Amar Singh says it’s his responsibility as “a human being” to engage multicultural communities with the Yes campaign.
That’s why he’s begun a two-month 25,000 kilometre round-trip journey from Sydney to Darwin.
Mr Singh won the 2023 Australian of the Year Local Hero award for his work with his charity Turbans 4 Australia, a Sikh-led assistance organisation that delivers food and aid to vulnerable people across western Sydney.
The Australian Human Rights Commission released its National Anti-Racism Framework Scoping Report in December 2022. Since its release, dedicated funding has been allocated to amplify and progress the scoping report’s findings. A community guide to the scoping report is now available for download. The community guide is available in several languages: Arabic, Burmese, Farsi, Samoan, Simplified Chinese, Swahili and Vietnamese.
The Uluru Statement from the Heart has extended a generous and powerful invitation to all Australians and we are embracing this invitation and asking you to join us on this journey of saying Yes to constitutional recognition.
Settlement Services International and Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria along with the Multicultural Australia for the Voice alliance invite you to a special interactive community town hall to engage in Multicultural Australia for the Voice.
Special guests are Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney and Inclusion Consultant Tasneem Chopra (OAM) to learn more about the upcoming Voice referendum. We will also be joined by local MP Julian Hill, Member for Bruce, the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Andrew Giles and the Minister for Home Affairs & Cyber Security Clare O’Neil.
The development of the new NDIS CALD Strategy for 2023-27 is nearing completion. The Strategy aims to improve outcomes for people with disability from CALD backgrounds to access the NDIS.
It has been developed through a co-design process with people with disability from CALD backgrounds, their families, carers and the multicultural community sector, including Shepparton.
Once the new Strategy receives formal endorsement from external stakeholders in August, it will go through a translation and design process and be publicly released in November-December.
The Australian Government’s Multicultural Framework Review is looking at ways for government and the community to work together to support a cohesive multicultural society and advance a vibrant and prosperous future for all Australians. Anyone may make a submission, and submissions are open until 29 September 2023.
The Goulburn Child & Family Services Alliance will host a free face-to-face session on Tuesday 24 October from 9-1pm. This session will be facilitated by Speech Pathologist Karen Speedy at the FamilyCare Training Room, 19 Welsford Street, Shepparton, VIC 3630.
The Salvation Army conducts a “Walking Home” – walk around Victoria Park Lake on Friday 11 August 2023 from 11:00am-1:00pm – to observe Homelessness Week 2023. The Theme of the week is “Together we can”. The Walk around the lake commences at SAM, and there is a free sausage sizzle afterwards. Many community organisations are participating, including Greater Shepparton Foundation.
The Goulburn Child & Family Services Alliance partners are FamilyCare, Rumbalara Family Services, The Bridge Youth Service and the Department of Health and Human Services presents Towards a Brighter Future: Innovative Approaches to Child Wellbeing and Family Violence – a family violence prevention conference at Mitchelton Wines on 15 November 2023.
AFL Victoria is teaming up with the Shepparton Ethnic Council and invites you to attend their inaugural Shepparton Multicultural Gala Day at Deakin Reserve on the 16th of August from 9am-2pm. AFL Victoria will run drills on the day plus have mini games for a chance to win one of many giveaways! do you have what it takes to win a prize?!
There has been a huge spike in Pacific Islanders applying for protection visas because they offer better working conditions than the government program designed to help workers from nine islands and Timor-Leste come to Australia, advocates say.