When did australia become multicultural?

Question

When did australia become multicultural?

Answer 1

it became multicultural when u were born u didnt know that HOW SAD

Answer 2

Since it was discovered.

Answer 3

when the british got there.

Answer 4

just over 200 years ago when  people in ship's came here to settle

Answer 5

if u mean like when did more cultures (apart from the english and excluding the aboriginals) then it was in the gold rush.

Answer 6

After WW2 when Greeks and Italian migration started in earnest (before than it was British monocultural as Aborigines were not even counted in the census until 1967) but it didn't really affect the Anglo society until the late 60's ,  I remember being taken to my first Greek restaurant as a kid about that time and then not long after the Vietnamese started and we've been multi cultural never since

Answer 7

lol, from 1788, when the Euro-trash invaded, and started killing off the Aboriginal community

Answer 8

Aboriginal Australians were welcoming visitors from Macassar (Indonesia) on the north coast, and marrying and travelling back and forth with them centuries, maybe more, before the British could sail away from their own coasts. However, when they did sent convicts and others here in 1788, it has been established that there were many nationalities (and skin colours) represented then. Things got even more multicultural in the time of the gold rushes and after WWII, that's true, but there have always been people here of many cultures and languages.

The official policy of encouraging people to keep their own culture and have it live side by side, of roughly equal status with the majority Anglo culture started in the 1970s, and has waxed and waned since then. It may be about to wax again- I hope so.

Answer 9

Apart from the English claiming yet another piece of land back in 1770.   I would say two things stand out the most to me.  One would be the intake of refugees from WWII and the second would be in the 1950s, at the time the government welcomed skilled labour from Europe, I think there might have been incentives also and The Snowy Mountains Scheme was one of the drawcards.  We needed lots of skilled labour and didn't have enough here.

Answer 10

Australia has always been multicultural.  Just think of all the Indigenous tribes, with separate languages and traditions, that were here before the arrival of the British.