regional migration ranging from movement of high skilled workers and students. Almost all countries in the Asia-Pacific region experience some amount of emigration as well as immigration, but some are specifically labeled as source countries, a few as destination countries, and some others as transit countries. In addition, migrants’ profiles also vary from one country to the other ranging from the low-skill manual workers to high-skill knowledge workers and students. Even reasons for migration vary for different countries and different kinds of people ranging from economic motivations to family reunification, marriage and socio-political compulsions. In understanding the pattern of all this, one constraint is common.

Other than for Australia, it is not easy to trace the pattern of outmigration from any country. On the basis of in-migration data only, eight countries in the Asia-Pacific, top two in each sub-region, viz., Australia and New Zealand in the Oceania; Japan and South Korea in East-Asia; Singapore and Malaysia in South-east Asia; and two most populous countries of the world – China (Hong Kong) and India could be said to have emerged as the “hubs” for in-migration from some specific countries that would define their respective “hinterlands”. Some of the hubs themselves also belong to the hinterlands of other hubs in the region. For example, whereas India is an attractive destination, a hub, for unskilled migrants, whether legal or illegal, from the neighbouring countries in the subcontinent - primarily Bangladesh and Nepal, it is also a hinterland for the developed countries like Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore (and the fast developing Malaysia too) because of its emergence as a country of origin for the migration of so-called “knowledge workers,” mainly IT professionals, and large number of students in the twenty-first century. Hence it is suggested in this paper that the pattern of migration in the Asia-Pacific region can be better understood by creating a model of “hubs and hinterlands” of migration.

The paper looks at the changing stocks of migrants in the Asia-Pacific countries, and attempts to understand the emerging patters of in-migration through this model of “hubs and hinterlands”. It speculates that the countries of the region can learn from Australia and start collecting data on exit as well, apart from entry, of migrants. This would help consolidate the model of Hubs and Hinterlands further, and Australia can provide the lead in so doing for furthering our in-depth analysis and understanding of international migration in the Asian Century.


Peter kHalil

Peter Khalil is the Executive Director of Corporate Affairs, Strategy and Communications at SBS where he leads a division that covers Corporate Strategy, Corporate Communications, Industry, Community Policy and stakeholder engagement, Codes of Practice, the Board Secretariat and Government Relations.

Formerly a consultant with Hawker Britton, Associate Professor at Sydney University, Foreign and National Security Adviser for former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Minister for Defence. He was earlier based in New York providing political risk consultancy to Government, Multi-nationals and Wall Street, and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution Washington DC, after serving in Iraq as Director of National Security Policy he was awarded the Australian Overseas Humanitarian Services medal.

He has worked at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Department of Defence. Peter has Degrees in both Law and Arts from Melbourne University and a Masters of International Laws from the Australian National University. He is currently a Board Director of Life Education, not-for-profit providing drug and alcohol prevention programs for schoolchildren, on the UTS China Advisory Board and a Director on the Board of Freeview the Industry Group.

taMara koHn

Tamara (Tammy) received her first degree in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley followed by an MA at the University of Pennsylvania. After this she spent three years living on an island in the Inner Hebrides, culminating in a social anthropology DPhil thesis for Oxford University in 1988 entitled ‘Seasonality and identity in a changing Hebridean community’. Immediately after completing her thesis, she spent two years conducting post-doctoral research in the hills of East Nepal, focusing primarily on the linguistic and cultural identity of the Yakha and women who married into the community from other ethnic groups. Her two vastly different field experiences in Scotland and Nepal were linked by common interest in incomers and cultural change. After returning to the UK she taught at Oxford Polytechnic and Oxford University and the University of Durham before moving to the University of Melbourne. Recent research interests have included trans-cultural communities of practice (ranging from caring practices to embodied experiences in sports and arts), and the anthropology of the body, food, death, and migration.

Tammy is currently Acting Chair of Anthropology, Development Studies and Social Theory. She is also the book reviews editor for The Australian Journal of Anthropology, and a member of the Executive committee of the Organization for Intra-cultural Development.


