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Enhancing Victoria’s cultural,
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Level 3, 3 Treasury PlaceEast Melbourne VIC 3002
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annual Report 2009-10The 2009-10 Annual Report covers the core
work of the Commission and its achievements
within the context of its objectives and
functions, as outlined in the Multicultural
Victoria Act 2004.
This report can also be viewed online at: www.multicultural.vic.gov.au
Copies of this Annual Report can be obtained
from the Victorian Multicultural Commission:
Telephone (03) 9651 0651Facsimile (03) 9651 0612email [email protected]
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Annual Report 2009-10
chairperson’s report
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letter to the premier ......................................................................3
chairperson’s report .......................................................................4
about the commission enhancing victoria’s cultural, religious and linguistic diversity .............................................6
our role ...............................................................................................6
about the multicultural victoria act 2004 ............................6
our policy framework ....................................................................8
our commissioners .........................................................................9
our staff ...............................................................................................9
expenditure ......................................................................................9
community grants programsupporting and empowering victoria’s community groups ................................................. 10
funding categories ..................................................................... 10
grants administration and assessment ............................... 10
programs and partnerships ...................................................... 10
consultations, committees and community engagementresponding to the needs of our community ................... 13
consultations .................................................................................. 13
advisory /consultative committees ...................................... 13
community engagement .......................................................... 14
promoting harmony initiative fostering understanding and appreciation of diversity .................................................. 18
print and online communications ........................................ 20
awards and receptions............................................................... 21
language services & refugee supportimproving the access and equity for all victorians ..........23
language services ......................................................................... 23
training and development ........................................................ 24
cultural precincts enhancement fundpreserving our heritage for future generations ............. 27
italian precinct (lygon street) .................................................. 27
chinatown precinct (little bourke street) ........................... 27
greek precinct (lonsdale street) ............................................. 27
cultural precincts and community infrastructure fund ..................................................................... 28
joint collaborationspartnering for better outcomes ............................................ 29
appendicescommission meeting attendance register ........................ 33
grants ................................................................................................. 34
multicultural advisory board.................................................... 69
awards for excellence ................................................................ 70
victorian refugee recognition record .................................. 72
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The Hon John Brumby MPPremier of VictoriaMinister for Multicultural Affairs1 Treasury PlaceEAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002
Dear Premier,
In accordance with Section 18 of the Multicultural Victoria Act (2004)I have great pleasure in reporting on the Commission’s operationsfor the period 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010.
Yours sincerely,
George Lekakis CHAIRPERSON
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strength in our diversityEach year the Annual Report is an opportunity to look back on the
achievements of the previous year with an eye to the road ahead.
It is also a chance to reflect on what we stand for and how our
numerous activities, both as a Commission and a community, have
helped to advance the principles of multiculturalism in our State.
We are fortunate that in Victoria these principles are clearly enshrined in law. The groundbreaking Multicultural Victoria Act 2004 reminds us that we are all entitled to mutual respect and understanding, regardless of our background; and it reminds us of our duty to promote and preserve our cultural diversity, to work together and to respect the democratic processes of our society.
It is these values that give purpose, direction and cohesiveness to the myriad of activities that we carry out as the Commission, and through our many partnerships with community groups and government departments.
Broadly, the 12 months between 2009 and 2010 marked a definite year of growth and co-operation that enabled us to build on the solid foundations of multiculturalism in Victoria.
The year brought many challenges and accomplishments, both for the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC) and for multiculturalism in the State of Victoria. It has been an exceptionally busy and rewarding time, not only for the Commission, but also for the thousands of community groups operating in Victoria.
We continued to make a significant whole of government and whole of community contribution to Victoria’s diversity by advancing a number of strategic priorities outlined in All of Us: Victoria’s Multicultural Policy (2009). Collaborative work on these priorities across Government has continued to bear fruit. Whether it was to improve access to services, develop the cultural competence of service staff, reduce racial and religious discrimination, or to support vulnerable members of culturally and linguistically diverse communities (CALD), the commitment and cooperation across government departments has been exemplary.
In July 2009, Victorians stood together and marched side by side in support for multiculturalism, and against racial prejudice and intolerance. The Walk for Harmony, led by the Premier brought together over 10,000 Victorians from diverse backgrounds to
roundly condemn what were isolated, but nonetheless deplorable, acts of violence. The overwhelming show of solidarity sent a strong symbolic message across the country and the world that we are an open society that embraces diversity and strives for harmony.
The official response to these incidents was concrete as well. The Government took specific measures to support international students announcing funding for a 24 hour International Student Care Service, an International Student Welcome Booth at Melbourne Airport, and an Indian International Student Advisory Service. These services have now commenced operations and offer assistance to all of our international students in times of need. I am pleased to report that many clients have already expressed their deep gratitude for the help they have received.
The Commission continued its strong engagement with community organisations, helping them to address their specific needs, because a community’s issues are a society’s concern.
That is why we continued to support and empower communities through promoting unity, delivering on community aspirations, and celebrating diversity, while providing independent, timely and responsive advice to the Government.
The highly anticipated Victorian Awards for Excellence in Multicultural Affairs was again a successful and rewarding event. Each year I am moved by the number of worthy recipients who have been nominated by their communities. The individuals and organisations who received awards developed programs which helped to improve cross-cultural and interreligious harmony in the Victorian community, improved relations between police and Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and raised awareness about the education and settlement needs of migrants and refugees.
Faith leaders met with the Premier of Victoria, John Brumby, late last year to discuss how best to maintain and enhance multifaith and multicultural harmony
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across the State. The Multifaith Leaders Forum was held prior to the Parliament of the World’s Religions, an international, interfaith gathering which was held in Melbourne in December of 2009. The Parliament was an outstanding success, as well as a showcase of our State’s cultural and religious diversity.
The State Budget committed $19.7 million in funding to multicultural communities. This was excellent news and we are hard at work to make sure this funding benefits those who need it the most.
The Victorian Multicultural Commission’s grants program provided financial support to Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse community organisations, providing grants to more than 2,200 such organisations to help them carry out a range of activities which encourage individuals to participate in community life and in wider Victorian society.
Particularly heartening was the increase in the number of grants provided to CALD communities in regional and rural Victoria. The 342 grants in 2009-10 represented a 14% increase on the 299 grants in 2008-09. Promoting the infrastructural and symbolic expression of multiculturalism is also important. That is why this year’s State Budget committed a further $12 million over four years for the Cultural Precincts and Community Infrastructure Fund. The previous Cultural Precincts Enhancement Fund of $10 million is helping to beautify the well-established Little Bourke Street Chinese precinct, the Lygon Street Italian precinct and the Lonsdale Street Greek precinct. The new Cultural Precincts and Community Infrastructure Fund will assist the revitalisation of other important precincts around Victoria, and help communities share their cultural heritage.
Revitalising cultural precincts not only establishes useful community infrastructure but also creates symbolic markers that provide a strong, enduring and visible legacy of the value we give to multiculturalism which generations to come will enjoy.
Collectively these funding initiatives have enabled the VMC to deliver on the needs and aspirations of various community support groups, so that they can in turn contribute to the social, cultural and economic fabric of Victoria and Australia as a whole.
The Commission also made a significant contribution at a national level by chairing and supporting the intergovernmental working party on settlement issues. Through the productive collaboration between jurisdictions – state, territory and commonwealth – the Working Party extensively mapped the current services available and, more importantly, identified where more attention is needed. It is heartening to see progress of this kind on a national scale.
I would like to extend a special thanks to the Premier John Brumby, as well as the Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs,
James Merlino, the Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, Liz Beattie, the VMC Commissioners, the Governor of Victoria, Prof. David de Kretser and the VMC staff for their active engagement and leadership in the promotion of cultural diversity in the State of Victoria. Their combined efforts have produced tangible contributions towards our goal of improving social cohesion for all Victorians.
Continued support and recognition for our culturally diverse society will engender a spirit of co-operation and understanding that will encourage us to aim higher, to dig deeper, and work harder to realise a society where we find comfort in what we have in common and strength in our differences.
Finally, the issues of population and sustainability have come to the fore in public debate. This is welcome; the Commission and I have long called for a comprehensive population policy. However, the Commission has also been clear that such debate should neither invite nor legitimate unsubstantiated and racist views by couching these sentiments in socially progressive terms. Apart from our Indigenous brothers and sisters and their rightful place as the first Australians and custodians of this great land, we are a nation built on the work of migrants and refugees. To deny this fact is to denigrate each and every one of us present now and generations back.
George Lekakis CHAIRPERSON
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our role The VMC is the main link between Victoria’s CALD communities and the Government. Its aim is to support and empower communities, promote unity and understanding, and celebrate Victoria’s diversity. The Commission also provides independent advice to the Government to inform the development of legislative and policy frameworks as well as the delivery of services to our multicultural society.
The Commission operates under the Multicultural Victoria Act 2004, which conveys the Victorian Government’s commitment to recognise and support cultural, religious and linguistic diversity in Victoria and enhance the responsiveness and accountability of government departments in meeting the needs of all Victorians.
The Commission is an Administrative Office aligned to the Department of Premier and Cabinet.
about the Multicultural victoria act 2004The Multicultural Victoria Act 2004 (MVA) enshrines in legislation a preamble and a set of principles that recognise the State’s cultural, religious and linguistic diversity as one of its greatest assets.
In broad terms, this legislation serves as a formal declaration of Victoria’s commitment to diversity and community harmony. It commits all of us to work together to ensure a prosperous and united future in which diversity is respected and cultural heritage preserved, and where all individuals can access opportunities to participate in and contribute to the social, cultural, economic and political life of the State. This is within the overarching framework of abiding by the State’s laws and respecting the democratic processes under which those laws are made.
The MVA makes it a legislative requirement for all Victorian Government departments to annually report to the Minister for Multicultural Affairs on their activities and achievements in relation to multicultural affairs. This includes their use of interpreting and translating services, their communications in languages other than English, the appointment of people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds to government boards and committees, and any other major improvements or initiatives that promote multiculturalism and meet the identified needs of Victoria’s CALD communities.
Mva PreaMble
(1)The Parliament of Victoria recognises and values the cultural, religious, racial and linguistic diversity of the people of Victoria.
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The Parliament of Victoria wishes to promote this State as a united community with shared laws, values, aspirations and responsibilities within which people from a diversity of backgrounds have;
(a)the freedom and opportunity to preserve and express their cultural heritage; and
(b)the freedom and opportunity to participate and contribute to the broader life of society; and
(c) equal rights and responsibilities under the laws of Victoria.
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cultural, religious and linguistic diversity
The Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC) is committed to fostering harmony and
encouraging the full participation of Victoria’s culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse
(CALD) communities in all aspects of life in Victoria.
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“Someone once said that you should never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. If you think about it, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
George lekakis Federation of Chinese Associations, 25 September 2009
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Mva PrinciPles of MulticulturalisM
(1)Parliament recognises that the people of Victoria are united in their shared commitment to—
(a) A democratic framework governed by the rule of law; and
(b)Victoria and Australia and the people, interests and future of Victoria and Australia.
(2)
Parliament further recognises that all Victorians come from diverse cultural, religious, racial and linguistic backgrounds and values the richness that such diversity brings to the Victorian community.
(3)
Parliament supports the obligations of citizenship to which subsection (1) refers and promotes the diversity to which subsection (2) refers by recognising the following principles of multiculturalism—
(a)All individuals in Victoria are entitled to mutual respect and understanding regardless of their cultural, religious, racial and linguistic backgrounds;
(b)
All individuals and institutions in Victoria should promote and preserve diversity and cultural heritage within the context of shared laws, values, aspirations and responsibilities;
(c)
All individuals in Victoria (regardless of background) have shown that they can work together to build a positive and progressive future and this co-operation is to be encouraged so as to enhance Victoria as a great place in which to live, work, invest and raise a family;
(d)All individuals in Victoria are equally entitled to access opportunities and participate in and contribute to the social, cultural, economic and political life of this State;
(e)All individuals in Victoria have a responsibility to abide by the State’s laws and respect the democratic processes under which those laws are made.
This report provides a snapshot of the Commission’s activities and achievements in the 2009-10 financial year within the context of its objectives and functions under the MVA.
our Policy fraMeworkAll of Us: Victoria’s Multicultural Policy was launched in March 2009. The policy demonstrates the belief that a considered and comprehensive multicultural policy framework can deliver benefits to all members of a society. Further, the policy’s name highlights the fact that the term multicultural is relevant to all Victorians and simply describes who we are as a people.
All of Us proudly declares the Victorian Government’s commitment to multiculturalism and outlines a strategic framework for a range of initiatives to support the multicultural affairs portfolio. It aims to strengthen, re-affirm, and promote Victoria’s diversity, and the incredible social, cultural and economic benefits inherent within it.
All of Us is built on a solid legislative framework that’s provided by the landmark Multicultural Victoria Act 2004, the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001 and the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006. A framework that supports
human rights and cultural and religious diversity.All of Us contains four key themes, which affirm
that multiculturalism in Victoria:• advances equality and human rights;• supports our cultural, linguistic and
religious diversity;• fosters unity and promotes community
harmony; and • boosts our economic advantage.
vMc objectives and functions
The VMC’s objectives and functions, as specified in the MVA are:
objectives • to promote full participation by Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the social, cultural, economic and political life of Victoria;
• to promote access by Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse communities to services made available by governments and other bodies;
• to encourage all of Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse communities to retain and express their social identity and cultural inheritance;
• to promote co-operation between bodies concerned with multicultural affairs;
• to promote unity among Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse communities; and
• to promote a better understanding within Victoria of Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
functions • to ensure that the objectives of the Commission are met to the maximum extent that is practicable;
• to investigate, report and make recommendations to the Minister on any aspect of multicultural affairs referred to it by the Minister;
• to advise the Minister on factors inhibiting the development of harmonious community relations and on barriers to the participation of Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the social, cultural, economic and political life of Victoria;
• to consult with relevant bodies and people to determine the needs of Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse communities, including needs in relation to matters covered by any report prepared by the Minister under section 21 (of the MVA); and
• to maintain and further develop harmonious community relations between all relevant groups in the context of Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse society.
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our coMMissioners
The VMC comprises of 12 dedicated Commissioners who act as an important conduit between communities and the Commission.
Our Commissioners have a sound understanding of the issues affecting multicultural communities and are actively involved, regularly attending community events and playing a vital role in building networks and liaison between different community and faith groups.
commissioners Mr George Lekakis (Chairperson) Mr Hakan Akyol (Deputy Chairperson) Ms Elleni Bereded-Samuel Mr Joseph Caputo Dr Stanley ChiangMs Elizabeth Drozd Ms Samar MougharbelMs Hang Thi-Bich Nguyen Dr Linda Sydor Petkovic Ms Marcia Pinskier S Jagdeep Singh Shergill Mr Yasser Soliman
The Commission meets regularly to discuss issues of importance to Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities. The Commission also promotes the views of the community on a range of boards and committees and at national forums.
The Commission held eight meetings between July 2009 and June 2010 (See Appendix 1).
During the reporting period, Commissioners continued to participate in community functions, consultations, events, conferences and seminars. In 2009-10, the Commissioners collectively attended more than 600 community engagements.
our staffDuring the year the Commissioners were supported by dedicated staff who worked closely
with the Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson and Commissioners to ensure that the VMC performed its legislative functions and achieved its core objectives. As at 30 June 2010 the Commission’s staff totalled 38 people, including the staff in the newly established International Student Care Service.
exPenditure
Salaries and on costs 3,116,379
Operating expenses* 2,356,574
Community Grants ** 10,610,961
total*** 16,083,914
*The increase in operating expenditure in 2009-10 in comparison to 2008-09 is reflective of corporate overheads. Prior to 2009-10, the VMC’s corporate overhead costs were reported separately in the relevant department’s audited accounts.
**Includes grants under the Community Grants Program, Language Services Strategy, Cultural Precincts Enhancement Fund, Refugee Action Program, Promoting Harmony Initiative and the International Student Care Service.
***Total expenditure consists of annual Departmental appropriation and external funding sources, such as the Community Support Fund and other Government Department transfers.
front row froM left Ms Marcia Pinskier, Mr Hakan Akyol, Mr George Lekakis, Ms Hang Nguyen.back row froM left Dr Linda Sydor Petkovic, Ms Samar Mourgharbel, Ms Elizabeth Drozd, Mr Yasser Soliman, Dr Stanley Chiang, Mr Joseph Caputo, Ms Elleni Bereded-Samuel. (Absent S Jagdeep Shergill)
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The Commission’s support helps meet the diverse needs of ethnic communities, promote community cohesion and strengthen the capacity of communities to sustain their organisations, programs and events, through which they are able to participate more effectively within the broader community.
fundinG cateGories The Community Grant Program has six categories focussing on those areas of greatest need as identified by the Commission in consultation with the community.
• Organisational Support grants provide financial assistance for the general costs associated with running community organisations (Appendix 2a);
• Senior Citizens grants support multicultural senior citizens clubs to hold regular social and community strengthening activities (Appendix 2b);
• Buildings and Facilities Improvement grants assist ethnic community organisations to undertake minor upgrades to buildings that they own (Appendix 2c);
• Educational Program grants support Victoria’s after hours community language schools, co-funded by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (Appendix 2d);
• Multifaith/Interfaith grants support a range of initiatives that aim to promote multifaith and multicultural harmony. The grants promote understanding about the diversity of faiths within Victoria, assist in the establishment of new interfaith
networks or help build the capacity of existing networks (Appendix 2e);
• Strengthening Multicultural Communities grants support community organisations to undertake projects that address the unmet needs of Victoria’s CALD communities. Priority is given to projects that develop the capacity of new and emerging communities, provide assistance to migrant and refugee women and youth or document the contribution of migrants and refugees to Victoria (Appendix 2f).
• Multicultural Festivals and Events grants support major festivals, conferences and special community events that aim to encourage participation by the whole community in celebrating and valuing our cultural diversity (Appendix 2g).
Grants adMinistration and assessMentThe Commission received more than 3,300 applications through the three separate funding rounds during the year. The applications were assessed by a funding sub-committee of Commissioners, who judged the applications on their merit, the quality of the expected outcomes and the relevance to program guidelines. Recommendations were subsequently made to the Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs. The sub-committee consisted of: VMC Commissioners Bereded-Samuel, Bich, Drozd, Mougharbel, Pinskier and Soliman.
Regular grants information sessions were also conducted throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria to ensure that all communities have been provided with the opportunity to access the community grants program.
ProGraMs and PartnershiPsThe Commission was pleased to support many new projects throughout Victoria, with the following highlighting the scope and diversity of some of the funded projects: • The Darfur Australia Network’s Internship Program,
enabling members of the Darfur community to gain working knowledge and skills through the completion of various projects and programs.
supporting and empowering Victoria’s
community groupsIn 2009-10, the Commission distributed more than $4.6 million in grants to 2,200 organisations
representing Victorian migrants from more than 100 different backgrounds.
THrouGH THE CoMMuNiTY GrANTS ProGrAM, THE CoMMiSSioN:
• processed more than 2,650 individual grants
• delivered a highly accessible, client-focused and quality service to Victoria’s multicultural communities; and
• assisted groups to retain and celebrate their cultural heritage by supporting local festivals and events.
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George lekakis book launch Living our Heritage, 20 February, 2010
“The Commission supports various programs, events and festivals that encourage inter-cultural and inter-faith dialogue because we believe that sharing and communicating is an opportunity to dissolve some of the social barriers that can unnecessarily divide us. ”
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• Somali Women's Community Enterprise Project was initiated which brings together Somali women and a local hospitality team to establish a catering enterprise - equipping women with the skills and confidence to operate a community company.
• The Frankston Multicultural Community Network was established to represent the interests of
Frankston's CALD community and provide channels of communication between CALD groups, council and key agencies.
• The Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo, produced a local history catalogue book documenting its rare and ornate 1880’s and 1890’s Processional Regalia Collection.
• Indian International Student Advisory Centre, voluntary support provided to Indian international students who pursue academic goals in Victoria. Regular workshops prepared students for the workplace and enabled them to realise their academic goals.
• The Afghani Women Social Support Group celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr with newly arrived Afghan, Iraqi women and children - enjoying traditional music, ethnic food and native dance.
• The Antipodes Festival Annual festival of Greek culture - a two day street festival, two week cultural arts festival and an internationally recognised Greek film festival.
• The 18th Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence was celebrated at Federation Square with traditional dance, song, music, food, beverages and an art exhibition.
• The first ever Croatian film festival in Australia - showcasing approximately 12 films in Melbourne's CBD, allowing the public the opportunity to experience Croatian culture through film.
