EM/ProfAndrew Jakubowicz

Role as historical adviser included Program development, writing of multicultural narrative, narration editing, on-screen commentary and analysis. Three 50 minute episodes, series broadcast twice in 2012, once in 2013. (as at Sept 2013).

Cultural diversity is often experienced and expressed through the arts, Whether it be in the performances at inner city venues such as La Mama or Boite, or in the Victorian Art Centre's Mix it Up program, the arts build community, open up understanding, and challenge prejudices. The creation of Australian art -as in the Heidelberg School in the late nineteenth century- owed much to immigrant artists such as Luis Abrahams and Jane Sutherland. Today that diversity underpins modern Victorian culture, and the intercultural excitement that produces new ways of seeing, hearing and feeling our world. This segment of Making Multicultural Australia, now a 25 year project in online documentation and analysis, was supported by Arts Victoria.

Interactive online complement to TV series Immigration Nation (for which I was historical adviser). Wrote multicultural narrative for Interactive, sourced stories, and edited scripts. Project derived from Making Multicultural Australia (http://multiculturalaustralia.edu.au). As it is an online project Broadcast date is date for going live.

Australia has always been culturally diverse. Before European settlement, it is estimated that there were 700 different Indigenous cultural groups speaking some 250 different languages. When the First Fleet arrived in Sydney in 1788, there were estimated to be about 60 different nationalities among the crew and convicts. Since then, extensive immigration from countries and cultures from around the world have extended the cultural and linguistic diversity of Australia?s population making it one of the most diverse populations in the world today. Making Multicultural Australia is a website which provides information on the contributions that different cultural groups have made to the development of Australian society and on the various views towards immigration and multiculturalism that have historically influenced government policies and programs and transformed the Australian population. The project is a major innovation in the use of multimedia to explore the history and political sociology of Australia. It includes hundreds of interviews texts and documents developed through original research for the project, as well as serving as an agglomerator of materials produced by other researchers and held in archives. It goes beyond the textbook model of educational websites, to be both a research publication in its own right (including specific volumes focussing on individual states) and a research resource for scholars and students. it combines scholarly excellence with social and community impact.

A ten chapter multimedia analysis of the impact of cultural diversity on the public culture of Victoria. It is based on extensive original video interviews with social scientists and historians, public intellectuals, politicians, public figures and participants in ket events. It argues that Victorian contemporary public culture can only be understood by centring the interaction of different cultural groups, and provides a series of case studies of ethnic communities (Chinese, Turkish, Jewish, Italian) , institutions and localities (Brunswick, Shepparton).

A nine chapter multimedia analysis of the impact of cultural diversity on the public culture of Victoria. It is based on extensive original video interviews with social scientists and historians, public intellectuals, politicians, public figures and participants in key events. It argues that Queensland's contemporary public culture can only be understood by centring the interaction of different cultural groups, through the prism of racism and the rapid whitening of the north after 1942. It uses historical records, archival material and personal documents to add depth to the analyses, and provide access to the data for other scholars and the general public.