The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and
Indigenous Affairs
http://www.immi.gov.au/index.htm
Information on Australia's multicultural policy and multicultural links.
Australia: The Community Today
http://www.immi.gov.au/statistics/infosummary/textversion/australia.htm
Statistics on immigration patterns based on the latest Australian Census
in 2001.
Interlace: Multicultural Australia
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~slacey/community.htm#multiculturalism
Links to a variety of sites related to multiculturalism that includes
stories of migration.
Multicultural Heritage
http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/12_index.htm
The NSW Heritage Office has thematic histories of the Chinese, Greek and
Italo-Australian communities in NSW in PDF format.
Racism No Way
http://www.racismnoway.com.au/index.html
Games, activities, information and lesson plans to help counter racism.
Australia says YES to refugees. Primary School
Information Kit
http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/humanitarian/info_kit/school_kit.htm
A series of fact sheets, profiles and a poster written for primary
school students. The fact sheets include descriptions of how Australia
helps refugees, and information about where refugees arriving in
Australia come from, and what it is like to live in an African refugee
camp. The profiles include young people from Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Sudan
and Afghanistan. The kit is published by the Australian Minister for
Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs as part of the
Humanitarian Program website.
Making Multicultural Australia
http://www.multiculturalaustralia.gov.au/
This site was established to assist teachers with finding quality
resources on multicultural education, anti-racism and exploring new
strategies to promote cultural tolerance. A generation of students
growing up in the first decade of the 21st century is daily confronted
with issues of cultural diversity, conflict and tolerance. These
educational resources will help to bring these issues into the classroom
in a structured way, actively informing and promoting cultural tolerance
amongst young people. The site has been created by the Board of Studies
NSW and the NSW Departmentt of Education Multicultural Programs Unit.
Multicultural Australia Links
http://www.schools.ash.org.au/immanuel/htm/multicultural.htm
Links to sites about several different ethnic groups living in
Australia.
http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/polaw/ethnic.htm
Links to several sites with information about ethnic communities in
Australia compiled by Rosemary Horton, P.L. Duffy Resource Centre, Trinity
College, Western Australia.
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/
This site contains recipes for holiday foods, historical background,
significance of the holidays and the special ways in which these days are
observed.
Racism: No Way
http://www.racismnoway.com.au/gamesroom/index.html
Games room where students participate in games that teach about Racism.
Planet Tolerance
http://www.tolerance.org/pt/index.html
Interactive site that teaches students about tolerance through the use
of games and simulations.
http://www.deakin.edu.au/~ausjapan/800X600/lessons/lesson7.html
This lesson aims to help students understand Australia as a
multicultural society.
Australia\'s Religious Diversity
http://www.racismnoway.com.au/classroom/lesson_ideas/20020124_42.html
Students identify major world religions and forms of spirituality and
recognise the religious diversity of communities in Australia.
Webquest: Harmony Day
http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/harmony/party/
Students plan an Harmony Day celebration for their class.
Countering
racism
http://www.natsiew.nexus.edu.au/homepage/counteringracism/countering.html
These lessons address assumptions related to history, land and other
issues of prejudice.
Racism: No Way
http://www.racismnoway.com.au/classroom/lesson_ideas/byage_index.html#Primar
yUpper1012
Lesson ideas for teaching about Racism.
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/
Resources and dialogues for equity in education.
Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections
http://www.iecc.org/
IECC is dedicated to helping teachers connect with other teachers to
arrange intercultural email connections between their students.
http://www.immi.gov.au/multicultural/links.htm
Links to state government multicultural affairs organisations in
Australia.
Australians Against Racism: Voices of Hope Stories
http://www.australiansagainstracism.org/
Prize winning stories about racism contributed by students from across
Australia.
Making Multicultural Australia
http://www.multiculturalaustralia.gov.au/
This site aims to assist teachers to find and develop resources to
assist in teaching about multiculturalism in Australia.
http://www.immi.gov.au/multicultural/harmony/index.htm
The Australian Government's Living in Harmony initiative is designed to
strengthen our community harmony and address issues of racism in Australia.
The Language Investigator
http://www.language-investigator.co.uk/index.htm
The site provides a number of opportunities for investigating languages
together with links to multilingual materials which will support the teacher
http://www.edna.edu.au/discover/index.html?queryText=multiculturalism Australia
Global Citizens
http://www.abc.net.au/civics/globalcitizens/defaultie4.htm
Creating a new sense of global citizens who have pride in this
beautiful planet and tolerance of all people.
Global Education
http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/page1.html
Aims to raise awareness and understanding among Australian school students
of international issues, development and poverty, and to prepare them to live in an increasingly globalised world.
United Nations World Food Program
http://www.wfp.org/
Mission is to provide: Food for LIFE; Food for GROWTH; and Food for
WORK to promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities.
Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/
A global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on worldwide threats to
our planet\'s biodiversity and environment.
Know Your Commonwealth
http://www.youngcommonwealth.org/
Guide for young people about the Commonwealth and its member
countries.
European Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
Information on the European Union and its member countries.
Lessons
Oxfam Cool Planet
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/atoz/
Large collection of activities and lessons related to globalisation
and world poverty.
Globalisation Lesson Plans
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/Resources/globalization/globaled.html
Extensive list of lesson plans on Globalisation.
Life in The Global Village
http://portal.consumerline.org/lesson_plans/?topic=33
Unit of work invites students to explore those aspects of
globalisation that affect them and allow them to consider some of the contrasts in
development, which exist globally.
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Multiculturalism <http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/cross/multi.htm>
·
National Cultures <http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/polaw/national.htm>
·
History of Immigration to
Australia <http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/austhist/immigration.htm>
·
White Australia Policy:
Immigration Restriction Act <http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/austhist/white.htm>
· Asian Migration to Australia <http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/austhist/asiaimm.htm>
·
Refugees and Asylum Seekers
<http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/sose/refugee.htm>
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~slacey/community.htm#multiculturalism
<http://members.ozemail.com.au/~slacey/community.htm>
I recently bought
some great resources from Macmillan. One set of 6 was called "I came to Australia for..." (freedom, lifestyle, employment, family
etc.) all personal accounts of children's journeys to Australia for different
reasons and how they have settled in here.
Another good one is also Macmillan "Australians All"
Also Macmillan "Australia's immigrants" particularly the ones
called;
Free settlers (1891-1939)
Migrants and refugees (1976-1999)
Post war Europeans (1940-1975)
<http://www.edna.edu.au/discover/index.html?queryText=multiculturalism+Australia>
Macmillan put out a series on Australian immigrants. there are also 2 older
series that we have: Australian Families (Methuen-1984) & People in
Australia by Michael Dugan.
Try the Macmillan
series "Australians all" by Al Grassby and Marj Hill. Sees covers 8
different cultural groups - English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Irish, Italian,
Greek, Lebanese.
Understanding
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/bridges/index.html