• A celebration of Scottish culture in Australia was staged through the Glenmaggie Scottish Folk Festival - a day of singing, dancing, piping, poetry, literature and story telling was enjoyed by all.
• A twilight Community Football Festival was organised by the New Hope Foundation with teams from new and emerging communities, the Victoria Police and a representative team made up of ex-professional players.
CASE STUDY Oromo FestivalOromo people from across Australia congregated on Sunday 20 December at Federation Square to celebrate and commemorate the beauty of Oromo culture. Oromia @ Federation Square was organised by the Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria in conjunction with Melbourne Oromo Youth Association. This VMC funded event was a jam-packed cultural
extravaganza highlighting Oromo cultural practice. The performances began with a dove being released in a ceremony to celebrate freedom and independence. Traditional dance medleys, wedding re-enactments, hip-hop performances, a live band and children’s entertainment all provided the crowd with a taste of Oromo culture and helped celebrate the Australian Oromo community’s 25th anniversary.
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Each year the Commission actively facilitates many forums to encourage grassroots discussion and information exchange with multicultural communities. In 2009-10 the Commission continued to keep the Government abreast of community concerns by seeking community input on the needs of Victoria’s multicultural communities.
The success of multiculturalism in Victoria must in part be attributed to the strong relationship between the Victorian Government and CALD community organisations and peak bodies.
As part of its core business, the Commission coordinates ongoing consultative and advisory structures, including the VMC Advisory Council, Standing Committee on Local Government and Cultural Diversity, Multifaith Advisory Group and the Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network, to ensure the collaborative relationships that are forged with CALD community organisations, networks and peak bodies continues to generate discussion and advice on issues that have currency in the broader Victorian community.
The Commission uses a variety of measures to enable community voices to be heard and advocated for through advisory committees, public consultations, forums and delegations.
consultationsAnnually, the Commission issues an open invitation to community leaders representing culturally and linguistically diverse Victorians to attend a series of community consultations across metropolitan and rural and regional areas.
In August 2009 the Commission facilitated 10 state-wide consultations across Victoria. The consultations provided the public with the opportunity to give feedback on the Victorian Government’s performance in multicultural affairs outlined in the 2007-08 Achievements in Multicultural Affairs Report.
Attendance at these consultations by community leaders and service providers, including representatives from peak bodies, ethnic organisations, mainstream services, CALD communities and state, local and federal government. The consultations provided an opportunity for issues to be raised with a view toimproving outcomes for CALD communities.
A critical part of this process is the follow up work the Commission completes to address and wherever possible seek a resolution to specific issues raised at the consultations with relevant departments and agencies. In return we advise individuals or groups of the steps we have undertaken to achieve an outcome as quickly as possible.
The 2008-09 Achievements in Multicultural Affairs Report was tabled in Parliament on 24 June 2010 and will form the basis of the state-wide consultations for 2010. It is available to the public at www.multicultural.vic.gov.au.
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standing committee on local Government and cultural diversityThe Standing Committee on Local Government and Cultural Diversity enables Councils to share examples of best practice, innovation and leadership in promoting and fostering multiculturalism, social cohesion and community harmony within their locality.
THE CoMMiSSioN CoNTiNuED To ENGAGE THE CoMMuNiTY THrouGHouT 2009-10 BY:
• processing more than 2.650 individual grants;
• delivering on its commitment to hold at least 60 community consultations throughout Victoria to address the needs and concerns of multicultural communities;
• meeting with representatives from community organisations individually to address their specific needs and concerns; and
• maintaining its ‘open Door’ policy to community representatives.
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our communityOne of the key strengths of the Commission’s work is our ability to engage and consult with
community leaders, all levels of Government and organisations on issues affecting Victoria’s
culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
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The Standing Committee provides a platform for harnessing information, networking, and engaging in policy discussion regarding some of the settlement and support issues migrants and people from refugee backgrounds face in local areas. The Committee consists of 33 representatives from 20 Victorian councils and seven organisations from the local government sector.
In 2009-10, four meetings were held where participants exchanged ideas and strategies to employ in the local government sector which could facilitate greater responsiveness to culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse communities in Victoria.
The increasing diversity of a number of local government areas (LGAs) across Victoria was a particular focus. Representatives from these local councils discussed the challenges and complexities of a rapidly changing CALD community. For example, the shortage of affordable housing for new arrivals, support for international students and the provision of language services particularly in rural locations.
Ministerial council on immigration and Multicultural affairs (MciMa) & standing committee on immigration and Multicultural affairs (sciMa)In 2009-10 the Commission continued to provide policy input into cross jurisdictional structures such as the Ministerial Council on Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (MCIMA) & Standing Committee on Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (SCIMA).
The annual MCIMA meetings provide an opportunity for the Ministers with portfolio responsibility for multicultural affairs in each jurisdiction to submit items for discussion and resolution pertaining to immigration and multicultural affairs in a national forum.
The Commission provides support and advice to the Victorian Minister at these meetings, which are chaired by the Commonwealth Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and attended by ministerial representatives from governments of each Australian State and Territory as well as New Zealand and the Australian Local Government Association.
The 2009 MCIMA meeting took place in Canberra and featured discussion on the implications for States and Territories of various facets of the Australian Government’s migration planning framework, immigration and settlement policy.
The Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs represented the Victorian Government and presented the report of the Working Party on Settlement Issues which makes suggestions to improve the successful integration of permanent and temporary entrants into Australian society, including provision of translating and interpreting services. The Council resolved that Victoria lead the work in collating evidence from all jurisdictions
to form a comprehensive National Catalogue of Settlement Services.
In addition, the Commission actively participates at the biannual SCIMA meetings. It is at these senior officials’ forums that much of the planning and deliberations that form the basis of the MCIMA meetings take place.
At the SCIMA meetings in 2009-10, Victoria led discussions about steps we are taking to improve the wellbeing of international students in Australia, and ensure that their experience of studying and living here is a positive one. Victoria also argued for the development of a set of national guidelines for the use of language aides in government and funded services to assist clients with low English language proficiency. Victoria also advocated for the importance of a comprehensive approach to responding to the unique health needs of refugees.
coMMunity enGaGeMentThe VMC also coordinates ongoing consultative structures, including the VMC Advisory Council, Multifaith Advisory Group and the Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network.
vMc advisory councilThe VMC Advisory Council continued its important role, supporting the Commission by facilitating dialogue regarding issues concerning multiculturalism and Victoria’s diverse communities.
The Council, which commenced its work in 2007, has approximately 30 members. The size and breadth of its membership provides the Commission with multiple perspectives and a means to circulate important information among grass-roots and non-government organisations.
Groups represented on the Council include cultural and faith-based groups, service providers, educational institutions, health services and local government.
During 2009-10, the Council provided feedback on initiatives the Commission was working on, as well as bringing its attention to a range of issues as they arose throughout the State. These included:• providing input to the National Working Party
on Settlement Issues;• identifying the challenges and improvements
in the provision of language services;• focusing on the settlement issues facing
international students;• highlighting some of the difficulties facing migrants
and refugees regarding employment, housing, and discrimination; and
• contributing to whole of government policy and program implementation discussions for mental health, young people and ageing.
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“At the VMC we also enhance the government’s understanding of the importance of Victoria’s multicultural community through advisory and consultative representation.”
George lekakis Southern CALD Network forum, 15 October 2009
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Multifaith advisory GroupThe Multifaith Advisory Group (MAG) was established in January 2008 as an outcome of the Premier’s Multifaith Leaders Forum in October 2007 and as part of the Victorian Government’s commitment to ongoing dialogue with Victoria’s faith leaders.
The MAG is made up of approximately 25 senior faith representatives who provide advice to the Government via the VMC on issues of interest and concern to faith communities and opportunities and strategies to promote community harmony in Victoria. The MAG has enabled strong and sustained consultation between the Government and our diverse faith communities on a range of issues.
On Sunday 12 July, MAG members mobilised diverse faith communities to demonstrate their support of cultural diversity at the Walk for Harmony through Melbourne’s Central Business District. Approximately 10,000 people, including a range of community and religious leaders, took part in the Walk to condemn racial and religious discrimination and violence.
In June, MAG members released a joint statement to the media on behalf of Victoria’s faith communities. The statement noted that “an attack on anyone is an attack on all of us and undermines our shared humanity”. The MAG affirmed in its statement that Victoria and Australia were not racist societies and that the overwhelming majority of Australians welcomed both migrants and visitors “knowing that their presence enriches us culturally, economically and spiritually”. The MAG called on Victorians to stand up and to speak out collectively against racism.
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in February 2010 the Commission facilitated a community consultation with more than 40 participants from indian community organisations and peak associations to discuss the welfare and settlement circumstances of indian students in Victoria. Participants identified practical strategies to improve student safety, international education and student support, employment assistance, and community harmony. This consultation provided invaluable insights into the experiences of indian students living in Victoria and contributed to the Government’s efforts to improve the wellbeing outcomes of this community.
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toP The Premier of Victoria John Brumby with members of the Multicultural Multifaith Youth Network. centre Community members attend the Melbourne community consultations. above Commissioner James Knaggs, Salvation Army, George Lekakis, VMC Chairperson, rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant, rabbinical Council of Victoria at the Multifaith Leaders Forum.
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Multifaith Multicultural youth networkThe Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network (MMYN) comprises 25 young people representing a diverse range of faiths, cultures, ages, and life experiences. In 2009-10, the MMYN continued its activities for a third term with 15 new young people recruited to join.
The MMYN met with the Premier and Minister for Multicultural Affairs, John Brumby, in November
2009 to highlight to him their work and their views on a range of issues. The MMYN also regularly meets with the Minister Assisting the Premier, James Merlino MP and provides two reports annually to the Premier and Minister Merlino.
In addition, members of the MMYN: • Participated on the Parliament of the World’s
Religions Youth Committee in December 2009;• Attended a community forum as part of an
inquiry into the impact of violence on young Australians conducted by the Standing Committee on Family, Community, Housing and Youth in February 2010; and
• Organised a state-wide youth forum in Swan Hill in April 2010 implemented jointly with the Victorian Multicultural Commission, Office for Youth and Aboriginal Affairs Victoria on the theme of ‘Identity and Place’.
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The Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network (MMYN) travelled to Bendigo South East College in May to teach students about the many faiths practised in Victoria. The day began with a quick quiz to test students’ knowledge of the diversity of faith and cultural communities that reside in Victoria. MMYN members of six faiths (Christianity, Buddhism, islam, Judaism, Sikhism and Hindu spirituality) spoke about their personal experience of their faith as well as general facts on the faith: its history, holy days, tenets and daily practice. Students were encouraged to share their understanding and thoughts of the particular faith and were given an opportunity to taste Challah (traditional Jewish bread), inspect rosary beads and a Sikh “kirpan” (sacred sword), and even try on a turban.
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“There is an abundance of activity to promote multifaith and multicultural harmony that is ongoing, driven by the necessity to make connections and increase understanding between people and communities.”
George lekakis Australian Intercultural Society Ramadan Iftar dinner, 14 September 2009
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The Government continued to build on its significant investment in promoting harmony through an additional commitment of $2 million over two years in the 2009 Victorian State Budget. This investment augmented the VMC’s capacity to extend out to more communities and to support a greater range of initiatives and partnerships. It has firmly positioned Victoria as a leader in multicultural affairs, nationally.
The initiatives covered regional and rural Victoria as well as Melbourne, worked across many faith communities and across young people and seniors. Some of the initiatives supported through this additional investment were:
• Working with Jewish communities to help tell the story of Jewish settlement and identity in Melbourne to other Victorians.
• Opening the doors of places of worship around Victoria to local communities to help them better understand different faiths.
• Interfaith and Intercultural dialogue in Victorian schools to promote the values of respect, understanding and inclusion between students of all backgrounds and beliefs. As part of this, the Building Bridges Program run by The Wellspring Centre received significant support to expand its work in Victorian schools.
• Partnering with Muslim communities to showcase achievements and diversity within the community. The You Am I exhibition at the Hume Global Learning Centre invited Victorians to take a closer look at some of the outstanding achievements of young Victorian artists of Muslim faith – showcasing a diversity of contemporary artistic talent across a wide range of mediums including photography, print, graphic design, poetry and sculpture.
• Producing the education resource kit, All of Us: Multicultural Perspectives in Victorian Schools to provide teachers with a practical guide for assisting students to explore and understand cultural diversity and the values and practices common to
‘all of us’. The resource consists of activities and suggestions for embedding multicultural and global education within the Victorian Essential Learning domains and cross-curriculum perspectives including values education, Asia education and global education.
Through the Promoting Harmony Initiative the Commission seeks to promote, enhance and secure harmony and social cohesion in the Victorian community and counter the risk of racial and religious vilification, social isolation and exclusion. It also strengthens and reaffirms Victoria’s reputation as a welcoming and harmonious society for all of us.
As well as these strategic partnerships with various communities, faith leaders, young people and schools, the Promoting Harmony Initiative has also enabled the VMC to continue to engage with the broader Victorian community through participating state-wide festivals and community education and awareness campaigns.
cultural diversity weekEach year during Cultural Diversity Week, the VMC funds hundreds of events that take place as schools,
fostering understanding andappreciation of diversityThe Commission is committed to promoting the benefits of our rich cultural, linguistic and
religious diversity to all Victorians. The Victorian Government has a strong commitment to
ensuring Victoria remains an inclusive multifaith and multicultural society that is respectful
of diversity.
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the victorian Multicultural coMMission used its wide-reachinG coMMunication network to: • Promote mutual respect and understanding of
diversity through campaigns and targeted activities.
• inform and connect multicultural communities, including in regard to developments in government relevant to multicultural affairs via publications, online resources and media announcements;
• Celebrate Victoria’s cultural, linguistic and religious diversity through a series of local and major events.
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“The Victorian government is determined to make sure our State continues to be a place of genuine opportunity for all, where people feel safe and welcome.”
George Lekakis Opening of FIAV Offices, 19 February 2010
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community groups, libraries, local councils and private companies take the opportunity to focus on the wonderful diversity Victoria offers.
Cultural Diversity Week ran from 14-21 March 2010 and kicked off with a free multicultural festival at Federation Square. Viva Victoria attracted more than 40,000 people and turned Federation Square into a colourful and lively display of music, dance, art and food stalls. Festival-goers enjoyed a range of dynamic performances across two stages, ranging from an interactive tango workshop, drumming from the Cook Islands, a Mexican mariachi band, to music from popular bands Sol Nation and Public Opinion Afro Orchestra. Viva also provided a showcase for talented local artists and designers in the world market area, with almost 20 market stalls offering unique and quality art and crafts. Roving performers, face-painting, story-telling and workshops kept children entertained throughout the day.
A popular fixture on the Cultural Diversity Week calendar, the Black Harmony Gathering at the Fairfield Ampitheatre was also an important and inspirational event, providing a platform for established and emerging artists to perform, and engendering a spirit of positive engagement and mutual support across a range of community groups. During the Week, English language students from new and emerging communities were treated to a day out at Werribee Open Range Zoo and school students and teachers were recognised for their efforts and creativity at the Quest Awards held at Parliament House on Thursday 18 March. Regional Victoria also offered its communities a chance to celebrate with many events .
royal Melbourne showThe Commission took part in the ‘Community’ section of the Government Pavilion at the Royal Melbourne Show from the 17-27 September. This was the first time the VMC hosted a stand at the Show and the response was very positive. More than 15,000
visitors passed through the Victorian Government Pavilion each day and participated in the interactive activities, including Chinese calligraphy workshops, African drumming classes and story time for children, as well as gaining knowledge on the work of the Victorian Government with regard to multicultural affairs and the diversity of the Victorian community. VMC staff attended to visitors’ enquiries and distributed information on the work of the Commission.
Parliament of the world’s religionsThe Commission worked with PWR organisers to ensure the delivery of an engaging and diverse program at the event which was held from 3-9 December 2009 in Melbourne. The theme of the PWR was ‘Make a World of Difference: hearing each other, healing the Earth’. More than 5,000 participants attended approximately 450 events, including conferences, debates, symposia, concerts and exhibitions.
The PWR was run collaboratively by the local board of PWR Melbourne 2009 and the Council for the Parliament of the World’s Religions (CPWR) – a US-based interreligious organisation that cultivates harmony between the world’s religious and spiritual communities and fosters their engagement with the world to achieve a vision of a peaceful, just and sustainable world. The Deputy Chairperson of the Commission, Hakan Akyol and Commissioner Yasser Soliman were members of the PWR (Melbourne) Board.
Print and online coMMunicationsThe Commission uses a range of communications tools to keep the public informed and aware of issues regarding multicultural affairs in Victoria.
PrintThe VMC produces many print publications each year, including the quarterly Multicultural Victoria
left to riGht VMC Publications:All of Us, Multicultural Victoriamagazine, VMC Annual report2008-09 and the Whole ofGovernment report 2008-09.
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magazine, a free 40-page magazine distributed to 5000 subscribers. This is a valuable resource for libraries, community groups and government agencies to not only follow the work of the Commission, but also be informed about community activities and events, as well as wider Government programs and initiatives. Publications printed in 2009-10 included:• Annual report 2008-2009;• Multicultural Victoria magazine (issues 29,30,31,32);• Whole of Government Report 2008/2009; and• All of Us: Multicultural perspectives in Victorian
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onlineThe VMC website (www.multicultural.vic.gov.au) was redeveloped in 2009-10 and continues to be an important communications resource, providing regular updates on issues of importance for community groups, as well as advertising community and government events and activities. The redeveloped website has seen an increase of 61% in traffic since the 2008-2009 financial year.It comprises six sections:• About Us – legislation and the Commission• Grants – information on how to apply for funding• Population and Migration – statistical information• Projects and Initiatives – information on VMC
projects• All of Us – All of Us policy, campaign, resource kit• Resources – publications, news, event calendar
The VMC e-newsletter was redeveloped as the VMC Update and is now received by 2,700 subscribers. This is an increase of 20% on the previous year, due largely to the convenience of subscribing electronically via the new VMC website.
awards and recePtionsFunctions and events hosted by the Commission provided opportunities for Victorians from diverse backgrounds and representing a range of ethnicities and religions to come together to be acknowledged for their individual or collective contribution to the wellbeing of our State.
In acknowledging the achievements and contributions made by migrants and refugees, the Commission hopes to encourage greater awareness and respect for our cultural diversity.
victoria’s awards for excellence in Multicultural affairsThe 7th Victoria’s Multicultural Awards for Excellence were held on 26 November 2009. The Awards program, which was established by the Commission in 2002, recognises and rewards the contribution of individuals and organisations in the promotion of Victoria’s multicultural harmony.
toP The redeveloped VMC website. above The VMC update, electronic newsletter.
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The nine award categories are:• Award for Meritorious Service in the Community • Premier’s Award for Community Harmony • Business Corporate Award • Service Delivery to Multicultural Victoria Awards • Victorian Multicultural Commission
Ambassador Award • Victorian Multicultural Commission Media Award • Police and Community Multicultural Advisory
Committee Award • Victorian Multicultural Education Award • Local Government Award
The Awards were assessed by the Victorian Multicultural Awards for Excellence Sub-Committee. The Police and Community Multicultural Awards and the Victorian Multicultural Education Awards were received and assessed by the respective departments.
Awards were presented to 206 successful candidates at Government House by the Governor of Victoria, Professor David de Kretser, and the Premier of Victoria, John Brumby, Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, James Merlino, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, Liz Beattie and Chief Commissioner of Police, Simon Overland also presented awards to successful candidates. For a full list of Award recipients see Appendix 3.
victorian refugee recognition record Each year, the Victorian Government seeks nominations from across Victoria to formally recognise the invaluable contribution refugees voluntarily make to the community. The VRRR is an important event on the state’s calendar and this year was no exception.
On 17 June 2010 20 recipients were added to the VRRR in a ceremony at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre. Each recipient was presented with a certificate by the Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, James Merlino. The recipients were recognised for having overcome personal hardship to help others through their involvement in various voluntary programs and community support services.
These included running youth camps; facilitating Iraqi men’s discussion groups on their experiences; running a mentoring program at Flemington Neighbourhood House; helping new arrivals settle into life in Australia; and the ‘Building La Nouvelle Generation’ program, which develops leadership ability and provides real-life experiences and skills for young Africans living in Victoria.
The VMC also invited photography students from RMIT to create a photographic record of the recipients. This project connects students with the community and helps to share the story of each of the
VRRR recipients with the wider Victorian community. For a full list of the recipients see Appendix 5.
