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THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA
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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