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Cultural Diversity News

"Wog Boy" wins Cook Off - Masterchef and the future of Australian eating

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:11

Adam Liaw, a Malaysian Chinese Australian, taught by his granny in Adelaide how to cook up a storm, denizen of Tokyo and dreamer of intercultural culinary pyrotechnics, has won Masterchef to the acclaim of the whole country. Here is the expression of multiculturalism writ large - his final winning coup de plat was a multi-function pork belly straight out of the heartland of Asia, topped off with a ice-cream guava and custard-apple meringue egg that combined French, Asian and Australian extravagances.

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ABS Social Trends June 30 report on Population: true grit!

Saturday, 24 July 2010 14:00

Background document on Population released by ABS
POPULATION GROWTH: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
4102.0 - Australian Social Trends, Jun 2010   rel.  30 June 2010
INTRODUCTION
According to preliminary estimates, Australia's population passed 22 million people by the end of September 2009. The latest one million people were added to the population in less than 2 ½ years, which is one year less than the time taken for the previous million to be added, and almost two years less than the time taken to add the million before that. The recent pace of population growth has resulted in renewed discussion about the role of immigration, and the future size of the population.

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No more Masterchef - when we reduce immigration, how sustainable is that?

Friday, 23 July 2010 16:44

Migrants bring all sorts of good things - ideas, skills, energy, creativity, ambition, and recipes. With all the rhetoric about the need to reduce immigration in the name of sustainability and carrying capacity, it's worth thinking about which immigrants won't be coming anymore, and how sustainable we'll be without them, and who'll do the heavy lifting? (full data for this blog is here).

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Can reality rescue the population debate from demagoguery?

Thursday, 22 July 2010 11:43

Gillard with ASIO adThe population debate foreshadowed by Chris Evans in his "killing the government" speech last week has become even more overlaid by rhetoric and emotion, despite PM Gillard's attempt to focus on infrastructure and planning issues, and ex-ALP leader Latham saying it's all about immigration. ABC News today had ANU demographer Prof Peter McDonald detailing the issues in a calm and very rational manner. 

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