There are also limits to Australian multiculturalism. These may be summarized as follows: +multicultural policies are based upon the premises that all Australians should have an overriding and unifying commitment to Australia, to its interests and future first and foremost; +multicultural policies require all Australians to accept the basic structures and principles of Australian society - the Constitution and the rule of law, tolerance and equality, Parliamentary democracy, freedom of speech and religion, English as the national language and equality of the sexes; and +multicultural policies impose obligations as well as conferring rights: the right to express one's own culture and beliefs involves a reciprocal responsibility to accept the right of others to express their views and values. As a necessary response to the reality of Australia's cultural diversity, multicultural policies aim to realize a better Australia characterized by an enhanced degree of social justice and economic efficiency. = Australian Government, Dept of Social Services, Settlement and Multicultural Affairs
Englishmen have ancestors. Australians have previous.- Advert for Marston's Bitter seen in a gents at Lords.
World War II would end the system of unilateral action , the exclusive alliances, the balances of power, and all the other expedients that have been tried for centuries - and have always failed. Instead we will have a universal organisation of peace-loving Nations and the beginnings of a permanent structure of peace. - Franklin D Roosevelt, Address to the conference reporting on the Yalta conference, 1 Mar 1945
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.—C. S. Lewis
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” ― Epictetus
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