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The Voices of Diversity in Multicultural Societies: Using Multimedia to Communicate Authenticity and Insight

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This personal exploration of doing oral history within a multicultural society such as Australia focuses on the dimensions of history normally unrecorded by mainstream accounts. Oral accounts properly collected and interpreted provide valuable materials not otherwise approached. This chapter examines how the web archive and documentary Making Multicultural Australia draws on oral histories recorded for the project to reveal the dynamic behind the shift in Australian public policy from assimilation to multiculturalism. It further details how the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) series “Once Upon a Time in …” used oral histories to empower the storytelling by local people through multicultural narrative arcs in Cabramatta, Punchbowl and Carlton, intensely immigrant and refugee neighbourhoods.

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Jakubowicz, A. (2019). The Voices of Diversity in Multicultural Societies: Using Multimedia to Communicate Authenticity and Insight. In: Darian-Smith, K., Hamilton, P. (eds) Remembering Migration. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17751-5_13

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