Word: fitzroy
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...overseas." Former Labor Party leader Arthur Calwell stormed in reply that no red-blooded Australian wanted to see a "chocolate-colored" country, while Liberal Cabinet ministers insisted Australia would remain forever homogeneous. Today Vietnamese immigrants gather around high-rise public-housing buildings in Melbourne's inner-city neighborhood of Fitzroy, playing cards or talking in the soft twilight. What they will make of Australia, and Australia of them, is still to be determined...