Australia has become a more divisive place and migrants should be encouraged to "live our way", according to Australian media icon and former chair of the ABC Ita Buttrose .

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The country's vision of multiculturalism was not working, the 83-year-old told Professor Henry Brodaty during a national webinar for the UNSW Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing on Tuesday, ahead of the release of her new book, Unapologetically Ita.

"I think we're more divided. I don't think the multicultural society that we've spoken about so proudly in Australia is working as well as it could be," Ms Buttrose

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