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Why do people fear celebrating multiculturalism?
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Government policy may have been assimilation after 1945 but it didn't work, however it was not Government policy before that, witness the German speaking people in their settlements in South Australia, German is still spoken in some towns.
There were also, as said by the OP, Cornish settlements in South Australia and these became the last Cornish speaking places on Earth, as the language had died out in Cornwall, until the relatively recent revival.
Lachlan Macquarrie in NSW intended, at one stage, to make Irish Gaelic the second official language of the colony because so many of the people didn't speak any other language.
Australia has been multicultural since 1788 and was colonized by a multicultural country.