Premier’s community receptionsThe Premier’s receptions provide an opportunity to formally acknowledge the contribution of individual communities to the State of Victoria. In 2009-10, the Commission coordinated the following receptions that were hosted by the Premier: • Ethnic Broadcasters (3ZZZ) - 27 July 2009• Indonesia - 17 August 2009• India - 26 October 2009• Greek - 24 March 2010• Polish - 29 March 2010
toP Day at the Werribee Zoo, Cultural Diversity Week. above Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, James Merlino with Vrrr recipients 2010.
CASE STUDY Walk for Harmonyon 12 July, the Premier of Victoria John Brumby led fellow Victorians through the streets of Melbourne on the Walk for Harmony to reaffirm to the world Victoria’s strong support for multiculturalism and cultural diversity. More than 10,000 people met at the Carlton Gardens and walked along Swanston St to Federation Square. The Walk for Harmony received significant media coverage and sent a message that Victoria is harmonious, embraces diversity and is a safe place to live. Similar walks were also held in locations across the state, including Great Western, Shepparton and Mildura.
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There are over 200 languages and dialects spoken in Victoria ranging from Italian, Mandarin, Spanish and Vietnamese, to Dari and Hazaragi – languages spoken in Afghanistan – and Dinka and Nuer – languages widely spoken in the Horn of Africa. With such linguistic diversity in Victoria, it is vital that interpreting and translation services are available to Victorians unable to effectively communicate in English.
In a multicultural society such as ours, language should never be a barrier to accessing information and services. We have worked hard this year to ensure this goal is realised through the provision of numerous language service initiatives. Interpreting and translation services improve outcomes for both service providers and for people who do not speak English well or at all.
The Language Services Strategy, established in 2002, has been pivotal in strengthening the quality and supply of interpreters in Victoria and servicing the language services needs of our community. We are proud that to date over one hundred projects have been completed under the strategy.
The VMC continues to seek industry and sector advice on matters relating to the provision of language services in Victoria through the Translating and Interpreting External Advisory Group. The Advisory Group contributes to key policy discussions on issues such as language aides, new and emerging languages in Victoria, interpreter workforce development and planning for professional development training. The Advisory Group also provides a valuable opportunity for the exchange of information on language services between key stakeholders and government agencies in Victoria.
Key achievements in 2009-10 included:• The VMC Interpreter Scholarship Program which
is now in its eighth year. Since the inception of the program a total of 224 scholarships have been
awarded, in 14 languages. This year, 32 students were assisted in gaining the necessary skills to become interpreters through studying the RMIT Diploma of Interpreting in Karen and Nuer.
• The Bilingual Staff at The Women’s – Language Aide Pilot Project, a partnership between the VMC and The Royal Women’s Hospital. This project is a positive example of a progressive organisation capitalising on its linguistic diversity and promoting the strengths of its workforce. The project investigates new ways to improve communication with patients at The Women’s utilising the bilingual skills of the hospital staff for simple, non-clinical communication.
• The VMC worked with Monash University to develop and deliver the Professional Development and Internship Program (Translating and Interpreting). The program addresses a need to provide professional development opportunities to practising translators and interpreters in specific areas including community, legal and health domains. The content of the program was developed in consultation with key government departments and agencies to ensure consistency with Government policy and relevance to the needs of service providers. In 2009-10 a total of 106 interpreters and translators chose to increase their professional knowledge and skills through the program. A number of grants were provided by VMC and VITS LanguageLink to assist professionals with this pursuit.
• A Regional Interpreter Skills Course for speakers of new and emerging languages was developed and delivered by Monash University to 19 students in Shepparton. The program aimed to introduce participants to the basic techniques and skills of interpreting and to increase the number of skilled interpreters in emerging languages in regional Victoria.
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for all VictoriansDuring the 2009-10 financial year the Commission undertook a variety of projects and programs
designed to improve access by CALD communities to services provided by government and
other bodies. The Commission has also continued its work to reduce barriers to the participation
of Victoria’s diverse cultural and faith communities in all aspects of life in Victoria.
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working effectively with interpretersThe Working Effectively with Interpreters training program aims to improve the quality and supply of interpreters available to government service providers. As more skilled and qualified interpreters enter the workforce, it is important that staff at government and funded agencies be provided with professional development opportunities so that they make best use of this valuable resource and know how to work with interpreters to best effect.
More than 550 employees across the Victorian Public Service have participated in training developed and delivered by the VMC in 2009-10 that provides participants with the context for the use of interpreter services from a legislative and policy perspective and also from a service delivery perspective. Participants are encouraged to explore situations that occur within their own workplaces in which an accredited interpreter “may”, “should” and “must” be used and are given an opportunity to practice the fundamental skills that result in effective communication through an interpreter.
cultural competence in Professional Practice for Maternal and child health professionalsThe VMC was approached by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to develop training that goes beyond overcoming linguistic barriers between service providers and clients and into the realm of cross-cultural understanding. This two-year project, involves the design, delivery and evaluation of a cultural competence training program for Maternal and Child Health professionals across Victoria. It aims to provide an opportunity for participants to explore the notion of culture, and gain an insight into how cultural backgrounds may affect a professional’s engagement with his or her client.
Development of the program has involved consultation with maternal and child health nurses around Victoria, the establishment of a project reference group and the delivery of five pilot programs in the City of Yarra, Cardinia, Shepparton, Mildura and Swan Hill, and Dandenong. The training package is due to be delivered from September 2010.
cald women’s leadership ProjectThe Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Women’s Leadership Project was implemented as a joint initiative between the Victorian Government’s Multicultural and Women’s Affairs portfolios.
Through a leadership training program, CALD Women’s Leadership Network and ongoing support, the Project equips women from CALD backgrounds
with the knowledge, skills and resources to seek formal leadership positions both in their local communities and the wider Victorian community.
The Project commenced in 2009 through a partnership between the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health and Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities’ Council in Mildura.
Key project activities included the development of best practice strategies that encourage CALD women into leadership positions; expanding CALD women’s awareness of leadership opportunities; increasing CALD women’s skills and take up of leadership roles and responsibilities; and developing resources and networks that enable CALD women to have access to leadership opportunities.
Through this initiative, the Victorian Government hopes to reinforce the importance of ensuring all Victorians have equal opportunities to participate in the social, economic and political life of Victoria.
refugee brokerage / refugee action ProgramsIn partnership with key agencies and communities from a refugee background across Victoria, the Commission’s work on the Refugee Action Program (RAP) has met with success in a wide range of service support areas throughout the State.
The RAP has built on the successes of the Refugee Brokerage Program (RBP) which operated from 2005-06 until 2008-09. In 2009-10 the VMC completed an Expression of Interest process to assess organisations interested in participating in the RAP.
The RAP incorporates several adaptations recommended by the evaluation of the RBP, including broader regions to encourage local collaboration amongst providers, and a longer funding period for partner organisations to foster longer-term community planning and initiatives and enhance community sustainability.
The state-wide program provides vital support to Victoria’s recently arrived refugee and humanitarian entrants. The RAP empowers communities to:• more fully participate in and engage with their local
communities;• access existing services;• identify local issues and concerns;• plan tailored, community-owned responses; and• enhance local capacity and improve settlement
outcomes.
The RAP operates across seven regions within Melbourne and Victoria, funding eight individual partnerships. The program employs a partnership approach between funded agencies and communities to design community-identified and driven projects aimed at building local capacity and sustainability. As one participant noted, “it’s a wonderful program
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because it’s like giving a hook to someone to fish for himself, rather than giving him fish.”
One of the many successes of the RAP is the Chin/Karen women’s conversational English class and children’s playgroup. Chin and Karen women, originally from Burma, frequently arrive in Australia with little or no English; few job skills; and minimal education. Many of the women are fearful of the outside world, having seen the worst come from the very people who should protect the rights of civilians: police, the military, and government officials. This fear, compounded by their traditional role as a caregiver to children, leads many to settle into a life of isolation within their own homes.
The English class and playgroup has given many of the most isolated women the incentive and courage to take that critical (and most difficult) first step out the door. Each week the class and playgroup gives these women and their children an opportunity to socialise, learn English and engage with the outside world.
Today, these women are able to leave their homes without fear, and are better able to connect with the broader community and the range of programs and services available to assist their settlement into the Victorian community.
The recent event organised and hosted by the Ogaden community is another examples of the work of the RAP. Since members of the Ogaden community – which is Somali-speaking but comes from a region spanning sections of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya – first started arriving in Australia some years ago, it has remained largely isolated and unknown. Upon engaging with the RAP, the foremost priority of the community was to build better, stronger relationships with service providers, the Victorian Government and the broader Victorian community.
To this end, the RAP enabled the community to plan, organise, and carry out a community event that attracted government officials, service providers, and members of the Victorian community. The event was a chance for Ogaden community members to tell their story and make their voice heard for the first time. The event has put the community on the map, and has given community leaders the necessary linkages and relationships to pursue community priorities into the future.
Regional Interpreter Skills CourseThrough VMC funding and support,16 people from Shepparton are on their way to providing interpreting services for languages including Dari, Hazaragi, Dinka and Nuer, widely spoken in Afghanistan and in the Horn of Africa. The regional interpreter Skills Course is designed to offer students a pathway to the interpreting industry and is in response to a need to address interpreter shortages in regional Victoria. The group of 16 people who undertook the course were recognised and congratulated
at a ceremony held at Shepparton ACE College on June 19 2010. The five-week introductory interpreter course was designed and delivered by Monash university and Shepparton ACE College was engaged to provide project management and links to the local community. This fully-subsidised program targeted speakers of languages which are recognised by the Victorian Government as being in short supply for interpreting services.
“The hard work, resilience and enthusiasm of Victoria’s refugee community is truly inspirational.”
George lekakis launch Humanitarian Crisis Hub, 12 November 2009
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international student care serviceThe International Student Care Services (ISCS) was established to support international students facing crisis situations while they are studying in Victoria. It is available through a 24 hour helpline as well as a 9.00am to 5.00pm drop-in centre in Carlton, Melbourne.
Since the ISCS was launched by the Premier in January 2010, the service has supported hundreds of international students through supported referrals, welfare assistance and general enquiries.
Students often come forward with complex issues ranging from legal matters, emergency accommodation, food aid and other material support.
In its six month of existence, the ISCS has developed a strong network with Victoria Police, crisis support agencies and other key local agencies, to provide supported referrals to international students in the areas of counselling, legal and welfare assistance.
An example of the work of the ISCS is its close work with the International Students Legal Clinic (ISLAC) based in Footscray and open to all students on Wednesday evenings. Matters related to visa conditions, employment conditions and family matters are regularly referred on to ISLAC by the ISCS for follow up support.
This initiative was led by the Victorian Multicultural Commission with support from a number of Victorian government departments including the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Department of Justice, the Department for Planning and Community Development and the Department of Premier and Cabinet.
An ISCS Reference Group was set up to monitor and review the activities of the Service, and its first meeting was convened in April 2010. Members come from the ISCS’ funding agencies and other relevant stakeholders.
toP regional interpreter Skills Course graduation in Shepparton. centre Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, James Merlino with recipients of the interpreter Scholarship program 2010. above VMC Chairperson George Lekakis, CEo royal Women’s Hospital Dale Fisher, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, Liz Beattie, VMC Commissioners Elleni Bereded-Samuel and Hang Nguyen at the launch of the bilingual program.
“Multiculturalism enables our citizens to commit their authentic selves to the causes which truly bind us, regardless of our superficial differences”
George lekakis Australian Intercultural Society & the Islamic Council of Victoria Dinner, 4 December 2009
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The Cultural Precincts Enhancement Fund is now in its third year of existence and several milestones have been achieved in each of the three major precincts. The City of Melbourne has already completed a number of major streetscape improvements in the precincts, and will be continuing to enhance the precincts’ look over the next year. Communities, residents and traders have been consulted and have given important feedback in the implementation of these projects.
Successful community organisations under this initiative are well on track with their projects, including the upgrade of the Chinese Museum’s facilities in the Little Bourke Street, and the installation by Co.As.It of an exhibition on the stories of Italian migration to the Lygon Street precinct and Victoria.
Partners RMIT and the Victorian Trades Hall Council have shortlisted artists who are currently further developing their concept for a piece of public art to be displayed at the southern end of Lygon Street. This public artwork will reflect the social, architectural, civic and historical importance of this precinct.
italian Precinct (lyGon street)During November 2009, the Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, James Merlino, opened a permanent stage and bocce court at Piazza Italia which is available to all members of the community to use for live music, theatre and film screenings. The gardens in Argyle Square and the Piazza have also been enhanced, offering a refreshed and more accessible community space.
A range of other improvements to the precinct will follow and include markers at the southern and northern ends of the precinct, and lighting at the main intersections of Lygon Street. Amenities for pedestrians will be upgraded in Pelham Street to encourage linkage between the precinct and Melbourne Museum, and street-scaping will be brought to the LaMama Theatre forecourt.
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Works in Chinatown have continued with the refurbishment of two traditional archways and the installation of suspended lighting featuring spot lights and lantern design between Exhibition and Russell Streets. These upgrades complement the previous installation of new lighting gateways to announce the northern entrance to Chinatown as well as new lighting pillars at the intersection of the precinct with Russell Street.
The renovated archways and new lighting were launched by the Premier of Victoria, John Brumby and the Lord Mayor of Melbourne Robert Doyle as part of a Chinese community day event held in Cohen Place in November 2009. The final phase of works will be rolled out between Swanston and Russell Streets to replicate the enhancement undertaken between Russell and Exhibition Streets. The human experience of Chinatown by day and by night will be enriched by the four colourful and carefully crafted archways, and atmospheric new suspended lighting and lighting gateways.
Greek Precinct (lonsdale street)Under the cultural precinct enhancement, stylised café screens have been installed at the precinct’s Greek cafes and restaurants and awnings for Lonsdale Street traders will be erected later this year. Suspended lighting will also float above the Lonsdale and Russell Streets intersection. The Greek precinct has been rejuvenated with the addition of the screens and helps provide a warm and inviting feel for visitors to enjoy the attractions of Greek culture in Melbourne.
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future generationsThe Cultural Precincts Enhancement Fund (2007-2010) is a $10 million infrastructure investment
by the Victorian Government in to Melbourne’s well established three cultural precincts – Little
Bourke Street Chinese precinct, Lygon Street Italian precinct and Lonsdale Street Greek precinct.
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cultural Precincts and coMMunity infrastructure fund In light of the success of and interest and community interest in the Cultural Precincts Enhancement Fund, the Victorian Government has committed $12 million over four years to boost the viability and vibrancy of Victoria’s cultural precincts and community facilities through the new Cultural Precincts and Community Infrastructure Fund (2010-14).
The Cultural Precincts and Community Infrastructure Fund (CPCIF) aims to:• support projects that will enable Victoria’s most
captivating and exciting precincts to remain sustainable and attractive for investment, cultural and tourism activities; and
• support the upgrade of existing or the construction of new community facilities promoting greater use and access by Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Two distinct categories of funding are available:• small capital infrastructure grants ($15,000 to
$100,000) considered through a one stage process; and
• major capital infrastructure grants, considered through a two stage process (expression of interest and full application).
Information public sessions were held on 20 and 22 May 2010.
Applications to the small grants category and expressions of interest to the major grants category opened on 20 May 2010 and closed on 10 June 2010.
In partnership with Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities and local councils, the Victorian Government, through the CPCIF, will secure the sustainability and longevity of some of our most important community assets.
toP Launch of Piazza italia, Lygon Street. centre Premier of Victoria, John Brumby and Lord Mayor of Melbourne, robert Doyle celebrate improvements in Chinatown. above Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, James Merlino with a member of the Greek community on Lonsdale Street.
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This partnership approach has allowed for improved outcomes from initiatives and the provision of greater assistance and support to Victoria’s multicultural communities.
younG MusliM woMen in reGional victoria – strenGtheninG education and eMPloyMent Pathways ProjectA preliminary investigation supported by the VMC (Ibrahim, 2008) found that Muslim women aged between 16 and 25 years were disadvantaged in terms of education and employment in regional areas. For this reason, the Young Muslim Women in Regional Victoria – Strengthening Education and Employment Pathways Project was developed to create pathways and opportunities for young Muslim women to gain skills, knowledge and experience to assist in securing employment as well as encouraging these young women’s participation in educational, social and employment settings. The project is being delivered by Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE and Monash University in Shepparton and Swan Hill.
The project has utilised research and consultation to inform the development of targeted initiatives that respond to local needs. One of the key initiatives focuses on providing practical workplace training and work placement in a field of interest for the young women. Participants gain an understanding of workplace practices, build job seeking networks and improve workplace English.
Other initiatives include ‘Pathways’ information sessions, which outline Australian education, training, employment and career options and pathways to young Muslim women and their families. ‘Cultural Awareness Training’ information sessions offer targeted cross-cultural information/exchange with key audiences including local employers, job service networks, teachers and careers counsellors.
The project is part of the Commonwealth
Government’s National Action Plan to Build on Social Cohesion, Harmony and Security and is supported by the Victorian Multicultural Commission and the Department of Premier and Cabinet.
youth foruM in swan hillAs part of National Youth Week in April 2010, the VMC partnered with the Office For Youth and Aboriginal Affairs Victoria to deliver the Statewide Youth Forum in Swan Hill. This was an event for young people to discuss issues around the theme of “Identity and Place”. The Forum was planned in collaboration with the Ministerial Youth Advisory Committee, the Victorian Indigenous Youth Affairs Council and the Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network. The Youth Forum provided young people with an opportunity to come together and share ideas about the issues that are important to them and provide advice to decision makers including the Victoria Government. Participants discussed a range of topics including identity; feeling connected to your community; positive body image and self esteem; and stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination and the media. Young people from a range of diverse backgrounds attended the Forum travelling from Swan Hill, Robinvale, Mildura, Gannawarra and Melbourne to participate.
cald fisheries networksIn May 2009, the Commission partnered with Fisheries Victoria to establish an Advisory Committee to consult on strategies to engage CALD audiences in fisheries projects and to enhance an understanding of the cultural requirements of specific communities in relation to fisheries activities as well as impart knowledge of statutory requirements and responsibilities. Fisheries Victoria met multicultural communities in December 2009 to share ideas about the future of Victoria’s fisheries.
partnering for
better outcomesDuring the 2009/10 financial year, the Commission worked on a large number of projects
and initiatives, across a range of different portfolio areas. Partnerships developed with other
organisations including: government departments, local governments, the corporate sector,
non-government organisations and community organisations.
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health and justice interPretinG ProjectThe Commission partnered with a number of providers including Northern Health, Bass Coast Community Health, Barwon Community Health, and Sunshine Court to run pilots for using video interpreting in health and justice settings. The project will look at the benefits to staff and clients along with an evaluation of any cost benefits.
the Multifaith Multicultural youth MentorinG for leadershiP ProGraMThe Multifaith Multicultural Youth Mentoring for Leadership program brought together 40 young people from diverse faith and cultural backgrounds and 20 mentors from the corporate, government, community and faith sectors.
Participants spent the first half of last year in group mentoring sessions exploring a number of themes including Sustainability, Australian Values and Indigenous Australians and Multifaith Awareness. The second half of the year was dedicated to smaller group activity developing youth led projects, with assistance and guidance from mentors. Some of the youth led projects developed included: an art exhibition showcasing the work of young artists from diverse backgrounds and exploring the themes of faith and culture; a documentary capturing the insights of young people from diverse backgrounds living in Australia; and hosting a Workplace Rights Forum for university students.
The Program was developed and delivered by the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) and supported by the Victorian Government.
Media traininG for new and eMerGinG coMMunitiesThe VMC in partnership with Globe Communications and the Department of Premier and Cabinet, developed a tailored media training program for leaders from Victoria’s newly emerging communities.
The course lasted three session and helped leaders understand the way the media operates including how to:• reach an audience,• deliver messages clearly and, • gain traction in the media for a positive news story.
The participants of this course were thrust into ‘real-life’ situations where they had to respond to media questions while cameras were rolling and microphones were on. They were taught practical media skills as well as issues management and media laws and regulations.
The participants came from some of Victoria’s newest and smallest communities including the Burmese, Sudanese, Somali, Bhutanese, Eritrean, Tamil, Liberian, Sierra Leone, Oromo, Nigerian, Ogaden and Afghani communities. The feedback from the community leaders who participated in the course was excellent.
