Ghassan Hage is one of Australia's most significant intellectuals. He's still on a quest for a multicultural society that hopes and cares

  • Written by: Andrew Jakubowicz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
Ghassan Hage is one of Australia's most significant intellectuals. He's still on a quest for a multicultural society that hopes and caresShutterstock

It is 50 years – two generations – since then Immigration Minister Al Grassby launched the idea of a multicultural Australia at a Melbourne conference in 1973. Ghassan Hage, Professor in Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne, and currently visiting scholar at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for...

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