We lost a lot of the culture up to the time of the War, and afterwards, up to the 1960’s. In Australia then, they regarded assimilation as the only thing. You come here; you must be assimilated; you must forget all your old traditions and past; you must not speak in your own language. Those things are going now: the government is starting to realise that there is some good in old traditions and customs that are brought in from overseas.
SEE-KEE, CHARLES