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The Program
9.30 am	CURRENT ISSUES IN CITZENSHIP Citizenship in a Federation Professor Peter Schuck Law School, Yale University Citizenship and the International Community: Issues of Ethnicity and Citizenship Professor T K Oommen Centre for the Study of Social Systems Jawabarlal Nehru University The Role of the High Court in Shaping Citizenship Kim Rubenstein Law School, The University of Melbourne
11.30 am	Morning tea
12.00 pm	KEY ISSUES FOR AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP Why I chose to become an Australian citizen Introduction: Mr Peter Hughes Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Joseph Assaf Ethnic Communications
12.45 pm	Have lunch at your leisure at any of the local cafes in and around the university.
2 - 5 pm	SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION A range of options for discussion groups will be available. Participants indicate their preferences during Day One of the conference. Topics will include: · Should we allow citizens to take up other citizenships? · How should we celebrate and mark citizenship? · What are the international consequences of citizenship? · How does citizenship in Australia compare with its Asian neighbours? · What are the consequences of multiculturalism of citizenship? · How do we educate for "good" citizenship? Afternoon tea included at 3.50 pm
7.00 pm	CONFERENCE DINNER Ormond College The University of Melbourne Dinner Speaker: His Excellency The Governor Sir James Gobbo AC
	Please indicate your participation in the dinner on the registration form.
10.30 pm	Dinner concludes

Professor Peter Schuck Professor TK Oommen Kim Rubenstein Joseph Assaf His Excellency the Governor Sir James Gobbo

Professor Peter Schuck has been a Professor at Yale University Law School since 1981. His publications include Citizens, Strangers and In-Betweens: Essays on Immigration and Citizenship (1998, Westview) and Citizenship Without Consent: Illegal Aliens in the American Polity (1985, Yale University Press).

Professor TK Oommen has been a Professor of Sociology since 1976 at the School of Social Sciences of the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has published both extensively and continuously in the past three decades. Among the dozen books he authored are: Alien Concepts and South Asian Reality (1995, Sage) and Citizenship, Nationality and Ethnicity (1997, Polity Press). At present, he is president of the Indian Sociological Society.

Kim Rubenstein BA, LLB (Hons), LLM (Harv) is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School, University of Melbourne. She teaches Constitutional and Administrative Law and Migration Law. Her publications include many articles on citizenship law and she has received Australian Research Council grants for this work.

Joseph Assaf migrated to Australia in 1967 and established Ethnic Communications, the first agency in Australia to specialise in multicultural marketing. Joseph's work in multicultural marketing has included launching Multicultural Marketing News, a free specialist magazine, and establishing Multicultural Marketing Awards. He has served a three year term as a member of the National Multicultural Advisory Council from 1994-1997. More recently, he was appointed by the Federal Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs as a member of a four person External reference group set up to review the points test to assess skilled migrants.

His Excellency the Governor, Sir James Gobbo has been the Governor of Victoria since April 1997. Sir James was a founding member in 1960 of the Immigration Reform Group which was formed to seek to abolish the white Australia policy. He has served on various peak National advisory bodies relating to Population, Immigration and Refugees. These include his position as Chairman of the Australian Multicultural Foundation from 1987- 1997 and as Chairman of the Council of Multicultural Affairs, which produced the National Agenda adopted by the Federal Government in 1989.