Many Hopes, One Dream – The Story of the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria

This book tells a fascinating story of the way the ECCV moved remarkably quickly from being a fringe player to occupying a central role as an advocate for people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. It should be recommended reading for anyone who is interested in knowing how Victoria, and in particular how Melbourne, has managed its remarkable transformation into one of the world’s leading centres of peaceful multicultural cohabitation.

Dr John Chesterman, political historian and author of Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality