February 2025
On the 11th of August 1975 Al Grassby, Australian Minister for Immigration, laid the foundation for a multicultural Australia in a paper given to the Cairnmillar Institute ‘Strategy 2000: Australia for Tomorrow’. In his paper, ‘A Multi – Cultural Society for the Future’ Grassby said:
My vision of our society in the year 2000 foreshadows a greatly increased social complexity in which the dynamic interaction between the diverse ethnic groups will be producing new national initiatives, stimulating new artistic endeavours, and ensuring great strength in diversity. Coming across Grassby’s vision recently I wondered where on the pathway to achieving it in foodways was the domestic Australian table in 1975.
