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Victorian Ethnic Communities' Council

Des Storer.

Des Storer talks about bringing people together and education.

Created:

1994

Date Added:

26 July 2002

Source:

Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1994.

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Length:

18 secs

Transcript

DES STORER Deputy Secretary, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, and former researcher, Centre for Urban Research and Action

There was a lot of ferment going around. By 1974, in Melbourne, we got involved in another way of trying to bring people together - around education. But it brought together lots of people - a hundred different groups and representatives talking about common aspirations and needs re: education for their children and for themselves.

CONTINUATION OF INTERVIEW AS TEXT

There was a series of meetings, culminating in a meeting in a place called Church of all Nations. And it was called by Colin Benjamin, who was a community development worker out in the Western suburbs then, with the Australian Assistance Program - Mr Excitement they used to call him - and there was an agreement to try to form a loose coalition of ethnic communities.
Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1994.