How is multicultural Australia's face presented to the world?

Australia is a richly diverse country, that's home to more than 250 ancestries and 350 languages.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong during the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bali. Credit: AAP

And since coming to power, the new Labor Government has demonstrated its eagerness to present the face of multicultural Australia in its stepped-up engagement with the world.

But experts on a panel have argued that when it comes to foreign policy, more should be done to better represent multicultural Australia.

Kulasegaram Sanchayan reports in Tamil with a feature written by .

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