It is through a process of interaction between the ethnic groups, the Anglo-Saxon population and indigenous Australians that cultural influences merge. They will not contradict one another nor become antagonistic. In the more than 20 years since the Whitlam Government this process has gone on and is often reflected at social and cultural events at which cultures from a number of different nations come together in a new richness. Multiculturalism is not a law that can be repealed by either Pauline Hanson or John Howard. It may be undermined for a time by racism and zenophobia but because it reflects the multi-ethnic reality of Australian society, it cannot be destroyed.
Multiculturalism is here to stay.