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08 THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA www.kalatas.com.au | Volume 4 Number 12 | September 2014 STATE Multicultural NSW: A new vision for harmony WE have a new direction for multicultural practice in NSW. (From left) CRC CEO Hakan Harman, NSW Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello, Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane, Media personality Hugh Riminton at the launch of the plan, Harmony in Action, at the CRC Annual Symposium. THE NSW Government has outlined a new vision for our multicultural state as part of a three-year plan that will also see what is now known as the Community Relations Commission, renamed ‘Multicultural NSW’. The new plan – Harmony in Action – was announced by the Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello at the CRC Annual Symposium. As we continue to celebrate our diversity we will also, in equal measure, focus on the values that unite us as Australians, such as our ANZAC spirit, our Aboriginal heritage and our volunteering ethos. We celebrate our diversity very well. However, it is become clear that we should also be focusing on the things that unite us. Sport has always been one of the great social adhesives and, g