They found the practical nature of the course very useful and enjoyed the benefit of learning from each other given the broad mix of communities and experiences of the participants in the course. They are now empowered to share these learnings with other leaders in their communities. This course followed an earlier successful media training course for Victoria’s faith leaders in which church leaders, Imams and Rabbis as well as other faith leaders sat together to learn media skills to employ in their leadership roles in the community.
“By getting involved in your community, you help shape your future and increase
opportunities to participate in society, as well as providing encouragement and support for those around you.”
George lekakis Jewish Community Council of Victoria 2009 Community Recognition Awards, 9 November 2009
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“The backbone of our multicultural society is and has always been the community organisations and service providers who provide a vital system of support to our people in diverse communities and work together to build harmony and cohesion”
George lekakis Southern CALD Network forum, 15 October 2009
appendicesaPPendix 1 COMMISSION MEETING ATTENDANCE REGISTER
aPPendix 2 GRANTS•Buildings and Facilities Improvements
•Education Progams
•Interfaith and Multifaith Program
•Multicultural Festivals and Events
•Multicultural Senior Citizens Organisational Support
•Organisational Support
•Strengthening Mulitucultural Communities
aPPendix 3 VMC ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBERS BY ORGANISATION / COMMUNITY
aPPendix 4 AwARDS FOR ExCELLENCE
aPPendix 5 VICTORIAN REFUGEE REGONITION RECORD (VRRR )
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appendix 1
Commission meeting attendanCe RegisteR
CommissioneR no. of meetings attended
Mr. George lekakis 7
Mr. Hakan Akyol 6
Ms Elleni Bereded-Samuel 6
Mr Joseph Caputo 6
Dr. Stanley Chiang 7
Ms Elizabeth Drozd 8
Ms Samar Mougharbel 8
Ms Hang Thi-Bich Nguyen 4
Dr linda Sydor Petkovic 8
Ms Marcia Pinskier 7
S. Jagdeep Singh Shergill 7
Mr yasser Soliman 8
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appendix 2
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Albanian Moslem Society (Shepparton) Inc $10,000
Australian Bosnian Islamic Centre Deer Park $10,000
Cambodian Association of Victoria $10,000
Christ the lord Slovak lutheran Congregation $5,000
Club Astoria German Australian Society $15,000
Dhamma Sukha Meditation Centre $12,000
Greek Community of Springvale and Districts $7,000
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Aust Holy Monastery Axion Estin
$5,000
Greek Orthodox Community of Gippsland $6,500
Greek Orthodox Community of whittlesea $14,500
Greek Orthodox Parish of “Panagia Soumela” East Keilor, Senior Citizens Group
$2,500
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Vasilios” Brunswick $2,200
Greek Orthodox Parish of St Athanasios Springvale $6,000
Guru Nanak Sikh Society Shepparton Inc $12,000
Hamazkaine Armenian Educational and Cultural Society (Gomidas Chapter)
$7,000
Irymple Bocce Club $6,600
Kurdish Association of Victoria $8,000
Nisyrian Philanthropic Society $10,000
Olympian Society Inc $7,250
Reservoir Baptist Church $4,000
Serbian Orthodox Church & School Community St Stefan
$10,000
Springvale Asian Business Association $10,000
St Martin De Porres Parish $5,000
Temple Society Australia $7,000
The Greek Orthodox Community of Mildura & District $8,000
The Hindu Society of Victoria (Inc) $10,000
The New Hope Foundation Inc $15,000
The ukrainian youth Association of Australia (Melbourne) Inc
$10,500
Victorian Sikh Association Inc $15,000
xin Jin Shan Chinese language and Culture School Inc $10,000
sUB totaL $261,050
BUiLdings and faCiLities impRovements
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appendix 2
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Afghan Australian Philanthropic Association $2,000
AHEPA (Victoria) Inc $2,200
AHEPA (Victoria) Inc $2,000
Al Kamal Arabic School $1,000
Al Sadeq Education and Charity Association Inc $1,200
Alliance Francaise de Geelong $1,400
Arabic Culture School $1,200
Associazione Culturale l’Aurora $2,500
Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria Inc (AOCAV)
$1,500
Bengali language and Culture School Inc $1,500
Bharathi Academy $1,100
Bosnian Teacher’s Association Inc $1,000
Brunswick Sinhala language School $3,000
Bulgarian Society of Geelong - Izvor Inc $1,000
Chabad Institutions of Australia Inc $2,500
City of Greater Geelong (whittington Community Renewal)
$1,000
Cyprus Greek Orthodox Community of “Apostolos Andreas” Sunshine
$1,200
Eastern African Community of Castlemaine Inc (EACC)
$2,000
Fale Hufanga ‘O Tonga (Tongan Sanctuary of Sunraysia) Inc
$2,500
Geelong Karen Association $1,500
Gippsland lutheran Parish $2,000
Gippsland lutheran Parish $1,500
Greek Orthodox Community Gippsland, Greek School $1,000
Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne & Victoria School
$9,600
Greek Orthodox Community of Mentone & Districts $2,500
Greek Orthodox Community of Oakleigh & District Inc $1,000
Greek Orthodox Community School of Mentone “Taxiarches”
$1,500
Hazara Community Mildura $1,200
Keysborough Vietnamese language Centre Inc $1,000
lac Viet Vietnamese language School $2,000
Mang-Non Vietnamese language School Association $2,000
Melbourne Centre for Tamil Studies (weekend Tamil School)
$1,000
North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc $1,000
North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc $1,400
Otuho Community of Australia $1,500
Serbian Ethnic School Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic $700
Shree Ram Bhakt Ramayan Mandali Association of Victoria Inc
$1,200
Society for Asian languages & Arts Inc $2,000
Somalian Cultural School $2,000
T.Kosciuszko Polish language Saturday School $1,200
Temple Society German language School Bentleigh-Moorabbin
$1,500
The Thai language School of Melbourne Inc $1,000
The Thai language School of Melbourne Inc $2,000
The united Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation of South Eastern Melbourne
$2,000
THE-HE Vietnamese language Centre $3,200
Victorian Sikh Association Inc $2,500
Victorian Sikh Association Inc $2,500
xin Jin Shan Chinese language and Culture School Inc $3,000
Zotung Community in Australia $1,500
sUB totaL $89,800
edUCation pRogams
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
African Christian Kush Aid Program of Australia $2,000
Al Ehsan Centre $2,000
Apple Road Primary School $7,000
Arabic Culture School $2,000
Ararat Islamic welfare Association Inc $500
Ararat Islamic welfare Association Inc $2,300
Art of living Foundation Inc $3,000
Australian Intercultural Society Inc $10,000
Baha’i Council For Victoria $5,000
Ballarat Central Church of Christ $3,400
B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc $18,000
Brimbank City Council $10,000
Brimbank City Council $15,000
Buddha’s light International Association of Victoria Inc
$5,000
Buddhist Council of Victoria Inc $4,000
Campfire Film Festival Inc $8,000
Casey Multi-Faith Network Inc $10,000
Central Community Centre Inc $5,000
Centre of Melbourne Multi-faith and Others Network (COMMON)
$8,000
Chabad of Melbourne CBD $4,000
Cities of Harmony $10,000
City of Greater Geelong $15,000
Council of Turkish Associations of Victoria $4,000
Craigieburn Secondary College $7,250
Creativity Australia $5,000
Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne
$640
Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne
$9,870
Geelong Iranian Society $5,000
Gippsland Ethnic Communities Council (GECC) $5,000
Gippsland Ethnic Communities Council (GECC) $5,000
Gippsland Indian Association Inc $4,000
Greater Dandenong Combined Schools Interfaith Group
$5,000
GreenFaith Australia $20,000
Harmony Foundation Victoria Inc $5,000
Healthcare Chaplaincy of Victoria Inc (HCCVI) $10,000
Hindu Community Council of Victoria (HCCV) $20,000
Hindu Community Council of Victoria (HCCV) $10,000
Hindu Community Council of Victoria (HCCV) $2,000
Hindu Foundation $10,000
Hope and Care for All (HCFA) International Inc $1,000
Inclusion Melbourne $4,000
Indonesian Club Melbourne Inc $2,000
InterAction Multifaith youth Network $13,000
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
InterAction Multifaith youth Network $15,000
Interfaith Network of the City of Greater Dandenong $1,500
Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia $6,000
Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia $6,000
Jewish Community Council of Victoria $4,000
Jewish Community Council of Victoria $4,000
Jewish Community Council of Victoria $7,550
Jewish Museum of Australia Inc $10,000
loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services $8,000
Macedonian Australian Senior Citizens Group “Ilinden”
$1,000
Maribyrnong library Service (Maribyrnong City Council)
$2,000
Maroondah City Council $10,000
Meadow Heights learning Shop Inc $6,000
Meadow Heights learning Shop Inc $4,000
Melton Shire Council $8,000
Minaret College Inc $8,000
Monash Interfaith Gathering $8,000
Moreland City Council $6,000
Mornington Peninsula Interfaith Network $10,000
Municipal Association of Victoria $15,000
Muslim women’s Council of Victoria $2,500
Nadezhda Russian Senior Citizens Club $3,000
National Council of Jewish women Australia (Vic) $2,000
Niruththa Indian Fine Arts Association Inc $2,000
Niruththa Indian Fine Arts Association Inc $2,825
North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc $2,000
North yarra Community Health $6,000
Northern Interfaith and Intercultural Network (NIIN) $12,000
Shepparton Interchurch Council $10,000
Shoah Memorial Service Committee $2,000
St Paul Apostle Catholic Church - Ecumenical and Interfaith Committee
$2,000
The Federation of Chinese Associations of Victoria $2,000
The Interfaith Centre of Melbourne $14,000
united Muslim Migrant Association of Victoria Inc $3,000
united Muslim Migrant Association of Victoria Inc $2,000
uniting Care Prahran Mission $3,000
uniting Care Prahran Mission $2,000
uniting Church in Australia Synod of Victoria and Tasmania
$10,000
Victoria university western Region Interfaith Network (VuwRIN)
$4,000
Victorian Council of Churches $10,000
Victorian Council of Churches $6,000
Victorian Sikh Association Inc $10,000
whitehorse Interfaith Network $2,000
inteRfaith and mULtifaith pRogRam
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
whitehorse Interfaith Network $2,500
whittlesea Interfaith Network (wIN) $5,000
women’s Interfaith Network Foundation $15,000
wyndham City Council $6,000
Zionist Council of Victoria $5,000
sUB totaL $584,835
inteRfaith and mULtifaith pRogRam
mULtiCULtURaL festivaLs and events
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Accademia letteraria Italo-Australiana Scrittori (AlIAS)
$500
Accademia letteraria Italo-Australiana Scrittori (AlIAS)
$500
Afghan Australia Community Social Sports Club Inc $500
Afghan Australia Community Social Sports Club Inc $400
Afghan Australian Association of Victoria Inc $700
Afghan Australian Association of Victoria Inc $700
Afghan Australian Association of werribee $600
Afghan Australian Philanthropic Association $2,000
Afghan-Australian women & youth Association Inc (AAwyA)
$400
Africa women Support Group $500
African Communities Elderly Association of Victoria $300
African women’s Group in Collingwood $400
Agelidis Foundation $500
Agrupacion de Pensionistas y Tercera Edad de Victoria
$400
Al Muhajir Cultural Organisation $300
Al Sadeq Education and Charity Association Inc $500
Al Sadeq Education and Charity Association Inc $300
Alay Kapwa (we Care) Association Inc $800
Albany Rise Primary School $600
Albert Park Primary School $700
Albion North Primary School $1,000
Alevi Community Council of Australia Inc $1,500
Alexandra Primary School $500
All India Cultural and Entertainment Club of Victoria $2,000
All Mesopotamian Christians Association $300
All women Concern $500
Am Echad Federation of Jews from Former Soviet union Inc
$500
Angliss Neighbourhood House Inc $600
Angolan Community Association $600
Antipodes International Inc $30,000
Antipodes International Inc $30,000
Anwar Association Inc $500
Anwar Association Inc $600
Arabic Elderly Pensioners Group $400
Arabic Elderly Pensioners Group $500
Arabic welfare Inc $600
Ararat Golden Gateway Festival Committee $1,200
Ararat Islamic welfare Association Inc $500
Archangel Michael Senior Social Club of Oakleigh $500
Archive of Vietnamese Boat People Inc $400
Arcilesbica Australia $400
Armenian Mesrob Mashdotz School $500
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Artesur of Victoria Inc $1,000
Artsmildura Inc $1,000
Ashburton Support Services $300
Ashburton Traders Association Inc - Ashburton Community Festival
$1,500
Asian Business Association Of whitehorse Inc $3,000
Associacion de latinos Residentes de Victoria $300
Associated Netherlands Societies in Victoria Inc $3,000
Association of Filipino Australians in Gippsland $500
Association of Former Inmates of Nazi Concentration Camps and Ghettos from the Former Soviet union
$300
Association of Former Inmates of Nazi Concentration Camps and Ghettos from the Former Soviet union
$300
Association of Greek Elderly Citizen Clubs of Melbourne & Victoria
$14,895
Association of International Childrens Festivals $2,000
Association of New Elderly $500
Association of New Elderly $300
Association of Sri lankan Muslims in Australia (ASlAMA)
$500
Association of Sri lankan Muslims in Australia (ASlAMA)
$500
Association of the Alliance Francaise of Victoria $500
Association of the Alliance Francaise of Victoria $1,000
Association of ukrainians in Victoria $2,000
Association of ukrainians in Victoria $1,000
Association of ukrainians in Victoria - Shepparton Branch
$500
Association of ukrainians in Victoria - Shepparton Branch
$500
Association of ukrainians in Victoria (St Albans) $300
Associazione Figli D’Italia Inc $800
Associazione Mariani Italia Gruppo Borsini $300
Asylum Seeker welcome Centre $1,000
Atherton Gardens Chinese Neighbourhood $300
Atherton Gardens Chinese Neighbourhood $500
Auburn Primary School $900
Auburn South Primary School $2,000
Aus Audio-Visual Arts Association Inc $500
Australasia Coptic Society Inc $400
Australasia Coptic Society Inc $300
Australia Bangladesh Association Inc $500
Australia Burma Society Inc $1,000
Australia Burma Society Inc $1,000
Australia Israel Cultural Exchange (AICE) ltd $1,200
Australia Multicultural Ministry Angels Band Inc $400
Australian & Bosnian-Herzegovinan Community Club Brcko Melbourne
$500
Australian Ankawa Club $800
Australian Arabic women Community Group $400
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Australian Assyrian Arts & literature Foundation $600
Australian Assyrian Arts & literature Foundation $600
Australian Bosnian Seniors Group Inc $300
Australian Burmese women’s Group Inc $500
Australian Burundian Community in Victoria Inc $1,500
Australian Community Dawah Centre $500
Australian Community Dawah Centre $400
Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club “Vila Velebita” Broadmeadows
$300
Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club “Vila Velebita” Broadmeadows
$300
Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Clifton Hill $300
Australian Federation of Hellenic Gymnastics and Athletics Association Inc
$300
Australian Gay Multicultural Council (AGMC) $500
Australian Greek Elderly Citizens Club Northcote $300
Australian Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Mentone and Districts
$300
Australian Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Mentone and Districts
$300
Australian Greek Ex-Servicemen Elderly Seniors Club of Northcote
$300
Australian Indian Heritage Inc $300
Australian Indian Innovations Inc $8,000
Australian Indian Innovations Inc $2,000
Australian Indian Innovations Inc $3,000
Australian Inner-Mongolia Chinese Association Inc $500
Australian Irish welfare Bureau Inc $1,000
Australian Karen Organisation Inc $600
Australian Karen Organisation Inc $800
Australian latvian Theatre $1,000
Australian lebanese Christian ladies Group - Darebin $300
Australian lebanese Historical Society of Victoria $500
Australian Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Reservoir
$300
Australian Macedonian Tetovo Association ‘Shar-Planina’ Inc
$400
Australian Mesopotamian women Association $500
Australian Migrants Settlement & welfare Bureau (Vic) Inc
$400
Australian Nadur Association Inc $500
Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria Inc (AOCAV)
$4,000
Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria Inc (AOCAV)
$800
Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria Inc (AOCAV)
$600
Australian Polish Community Services $1,500
Australian Romanian Community welfare Health & Services Association of Victoria Inc
$300
Australian Serbian Pensioners Club of St George Church, St Albans & Districts
$300
Australian Somali Society $800
Australian Theatre of Poetry Inc $400
mULtiCULtURaL festivaLs and events
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Australian Turkish Association Inc $700
Australian Turkish Cultural Platform (ATCP) Inc $7,500
Australian Turkish Cultural Platform (ATCP) Inc $800
Australian Turkish Cultural Platform (ATCP) Inc $500
Australian Turkish Cultural Platform (ATCP) Inc $1,000
Australian ukrainian Senior Citizens Fellowship “Golden Age”
$300
Australian ukrainian Senior Citizens Fellowship “Golden Age”
$300
Australian welsh Male Choir (Cor Meibion Cymreig Australia) Inc
$1,000
Australian western Thrace Turkish Association of Victoria
$400
Australia-Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce Inc
$800
Austrian Cultural Society - Austrian Club Melbourne Inc
$1,000
AVA Boroondara Senior Citizens Group $400
AVA Boroondara Senior Citizens Group $500
Avondale Heights Greek Pensioners and Elderly Citizens Club
$500
Avondale Heights Greek Pensioners and Elderly Citizens Club
$300
Ayios Therapon welfare Association Inc $500
Ayios Therapon welfare Association Inc $300
Bairnsdale Secondary College $500
Bairnsdale Secondary College $2,000
Ballarat Indian Association $600
Ballarat Japan Friendship Association $500
Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council (BRMC) $3,000
Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council (BRMC) $3,000
Baluk Arts $500
Banda Musicale Italiana “Vincenzo Bellini” $500
Bangla Sahitya Sansad (Bengali literary Society) Inc $600
Bangla Sahitya Sansad (Bengali literary Society) Inc $500
Bangladesh Cultural Group Inc. $400
Baptist union of Victoria - Multicultural Group $500
Baptist union of Victoria - Multicultural Group $500
Baptist union of Victoria - Multicultural Group $500
Baptist union of Victoria - Multicultural Group $500
Barangay Australia $300
Bayanihan Australia Community Network Inc $1,000
Bayswater west Primary School $700
‘Bea Cantare’ Choir Inc $400
Beit Jala Palestinian Association $500
Belgrave Survival Day Organising Committee $600
Bellarine International women’s Senior Citizens Club $400
Bellarine Secondary College $1,000
Bendigo Filipino Australian Association Inc $600
Bendigo Senior Secondary College $1,000
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Bengali Association of Victoria Inc $2,500
Bengali Association of Victoria Inc $1,000
Bengali language and Culture School Inc $600
Bengali Puja & Cultural Society of Victoria Inc $400
Bentiu youth Association in Australia $500
Bharathakalanjali Dance School $500
Birchip Business and learning Centre $500
Birchip P-12 School $800
Black River Macedonian Australian Association Avondale Heights, Moonee Valley & District
$500
Blackburn English language School $1,000
Blackburn English language School $1,500
Blak Roots $400
B’nai B’rith Shalom unit Arts Committee $500
Bodhi Buddhist Temple Inc $400
Bodhi Buddhist Temple Inc $800
Bor youth Association of Australia $600
Boroondara Chinese Senior Citizens Association Inc $300
Bosnian Teacher’s Association Inc $400
Braybrook & Maidstone Neighbourhood House $400
Braybrook Secondary College $1,000
Brentwood Park Primary School $1,000
Broadmeadows Turkish Senior Citizens Club $400
Broadmeadows Turkish Senior Citizens Club $300
Brunswick Neighbourhood House $500
Buddha’s light International Association of Victoria Inc
$600
Buddhist Council of Victoria Inc $1,500
Buddhist Society of Victoria (BSV) $1,000
Burgher Association (Australia) Inc $800
Burgher Association (Australia) Inc $800
Burmese welfare Operation $500
Burmese welfare Operation $800
Burwood Village Traders Association $500
Campbellfield Heights Primary School $800
Camperdown P-12 College $1,000
Cantorion Cymreig Victoria (Victorian welsh Male Voice Choir) Inc
$1,000
Cardinia Shire Council $1,000
