Nation to celebrate Australian Citizenship Day 2010

A group of 20 people from seven countries officially joined the Australian family at a special ceremony today in Burnie, Tasmania as Australian Citizenship Day 2010 was launched. The new Australians – who hail from countries including Japan, the United Kingdom, India and Korea – are the first of thousands of people across the country [...]

Photography competition focuses on NSW landscape

The Community Relations Commission is conducting the Inaugural NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photographic Prize which is set up to complement the three year old NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Painting Prize. The topic of this competition is New South Wales landscape [...]

Nominations for the 2010 National Multicultural Marketing Awards open

The National Multicultural Marketing Awards have officially opened for 2010. The awards are open to anyone in business in Australia with entries closing on 31 August 2010. Winners of the Awards will be officially announced at a Gala Presentation on November 1, 2010. [...]

Servicemen lead Metro Sydney’s 112th Independence Day celebration

June 12 at the Blacktown City Council’s Bowman Hall was a scene of colourful and festive celebration of the Philippines’ 112th Independence Day. It was also a day of the servicemen, Australians and Filipinos alike [...]

Streets Alive in Blacktown

Over 100,000 people are expected to make their way into Blacktown City’s CBD for one of the highlights of this year’s Blacktown City Festival; Streets Alive! 8.30am – 4.00pm, Saturday, May 29, 2010. The popular Streets Alive Parade and Festival Day gives the local community the opportunity to take advantage of over 350 street stalls, six performance stages, free amusement rides, exciting displays and heaps of attractions. [...]

Renewed vigour needed in combating racial violence

The killing of Mr Magno Alvarado last Saturday in Cronulla and the arrest of a young man for allegedly bashing the elderly man to death in a drunken race-hate crime clearly shows that much work still needs to be done to combat racism [...]

Health resources in Filipino recognised in multicultural awards

Health resources translated in Filipino were officially recognised at a ceremony Wednesday, 29th July at the Jubilee Room at the Parliament House in Sydney the NSW Multicultural Health Communication Awards 2009. This week 27 July – 2 August is observed as Multicultural Health Week [...]

Government condemns ethnic-based violence

The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, has recently stressed the government’s position against ethnic and religious-based violence. Senator Evans issued his statement as he extended his sympathy to the Sri Lankan victims of the home invasion and acid attack in Westmead [...]

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