The Prime Minister says our cultural diversity is a strength and calls for "progressive patriotism".
But global turmoil is making it's way to our shores in the form of demonstrations and violence on our streets.
What does the future hold for the ties that bind us together?
And what IS progressive patriotism anyway?
GUESTS:
Prof, the Rev Peter Kurti, Director, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program, Centre for Independent Studies. His recent paper is The Ties That Bind: Reconciling value pluralism and national identity
Dr Yassir Morsi, Lecturer, Aboriginal Studies, La Trobe University, Author: Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies
Dr Chloe Patton, Lecturer, RMIT. Research spans sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, and intersections of gender, race, identity and representation. Author: Visualising Young Muslims in the West
This program is recorded on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, and Naarm