MarilYn lake

Marilyn Lake is a Professor in History and ARC Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her current research project is on ‘The International History of Australian Democracy’. She has published widely on Australian political history including campaigns for racial and sexual equality. One of her most recent books, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and The Question of Racial Equality, co-authored with Henry Reynolds and co-published by MUP and Cambridge University Press won the Ernest Scott prize, the Queensland Premier’s History prize and the Prime Minister’s prize for Non-Fiction.

Professor Lake is a Fellow of the Academies of Humanities and Social Sciences and President of the Australian Historical Association.

aBStractThe origins of race-based immigration restrictions in the Australian colonies in the 19th Century can be found in both global and local developments that saw self-governing colonies define their national aspirations in terms of democratic equality and racial exclusion.

From southern Africa, to north America, to Australasia, self-styled ‘white men’s countries’ deployed a range of strategies including literacy tests to enact border protection in the name of national sovereignty establishing a legacy that is with us still. In protesting against racial discrimination, Chinese colonists in Victoria and New South Wales invoked international law and called for recognition of their ancient civilization and ‘common human rights’.


Marion lau

Marion Lau is the Deputy Chairperson of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria and chairs the Council’s Aged Care Policy Committee.

Marion has vast experience in addressing the issues of ethnic health, ethnic aged care, women’s issues and many other issues relating to access and equity for all migrants.

An active community member and advocate, she currently holds the director positions at Doutta Galla Aged Care Services; the Royal Children’s Hospital Children’s Bioethics Centre Development Board and the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV).

She is also a member of the Policy Committee on the Council on the Ageing, the President of the Chinese Community Society of Victoria; and Immediate Past President the Chinese Health Foundation of Australia and Member of the Rotary Club of Glen Eira, and the Inaugural Patron of the National Australian Chinese Women’s Association.

Marion also sits on a number of Government Ministerial Committees at both State and Federal level. She is a qualified health services administrator, management consultant specialising in aged care, small business mentor and counsellor and a cross-cultural trainer. She is also a Director of her own business - Management Consultants and Technology Services.

Marion is a Justice of the Peace for Victoria, People of Australia Ambassador, Australia Day Ambassador Victoria, Commissioner of the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC), and a Member of the Chinese Ministerial Consultative Committee.

Recently, in February 2013, is appointed to the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority ( ESTA).

Marion received an Order of Australia Award for her work with older Australians, and a Centenary Medal, for services to multiculturalism, and is on the Victorian Honour Roll for Women.


Peter MareS

Peter Mares is a writer and an Adjunct Fellow at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research. From the beginning of 2012 until mid-2013 Peter was Cities Fellow at the independent public policy think tank the Grattan Institute and prior to that he was a journalist and broadcaster with the ABC for 25 years. During his time with the ABC, Peter served as a foreign correspondent and presented national radio programs including the daily regional current affairs program Asia Pacific and the weekly public policy discussion program The National Interest. Peter has combined his journalistic career with public policy research, publishing articles in academic books and refereed journals, particularly on the topic of migration. He was the author of the first comprehensive analysis of Australia’s approach to refugees and asylum seekers: the award-winning book Borderline (UNSW Press 2001 & 2002).

andrew MarkuS

Andrew Markus is the Pratt Foundation Research Professor of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Andrew has published extensively on Australian immigration and race relations; his books include Australian Race Relations 1788-1993 (1994), The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights, co-authored with Bain Attwood (1999), Building a New Community: Immigration and the Victorian Economy (2001), and Australia’s Immigration Revolution (2009), co-authored with Peter McDonald and James Jupp. Andrew heads the Scanlon Foundation social cohesion research program.

aBStractThere has been surveying of Australian public opinion on immigration since the 1940s. Major issues covered include attitudes to the level of immigration, Asian immigration, asylum seekers and multiculturalism. The paper will present an overview of change and continuity in opinion since the Second World War and a detailed consideration of current attitudes, evaluated in the context of survey findings within the OECD.


