Multiculturalism to Citizenship in Australian Politics

Running head: INTRODUCTION TO GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Introduction to Government and Politics
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Multiculturalism to citizenship in Australian politics
According to Metz, Australia is considered to be as that country where an ugly
discrimination has been rising. Political leaders were not given much attention in the interest
of good sense (Ng and Metz 2015). Australia have been shifting away from multiculturalism
to citizenship in the era of politics. People of Australia have embraced life in the new
multiethnic way but the constituency of the situation has grown steadily. The Australian
theory of multiculturalism had been challenged as a policy and as well as a conceptual
framework. Australia draws on the media commentary along with the work of specific and
well-known researchers Thus, the values of the Australians and citizens gave their opinion on
the existing anxieties about the portions of the population of Australia. The essay concludes
stating how this country have shifted away to multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism was a theory and concept of how to reply to the rising ethnocultural
diversity of the society of Australia. It had resulted in the mass immigration over the last few
decades and had therefore abandoned the racially restricted policies of immigration. The term
multiculturalism refers to a number of policies and cultural diversities that coherent ideals of
the society. This concept has had plenty of goals over the years, which included the
recognition of identities and integration of migrants. However, this concept has taken place in
Australia and has criticized it as a diverse policy. The Government of Australia have
determined these under the policies of multicultural that play a vital role in the process of
settling the immigrants. This theory explained this as the way for settling the migrants,
welfare and social-cultural policy in Australia (Bloemraad 2015). This Government had
established a vast variety of multiculturalist ideas, policies and concepts into the advisory
systems. The Minister had determined these policies and rules for providing a reform agenda
to address the welfare problems (Peucker, Roose and Akbarzadeh 2014). The acceptance of
the nature and kind of the multicultural Australian Society, it can be implied that the

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government had determined the values in of the immigrants as well as the existing citizens of
the country (Meer and Modood 2016). The report that was created globally stated and
concluded that all the members of the society must be provided with equal opportunities to
realize the full potential and they should also have free access to the services and programs
(Pruitt 2016). Secondly, every individual must be able to balance his or her respected kind of
culture, which did not have any kind of demerit. It helps in encouraging and understanding
other cultures. Thirdly, the programs and services that are available to the entire community
of the country should fulfill the needs of the migrants. Proper and special programs and
services must be present for ensuring the equality. Lastly, proper programs and services were
designed in full session with the clients involved and they should be helpful. The
Government agreed upon these policies and all the citizens were informed about it. The
Australian Muslims were supported and they were made to be more integrated and connected
with the other citizens present in the community or the country. In terms of employment,
jobs, education, activities it is regarded as a significant method of prohibiting violence
causing against Australia (Tan 2017).
This work began a decade back in 2007 where Markus had polled for more than
40,000 people to find what everyone thinks about the Australia and its future. His work was
to move around the country by briefing politicians, commentators and bureaucrats before
forming the each new report. He was cautious about and against both despair and optimism.
The swings of opinion were not considered to be dangerous as it’s been recognized here.
However, the present report states that maximum number of Australians declines the notion
of selecting immigrants by race (Blair 2015). Majority people of the country have faith in the
fact that multiculturalism and believe that it is good for the country. There are approximately
74% of individuals who had declined to choose immigrants based on the religion. The
number of migrants Australia takes every year is either considered to be too low or perfect.