Carrum Downs Secondary College $800
Cathedral College wangaratta $800
Celebrate India Inc $20,000
Central Highlands Asian-Australian Association of Victoria
$500
Central Highlands Community legal Centre Inc $500
Central Victorian lion Team Inc $500
Centre for Culture Ethnicity and Health $10,000
mULtiCULtURaL festivaLs and events
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Centre of Greek Ex-Servicemens Elderly Citizens Club of Darebin and District
$400
CERES Environment Park $1,000
Ceylonese welfare Organisation $800
Ceylonese welfare Organisation $300
Chabad House of Malvern/Toorak Inc $500
Chabad House of Malvern/Toorak Inc $500
Chabad Institutions of Australia Inc $700
Chabad Institutions of Australia Inc $700
Chabad of Melbourne CBD $400
Chaldean women Association in Victoria $600
Chaldean women Association in Victoria $300
Chao Feng Chinese Musical Orchestra $500
Cheltenham Community Centre Inc $600
Child Survivors of the Holocaust $500
Chile Magazine Media and Cultural Group $1,000
Chile Magazine Media and Cultural Group $600
Chinatown Precinct Association $2,000
Chinese Association of Geelong Inc $1,000
Chinese Association of Victoria Inc $500
Chinese Association of Victoria Inc $800
Chinese Association of Victoria Inc $1,000
Chinese Beijing Opera Club of Melbourne $300
Chinese Beijing Opera Club of Melbourne $500
Chinese Community Health Advisory of Australia Inc (CCHAA)
$400
Chinese Community Health Advisory of Australia Inc (CCHAA)
$300
Chinese Health Foundation of Australia (CHF) $500
Chinese Mandarin Community Friendship Association (CMCFA)
$500
Chinese Mandarin Community Friendship Association (CMCFA)
$300
Chinese Nurse Association Australia Inc $400
Chinese Poets & Authors Society of Victoria $300
Chinese Professionals Club of Australia $500
Chinese Senior Citizens Club of Frankston & Peninsula $300
Chinese Senior Citizen’s Club of Manningham $500
Chinese Senior Citizen’s Club of Manningham $400
Chinese women’s Association of Victoria Inc $300
Chinese women’s Association of Victoria Inc $300
Chinese xinjiang Senior Citizens Association $300
Church of Our lady’s Protection (Russian Orthodox Church Abroad Melbourne Saturday School)
$600
Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Bentleigh $300
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Mildura and Sunraysia $1,000
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di North west Essendon $300
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Napoli Family Club $800
Circolo Pensionati Multiculturale Di Greenvale $300
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
City of Ballarat $1,500
City of Darebin $500
City of Greater Dandenong $1,000
City of Greater Dandenong - Heritage Hill Museum & Historic Gardens
$600
City of Kingston $20,000
City of Stonnington $1,200
Club Astoria German Australian Society $300
Club Italia (Geelong) Inc $300
Colac Adult and Community Education Inc $400
Colac Sudanese Community Inc $1,000
Collingwood College $1,800
Collingwood Greek Senior Citizen Club $300
Committee for Common Celebrations of Greek & Australian National Days
$1,000
Committee for Common Celebrations of Greek & Australian National Days
$500
Community In Harmony $400
Community of Cypriots of the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne
$300
Community of Cypriots of the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne Elderly Group
$800
Congolese Community of Victoria $500
Congolese Community of Victoria $500
Congolese Community of Victoria $500
Coral Park Primary School $500
Corinella and District Community Centre $500
Cornish Association of Victoria Inc $1,000
Corona Italian Seniors Club of Casey $300
Corpus Christi Primary School $1,000
Council of Slovenian Organisations of Victoria Inc $1,000
Council of Sudanese Groups Inc $600
Council of Sudanese Groups Inc $600
Council of Turkish Associations of Victoria $1,000
Council of Turkish Associations of Victoria $500
Council of Turkish Associations of Victoria $4,000
Craig Family Centre $1,000
Cranbourne Hampton Park Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,500
Cranbourne Italian Senior Citizens Club $300
Cranbourne Primary School $1,000
Cranbourne Primary School $1,000
Cretan Federation of Australia and New Zealand $2,000
Croatian Community Association $600
Croatian Cultural Association Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac Inc
$800
Croatian Cultural Festival Inc $700
Croatian Senior Citizens Club Mildura Incorporated $300
Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Footscray $300
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Cultural Historical Association of Rodriguans and Mauritians in Victoria (CHARM)
$2,000
Culture Education Science International liaison Committee of Australia (CESIlCA)
$300
CxP Music $500
Cyprus Community of Melbourne & Victoria $3,000
Cyprus Community of Melbourne & Victoria Elderly Citizens Club Inc
$4,000
Dallas Neighbourhood House Inc $300
Dandenong and Endeavour Hills Club de los Abuelos: Italo-Spanish
$700
Dandenong High School $800
Darebin City Brass Inc youth Group $500
Daylesford Primary School $1,600
Debney Meadows Primary School $1,000
Delahey Town Club $400
Dental Health Services Victoria $700
Deutscher Verein KG Nerrische Insulaner $500
Diversitat $50,000
Don Bosco Brunswick youth Foundation Inc $800
Doncaster Gardens Primary School $1,500
Donna Pugliesi in Arte $2,000
Drum Threatre $800
Dutch Australian Social Club ‘The Rocket’ $400
Dutch Australian Social Club ‘The Rocket’ $300
Dutch Club Abel Tasman $400
Dutch Independent Senior Citizens of Oz $400
Dutch Orange Day Inc $4,000
Dutch women’s Club of Geelong Inc $300
Eaglehawk Secondary College $1,000
East African women’s Foundation Inc $500
East African women’s Foundation Inc $600
East Preston Islamic College $1,000
Eastern African Community of Castlemaine Inc (EACC)
$600
Eastern District Polish Association-Polish School of Rowville
$500
Eastern Districts Polish Association (Melbourne) $800
Eastern Districts Polish Association (Melbourne) $500
Eastern Karen Community Association $500
Eastern Schools Refugee Action Network (ESRAN) $1,000
Eastern Senior Chinese Association $300
Eelam Tamil Association Victoria Inc $500
Egyptian Cultural Association of Victoria Inc $7,500
Elderly Club of the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria
$800
Elderly Club of the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria
$500
Endeavour Hills Secondary College $800
Ensemble ‘Nostalgia’ - women Group $400
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Ensemble ‘Nostalgia’ - women Group $300
Epirotic Federation of Oceania (Aust) Inc $500
Epirotic Philanthropic Society of Australia “Dodoni” $300
Eritrean National Communities Council $6,500
Eritrean Orthodox Association in Australia Inc $300
Essendon Football Club $5,000
Ethick Community Mozambique of Victoria Inc $400
Ethick Community Mozambique of Victoria Inc $400
Ethick Community Mozambique of Victoria Inc $400
Ethiopian Community Association in Victoria Inc $2,500
Ethiopian Community Association in Victoria Inc $1,000
Ethiopian Community women’s Association $600
Ethiopian women Group $1,000
Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV) $500
Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV) $700
Ethnic Council of Shepparton & District Inc $1,000
Ethnic Council of Shepparton & District Inc $600
Ethnic Discussion Club $300
Ethnic Nationalities Organization (ENO) Burma and North East India
$800
Everton Primary School $500
Extended Families Australia $300
Fale Hufanga ‘O Tonga (Tongan Sanctuary of Sunraysia) Inc
$800
Famiglia Pugliese D’Australia $300
Faros Senior Citizens Inc $300
Feastonart Inc $1,500
Federation of Chinese Associations Senior Citizens Social Club
$300
Federation of Chinese Associations Senior Citizens Social Club
$300
Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA)
$30,000
Federation of Indian women’s Association of Australia (FIwAA) Inc
$1,000
Federation of Indian women’s Association of Australia (FIwAA) Inc
$1,000
Federation of Indo-China Ethnic Chinese of Australia Inc
$300
Federation of Macedonian Senior Citizens Groups of the Northern Region of Victoria Inc
$500
Federation of Macedonian Senior Citizens Groups of the Northern Region of Victoria Inc
$300
Federation of Macedonian Senior Citizens Groups of the western Region Inc
$300
Federation of Taivgetos of laconia $300
Federation Panepirotic union of Melbourne & Victoria
$500
Federation Panepirotic union of Melbourne & Victoria
$300
Festa Carmine Committee (Swan Hill) Inc. $500
Festival Indonesia Inc $4,000
Festival of St Arnaud $1,000
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Fiji Indian Senior Citizens Association Inc $500
Fiji Indian Senior Citizens Association Inc $300
Fiji Indian Senior Citizens Association Inc $300
Fiji Indian Senior Citizens Association Inc $300
Fiji Senior Citizens Association (FSC) $300
Fiji Social and Cultural Organisations of Victoria Australia (FSCOVA)
$500
Filipino Australian Association of Ballarat $300
Filipino Australian Association of Ballarat $300
Filipino Australian Senior Citizens Advisory Council in Australia
$500
Filipino Australian Senior Citizens of Victoria (FASCOV)
$300
Filipino Community Council of Victoria Inc $1,000
Filipino Community Council of Victoria Inc $500
Filipino Community Council of Victoria Inc $1,000
Filipino Community of Sunraysia Inc $300
Filipino Elderly Get Together Association $400
Finnish Society of Melbourne Inc $800
Finnish Society of Melbourne Inc $1,000
Fitzroy Brunswick Residents Solidarity Society $300
Fitzroy Chinese Residents Association Inc $400
Fitzroy Chinese women’s Group $400
Fitzroy Chinese women’s Group $400
Footscray Asian Business Association $5,000
Footscray Community Arts Centre ltd $2,000
Footscray Primary School $600
Foster Parents Indonesia $400
Frankston City Council $1,800
Furlong Park School and Preschool for the Deaf $400
Galini Greek Elderly Association of Port Melbourne $300
Geelong Dutch 50 Plus Club $400
Geelong Dutch 50 Plus Club $500
Geelong Dutch Club Inc $400
Geelong Dutch Club Inc $300
Geelong Golden Age Polish Seniors Club $500
Geelong Highland Gathering Association Inc $3,000
Geelong Scottish Dance Inc $250
German Friendship Society Bendigo $500
Gilmore College for Girls Footscray $1,000
Gippsland Ethnic Communities Council (GECC) $1,500
Gippsland Ethnic Communities Council (GECC) $1,200
Gippsland Ethnic Communities Council (GECC) $5,000
Gippsland Indian Association Inc $400
Gippsland Indonesian Australian Association $500
Glen Eira Italian Pensioners & Senior Citizens Club $300
Glenmaggie Mechanics Institute $1,000
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Golden Dragon Museum $1,000
Golden Horseshoes Festival Committee Inc $1,000
Goulburn Valley Chinese Fellowship Association Inc $500
Goulburn Valley Congolese Association $500
Goulburn Valley Congolese Association $1,000
Goulburn Valley Sudanese Association $500
Greater Shepparton City Council $800
Greek & Cypriot Social welfare Centre $500
Greek & Cypriot Social welfare Centre $500
Greek & Cypriot Social welfare Centre $800
Greek Australian Cultural league of Melbourne Inc $400
Greek Australian Cultural league of Melbourne Inc $800
Greek Australian Recreational & Instructive league of Vic Inc
$800
Greek Australian Recreational & Instructive league of Vic Inc
$600
Greek Community of Northcote, City of Darebin & Districts
$300
Greek Community of Northcote, City of Darebin & Districts
$1,000
Greek Cypriot Parent & youth Club western Suburbs of Melbourne
$400
Greek Democritus worker’s league $400
Greek Elderly Citizens Club Caulfield $300
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Maribyrnong & Districts $300
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Maribyrnong & Districts $300
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of werribee $300
Greek Elderly women’s Club of Frankston and Peninsula
$2,000
Greek Federal Organisation of Ex-Servicemen’s Reserve of Greece in Australia
$500
Greek Federal Organisation of Ex-Servicemen’s Reserve of Greece in Australia
$300
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia $2,000
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia $1,500
Greek Orthodox Church Thomastown “Transfiguration of the lord”
$1,000
Greek Orthodox Community of Clayton ltd $400
Greek Orthodox Community of Gippsland $500
Greek Orthodox Community of Monash & Districts $300
Greek Orthodox Community of Oakleigh & District Inc
$1,000
Greek Orthodox Community of whittlesea $500
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Dimitrios” Ascot Vale, Greek School
$300
Greek Orthodox Parish of “The Three Hierarchs” Clayton, Senior Citizens’ Group
$300
Greek Orthodox Parish of Coburg and Pascoe Vale “Presentation of Our lord”
$2,000
Greek Orthodox Parish of St Albans & Districts $1,000
Greek Orthodox Parish of St Dimitrios Moonee Ponds $1,000
Greek Senior Citizens Club of Carnegie and Murrumbeena
$400
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Greek Senior Citizens Club of Carnegie and Murrumbeena
$300
Greek Senior Citizens District of Richmond $300
Greek Senior Citizens of Southern Eastern Regions and Districts
$300
Greek women’s Club of Maribyrnong $800
Greek women’s Club of Northern Suburbs “Anemones”
$300
Greek women’s Elderly Friendly Club Preston $300
Griefline Services $600
Grupo Folklorico Violeta Parra $300
Hamerkaz Shelanu Inc $1,200
Harmony Chinese Opera Group of Melbourne $400
Harmony Chinese Opera Group of Melbourne $1,000
Harmony Festival $1,500
Harmony Foundation Victoria Inc $500
Harmony Foundation Victoria Inc $500
Harrisfield Primary School $400
Harrisfield Primary School $1,000
Hazara Australian Community Association of Victoria $500
Healthy Tourism Senior Citizens Club ‘Vigor’ $400
Healthy Tourism Senior Citizens Club ‘Vigor’ - Inner Metro South Russian Community language School
$300
Heatherhill Primary School $1,000
Heathmont East Primary School $600
Hellenic Association of Mornington Peninsula Aged Citizens Club
$500
Hellenic Community of the City of Moorabbin (Kingston) & Districts ltd
$600
Hellenic women’s Federation of Victoria $500
Hellenic women’s Federation of Victoria $500
Hellenic writers Association of Australia $400
Hellenic writers Association of Australia $300
Hellenic youth Federation of Victoria Inc $500
Hellenic youth Federation of Victoria Inc $300
Hepburn Springs Swiss Italian Festa Inc $3,000
Hindi Niketan Inc $500
Hindi Niketan Inc $1,000
Hindu Foundation $1,000
Hindu Foundation $1,200
Holy Rosary Primary School $1,200
Holy Saviour Primary School $1,000
Hong Bang Vietnamese Ethnic School $500
Hong de lion Dance Association $400
Hope Connection $400
Hoverla ukrainian Choir $500
Howra women’s Association $300
Howra women’s Association $200
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Hungarian Senior Citizens Club of Greater Dandenong
$400
HyP Fest Inc $2,000
Il Piccolo Teatro Di Melbourne Inc $500
Indian Senior Citizens Association of Victoria $1,000
Indian Senior Citizens Association of Victoria $500
Indo Australian Friendship Council Inc $3,000
Indonesian Club Melbourne Inc $800
Indonesian Club Melbourne Inc $500
Indonesian Film Festival Inc $2,000
Information Group for Russian Speaking Community $400
International women’s Group $500
International women’s Group $500
International women’s Group $500
Iranian Society of Victoria Inc $1,500
Italian Catholic Federation $500
Italian Catholic Federation Morwell $600
Italian Catholic Federation Morwell $500
Italian Elderly Citizens Club Noble Park Inc $800
Italian Senior Citizens Club of Frankston $1,500
Italian Social Club Altona $400
Italian Social Club Altona $400
Italian welfare Association of whittlesea Senior Citizens
$300
Japan Club of Victoria $1,000
Japanese for Peace (JFP) $400
Jat Jagat $500
Jat Jagat $300
Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia $500
Jewish Community Council of Victoria $500
Jewish Community Council of Victoria $2,000
Jewish Community Council of Victoria $500
Jewish Community Council of Victoria $1,000
Jewish Holocaust Centre Inc $1,000
Jewish Museum of Australia Inc $300
Jing Song Senior Chinese Men’s Inc $300
Jing Song Senior Chinese Men’s Inc $300
John Pandazopoulos Hall Committee of Management $500
John Pandazopoulos Hall Committee of Management $400
Justice & Freedom for Ceylon Tamils Inc Human Rights & Refugee Action Group
$500
Justice & Freedom for Ceylon Tamils Inc Human Rights & Refugee Action Group
$1,000
Kaiga Tuvalu Victoria $500
Kaiga Tuvalu Victoria $500
Kalgidhar Sports and Cultural Association Victoria $800
Karnavals Club The Swallows Geelong Inc $400
Keilor Downs Macedonian Elderly Group $300
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Keilor Downs Macedonian Elderly Group $300
Keilor Downs Macedonian women’s Pensioner Group $300
Keilor Downs Macedonian women’s Pensioner Group $300
Kensington Chinese Friendship Association $300
Kensington Chinese Friendship Association $300
Keon Park Greek Senior Citizens Club $300
Keon Park Greek Senior Citizens Club $300
Kew Home of Chinese $300
Kew Home of Chinese $300
Kew Primary School $700
Keysborough College - Coomoora Campus $1,120
Keysborough Secondary College $2,000
Keysborough Turkish Islamic & Cultural Centre Inc $500
Klabb Ghannejja Maltin Inc $300
Klabb Ghannejja Maltin Inc $300
Klabb Ghannejja Maltin Inc $300
Knox Chinese Elderly Citizens Club $500
Knox Chinese Elderly Citizens Club $300
Knox City Council $4,000
Kondia limnos Greek Senior Citizens Club $300
Kongor Students Associations of Australia (KSAA) $2,000
Krishna Ravali School of Carnatic Music $500
Kurdish women Society of Victoria $600
la Mirada Inc $2,000
lailun Pawlkom Melbourne Inc $800
lakhanda Media Centre $300
languages Action Alliance $500
latin American Friendship Fonda la Clinica of Victoria Inc
$3,000
latrobe Indian Association Inc $300
latrobe Valley Sudanese Professional Association Inc $500
le Belle Arti $300
league of Maniates and Friends of Melbourne and Victoria “I Mani” Inc
$400
lebanese Forcez $500
lemnian Community of Victoria ltd $300
liberian Community of Geelong $500
liech Nuer Community Association Inc $400
liedertafel Arion German Male Choir $1,000
loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services $1,500
loddon Prison $800
longechuk Community Development Services in Australia
$400
longhorns Basketball Club Inc $400
lopit Community Association of Australia $700
louise Multicultural Community Centre Inc $500
lual Community Association in Australia $500
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
lutheran Chinese School $500
luzviminda Association of Filipino women in Victoria Inc
$500
lynbrook Primary School $2,000
Macclesfield Primary School $1,400
Macedonian Australian Cultural youth Association ‘Tanec’ Inc
$500
Macedonian Australian Cultural youth Association ‘Tanec’ Inc
$500
Macedonian Australian Senior Citizens Group “Ilinden”
$300
Macedonian Australian Senior Citizens Group “Ilinden”
$300
Macedonian Community Council of Melbourne and Victoria
$1,000
Macedonian Community welfare Association $500
Macedonian Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria ladies Association
$300
Macedonian Pensioners Association of Footscray $300
Macedonian Pensioners Association of Footscray $300
Macedonian Senior Citizen women’s Group ‘Pelister’ of St Albans
$300
Macedonian Senior Citizen women’s Group ‘Pelister’ of St Albans
$300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Club of west Sunshine $300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Club of west Sunshine $300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Club Pelister of St Albans Inc
$300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Club Pelister of St Albans Inc
$300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Altona North $400
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Ardeer $300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Avondale Heights, East Keilor, Moonee Valley and Districts
$300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Avondale Heights, East Keilor, Moonee Valley and Districts
$500
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Hobsons Bay $300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Kingspark $300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Zlatna Sonce of Footscray
$300
Macedonian Senior Citizens women’s Dancing Group “Veseli Makedonki”
$300
Macedonian Senior Citizens women’s Dancing Group “Veseli Makedonki”
$300
Macedonian Senior Group “Tumbe Café” $300
Macedonian women’s Pensioners Association of Footscray
$300
Macedonian women’s Senior Citizen Group lalor $300
Macedonian women’s Senior Citizens Club of west Sunshine
$300
Macedonian women’s Senior Citizens Group of Altona North and District
