Thesis (MPhil)--Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of
Modern History, Politics, International Relations and Security,
2010. Introduction -- 1. Survival strategies: assimilation and
integration -- 2. Multiculturalism: unifying strategy or threat
to the nation? -- 3. Survival of Anglo-Australian culture -- 4.
From Hanson to Cronulla -- Conclusion During the period from the
end of World War II to the early 2000's Australia was forced to
adapt to the migrant presence if it were to survive as a modern
liberal democracy. Migrants were necessary to the economy and
the building of the nation after World War II. Immigration was
conceived as a mechanism of national survival. But immigrants
needed to fit into Anglo-Australian culture, the existing
template. Our society thus had two driving needs: a desire to
increase population through migration, and a desire to preserve
the existing society that had been derived from Great Britain.
This thesis argues that one of the central themes of the story
of immigration