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Nominations are now open for the Victorian Multicultural Awards for Excellence 2024.

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Source: Victorian Multicultural Commission

The Australian Government is pleased to release the report of the Multicultural Framework Review: Towards Fairness - ​a multicultural Australia for all.

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Source: Government of Australia

The Albanese government has named Jewish lawyer and businesswoman Jillian Segal as the county’s first antisemitism special envoy. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the government would also soon appoint an Islamophobia special envoy.

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Source: The Conversation

Australian multiculturalism is being shaken to its core by deepening community tensions and rising levels of hate speech and intimidation, triggered by the humanitarian catastrophes associated with the conflict in Gaza.

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Source: ABC

Victorian men with religious beards have been banned from working as paramedics due to a rigid face mask policy, despite alternative respirators for men of faith being used in other states and countries.

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Source: ABC

Set on the bank of the Port Adelaide River, Harishchandra Ghat will be a designated site for dispersing ashes after cremation, along with other related religious rituals.

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Source: SBS

A new research report looking at ways to reduce barriers to reporting and improve support services for Victorians who experience racism has found that the vast majority of racist incidents in the state go unreported.

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Source: Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria

The deep roots Buddhism has sunk into Korean culture over the past 16 centuries were on display at the annual Lotus Lantern Festival for the Buddha’s birthday.

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Source: NPR