Wasn’t Australia built on Multiculturalism?
No. 92% of Australia’s population is Caucasian, which is a higher percentage rate than many European countries including the UK, The Netherlands, France and Germany, as well as the United States.[14] The word ‘multiculturalism’ only started to be used in Australia in the 1970’s. Multiculturalism is a relatively recent phenomenon, and certainly did not exist for most of the 40,000-50,000 years of human settlement of Australia. It follows that Australia was not built on such a wide reaching multicultural ideal. The “White Australia Policy” was only phased out a mere 30 years ago. It has only been since then that Australia has seen such an influx of diverse cultures to our society.
