The promise of diversity
Subtitle: the story of Jerzy Zubrzycki, architect of multicultural Australia
By: John Hartwell Williams and John Bond
Contributors: Bond, John
Publisher: Grosvenor Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toorak, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780646593401
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Social conditions; Emigration and immigration
Description: Jerzy Zubrzycki AO CBE (1920-2009) was born in Poland and, during the Second World War, served with distinction in the Polish Army, the Polish underground and with Britain's Special Operations Executive. He led the operation which brought a captured V2 rocket from Poland to Britain. He was dramatically reunited with his teenage love, Aleksandra, who had been deported to Kazakhstan. After the war he studied sociology at the London School of Economics, then took up a position at the Australian National University. In 1970 he became the University's Professor of Sociology. Throughout his career he worked with many others to develop policies appropriate to Australia's increasing ethnic diversity - policies which have been implemented by governments on both sides of politics.
Notes: Foreword by Malcolm Fraser.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189)
Table of contents: title: 1. Escape; title: 2. A Polish heritage; title: 3. War; title: 4. From courier to special operations; title: 5. Exile for Aleksandra ...; title: 6. ... and an astonishing escape; title: 7. Stealing a V2 rocket; title: 8. Refugees in Britain; title: 9. To the antipodes; title: 10. Assimilationist Australia; title: 11. The multicultural alternative; title: 12. The Chair; title: 13. Multiculturalism as national policy; title: 14. The struggle for acceptance; title: 15. Setting up structures; title: 16. Poland breaks free; title: 17. Faith and its implications; title: 18. Advising the Vatican; title: 19. Setback and progress; title: 20. Multicultural potential.