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A time of social change

Don Dunstan.

Don Dunstan speaks on The Labor Party.

Created:

1993

Date Added:

17 July 2002

Source:

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1993.

Format:

mov (Quicktime);

File size:

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Length:

18 secs

Transcript

DON DUNSTAN
South Australian Premier, 1967-68 and 1970-79

The Labor Party like any other large Party in this country has got its conservatives. But Gough (Whitlam) and Al (Grassby) effectively led the charge and the others were forced to follow. And I think that they quickly came to see that there were votes in it.

CONTINUATION OF INTERVIEW AS TEXT

So they followed. There was a lot of resistance about matters of race, particularly of colour of the skin. And from time to time, there was suspicion about people from the ethnic minority communities who felt they were not dinky di Aussies. But it was generally not expressed very much. The prejudices were there. It was obvious enough. But it became quickly very unfashionable to make discriminatory remarks on the basis of race.

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1993.