Plurality In Australia

In the article "The Emergence of Religious Plurality in Australia: a Multicultural Society." by Gary Bouma. The author goes into detail on the way that Australia became “religiously plural”, giving all the detailed history that started to make Australia so diverse. Austria didn't start off diverse in fact it started to become diverse because of the post-war migration and ever since the post-war migration Australia had become not only a country composed of many religions but also many multicultural societies as well. To get a better understanding of how religiously “plural” in other words diverse Australia is the author also goes on to compare the country with Canada and New Zealand's religious demography. Because of migration Australia
has become one of the most diverse countries, the policies of Australia have been built in to suite the diversity groups , because Australia's multicultural society is what basically makes up the country. It is discussed how these groups have contributed to the society and how the contribution to cultural diversity will continue to increase rather than decrease. Policy makers in Australia have actually become confident that religion would no longer be a “politically divisive issue” or even at a point of a debate. Because the process of fully understanding religions and cultures , and what they have to offer is shared between both the policy makers and the migrant communities.