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 .

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 said.

And that's because we've allowed divisive groups to come into Australia. And that's fine. I mean, we need all points of view, but this is Australia, so I think we have to be emphatic that you try and l

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