JennY Mcgregor

Ms Jenny McGregor is the founding CEO of Asialink at the University of Melbourne and founding Executive Director of the Asia Education Foundation. Under her leadership Asialink has become Australia’s largest non-government centre for the promotion of Australia-Asia relations, with an annual budget of over A$10 million and activities spanning education, the arts, leadership, health, and corporate and public programs. Ms McGregor is also a member of the Asialink Taskforce for an Asia Capable Workforce and makes regular media appearances on issues relating to Australia’s engagement with the Asian region.

Ms McGregor has been a member of the Boards of the APEC Women’s Business Advisory Committee and the Myer Foundation’s Beyond Australia Committee. She is currently on the Advisory Board of the Dunlop Asia Awards, a member of the Executive of the Melbourne Confucius Institute and a member of the Board of Australian Volunteers International.

Prior to taking up her Asialink appointment in 1990, Ms McGregor worked as a political adviser and senior manager in Australia’s Federal and State governments. She then joined the Commission for the Future to research Australia-Asia relations. She holds the Peter Brice award for outstanding contribution to teaching and learning about the Asia-Pacific region and is a recipient of the World Chinese Economic Forum Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership in Asian Studies in Australia. She was awarded a Universitas 21 (U21) Award for Internationalisation in 2013 in recognition of her contribution to the development of Asialink and its role as a national leader on issues of Asian engagement in Australia. Ms McGregor has a BA (Hons) and Dip Ed from the University of Melbourne.

Howard natHan

Retired Supreme Court judge Howard Nathan grew up in rural Victoria during World War 2. Howard Nathan was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1964, and went on to work closely with ‘Diamond Jim’ McClelland. Senator McClelland was the minister for manufacturing and industry in the Whitlam Government, and Howard Nathan was employed to help the minister reshape the industrial future of Australia. Howard Nathan became a Supreme Court judge in 1983 and served on the Bench for the next twenty years, and has held various leadership positions over the years.


Jacqueline k nelSon

Jacqueline K Nelson (BLibStud, Sydney; MSc, Trinity College) is a Senior Research Officer on the Challenging Racism Project in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at the University of Western Sydney. Her research interests include local anti-racism, bystander anti-racism, multiculturalism and ethnic discrimination in housing and employment.

She has recently published articles in Discourse & Society, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy and Journal of Intercultural Studies, and a book chapter in the edited collection Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations: Looking through the Lens of Social Inclusion.

aBStractHousing inequality is responsible for considerable social disadvantage across the world. In Australia, both anecdotal and survey reports suggest Australians from migrant and Indigenous backgrounds experience discrimination in the private rental housing market. However, existing evidence is largely based on self-reports of discrimination, a form of data sometimes seen as unreliable, and this can damage the case for anti-discrimination action. This paper will introduce a field experiment to be undertaken in Sydney, which attempts to overcome the critiques of self-report data. Research assistants of Anglo, Muslim Middle Eastern and Indian appearance will attend private rental housing inspections and the relative treatment of the three ethnic groups during the rental inspection process will be measured.

The project sets out to establish the extent and nature of discrimination in the Sydney private rental housing market and generate an evidence base for tackling such discrimination.


loucaS nicolaou

Loucas has extensive experience in public policy, social justice, community relations and multiculturalism, NGO-government partnerships, organisational leadership and change management.

Loucas’ capabilities and experience reflect a combination of community, government and private sector perspectives. These capabilities have been consolidated through a breadth of work and responsibilities in senior roles during the last 33 years, including considerable Australian Public Service (APS) experience having worked for over 22 years in seven different Commonwealth departments, and significant work in the community, academic and private sectors, including voluntary and full-time work with FECCA in the 1980s.

Loucas has worked effectively from leadership positions in many different subject matters including the areas of youth, women, retired people, Indigenous peoples, Australians in remote areas, immigrants, and people with disabilities.

