II.From White Australia to Multiculturalism Multiculturalism:from 1973 With the adoption of the Multiculturalism,a series of non- discriminatory programmes was introduced to enable Australians from non-English speaking backgrounds to have greater equality of access to education,health and social services and pensions.In addition,'ethnic groups'were positioned to have greater access to government channels and to be accorded the rights to speak for their "minority groups".II. From White Australia to Multiculturalism • Multiculturalism: from 1973 With the adoption of the Multiculturalism, a series of non￾discriminatory programmes was introduced to enable Australians from non-English speaking backgrounds to have greater equality of access to education, health and social services and pensions. In addition, ‘ethnic groups’ were positioned to have greater access to government channels and to be accorded the rights to speak for their “minority groups