This report aims to address lost productivity and skill wastage in the labour force by promoting an efficient skills recognition and licensing system that is responsive to the needs of both industry and clients, while maintaining Australian occupational standards.

Although Australia’s migration policies have evolved, Klaus Neumann finds some important parallels in three high-profile cases.

The aim of this paper is to discuss the ways in which cultural difference is articulated in local communities through the practices and actions of local individuals, groups and government.

According to this paper it is the relationship between multiculturalism as a policy issue and social harmony among different cultural groups, specifically that of avoiding spatial (and implicitly social) segregation, hence pluralism, that most concerns social scientists and commentators.