$300
Macedonian women’s Senior Citizens Group of Avondale Heights, Moonee Valley & Districts
$300
Macedonian womens Senior Citizens Group of Hobsons Bay
$500
Macedonian womens Senior Citizens Group of Hobsons Bay
$300
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Ma’di Community Association in Victoria Australia (MACA) Inc
$600
Ma’di Community Association in Victoria Australia (MACA) Inc
$400
Maharashtra Mandal Victoria Inc $700
Mahogany Neighbourhood Centre Inc $1,100
Malayalee Catholic Society of Victoria Inc $500
Malta Star of the Sea House Inc $300
Maltese Association Northern Suburbs $300
Maltese Bocce Social & Recreation Club $600
Maltese Community Council of Victoria Inc $300
Maltese literature Group $800
Maltese Pensioners Association Inc $500
Maltese Pensioners Association Inc $500
Manchester Primary School $1,000
Manningham City Council $3,000
Maori Community of Geelong - Te Arahina $300
Marian College Sunshine $1,000
Maribyrnong City Council $2,500
Maribyrnong Festival ltd $1,000
Maroondah Secondary College $1,000
Maroondah Southern Sudanese Christian welfare Association
$400
McGuire College $1,000
Melbourne Armenian Cultural Festival Inc $2,000
Melbourne Chinese u3A Inc. $400
Melbourne Filmoteca: latin American, Portugese and Spanish Film Group Inc
$300
Melbourne French Theatre $1,000
Melbourne International Jazz Festival $12,000
Melbourne linh Son Buddhist Congregation Inc $1,000
Melbourne Marati Mandal $1,000
Melbourne Murugan Cultural Centre $300
Melbourne Murugan Cultural Centre $500
Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club Inc $500
Melbourne South Eastern Region Chinese Friendship Centre of Victoria Inc
$800
Melbourne South Eastern Region Chinese Friendship Centre of Victoria Inc
$500
Melbourne university Overseas Students Service $800
Melbourne university Overseas Students Service $1,000
Melton African Support Services (MASS) $500
Merlion Club Inc $500
Metropolitan Fire & Emergency Services Board $5,000
Mexbourne Dance Company Inc $400
Mexican Social and Cultural Association of Victoria Inc
$1,000
Mexican Social and Cultural Association of Victoria Inc
$300
Migrant Information Centre (Eastern Melbourne) $700
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Migrant Information Centre (Eastern Melbourne) $500
Mildura Greek Elderly Citizens Club $300
Mildura Senior College $1,500
Mill Park Primary School $1,400
Monash Chinese Events Organising Committee $10,000
Monash Chinese Friendship Association $500
Monash Chinese Friendship Association $300
Monash Maltese Seniors Social Group Inc $300
Monash university $500
Montemurro Social Club ‘San Rocco’ $300
Montemurro Social Club ‘San Rocco’ $300
Moreland City Council $500
Moreland Turkish Educational and Social Affairs Centre Inc
$19,000
Mornington Dutch Australian Senior Club $300
Mornington Dutch Australian Senior Club $300
Morwell Senior Italian Citizens Club $400
Morwell Senior Italian Citizens Club $300
Morwell Senior Italian Citizens Club $300
Mount Alexander Shire Council $1,000
Mount Eliza North Primary School $1,000
Mount Eliza Secondary College $1,000
Mowbray College $1,000
Mulgrave Primary School $600
Mullum Primary School $500
Mullum Primary School $2,000
Multicultura Australia Inc $50,000
Multicultural Arts Victoria $10,000
Multicultural Arts Victoria $1,200
Multicultural Arts Victoria $500
Multicultural Arts Victoria $1,000
Multicultural Arts Victoria $10,000
Multicultural Arts Victoria $10,000
Multicultural Sudanese Centre $800
Museum of Chinese Australian History Inc $600
Musik Trafik $2,000
Muslim women’s Council of Victoria $800
Myrtleford Chamber of Commerce $1,000
Nadezhda Russian Senior Citizens Club $500
Nadezhda Russian Senior Citizens Club $400
Narre warren South P-12 College $1,500
Nasir Community Development Agency (NCDA) $500
Nasir Community Development Agency (NCDA) $600
National Celtic Festival Inc $1,500
National Council of Jewish women Australia (Vic) $700
National Council of Jewish women Australia (Vic) $500
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
National Council of Jewish women Australia (Vic) $400
National Ethnic & Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council (NEMBC)
$30,000
National union of Greek Australian Students $500
Natya Kala Mandir $500
Nauru Community Australia Inc $300
Nella Fitzgerald Events $1,200
NESB links $500
New Friends Senior Citizens Group $400
New Friends Senior Citizens Group $300
New Generation Inc $500
New life Association $400
New Star Art School $1,000
New united Villages of Florina $1,200
New united Villages of Florina $300
New wyndham Community Services $500
New Zealand Maori Club $2,000
New Zealand Maori Club $300
Newport Maltese Association Inc $300
Niruththa Indian Fine Arts Association Inc $1,500
Niruththa Indian Fine Arts Association Inc $5,000
Noble Park North Multicultural Elderly Citizens Club $500
North East Multicultural Association (NEMA) $300
North Eastern Greek Elderly Citizens $300
North Eastern Melbourne Chinese Association Inc (NEMCA)
$500
North Eastern Melbourne Chinese Association Inc (NEMCA)
$500
North Geelong Secondary College $2,000
North Melbourne Chinese Association $300
North Richmond Community Health Centre $25,000
North Richmond Elderly Chinese Friendship Association Melbourne
$500
North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc $800
North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc $300
North Victorian Great African ‘Nogafa’ Inc $500
North Victorian Great African ‘Nogafa’ Inc $400
North west Tamil Society Inc $300
North yarra Community Health $2,000
Northcote Australian Greek Society Care for the Aged $500
Northern Melbourne Sri lankan Association $400
Northern Melbourne Vietnamese Elderly Association $500
Northern Melbourne Vietnamese Elderly Association $400
Northern Metropolitan Multicultural Seniors Club Network
$800
Northern Region Indian Seniors’ Association of Victoria
$800
Northern Region Indian Seniors’ Association of Victoria
$300
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Northern Turkish women’s Association $300
Nuer Community in Victoria Inc $600
Oakleigh Cannons Junior Soccer Club $2,000
Okyanusya Theatre & Culltural Activities Group $2,000
Olympian Society Inc $300
Onside Victoria Inc $500
Operation STITCHES $400
Otuho Community of Australia $500
Our lady of Grace Incorporated $300
Pammessinian Brotherhood of Melbourne & Victoria ltd
$1,000
Pan Argoliki Philanthropic Brotherhood To Palamidi Inc
$400
Pan Argoliki Philanthropic Brotherhood To Palamidi Inc
$300
Pan Australian Federation of Thessalian Associations Inc
$400
Panagia Kamariani Greek Senior Citizens Club $300
Panagia Soumela Pontian Association of whittlesea $400
Panagia Soumela Pontian Association of whittlesea $300
Panarkadian Association of Melbourne and Victoria ‘O Kolokotronis’
$400
Pancretan Association of Melbourne Australia ltd $1,000
Pancretan Association of Melbourne Australia ltd $400
Panpieriki Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria ‘Olympus’ Inc
$300
Panpyliaki Brotherhood of Navarinon of Melbourne and Victoria
$300
Panpyliaki Brotherhood of Navarinon of Melbourne and Victoria
$400
Papadakis Park Inc $300
Penders Grove Primary School $1,000
Peninsula & Rye Greek women’s Group $400
Peninsula & Rye Greek women’s Group $400
Peninsula & Rye Greek women’s Group $300
Pensioner Macedonian womens Group of Brimbank $300
Peru united Soccer Club $700
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre $700
Philanthropic Society Nomoy Kavalas Agios Silas Inc $800
Philanthropikos Syllogos-Dimos Meligala Messinias O Profitis Elias Inc
$400
Philipino Elderly Association South East Region Victoria (PEASER)
$400
Philippine Fiesta of Victoria Inc $1,000
Pines Seaford Fishing Club $2,000
Polish Community Association in Geelong Inc $500
Polish Community Council of Victoria Inc $300
Polish Dance Ensemble ‘lowicz’ $300
Polish Dance Ensemble ‘lowicz’ $300
Polish Senior Citizens Club in Albion $300
Polish Senior Citizens Club of Caulfield $300
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Pontian Association of Melbourne ‘Euxenos Pontos’ $600
Pontian Association of Melbourne ‘Euxenos Pontos’ $300
Prahran Chinese Elderly Citizens Association $440
Preston Greek Senior Citizens Club $300
Pride of the Cook Islands $800
Punjab warriors Sports and Cultural Club Inc $1,000
Quang Minh Temple $400
Quang Minh Temple $2,500
Quarry Hill Primary School $1,700
Raaso Relief Rehabilitation and Development Organisation Inc
$400
Rajasthani Kutumb of Victoria Inc $500
Rajasthani Kutumb of Victoria Inc $1,000
Rejoice Chinese Christian Communication Centre Inc $500
Rejoice Chinese Christian Communication Centre Inc $300
Reservoir East Primary School $800
Reservoir Greek Elderly Citizens Club $300
Reservoir Greek Senior Citizens Club Inc $300
Rethimnian Association of Melbourne $300
Return to Anatolia Inc $2,000
RISE Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees $1,200
Roberts McCubbin Primary School $600
Romanian Community Ethnic School $300
Romanian Community Senior Citizens Club Inc $500
Rosebud Secondary College $2,000
Rotary Club of Mooroopna Inc $1,500
Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital $400
RSl (Victorian Branch) Hellenic Sub Branch Inc. $3,000
Russian Cultural and TV Association Inc “Sputnik” $500
Russian Cultural and TV Association Inc “Sputnik” $400
Rye & Peninsula Greek Senior Citizens Club $400
Rye & Peninsula Greek Senior Citizens Club $400
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School $1,500
Sacred Heart Parish School $650
Saidet Zgharta Association $300
Saint Maratken Community Society Inc $300
San Donato Association Inc $600
Santa Marija Assunta Association $1,200
Sao Mai Vietnamese School $400
Sapthaswara School of Carnatic Music $400
Sapthaswara School of Carnatic Music $800
Satyam Shivam School of Music $400
School of the Good Shepherd $500
Scottish Clans and Associations Council $800
Selimiye Foundation ltd $300
Serbian Community Association of Australia Inc $1,000
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Serbian Community Association of Australia Inc $300
Serbian Ethnic School St. Sava Greensborough $400
Serbian Orthodox Church Community ‘St Nicholas’ Geelong
$300
Serbian Senior Citizens & Pensioners Club ‘Tzar lazar’ $300
Serbian Social Services and Support Inc $400
Serbian Social Services and Support Inc $500
Serbian youth Orthodox Association (SOyA) $400
Serraion Society of Victoria Inc $400
Serraion Society of Victoria Inc $300
Shalom Association Inc $500
Shepparton Arts Festival Inc $2,000
Shepparton English language Centre $300
Shepparton English language Centre $1,500
Shire of Campaspe $600
Shurolok Music Appreciation and Performance Group Inc
$1,000
Sicilia Bella Gruppo Folkloristico Inc $300
Slovenian Australian Social and Sports Association St Albans Inc
$300
Somali Australian Council of Victoria Inc $2,000
Somali Australian Council of Victoria Inc $700
Somali Support and Development Association Inc $500
Soroptimist International of Shepparton $300
South American Senior Citizens Club of Frankston and Peninsula
$400
South Eastern Muslim Families Group $2,000
South Sudanese Community in wyndham (SSCIw) Inc
$500
South Sudanese women with a Vision $700
Southern Sudanese Dinka Dance Group $600
Spanish latin American welfare Centre Inc (CElAS) $3,000
Spanish latin American welfare Centre Inc (CElAS) $9,800
Spanish Speaking Senior Citizens Club of Clayton $400
Specimen Hill Primary School $700
Spinete Social Club $500
Springvale Asian Business Association $2,000
Springvale Italian Senior Citizens Club $300
Springvale Mandarin Support Network $400
Springvale Neighbourhood House $1,000
Springvale Senior Citizens Multicultural Club $300
Sri lanka German Technical Training Institute Old Boys Association of Australia
$400
Sri lankan Elders’ welfare Association “SEwA” $400
Sri lankan Elders’ welfare Association “SEwA” $300
Sri lankan Study Centre for the Advancement of Technology and Social welfare (SCATS)
$600
Srotar Ashor $300
St Albans Business Group Association Inc $5,000
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
St Albans Good Friday Association Inc $800
St Albans Primary School $500
St Albans Primary School $1,000
St Andrew’s Catholic School werribee $800
St Andrews luqa Social Club $500
St Anthony Greek Orthodox Church $300
St Anthonys Coptic Orthodox College $800
St Anthony’s Primary School $800
St Augustine’s School - wodonga $1,000
St Columba’s College $800
St Georges Antiochian Orthodox Church Association $300
St Joseph’s Italian ladies Group Cobram $700
St Jude’s Primary School, Scoresby $500
St Mary’s Catholic School Rutherglen $700
St Mary’s Primary School Dandenong $500
St Mina and St Marina Church Seniors and Newcomers Group
$300
St Monica’s Primary School $1,000
St Nicholas Philanthropic Society of Proty $500
St Paul’s Committee $300
St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne) limited $400
St Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox Church $500
Stella Maris Maltese Association Inc $300
Stonnington Ballroom Dancing Association Inc $400
Sudanese Community of the North west Victoria Swan Hill
$700
Sudanese Disability Action Group in Victoria Inc $400
Sudanese Elders Association in Australia $600
Sudanese women On The Move Network Inc (SwOM)
$800
Sudanese women On The Move Network Inc (SwOM)
$700
Sudanese women’s Group $700
Sunraysia Irish & Friends Association $500
Sunraysia Turkish women’s Group $400
Sunshine Business Association $1,000
Sunshine College $1,200
Sunshine Polish Charity Association Inc $300
Sunshine Polish Charity Association Inc $400
Sunshine Primary School $400
Sveti Georgi Selo Velusina Humanitarian Association of Victoria
$500
Swan Hill Secondary College $1,000
Swiss Club of Victoria $2,000
Syriac Orthodox youth Group of Melbourne (SOyGOM)
$500
Syriac Orthodox youth Group of Melbourne (SOyGOM)
$600
Syrian Orthodox women’s Association (SOwA) $600
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
T.Kosciuszko Polish language Saturday School $300
Tabulam and Templer Homes for the Aged Inc $800
Tallangatta Primary School $700
Tamil Educational, Cultural and Charitable Association (TECCA)
$800
Tamil-Australian Friendship Society Inc. $600
Tarxien Social Club Inc $300
Tatura Community House $500
Tatura Italian Social Club Inc $1,000
Temple Society Australia $700
Temple Society German language School Bentleigh-Moorabbin
$300
Tempy Primary School $2,000
Thai Culture and Food Festival Inc $5,000
The Adam lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee Inc
$400
The Ancient Church of the East $500
The Anglican Parish of Jika Jika $500
The Association of Hazaras in Victoria Inc $600
The Association of Hazaras in Victoria Inc $600
The Australian Albanian Community Association Dandenong Inc
$1,000
The Australian Chaldean Federation of Victoria/Australia
$800
The Australian Chaldean Federation of Victoria/Australia
$1,000
The Australian Greek Orthodox Community of Moreland Inc
$300
The Ballarat Togolese Association (BTA) $600
The Committee for Sri lanka Inc $800
The Community of Cypriots of the Eastern Suburbs - Elderly Citizens
$300
The Cultural Centre of Florinians ‘Aristotelis’ $1,200
The Cultural Centre of Florinians ‘Aristotelis’ $300
The Democratic Republic Of Congo Community Association of Victoria (DRCCAV) Inc
$500
The Federation of Chinese Associations of Victoria $40,000
The Goan Overseas Association of Victoria Inc $1,000
The Hindu Society of Victoria (Inc) $1,000
The Hindu Society of Victoria (Inc) $1,000
The Hindu Society of Victoria (Inc) $1,000
The Hindu Society of Victoria (Inc) $1,000
The Hindu Society of Victoria (Inc) $1,000
The Hindu Society of Victoria (Inc) $1,000
The Hispanic Society of Victoria $500
The Hoa-lu Scouting Group $500
The Hornbill Chin Association of Australia $500
The Hornbill Chin Association of Australia $600
The Hunan Association of Victoria Inc $500
The Indian Tamil Association of Victoria $400
The Indonesian Society of Victoria - PERwIRA $1,000
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
The Italian Australian Coordinating Committee of Gippsland
$500
The Jewish Cultural Centre & National library Kadimah
$800
The Jewish Film Foundation of Australia Inc $2,500
The Kilmore International School $1,200
The Korean Society of Victoria Australia $600
The Melbourne Chinese Choir $300
The Melbourne Irish Festival Committee Inc (St Patrick’s Festival Melbourne)
$1,000
The Moreland City Band $500
The New Hope Foundation Inc $800
The New Hope Foundation Inc (Prahran) $1,000
The New Hope Foundation Inc (Refugee Resource Centre Footscray)
$500
The New Hope Foundation Inc (Refugee Resource Centre Footscray)
$800
The Nigerian Society of Victoria $700
The Pushkin lyceum $400
The Robert Burns Club of Melbourne Inc $500
The Sindhi Association of Victoria Inc $600
The Sudanese Community in Melton Inc. $500
The ukrainian youth Association of Australia (Melbourne) Inc
$500
The united Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation of South Eastern Melbourne
$500
The united women’s Group of liberia $700
THE-HE Vietnamese language Centre $300
THE-HE Vietnamese language Centre $300
THE-HE Vietnamese language Centre $300
Thessaloniki Association “The white Tower” Inc $24,000
Thornbury Greek Senior Citizens Club $300
Thornbury Primary School $550
Tibetan Buddhist Society $600
Tibetan Buddhist Society $600
Timorese Association in Victoria $500
Timorese Association in Victoria $1,000
Trinity Catholic School $1,000
Tulsi Manas Satsang Sanstha $400
Turkish Sub-Branch of the Victorian RSl of Australia $1,200
Turkish women’s Recreation Group Inc $300
Turkish women’s Recreation Group Inc $300
ukrainian Arts and Culture $400
ukrainian Social Club $300
ukrainian womens Association Geelong $400
united Nations Day of Vesak $1,000
united Filipino Elderly Group $300
united Jewish Education Board $400
united Nations Association of Australia (Victorian Division) Inc
$6,000
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
united Somali Organisation in Australia Inc $800
united Somali Organisation in Australia Inc $800
unity in Diversity Inc $500
universal Chinese and Friends Association Inc $400
uruguayan Social Club of Melbourne Inc $400
utsav Malayalee Samaj $300
Vedanta Society of Australia $500
Vedanta Society of Australia $600
Vermont Secondary School $700
Victoria Hua xin Chinese women’s Association Inc $400
Victoria Hua xin Chinese women’s Association Inc $300
Victoria Police Football Club $600
Victoria Police Soccer Club Inc $1,000
Victorian African women’s Association Inc $1,700
Victorian Arabic Artists Association Inc $500
Victorian Arabic Social Services (VASS) $1,000
Victorian Arabic Social Services (VASS) - Arabic women’s Group
$500
Victorian Arabic Social Services: Hume Assyrian Chaldean women’s Support Group
$400
Victorian Association of world war II Veterans from Former Soviet union
$300
Victorian Co-operative on Children’s Services for Ethnic Groups (VICSEG)
$900
Victorian Deanery Russian School $300
Victorian Eritrean Community Association $1,500
Victorian Fijian Sports Club $400
Victorian Greek Australian Elderly Citizens Group $500
Victorian Greek Australian Elderly Citizens Group $300
Victorian lebanese Community Council Inc $500
Victorian Scottish Dancing Members Association $700
Victorian Sikh Association Inc $2,000
Victorian Sikh Association Inc $2,000
Victorian Tamil Cultural Association $1,000
Victorian Tamil Cultural Association $5,000
Vietnamese Community in Australia - Vic Chapter (VCA)
$15,000
Vietnamese Community in Australia - Vic Chapter (VCA)
$20,000
Vietnamese Community in Australia - Vic Chapter (VCA)
$2,000
Vitoria women’s Fellowship Group $300
Vitoria women’s Fellowship Group $600
wangaratta High School $1,000
warrnambool City Council $2,000
wau Assocation Development of Australia Inc $400
waverley Chinese Senior Citizens Club $400
west Footscray Neighbourhood House $20,000
western Edge youth Arts Inc $1,000
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
western Region Bengali School Inc $500
western Region Health Centre $500
westgarth Primary School $500
westgarth Primary School $600
wFFR - whitehorse Friends for Reconciliation $300
whittlesea Arabic Speaking women’s Association $400
whittlesea Chinese Association Inc (wCA) $600
whittlesea Chinese Association Inc (wCA) $600
whittlesea Community Connections $500
whittlesea Community Connections $650
whittlesea Green Island Turkish women’s Group Inc $400
whittlesea Green Island Turkish women’s Group Inc $400
whittlesea Trung Vuong Vietnamese womens Group $400
whittlesea Trung Vuong Vietnamese womens Group $400
wilmot Road Primary School $1,000
windermere Child & Family Services Inc $500
wodonga Senior Secondary College $1,850