After immigrating to Australia from Cyprus in 1977, Loucas was awarded a First Class Honours Bachelor of Social Studies from the University of Sydney in 1981, which contributed to remove discriminatory practices in assessing community languages in the NSW Higher School Certificate system. His Doctorate in Social Policy and Sociology from the University of New South Wales in 1986 focused on union structures and ethnic minorities, which was then published as an award-winning book, Australian Unions and Immigrant Workers, in 1991.

JoHn nieuwenHuYSen

Professor Nieuwenhuysen is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. He was the Foundation Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research (1989–1996), Chief Executive and Research Director for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (1996–2002), Foundation Director of the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements (2002–2011), Visiting Professor at King’s College London (2006–2007), and Interim Director of the Monash University Prato Centre in Italy (2012).

His most recent publications include jointly edited volumes such as Nations of Immigrants: the United States and Australia Compared (Edward Elgar, 2009), Immigration and the Financial Crisis – Australia and the United States (Edward Elgar, 2011), A Home Away from Home? International Students in Australia and South Africa (Monash University Publishing, 2011), Closing the Gap in Education? (Monash University Publishing, 2010), Southern Worlds: Australia and South Africa Compared (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009), and Immigration in Uncertain Times – an International Comparison (Queens-McGill University Press, 2012).


louiSe olliFF

Louise Olliff has worked for the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) since 2009 with a focus on research and advocacy relating to refugee and humanitarian settlement. RCOA is the national umbrella body for refugees and the organisations and individuals who support them. RCOA promotes the adoption of flexible, humane and practical policies towards refugees and asylum seekers both within Australia and internationally through conducting research, advocacy, policy analysis and community education. Louise has over 12 years of experience working in the community sector, advocating alongside refugee and migrant communities in Australia and overseas. Louise holds a MA in Anthropology.

nYadol nYuon

Nyadol is a Sudanese-Australian woman studying law (JD) at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Psychology) from Victoria University. Nyadol has worked in paid and volunteering position with various communities and currently sits on The African Think Tank Board and she is also an ambassador for the Social Studio and was nominated as Australia Day Ambassador 2014. Nyadol has published four articles online. Recently Nyadol was named in the 100 most influential African Australian and as well as a nominee for the Melbourne University Graduate Student of the Year Award.


JiM o’callagHan

Jim O’Callaghan is Assistant Secretary Humanitarian Branch, Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) and has been in this position since early 2011. Jim is responsible for providing policy advice to the Government on international refugee issues and developing and managing the annual Humanitarian Program. Jim has held a range of Senior Executive Service positions in DIAC in National Office, State Offices and overseas. He was Regional Director, South East Asia based in Jakarta prior to his current position, including with responsibility for refugee issues. He was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2011 for services to Australia in that region.

aBStractAustralia’s Humanitarian Program assists refugees and others in humanitarian need to resettle in Australia and rebuild their lives. Australia has a long and proud tradition of helping those most in need.

Australia has resettled around 800 000 refugees and other people in humanitarian need since the end of the Second World War. We work closely with our international partners – the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and other resettlement countries.

The Refugee component of our offshore Humanitarian Program is considered to be one of the best in the world and Australia remains among the top three resettlement countries along with the United States and Canada. Australia also provides a world class program of settlement support for new arrivals which has contributed to their successful integration into the Australian community.

The Humanitarian Program is currently maintained at 20 000 places – as announced in the Federal Budget on 14 May 2013. This is in line with the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers (chaired Air Marshal (retired) Angus Houston) in their August 2012 report.

Included in the Program will be up to 500 places for people proposed under the recently-announced community proposal pilot (CPP). The CPP is a program being trialled by the Government to provide a mechanism for communities in Australia to identify and provide practical support for resettlement in Australia to people overseas in humanitarian need.

The many people who have been resettled in Australia under the Humanitarian Program have made an enormous contribution to Australia – in economic, social and civic areas as shown in the research conducted by Professor Graeme Hugo that was published in 2011.

