A national survey of multicultural policy reveals that attempts by Australian local government to foster goodintercommunal relations between cultural groups are poorly developed. Local government authorities (known as 'councils') limited their involvement to supporting festivals and information...

This paper examines results from an Australia-wide survey of multicultural policies at the level of local government. Multicultural policies have the potential to advance a local 'politics of difference', recasting governance, such that citizenship is expanded. Multicultural policies are...