In this very room, we’ve probably got a microcosm of Australia’s fabulous cultural diversity. [To Asian-looking staff member] Where, for example, do you come from?
Who, me? Collaroy.
No, I mean where are your parents from?
Oh, they’re from Petersham.
What about your grandparents, then? Where are your grandparents from?
Well, they had a market garden up in Maitland.
Yes, well, good on them. My point is the cultural diversity. I mean, we all come from somewhere. In my own case, for example, probably principally Ireland and Scotland in the 1860s. What about you?
Oh, well, they came up from Melbourne in about 1855.
Good on them.
From the Victorian goldfields.
Yes, very good. Yes, well, the cultural point is probably well made.
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