Refugee Week is a unique opportunity to experience and celebrate the rich diversity of refugee communities through cultural and other events across Australia. It also provides an opportunity to recognise the plight of refugees around the world and acknowledge the contribution made by a range of government and non-government organisations in helping refugees to contribute to Australian society.


aBStractThree moments of everyday life in the suburbs. This presentation will portray three moments of everyday life in two Australian suburbs, both of which considered to be ‘multicultural’ locales. The moments provide insights into the importance of urban space and locale to a sense of immigrant wellbeing and belonging, while also allowing a consideration of the macro trends that force people away from those spaces which offer the greatest satisfaction in terms of conviviality and social connectedness. Immigrant exclusion and mobility in Australia is changing the ‘use’ of urban space by immigrant groups, and this offers opportunities for rethinking future governance of suburbs in Australia.

Maree PardY

Maree Pardy is anthropologist and teaches Gender Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of Melbourne. Her research focuses broadly on gender and culture, with a particular interest in gender theory and gender within global and multicultural urban contexts She has undertaken long-term fieldwork among Vietnamese-Australian women and is currently researching the new intersections of gender, culture, religion and urban public space.


FaZal riZVi

Fazal Rizvi is a Professor in Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne. He has written extensively on issues of identity and culture in transnational contexts and the internationalization of higher education. His is currently working on a large ARC funded project on the ways in which elite schools in the British public schools tradition are negotiating the challenges and opportunities of globalization. His new book, ‘Encountering Education in the Global’, will be published by Routledge in the early part of 2014.

aBStractIn this paper, I will discuss some of the ways in which the experiences of international students in Australian universities are now radically different. I will argue that this difference is not only a product of the shifting demographic composition of Australian higher education, but also a range of other factors associated with the emerging forms of transnationalism, making it possible for international students to socially position themselves across national borders, both here and there, and imagine futures across globally circular economic and cultural networks and possibilities.


PadMini SeBaStian

Padmini Sebastian is Manager of the award winning Immigration Museum, Museum Victoria.

Padmini is responsible for the strategic leadership and management of the Immigration Museum.

She has worked extensively in the cultural and community sector and established national and international partnerships and networks.

She is active on a number of boards and committees. She is currently on the board of the Victorian Women’s Trust, Islamic Museum of Australia Reference Committee and Deakin University’s Arts Participation Incubator. She has contributed to a number of Federal, State and Local Government Boards and international committees.

Padmini completed the Museum Leadership Program at the Melbourne Business School and has a Bachelor of Arts Degree majoring in Political Science from the University of Melbourne and a Post-Graduate Degree in Journalism from RMIT. She is a Churchill Fellow (2000).

Peter Singer

Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, on July 6, 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. Since 1999 he has been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. From 2005, he has also held the part-time position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.

Peter Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. Since then he has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 40 other books, including Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason) and most recently, The Life You Can Save.

In 2005 Time magazine named Peter Singer one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2012, he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest civic honour.


Paul SMYtH

Paul Smyth is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Melbourne, and the General Manager of the Research & Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL), Fitzroy, Australia. This joint position involves leading research and the development of policy around partnership solutions to Australia’s social problems. His work combines policy development and research at the Brotherhood with teaching and research at the Centre for Public Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne.

Paul’s diverse career combines academic and social action experience. He was previously the Director of Social Policy in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Queensland. Prior to this he was senior researcher at Uniya, the Jesuit social research and action centre at Kings Cross, Sydney. A former Catholic priest, he also worked for 20 years in youth and family care.

As Professorial Fellow in Social Policy, Paul is the coordinator of the Masters of Social Policy program. Paul’s chair appointment is co-funded by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the University of Melbourne, to lead research and development policy around partnership solutions to Australia’s social problems.

Paul’s research areas include contemporary Australian social policy, local governance and social inclusion, and international perspectives on social and economic inclusion.