wodonga west Primary School $1,000
women’s Friendship Group $300
world Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE) $20,000
wyndham Humanitarian Network $1,200
xaghra Association of Australia Inc $300
xinjiang Chinese Association of Australia Inc $500
xinjiang Chinese Association of Australia Inc $300
yackandandah Folk Festival Inc $3,300
yarra Settlement Forum $1,000
youlden Parkville Cricket Club Inc $500
young Filipino Aussies Action Group $300
young Generation Filipino Citizens Club of the South East
$200
youth Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of the Presentation of St. Dimitrios Moonee Ponds
$300
yugoslav-Australian workers Centre ‘Brotherhood unity’ Inc
$300
yugoslav-Australian workers Centre ‘Brotherhood unity’ Inc
$300
Zahrira Social Club $300
Zahrira Social Club $500
Zevk’u Seda Classical Turkish Choir $500
Zimbabwean Community in Australia (Victoria) $800
Zionist Council of Victoria $800
Zionist Council of Victoria $2,000
Zomi Association Australia Inc $400
Zomi Association Australia Inc $700
Zoroastrian Association of Victoria Inc $400
Zoroastrian Association of Victoria Inc $300
Zotung Community in Australia $300
sUB totaL $1,345,405
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
African Communities Elderly Association of Victoria $1,300
Altona North Senior Citizens Centre $2,400
ANCRI Sezione di Melbourne $1,500
ANCRI werribee $2,200
Antiochian Community Support Association (ACSA) $2,000
Arabic Elderly Pensioners Group $1,800
Arabic Senior Citizens Group $1,000
Archangel Michael Senior Social Club of Oakleigh $1,000
Archangel Michael Senior Social Club of Oakleigh $1,000
Armenian Relief Society Nayiri Chapter $1,200
Armenoro Senior Citizens Association $2,000
Asklipios Greek women’s Group $1,400
Assoc Marinai D’Italia Gruppo “M.O. Pugliesi” $1,500
Association of Greek Elderly Citizen Clubs of Melbourne & Victoria
$3,300
Associazione Amica Pensionati Italiani Di Hawthorn $1,200
Associazione Arma Aeronautica $1,300
Associazione Donna Calabrese Nel Mondo Inc $1,000
Associazione Donna Calabrese Nel Mondo Inc $1,000
Associazione Elbani nel Mondo $2,000
Associazione Emilia Romagna del Victoria $1,300
Associazione Figli D’Italia Inc $900
Associazione laziali Pensionati di Geelong $1,500
Associazione Nazionale Carristi D’Italia, Sezione Di Melbourne
$800
Associazione Nazionale Combattenti Della Guerra Di liberazione
$1,400
Associazione Nazionale D’Italia $1,000
Associazione Nazionale Marinai D’Italia $800
Associazione Pensionate laziali di Monash $1,250
Associazione Piemontesi Victoria $1,300
Associazone Pensionati laziali Australia $2,200
Atherton Gardens Chinese Neighbourhood $1,000
Australia Ceylon Fellowship $1,200
Australia Denizli Association $800
Australian & Bosnian-Herzegovinan Community Club Brcko Melbourne
$1,800
Australian Ankawa Club $1,400
Australian Armenian welfare Society $1,100
Australian Bosnian Seniors Group Inc $1,000
Australian Coptic Senior Citizens Club of Manningham
$1,200
Australian Croatian Club Bocce - Gospic $1,200
Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Association Geelong
$1,200
Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club “Vila Velebita” Broadmeadows
$1,100
Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Clifton Hill
$1,200
Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Gladstone Park
$1,100
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Australian Cyprian Sports & Social Association Seniors
$2,000
Australian Greek and Cypriot Senior Citizens Club of Melbourne
$1,800
Australian Greek Elderly Citizens Club Northcote $2,400
Australian Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Mentone and Districts
$1,400
Australian Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Oakleigh $2,450
Australian Greek Ex-Servicemen’s Association $2,000
Australian Greek Isolated Group $1,600
Australian lebanese Christian ladies Group - Darebin $400
Australian lebanese Christian ladies Group - Darebin $600
Australian lebanese Christian ladies Group - Moreland
$900
Australian Macedonian Disability Pensioner Group “Vardar” Melbourne
$1,100
Australian Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Reservoir
$1,400
Australian Serbian Pensioners Club of St George Church, St Albans & Districts
$2,100
Australian Thornbury Pensioners Club $1,400
Australian ukrainian Senior Citizens Fellowship “Golden Age”
$1,100
Australian yugoslav Multicultural Pensioner Group $900
Australian yugoslav Pensioners Group $1,600
AVA Boroondara Senior Citizens Group $1,200
AVA Elderly Group in Maribyrnong $800
Avellino Circolo Pensioners of Springvale $650
Avellino Circolo Pensioners of Springvale $650
Avondale East Keilor Senior Citizens Club $1,100
Avondale Heights Greek Pensioners and Elderly Citizens Club
$2,000
AVwA yarra City Senior Citizens Group $800
Ballarat Polish Seniors Club $1,000
Barry Road Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,400
Batman’s Greek Elderly womens Club $1,300
‘Bea Cantare’ Choir Inc $500
‘Bea Cantare’ Choir Inc $500
Bellarine International women’s Senior Citizens Club $1,100
Benevolent Association of Nafpaktians Melbourne-Victoria Inc
$1,000
Benevolent Brotherhood of Kolindros $1,200
Benevolent Brotherhood of Kolindros $1,200
Benvenute Donne Glenroy $1,200
Berwick & District Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,100
Bigla Senior Citizens Association $1,500
Bitola Macedonian Senior Citizens Group whittlesea $2,250
Black River Macedonian Australian Association Avondale Heights, Moonee Valley & District
$900
Boroondara Camberwell Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,300
Boroondara Chinese Senior Citizens Association Inc $1,400
Bosnian and Herzegovinian Elderly Citizens Club $1,400
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Box Hill Chinese Elderly Citizens Club $4,000
Brighton Greek Senior Citizens Association $1,500
Brimbank Hungarian Senior Citizens Club $1,700
Broadmeadows Greek Elderly Citizens Club $1,600
Broadmeadows Greek womens Club $950
Broadmeadows Turkish Senior Citizens Club $2,200
Broadmeadows Vietnamese Senior Citizens Club $1,200
Brunswick Greek Elderly and Pensioners Association $2,450
Camberwell Senior Citizens Club $1,400
Cantanzaro Senior Citizen’s Club of Monash $1,400
Casey Chinese Seniors Group $1,500
Casey Hungarian Senior Citizens Club $2,200
Centre of Greek Ex-Servicemens Elderly Citizens Club of Darebin and District
$1,800
Centre of Greek Ex-Servicemen’s Elderly Citizens Club of Kew and District
$1,300
Centro Argentino of Victoria (CAV) Seniors $1,000
Ceylonese welfare Organisation $2,200
Chaldean Senior Citizens Group of whittlesea $500
Chaldean Senior Citizens Group of whittlesea $500
Chilean Federation of Older People $800
Chinese Community Health Advisory of Australia Inc (CCHAA)
$2,000
Chinese Senior Citizens Club of Frankston & Peninsula
$1,000
Chinese Singing and Dance Troupe of Melbourne $1,000
Chinese xinjiang Senior Citizens Association $2,200
Chios Brotherhood Korais of Melbourne and Victoria ltd
$1,000
Circolo Fiumano Melbourne $1,150
Circolo Pensionati “Don Bosco” $1,900
Circolo Pensionati Abruzzesi Abruzzesi Senior Citizens Social Club
$2,800
Circolo Pensionati Campani Italiano Di Clayton $2,200
Circolo Pensionati Casa D’Abruzzo Club $1,500
Circolo Pensionati del Reggio Calabria Club $1,150
Circolo Pensionati della Comunita’ Vizzinese $2,000
Circolo Pensionati Federazione Clubs laziali Melbourne Victoria
$1,400
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Airport west $2,000
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Ascot Vale $2,000
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Ballarat $1,000
Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Bentleigh $2,000
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Bundoora $2,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Campaspe $800
Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Casa Nostra $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Coburg $3,600
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Deer Park $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di East Brunswick $750
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Essendon $2,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Footscray $1,800
Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Geelong $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Greenvale $1,600
Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Hadfield $1,300
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Kensington $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Kew/Hawthorn/Camberwell
$1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Knox $1,500
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Kyabram $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di lilydale $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Merlynston $2,400
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Mildura and Sunraysia $1,800
Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Moonee Ponds Inc $1,300
Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Moonee Ponds Inc $1,300
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Mordialloc $600
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Moreland $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Newport-williamstown $1,400
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di North & west Melbourne
$900
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di North Fitzroy $1,400
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di North west Essendon $1,100
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Nunawading/Box Hill $1,800
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Oakleigh e Clayton $2,000
Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Pascoe Vale $1,400
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Richmond $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di San luca, lalor, Thomastown
$2,300
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di San Marco in lamis $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di St Albans $1,600
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di St Ignazio $1,100
Circolo Pensionati Italiani di St Mary Magdlen Chadstone
$1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Tatura $950
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Tullamarine $1,500
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di waverley $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di west Brunswick $1,500
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Doutta Galla-Essendon $1,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani East Keilor & Avondale Heights
$2,200
Circolo Pensionati Italiani Napoli Family Club $1,600
Circolo Pensionati Multiculturale Di Greenvale $2,000
Circolo Pensionati Multiculturale Di Greenvale $2,000
Circolo Pensionati Pugliesi $2,200
Clarinda Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,000
Club Astoria German Australian Society $1,000
Club Frecce Tricolori Victoria $1,000
Cobradah Senior Citizens Centre $500
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Cobram Italian Social Club Inc $800
Cobram Italian Social Club Inc $800
Coburg Turkish Elderly & Pensioners Club $800
Coburg Turkish Elderly & Pensioners Club $800
Collingwood Fitzroy Indo-Chinese Elderly Group $1,600
Collingwood Greek Elderly womens Association $1,200
Collingwood Greek Senior Citizen Club $850
Combined Pensioners & Superannuants Association of Victoria - Noble Park Branch
$1,200
Community Club ‘Smile - ulibka’ $1,200
Community of Cypriots of the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne Elderly Group
$2,000
Community of Niki $1,650
Confederazione Fanti D’Italia - ANSI - Cavalieri Della Patria
$2,200
Corona Italian Seniors Club of Casey $1,200
Cosenza Senior Citizens of Kingston $1,500
Cranbourne Hampton Park Greek Senior Citizens Club
$1,550
Cranbourne Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,800
Cretan Elderly Club of Melbourne and Victoria $1,500
Croatian Senior Citizens Association “Cardinal Stepinac” Geelong
$1,800
Croatian Senior Citizens Club Mildura Incorporated $800
Croatian Senior Citizens Club Mildura Incorporated $800
Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Altona $1,100
Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Footscray $1,250
Croatian Senior Citizens Club St Albans $1,800
Croatian Senior Citizens Club Sunshine $1,200
Croatian Senior Citizens Group Keysborough $3,300
Croydon Dutch Social Club $1,500
Croydon Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,200
Cultural Vietnamese women’s Association $1,100
Cyprus Greek Orthodox Community of “Apostolos Andreas” Sunshine
$2,600
Cyprus Senior Citizens Turkish Club $1,200
Dandenong and Endeavour Hills Club de los Abuelos: Italo-Spanish
$1,600
Darebin Greek women’s Senior Citizens Group $1,600
Deer Park Senior Citizens Club $1,000
Deutscher Verein KG Nerrische Insulaner $1,900
Diamond Valley Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,500
Dutch Australian Society Social Club $900
Dutch Independent Senior Citizens of Oz $900
East African Elders Association Inc $800
Eastern Senior Chinese Association $800
Elderly Club of the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria
$2,200
Elderly Filipino Association of Australia $1,200
Elderly Group of the Greek Orthodox Community of Hobson Bay
$1,600
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Eltham Dutch Over Fifties Club $1,200
Epping Combined Pensioners Association $1,200
Eremia Greek Elderly Association of Port Phillip $1,400
Eritrean Elderly Association in Melbourne $1,300
Ethnic Chinese Happy Age Association of Victoria $3,000
Ethnic Discussion Club $1,200
Family Support Group Northern Region $900
Faros Senior Citizens Inc $700
Faros Senior Citizens Inc $700
Fawkner Senior Citizens Centre $500
Federation of Chinese Associations Senior Citizens Social Club
$1,950
Federation of Taivgetos of laconia $2,600
Federazione Pensionati Italiani Del Victoria $1,500
Felaust Filipino Australian Elderly Citizen Group of Broadmeadows
$1,200
FIDCA Federazione Italiana Combattenti Alleati Melbourne
$1,300
Fiji Indian Senior Citizens Association Inc $1,000
Fiji Indian Senior Citizens Association Inc $1,000
Fiji Senior Citizens Association (FSC) $1,150
Filipino Australian Senior Citizens Advisory Council in Australia
$2,200
Filipino Australian Senior Citizens of Victoria (FASCOV)
$1,200
Filipino Elderly Get Together Association $1,200
Filipino-Australian Society Melbourne’s Northwest (FASMENOw)
$1,200
Fitzroy Atherton Gardens Table Tennis Association $500
Fitzroy Vietnamese Elderly Group $1,100
Flemington Chinese Bridge Club $500
Footscray IndoChinese Elderly Group $2,200
Galini Greek Elderly Association of Port Melbourne $1,500
Geelong Dutch 50 Plus Club $1,800
Geelong Dutch Club Inc $850
Geelong Golden Age Polish Seniors Club $1,200
Geelong Hungarian St laszlo Senior Citizens Social Club
$1,400
German Friendship Society Bendigo $1,000
German/Austrian Association $900
Gippsland Croatian Association $800
Giuliani Senior Citizens Association of Geelong $1,800
Glen Eira Italian Pensioners & Senior Citizens Club $1,400
Glen Iris/Burwood Greek Seniors Citizens Club $1,600
Glenroy Greek Elderly Group $1,200
Glenroy Italian Senior Citizen’s Centre $2,200
Glenroy Maltese Senior Citizens Group $1,600
Glenroy Polish Elderly Club $1,500
Goche Delchev Senior Citizens Association $2,200
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Golden Sun Disabled & Senior Citizens Association $1,600
Greek Community of Springvale and Districts $2,200
Greek Community of Springvale and Districts $2,200
Greek Community over 50’s Elderly Citizens Club $1,200
Greek Cyprian Senior Citizens of Glen Eira $2,200
Greek Cypriot Parent & youth Club western Suburbs of Melbourne
$1,900
Greek Cypriot Senior Citizens Club of whitehorse and District
$2,000
Greek Democritus league Elderly Citizens Club $1,200
Greek Elderly Citizens Club Caulfield $1,600
Greek Elderly Citizens Club Highett $1,300
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Geelong $1,400
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Manningham $2,200
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Maroondah $1,400
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Moonee Valley $2,000
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Moreland $2,000
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Newport $900
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Nunawading $1,600
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of werribee $1,400
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of werribee women’s Group
$1,100
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of werribee women’s Group
$1,100
Greek Elderly Citizens of Clayton and District $2,200
Greek Elderly Club North Fitzroy & North Carlton $1,800
Greek Elderly Club of the Bellarine Peninsula $2,200
Greek Elderly women’s Club of Frankston and Peninsula
$1,100
Greek Federal Organisation of Ex-Servicemen’s Reserve of Greece in Australia
$1,400
Greek Macedonian Elderly Club of werribee & werribee South
$1,200
Greek National Resistance Fighters league of Melbourne & Victoria
$1,150
Greek Orthodox Community of Box Hill and Districts, Elderly Citizens Club
$2,200
Greek Orthodox Community of Clayton ltd $2,000
Greek Orthodox Community of Gippsland $1,000
Greek Orthodox Community of Gippsland $1,000
Greek Orthodox Community of Gippsland, Elderly Citizens’ Group
$1,600
Greek Orthodox Community of lalor, Thomastown, Epping and Districts, women’s Group
$2,000
Greek Orthodox Community of Monash & Districts $2,000
Greek Orthodox Parish of “Panagia Soumela” East Keilor, Senior Citizens Group
$1,400
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Andrew’s” Forest Hill, Senior Citizens Group
$1,600
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Athanasios” Springvale, Senior Citizens Group
$2,000
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Constantine and Helen” South yarra, Senior Citizens Group
$1,400
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Dimitrios” Ascot Vale, Senior Citizens Group
$1,600
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Eleftherios” Brunswick, Senior Citizen’ Group
$1,500
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St George” Thornbury, Senior Citizens
$1,300
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Haralambos” Templestowe, Senior Citizens’ Group
$2,000
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Raphael” Bentleigh, Senior Citizens’ Group
$1,100
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Vasilios”, Brunswick, Senior Citizens’ Group
$1,300
Greek Orthodox Parish of “The Holy Trinity” Footscray, Elderly Citizens
$800
Greek Orthodox Parish of “The Presentation of Our lady to the Temple” North Balwyn, Senior Citizens Group
$1,300
Greek Orthodox Parish of “The Presentation of Our lady to the Temple” North Balwyn, Senior Citizens Group
$1,300
Greek Orthodox Parish of “The Presentation of Our lord”- Coburg Senior Citizens Group
$1,400
Greek Orthodox Parish of “The Three Hierarchs” Clayton, Senior Citizens’ Group
$1,400
Greek Orthodox Senior Citizens Shepparton & District
$1,600
Greek Orthodox Senior Citizens Shepparton & District
$1,000
Greek Pensioners Club of North Fitzroy $1,200
Greek Senior Citizen Association of Moorabbin $2,000
Greek Senior Citizen Club of Airport west and District
$2,000
Greek Senior Citizens Association of South Melbourne and Albert Park
$1,400
Greek Senior Citizens Association of St Gregorios $1,200
Greek Senior Citizens Association of the Bass Coast $1,250
Greek Senior Citizen’s Club - Hobsons Bay $1,400
Greek Senior Citizens Club Altona and Region $1,400
Greek Senior Citizens Club Hawthorn $1,600
Greek Senior Citizens Club of Carnegie and Murrumbeena
$2,600
Greek Senior Citizens Club of Dandenong $2,650
Greek Senior Citizens Club of Flemington & Kensington
$1,300
Greek Senior Citizens Club of Gladstone Park & Tullamarine
$1,600
Greek Senior Citizens Club of Monash Inc $2,200
Greek Senior Citizens Club of Prahran ‘St Demetrios’ $1,600
Greek Senior Citizens District of Richmond $1,600
Greek Senior Citizens North Balwyn & Districts $1,500
Greek Senior Citizens of Frankston and Peninsula $2,000
Greek Senior Citizens of Southern Eastern Regions and Districts
$1,400
Greek Senior Elderly Citizens Club The Dormition of Our lady
$1,700
Greek Senior women’s Club Hobsons Bay $1,000
Greek Senior women’s Club Hobsons Bay $1,000
Greek Seniors & Pensioners Association Clayton & District
$2,100
Greek Seniors 60 walker Close $1,200
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Greek women’s Association of the western Suburbs $1,400
Greek women’s Club of Maribyrnong $1,500
