Dr Joanna Howe
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524 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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They were from Christian backgrounds, yeah.
But I would say if we're not increasing the birth rate significantly, I don't think the answer is then to turn back to multiculturalism.
It's failed.
This idea that you bring people from all over the parts of the world and have no expectation that they would assimilate but that all the cultures would coexist, that doesn't work.
So we never go back there.
We can't go back there.
I do think that there has to be an expectation that if you're in Australia, you integrate, you assimilate, you learn the English language.
Because it's more than just the fact that... Do you know what I mean, mate?
Maybe not today, but I think that we need to have a more, in my view, a more sophisticated definition would be to say that there's assimilation and integration.
You're either born here or you've come here.
And that's what makes you Australian.
But you can't even speak as broadly as that, Sam, because there would be some... There would definitely be some.
They're not a homogenous group, right?
There'd be some that have come that have assimilated.
So...
We work at Pizza Tecca.
Sorry, we go to Pizza Tecca, an Italian restaurant in Adelaide.
And there's a beautiful girl there who's come from, where's she come from?
Spain or Italy?
Italy and um but you know like she's working hard she's contributing she's just got a permanent residency um she's warm and open uh you know I I feel like there are people that have come even more recently that are trying to assimilate and I but I but I think that um
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