Paul is on advisory councils for the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia, the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Volunteering Australia, and is an External Thought Leader, The Wyatt Benevolent Institution Inc.

aBStractIn the late twentieth century ‘access and equity’ were familiar furniture in the Australian welfare state. Built on the foundation of universal social rights, policies for access and equity aimed to ensure that all social services were sensitive to cultural differences in ways that would allow all legitimate social needs to be met. Today the ‘age of welfare entitlement’ has been fundamentally challenged raising the question of access and equity for what? In this presentation I answer this question by recasting access and equity in the new paradigm of inclusive growth. They are seen as essential policy ingredients of both a strong economy and a flourishing society.


SHirleY HSiao-li Sun

Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun (Ph.D., New York University), is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University and the author of Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore: Making Future Citizens (Routledge, 2012). Her research interests are population and social reproduction, citizenship and immigration, and science and technology.

She has published articles in several peer-reviewed journals, among others: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Citizenship Studies, and New Global Studies. She serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Chinese Overseas and the Principal Investigator for the project “Ethical and Social Implications of Prominent Human Genetic Research in Asia”.

JoSeF SZwarc

Josef Szwarc is Manager of the Research and Policy Program at the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture and a member of the Board of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission.

aBStractSince the Singapore government released the latest Population White Paper on January 29, 2013, there have been a few protests against the White Paper, including an estimated crowd of 4,000 people gathered on February 16, 2013, and an estimated crowd of around 5,000 individuals on May 1st, 2013, at the Speakers’ Corner at Hong Lim Park in Singapore. Set against this backdrop, is the government’s immigration policy which plans to grant the Permanent Resident (PR) status to about 30,000 migrants annually and a yearly intake of between 15,000 and 25,000 new citizens each year. While the Singapore government has a sophisticated immigration scheme separating unskilled and highly-skilled foreigners and accord them with differential immigration status, substantial immigration has almost always engendered resentment and serves as a fertile ground for nativism.

This presentation contributes to the understanding of Singaporeans’ reaction towards the White Paper by delineating their lived experiences with the earlier versions of the population policies through the framework of citizenship. In particular, the “bottom-up” call for more state provisions in basic social services – education, healthcare and housing – and maintaining an adequate social safety net is noticeable. Citizenship as a differentiating category is of increasing importance as both the state and the individuals try to construct the “nation” in the globalized city-state.


cHin tan

Mr Chin Tan is currently the Chairperson of the Victorian Multicultural Commission. The Commission is an independent statutory authority with the responsibility to support and empower communities, foster unity and harmony, celebrate and promote the benefits of Victoria’s diversity. Mr Chin Tan also serves as the Co-chair of the Police and Community Multicultural Advisory Committee, a member of the Ministerial Advisory Council for a Multilingual and Multicultural Victoria and has extensive involvement in politics and in the community.

In addition to his role with the VMC, he is a recognised business leader of the community, having served in various capacities in the Chamber of Commerce and Professional and Business Associations and various other organisations.

aBStractAsia’s rise is changing the World. Australia is a world renowned multicultural country. These developments have profound implications for Australia as it confronts the phenomenon of the ‘Asian Century’.

It has been suggested that “Australia is located in the right place at the right time – in the Asian region in the Asian Century” and that the “Asian Century is an Australian opportunity”.

There is an underlying assumption and optimism that Australia can and will rise to the occasion to seize the opportunities presented and to confront the challenges posed by an ascendant Asia.

It implies a capacity and willingness by Australia to deal meaningfully and effectively with issues of immigration and identity in relation to its place in Asia and to connect and link people, businesses, institutions and governments across the region.

Australia’s culturally diverse population and multicultural society provide a critical social foundation that will continue to be a vital basis for Australia’s success in its engagement with Asia.


ricHard towle

Mr Richard Towle has been UNHCR’s Regional Representative for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific since early 2007.

