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Scaling up multicultural communities to help shape climate change

Multicultural communities face unique barriers to communication and decision-making, yet they possess vital knowledge for climate solutions. Empowering community leaders, allowing climate messaging to be culturally relevant, and ensuring their voices are included in policy making will allow for more effective and inclusive climate change solutions. Community leaders sometimes don’t know how to express their …

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How Sanjay Sharma created inclusion with cricket

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Canberra celebrated the achievements the multicultural community has done for 2025. Sanjay Sharma is the winner of the ACT Multicultural Individual Champion Award for his efforts on bringing diversity and inclusion in the territory. He founded the Indian Australian Multicultural Sports Association and developed a grassroots program to bring inclusion to the community through cricket. …

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How African beats are connecting Australian audiences

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Music plays an integral role across all cultures around the globe, and to celebrate its importance, Brisbane Festival’s Moorooka Block Party showcased many multicultural performers. One band is committed to entertaining and engaging people of all walks of life with inspiring music from Southern Africa. The Sydney-based Echoes of African Music performed on the day, …

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Digital gap growing thanks to AI and scams: report

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A new research by Good Things Australia shows almost half of Australians find it harder to spot a scam and nearly a third of Australians don’t know the difference between real content and AI-generated one. The most vulnerable sector to scams are grandparents, but also young adults aged 25 to 34 struggle to bank online, …

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Illawarra celebrates diversity with Culture Mix Festival

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With the Kiama Blues Festival and the Yours and Owls Music festival, Wollongong and the wider Illawarra region south of Sydney already have a reputation for live music. In 2023, the Wollongong Council got two-year funding for a different kind of event, the Culture Mix Festival, to celebrate the music, food and stories of its …

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Nurses from Philippines face challenges migrating to Australia

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The Filipino community is the fifth largest migrant group in Australia, according to the Department of Home Affairs. But also around 6 per cent of all nurses in Australia were trained in the Philippines. The country encourages this exodus to a point and connects the nurses with support, but for some it’s tough and challenging, …

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Junior golf player to conquer Australia and beyond

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An emerging golf player is in Australia hoping to become one of the best players across the world. South African Damian Zervas is becoming a trend on social media because of his performance in overseas tournaments. With only 11 years of age, Damian has been invited to the US again and to Spain to compete …

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Multicultural young Australians pitch policy ideas in Canberra

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This week, 16 young multicultural Australians from across the country gathered at Parliament House. The FUSE delegation from the Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network spoke with politicians to pitch their policy ideas to improve outcomes for migrants and young people… Including calls for an anti-racism framework, culturally safe responses to domestic violence, and digital equity. Image: …

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