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Portrait of Wayne Keith Goss, Premier of Queensland

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Wayne Keith Goss (26 February 1951 – 10 November 2014) was Premier of Queensland from 7 December 1989 until 19 February 1996, becoming the first Labor Premier in over 32 years. Prior to entering politics, Goss was a solicitor, and after leaving politics he served as Chairman of the Queensland Art Gallery and Chairman of Deloitte Australia.

The Goss Government introduced social reforms such as decriminalising homosexuality, appointing Queensland’s first female minister in cabinet and first female Governor, abolishing the Queensland Police Special Branch and Imperial honours, and made provision to buy thousands of extra university places and hire thousands of new teachers.

After his retirement from politics, Goss served in a variety of community and business roles, including as an Ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and as a member of a business task force dealing with the aftermath of the 2010-11 Queensland floods.

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Immigrant education

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By the 1980s, migrants from all over the world had settled in Australia. Immigration rates peaked in 1988 when 254,000 people arrived in Australia. The nation’s approach to new migrants since the 1970s has been one of ‘multiculturalism’.

This meant that Australian society embraced various cultural groups, with their distinct languages, religions, and traditions and granted them equal status. This was in contrast to the previous policy of ‘assimilation’, which stipulated that migrants should abandon their cultures and languages and ‘blend in’ to the existing population.

Multiculturalism challenged traditional ideas about what it meant to be an Australian. Large numbers of migrants from places like Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South America and Africa filtered into Australia. Most people found that migrants enriched the Australian experience, enabling people to share cultural traditions like music, food and religion.

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