Over the past 20 years, Mr Richard Towle has held a variety of senior positions, inside and outside of the United Nations, dealing with refugee and human rights issues. He was a Special Advisor in the Department of International Protection at the UNHCR’s headquarters in Geneva from 2003-2005, Chief of Mission for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the former Yugoslavia from 2001-2003, Senior Human Rights Officer at the Department of International Protection at UNHCR’s Headquarters in Geneva from 1997-2001, and Regional Protection Officer in the United Kingdom from 1994-1997. Prior to that, he was the coordinator of several legal and refugee children’s programmes with UNHCR in Hong Kong in 1990 and 1992-1994. Before he worked with the United Nations, he was a lawyer specialising in refugee and human rights in his home country, New Zealand.

aBdinur weli

Sheikh Abdinur Weli is the Imam of the Islamic Council of Victoria. He also serves on the Victorian Board of Imams and Australian National Imams Council. Sheikh Abdinur has extensively worked with refugees and migrant communities over the past 14 years. He served on various government and community boards on refugee and asylum-seeker issues and continues to work with newly arrived and emerging refugee communities

Sara willS

Dr Sara Wills is a Senior Lecturer in Australian Studies in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, and currently the Associate Dean (Advancement) in the Faculty of Arts. She has been the Director of the Australian Centre (2009-2010) and, alongside her academic career, has worked in museums and publishing. With research interests in migration studies, history and memory, Sara teaches in an interdisciplinary context, and has a strong commitment to the value of both humanities and social science approaches in the Arts.


glenn witHerS

Glenn Withers is Professor of Economics in the Crawford School and was founding CEO of Universities Australia. Prior to that he was Professor of Public Policy at ANU and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. He is a Monash and Harvard graduate and has held academic posts in Australia and overseas including at Harvard and Cambridge and at La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.

He has produced a significant number of books, academic papers and government and consultancy reports. He has worked in and for government, including as chair of various Australian government bodies such as the National Population Council and the Economic Planning Advisory Commission, and he has chaired public inquiries regarding population issues, immigration, and infrastructure financing and was a member of the Faulkner inquiry into child care and Co-Commissioner of the Productivity Commission’s Stocktake of Micro-economic Reform. He is a Board member of CEDA and Chair of CEDA’s Council on Economic Policy.

Professor Withers helped to establish the Productivity Commission, the Crawford School, ANZSOG and Universities Australia. He has been an adviser to private sector and community sector organisations in Australia and overseas, ranging from the North West Shelf Consortium and the Business Council of Australia to the OECD and UNDP. Professor Withers was awarded an Order of Australia for services to applied economics, including for design of the Australian immigration points system.

aBStractAustralian higher education features the largest share of international students of almost any country, and international students have also been a major source of change in Australian population. The nature, explanation and evaluation of these developments, and associated policy settings, will be covered in this presentation. The presentation will also look to changes that can enhance further the contribution of international education, including through deeper and wider engagement internationally by universities. The contribution to national well-being through education-associated population change can also be enhanced further, and improved arrangements for this will be considered.


arnold ZaBle

Arnold Zable is an acclaimed writer, educator, human rights advocate, and one of Australia’s most loved storytellers. He has a doctorate from the school of creative arts, Melbourne University, where he is currently a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow. His books include Jewels and Ashes, The Fig Tree, and three novels, Café Scheherazade, Scraps of Heaven, and Sea of Many Returns.

His most recent book Violin Lessons continues his exploration of themes of exile and displacement, in a series of stories spanning the globe. Zable is the author of numerous essays, columns, features and is a co-author of Kan Yama Kan, a play in which asylum seekers tell their stories. Over the past thirty years he has worked in a range of cross-cultural projects and conducted numerous workshops for asylum seekers, refugees, immigrants, the homeless, the deaf, problem gamblers, survivors of the Black Saturday bushfires and other groups, using story as a means of self-understanding. He is the president of the Melbourne centre of International PEN, an ambassador of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, a patron of Sanctuary and a former member of the Immigration Museum’s advisory committee.

Formerly a lecturer in political science a Melbourne University, Zable has been a guest lecturer in La Trobe, Monash, Deakin, Melbourne, and Victoria universities, and has presented at numerous conferences and writers’ festivals throughout Australia and overseas. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Zable grew up in Melbourne and has lived and worked in New York, India, China, South-east Asia, Papua New Guinea and throughout Europe. He lives in Melbourne.

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