About the Goodbye COVID campaign: We are working with local community leaders to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Getting vaccinated protects yourself and your loved ones. When enough of us are vaccinated, life will be better for everyone. Here we have Goodbye Covid video in 20 languages, plus text – all to help you.
Stories from women of Chinese-Taiwanese, French-Canadian, Greek-Cypriot, Indian-Malaysian, Italian, Maltese, Nigerian, and Sri Lankan heritage reveal historical events that made a big impact on their life before, and after, coming to Australia.
All NDIS participants aged 16 years and over and carers aged 16 years and over of NDIS participants of any age are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. For more information, visit the Department of Health’s website or call the Disability Gateway on 1800 643 787. For help in your language, call TIS on 131 450.
The Department of Health and state-run vaccination services are focusing on increasing access to COVID-19 vaccines. Several strategies are put in place to improve the vaccination rate.
The Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria is establishing a New and Emerging Communities Policy Advisory Committee and is are inviting people from new and emerging communities to work with them to set up this policy committee.
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world’s foremost and biggest sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. Since 2016 (at Rio), the International Olympic Committee has created the Refugee Olympic Team, and the Paralympic Refugees Team.
Sport is more than a hobby. It is a way to build resilience. For so many refugees, sport is a way to have fun, to heal, to rebuild. Sport can reduce stigma. For all refugees, with or without disabilities, having the opportunity to access sports can build physical and mental wellbeing. And of course it challenges what other people thought might be possible. #cheerforrefugees
Tokyo: Peter Bol has spent his life running from something and to something. On Wednesday night he might reach his goal. Bol will run for Australia in the 800 metres final at the Tokyo Olympics and is a favourite for a medal. It will be the culmination of a journey that began in Sudan. At the age of four, his family escaped the civil war that would engulf that country for more than two decades.
The refugee paddler, who was forced to flee Iran in 2015, found a second home in Germany, and in Tokyo made it to the quarterfinals in the men’s kayak singles 1000m event.
From battling depression and homelessness to helping carry the Olympic flag into the Tokyo stadium for the Opening Ceremony, weightlifter and refugee athlete Cyrille Tchatchet has an inspiring story that he hopes will encourage more than 82 million displaced people around the world.