Understorey: In from the CALD

Understorey explores the apparent absence of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals from various environmental campaigns with Dr Sukhmani Khorana, from Western Sydney University.   Her research, done along with Claudia Sirdah, entitled “Young Australian Migrants and Environmental Values,” points to the fact that migrant communities are involved in doing environmental actions, like recycling, home-growing vegetables, and being thrifty – they just haven’t called it environmentalism.  With Western Australia now the third largest state numerically for overseas born individuals, environmentalists may need to think about how they are going to reach out to include more diverse members of the community in their frameworks and campaigns.

Montage: A Glamorgan, photos supplied WSU