Greek women’s Elderly Friendly Club Preston $1,200
Greek women’s Senior Citizens Club of McKinnon ‘Rhea’
$1,600
Green Gully Senior Citizens Social Club $2,000
Grupo Primavera Prahran latin American Association $1,800
Gruppo Pensionati Italiani di Keilor $1,600
Hadfield Golden years Social Club $1,500
Halkidikeon Association Aristotle the Stageritian $1,500
Health Centre Italian Group $800
Healthy Tourism Senior Citizens Club ‘Vigor’ $1,600
Hellenic Association of Mornington Peninsula Aged Citizens Club
$2,900
Hellenic Community of the City of Moorabbin (Kingston) & Districts ltd
$2,200
Hellenic Stegi Friendly Elderly Citizen’s Club of Darebin
$2,000
Hellenic women’s Federation of Victoria $1,000
Hera Greek ladies Club $1,200
Holy Mother Mary of Montevergine Association Inc $500
Hope Connection $600
Hungarian Senior Citizens Club of Greater Dandenong
$2,200
Hungarian Senior Citizens of Prahran & District $1,800
Imvrians Society of Melbourne $1,300
Independent Hellenic Senior Citizens Association of Clayton
$1,500
Independent Senior Citizens Club - Nunawading $1,500
Indian Senior Citizens Association of Victoria $1,600
Indochinese Elderly Assocation in the Eastern Suburbs
$2,600
Indo-Chinese Elderly Refugees Association - Victoria $3,000
Instituto Nazionale per la Guardia D’Onore alle Reali Tombe del Pantheon
$2,200
International women’s Group $1,600
Iranian Senior Citizen Society of Victoria $1,300
Irymple Bocce Club $1,500
Islamic Elderly Group $2,000
Islamic Society of Melbourne Eastern Region $2,200
Italian & Ethnic Senior Citizens Club of Flinders $2,700
Italian Catholic Federation Morwell $1,300
Italian Community of Keilor Association $1,800
Italian Elderly Citizens Club Noble Park Inc $900
Italian Elderly Citizens Club of Thornbury $1,500
Italian Elderly Citizens Club of Thornbury $1,500
Italian Elderly Citizens Group Holy Spirit East Thornbury
$1,400
Italian Pensioners Association of Mill Park $1,600
Italian Pensioners Club of North Altona $1,600
Italian Pensioners Club of wangaratta $1,600
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Italian Senior Citizens Club of Frankston $1,400
Italian Senior Citizens Club of lalor & Thomastown $1,600
Italian Senior Citizens Club of Moorabbin $1,900
Italian Senior Citizen’s Club of Preston $4,000
Italian Senior Citizens Recreation Group of Caulfield $1,700
Italian Social Club Altona $1,600
Italian Speaking Senior Citizens Association of Epping
$1,400
Italian welfare Association of whittlesea Senior Citizens
$1,500
Italian women’s Health Group Fawkner/Campbellfield
$1,600
Italian women’s Senior Citizens Association of whittlesea
$1,600
Kariatides Oakleigh Greek womens Group $1,600
Kastellorizian Senior’s Club $1,600
Keilor Downs Macedonian Elderly Group $1,200
Keilor Downs Macedonian women’s Pensioner Group
$1,300
Kensington Chinese Friendship Association $500
Kensington Elderly Indochinese and Middle Aged Vietnamese Group
$1,600
Kensington Indo-Chinese Elderly Group $1,800
Keon Park Greek Senior Citizens Club $2,000
Kew Home of Chinese $1,000
Kingsbury Italian Senior Citizen Club $1,600
Kingston Chinese Senior Citizens Club $800
Kingston Indian Senior Citizens Association $1,200
Kingston Turkish Senior Citizens $1,300
Knox Chinese Elderly Citizens Club $2,600
Knox Hungarian Senior Citizens Club $2,200
Kondia limnos Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,300
Korean Elderly Citizens Association of Victoria $1,000
Korumburra Italian Social Club $1,200
Kouchkovski Social Club $1,400
Kurdish Association of Victoria $1,500
Kyabram Italian ladies Association $1,400
lakhanda Media Centre $1,000
lalor Thomastown Combined Pensioners Association
$1,200
lao Elderly Association $2,000
latvian Relief Society “Daugavas Vanagi” of Geelong $1,600
le Belle Arti $1,650
lebanese Elderly Group $1,200
lefcadian Brotherhood “lEFCADA” $1,800
lemnian Community of Victoria Elderly Citizens Club $1,500
lemnian Community of Victoria Senior Citizens Group
$2,200
lien Tri Temple $600
Macedonian Australian Senior Citizens Group “Ilinden”
$1,300
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Macedonian Beranci Social Seniors $1,000
Macedonian Orthodox Church Footscray $950
Macedonian Orthodox Community of Melbourne & Victoria Elderly Citizens Group Epping
$3,000
Macedonian Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria ladies Association
$1,800
Macedonian Pensioner Group ‘uspeniena Presveta Bogorodica’ Sydenham
$1,200
Macedonian Pensioners Association of Footscray $1,300
Macedonian ‘Prilep’ Pensioners Group of Taylors lake
$800
Macedonian ‘Prilep’ Pensioners Group of Taylors lake
$800
Macedonian Senior Citizen Group ‘Markovi Kuli’ Inc $1,000
Macedonian Senior Citizen Group ‘Markovi Kuli’ Inc $1,000
Macedonian Senior Citizen Group of Hillside Inc $1,200
Macedonian Senior Citizen women’s Group ‘Pelister’ of St Albans
$1,200
Macedonian Senior Citizens Club Geelong $1,650
Macedonian Senior Citizens Club of west Sunshine $1,500
Macedonian Senior Citizens Club Pelister of St Albans Inc
$1,200
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group - lalor, Thomastown, Epping & Mill Park
$1,800
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group - SV Nikola Mirlikiski
$1,400
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Altona Meadows, laverton and Point Cook
$1,200
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Altona North $1,200
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Ardeer $1,300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Avondale Heights, East Keilor, Moonee Valley and Districts
$1,100
Macedonian Senior Citizens’ Group of Doncaster & Templestowe
$2,200
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Hobsons Bay $2,000
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Kingspark $1,300
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Monash $2,200
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of the City Greater Dandenong St Dimitrija
$1,400
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of the City of Darebin Pelister
$1,400
Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Zlatna Sonce of Footscray
$900
Macedonian Senior Citizens women’s Dancing Group “Veseli Makedonki”
$700
Macedonian Senior Group “Tumbe Café” $1,200
Macedonian women’s Group “Elpida Karamandi” $1,200
Macedonian women’s Group of Hillside - Melton $900
Macedonian women’s Pensioners Association of Footscray
$1,200
Macedonian women’s Senior Citizen Group lalor $1,300
Macedonian women’s Senior Citizens Club of west Sunshine
$1,000
Macedonian women’s Senior Citizens Group of Altona Meadows, laverton and Point Cook
$900
Macedonian women’s Senior Citizens Group of Altona North and District
$1,600
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Macedonian women’s Senior Citizens Group of Avondale Heights, Moonee Valley & Districts
$950
Macedonian womens Senior Citizens Group of Hobsons Bay
$1,200
Macedonian women’s Senior Group Tumbe Café $800
Macedonian women’s Senior Group Tumbe Café $800
Macedonian women’s Senior Group Tumbe Café $800
Macedonian women’s Social Club of whittlesea $1,400
Maltese Association Hobsons Bay $2,600
Maltese Association Northern Suburbs $1,600
Maltese Bocce Social & Recreation Club $1,000
Maltese Community of Shepparton and District $1,100
Maltese la Valette Association $2,200
Maltese Pensioners Association Inc $800
Maltese Senior Citizens Club Airport west Inc $1,500
Malvern Greek Senior Citizens Association $1,800
Malvern Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,400
Maroondah Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,300
Mauritian Golden Age Club $2,600
Mauritian Silver Edge Club $1,500
Meadow Heights Turkish Senior Pension Association $1,600
Medjimurski Club Mildura $700
Melbourne Murugan Cultural Centre $1,900
Merrilands Italian Senior Citizens Club $2,200
Mildura Greek Elderly Citizens Club $1,400
Mill Park Greek Elderly Citizens Club $1,600
Mill Park Senior Citizens Club $1,200
Monash Greek Macedonian Elderly Citizens Club $1,600
Monash Korean Senior Citizens Club $1,200
Monash Maltese Seniors Social Group Inc $700
Monash Maltese Seniors Social Group Inc $700
Monte lauro Social Club (Buccheri) ltd $1,300
Montemurro Social Club ‘San Rocco’ $1,200
Moreland Chinese Elderly Citizen’s Group $1,400
Moreland Italian women’s Group $1,200
Moreland Maltese Elderly Citizens’ Association $1,600
Moreland Maltese Pensioners Group $1,500
Mornington Dutch Australian Senior Club $1,900
Morwell Senior Italian Citizens Club $1,400
Multi Ethnic Senior Citizens Group Preston $900
Multicultural Senior Citizens Group Inc of Kingston and Surrounding Regions
$2,000
Multicultural Senior Citizens Group of whittlesea $1,300
Multicultural womens Group $1,100
Myrtleford Italian Pensioners Group $1,300
Myrtleford Savoy Sporting Club $600
Nadezhda Russian Senior Citizens Club $2,200
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
National Council of Jewish women Australia (Vic) $1,200
Neret Senior Citizens Club $2,000
New life Association $1,300
New united Villages of Florina $1,300
Niddrie Senior Italian Citizens Club $2,200
Nieuw Holland Dutch Social Club $1,300
Nisyrian Philanthropic Society $800
Noble Park North Multicultural Elderly Citizens Club $1,300
North Eastern Greek Elderly Citizens $1,900
North Melbourne Chinese Association $1,000
North Richmond Elderly Chinese Friendship Association Melbourne
$1,400
North west Reservoir Italian Pensioner Group $2,200
Northcote Australian Greek Society Care for the Aged
$1,100
Northcote Italian Pensioners Club $900
Northcote Macedonian Senior Citizens Club ‘Kajmakcalan’
$1,200
Northern Federation of Ethnic Senior Citizens Clubs $2,200
Northern Mauritian Seniors Club $1,100
Northern Melbourne Sri lankan Association $900
Northern Melbourne Sri lankan Association $900
Northern Melbourne Vietnamese Elderly Association $1,000
Northern Metropolitan Multicultural Seniors Club Network
$3,300
Northern Region Indian Seniors’ Association of Victoria
$500
Nunawading Hungarian Senior Citizens Club Inc $2,100
Oakleigh Coptic Senior Social Club $1,200
Old Citizens of Ascot Vale & Districts $1,200
Opera Nazionale Per I Caduti Senza Croce $1,600
Pamissos Messinis $500
Panagia Kamariani Greek Senior Citizens Club $2,000
Panagia Soumela Pontian Association of whittlesea $1,200
Parea Inc $800
Peninsula & Rye Greek women’s Group $2,000
Pensionati Italiani di Carlton $1,100
Pensioner Macedonian womens Group of Brimbank $1,000
Pensioners Association of Bulleen and Templestowe $1,000
Philanthropikos Syllogos Velika Messinias leykothea Melbourne Australia Inc
$500
Philipino Elderly Association South East Region Victoria (PEASER)
$1,650
Philippine Cultural Society for Elders $1,200
Polish Association of Ballarat $1,500
Polish Club ‘Forty Plus’ $900
Polish Cultural & Social Club ‘Palma’ $1,100
Polish Senior Citizens Club $2,000
Polish Senior Citizens Club - Geelong $3,000
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Polish Senior Citizens Club ‘Astry’ - St Kilda $2,000
Polish Senior Citizens Club Footscray $2,200
Polish Senior Citizens Club in Albion $1,350
Polish Senior Citizens Club in Rowville $2,200
Polish Senior Citizens Club Melbourne $1,100
Polish Senior Citizens Club Millenium $900
Polish Senior Citizens Club Morwell $1,400
Polish Senior Citizens Club of Altona $1,400
Polish Senior Citizens Club of Caulfield $1,650
Polish Senior Citizens Club of Collingwood $1,300
Polish Senior Citizens Club of Doncaster $1,300
Polish Senior Citizens Club of Frankston $900
Polish Senior Citizens Club of Moorabbin $1,200
Polish Senior Citizens Club of Reservoir $1,100
Polish Senior Citizens Club of St Albans $1,500
Polish Senior Citizens Club waverley Vic $1,250
Polish Senior Citizens Mutual Support Club of Keilor Downs
$1,200
Port Melbourne Greek Community Senior Citizens Club
$1,150
Portarlington Maltese Pensioners Association $1,600
Prahran Chinese Elderly Citizens Association $3,300
Prahran Chinese womens Association of Australia $2,200
Prahran Polish Elderly Citizens $1,300
Preston Greek Senior Citizens Club $2,200
Preston-Reservoir Indo-Chinese Elderly Group $1,700
PTOlEMEI Association of Greek Senior Citizens From Egypt & Middle East
$2,200
Raduga Russian Senior Citizens Club of Frankston & Peninsula
$1,000
Regioni D’Italia Bocce Association $1,400
Reservoir Greek Elderly Citizens Club $2,200
Reservoir Italian Pensioners Club $2,200
Resistenza Circolo Sette Fratelli Cervi, Victoria $1,000
Reskeon Maltese Assoc & Reskeon Seniors Group $2,200
Richmond Chinese Elderly welfare Association $2,200
Richmond Hill Senior Citizens Club Inc $700
Richmond Indo-Chinese Elderly Group $1,200
Richmond Vietnamese Chinese women Group $800
Richmond Vietnamese Chinese women Group $800
Risorgimento Club St Margaret Mary $1,400
Rodriguan Social Club of Victoria $2,600
Romanian Community Senior Citizens Club Inc $2,000
Romanian Community Senior Citizens Club Inc $2,000
Rosanna Macleod Circolo Pensionati $1,600
RSl Italian Sub-Branch $1,200
Russian Australian Senior Citizens Club in Prahran $1,100
Russian Ethnic Representative Council of Victoria $1,000
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Russian Senior Citizens Club Box Hill $1,100
Russian Senior Citizens Club Box Hill $1,100
Russian Senior Citizens Club Dandenong $1,000
Russian Senior Citizens Club Dandenong $1,000
Russian Senior Citizens Club yarraville $1,200
Russian Seniors Club (Joy) $850
Russian Social Support Group $1,100
Rye & Peninsula Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,800
Saint Gaetan Society Inc $2,000
Saint Nicolaas Club of Greater Shepparton $1,300
Salaginto - Filipino Senior Citizens Caring Group $800
Santa Marija Assunta Association $950
Savoy ladies Recreation Group $1,300
Senior Citizens Group of Heatherton $1,600
Senior Citizens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of St Paraskeve St Albans
$1,200
Senior Citizen’s Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of the Holy Monastery of the Virgin “Axion Estin” Northcote
$1,200
Senior Citizens Melbourne Croatia $2,000
Senior Citizens of the Greek Community of Forest Hill
$1,600
Senior Polish Friendship Club $1,200
Senior Slavic women’s Group Springvale $900
Seniors Club of Christ the lord Slovak lutheran Congregation
$2,000
Serbian Pensioner Club “King Peter” $1,100
Serbian Pensioners Church Association Free St Sava Melbourne
$700
Serbian Pensioners Club “Branko Radicevic” Geelong $900
Serbian Senior Citizens & Pensioners Club ‘Tzar lazar’
$900
Shepparton Italian Social Club Inc $1,200
Shepparton Italian women’s Group $1,100
Sicilia Nostra Senior Citizens Club $800
Sikh Senior Citizens Association of whittlesea $750
Slovenian Australian Social & Sports Club Jadran $1,200
Social Care Program, Temple Society Australia $1,000
Society Kalamata 23 March Brotherhood $1,100
Somali Elderly women’s Group (part of East African women’s Foundation)
$1,200
South American Senior Citizens Club of Frankston and Peninsula
$1,200
South Eastern yugoslav Pensioner Group Springvale and Dandenong
$1,400
South Melbourne Chinese women’s Group $1,200
South Melbourne Greek womens Club ‘Olympia’ $1,200
South yarra Greek Senior Citizens “Kontandinos and Eleni”
$1,750
Spanish Association of Geelong Inc $1,500
Spanish Speaking Elderly Group of North Melbourne $900
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Spanish Speaking Pensioners and Senior Citizens Club of werribee
$950
Spanish Speaking Senior Citizens Club of Clayton $1,300
Spanish Speaking Senior Citizens of Broadmeadows and Districts
$1,300
Spanish Speaking Senior women’s Group North East Region
$1,000
Spinete Social Club $1,400
Spotswood Multicultural Older Group $1,250
Springvale Ethnic Chinese Elderly Caring Friendship Association
$2,200
Springvale Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,600
Springvale Senior Citizens Multicultural Club $1,150
Sri lankan Elders’ welfare Association “SEwA” $1,200
St Albans Senior Citizens Club $1,000
St Eleftherios Greek Elderly and Invalid Pensioners Group
$1,650
St Francis Filipino Senior Citizens Club of whittlesea $1,200
St Georges Antiochian Orthodox Church Association $2,200
St Joseph’s Committee $1,600
St Kilda Greek Senior Citizens Group $1,200
St Kilda Mauritian Social Club $1,100
St leonards and District Greek Elderly Citizens Club $1,400
St Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church Seniors Group
$800
St Olivers Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,150
St Paul’s South Eastern Suburbs Association $1,300
St Theresa Aged and Retired Service (STARS) $800
Stonnington Chinese Association $3,500
Stonnington Greek Senior Citizens Association ‘The Friendship Club’
$1,700
Stonnington Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,400
Strathmore Heights Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,400
Suez Basketball Senior Social Club Association of Victoria
$2,200
Sunraysia Alevi Senior Citizens $1,000
Sunshine-St Albans Indo-Chinese Elderly Group $3,400
Tamil Senior Citizens Fellowship $2,200
Tamil Seniors Social Club $1,000
Tarxien Social Club Inc $500
Tatura Italian Social Club Inc $1,500
Tatura Italian Social Club Inc $1,500
Tatura Italian women’s Group $900
Tatura Italo Australian & Friends $1,350
Tempo Doeloe $500
Tempo Doeloe $500
The Argos District Australian Greek Senior Citizens Club of Kastoria
$1,400
The Community of Cypriots of the Eastern Suburbs - Elderly Citizens
$1,600
The Cultural Centre of Florinians ‘Aristotelis’ $1,600
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
The Filipino Social Support Group $600
The Filipino Social Support Group $600
The Good Samaritan $500
The Good Samaritan $500
The Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Rosana, Macleod and Districts
$1,300
The Greek Nazarene Senior Citizens Club $1,200
The Italian Pension Club of Kingston $1,500
The School for Korean Senior Citizens $600
The Spanish Speaking Friendship Club of Springvale $1,400
The western Suburbs Greek Elderly Citizens Club $1,400
Thomastown East Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,600
Thomastown East Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,600
Thornbury Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,800
Tiszavirag Hungarian Senior Citizens Club $800
Turkish Cypriot Elderly women’s Association $1,400
ukrainian Senior Citizens Centre Ardeer $1,200
ukrainian Senior Citizens Club in Melbourne $2,600
ukrainian Social Club $1,050
union of Christians from Constantinople Inc $2,000
unione Nazionale Sottufficiali Italiani in Congedo $1,200
unione Pensionati Italiani Circoli Indipendenti Inc $600
unione Pensionati Italiani Circoli Indipendenti Inc $600
united Filipino Elderly Group $1,200
united Slavic Pensioner Group Footscray $1,200
uruguayan Social Club of Melbourne, Senior Citizen Sub-Committee
$1,100
Valguarnera Social Club Inc. $1,000
Valguarnera Social Club Inc. $1,000
Victorian Association of Argos Orestiko & District Inc
$2,000
Victorian Association of world war II Veterans from Former Soviet union
$2,900
Vietnamese Australian Senior Association of Victoria (VASA-VIC)
$2,200
Vietnamese Australian Senior Association of Victoria (VASA-VIC)
$2,200
Vietnamese Chinese Elderly Association in the west $4,000
Vietnamese Elderly Community Collingwood $1,100
Vietnamese Senior Citizens Club of Hume $1,100
Vizzini Social Club $2,200
waverley Chinese Senior Citizens Club $4,000
welcome womens Group $1,350
werribee Dutch Seniors Club $1,100
werribee Friendship Club $2,200
werribee Macedonian Senior Citizens Club $1,100
west Sunshine Greek Elderly Club $1,850
western Region Maltese women’s Group $1,600
western Suburbs Social Soccer Club Inc $2,000
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
western Suburbs Social Soccer Club Inc $2,000
whitehorse Club $800
whitehorse Older Persons Action Group $2,200
whittlesea & District Greek Elderly Citizens Club Inc $1,400
whittlesea Maltese Senior Citizens Club $2,000
whittlesea Northern Cyprus Turkish women’s Group $1,300
whittlesea Senior Citizens Club $800
whittlesea Turkish Elderly and Pensioners Association
$2,000
whittlesea Turkish women’s Association $2,000
williamstown Italian Social Club $1,450
wonthaggi Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,500
sUB totaL $1,032,000
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Accademia letteraria Italo-Australiana Scrittori (AlIAS)
$800
Afghan Australia Community Social Sports Club Inc $1,500
Afghan Australia Community Social Sports Club Inc $1,500
Afghan Australian Association of Victoria Inc $1,500
Afghan Australian Philanthropic Association $1,000
Afghan Community Support $1,000
Afghan Mosque Project Committee Inc $800
Afghanistan Study Centre (ASC) Inc $1,100
African Migrants Community Initiative Inc $700
African women’s Network $2,000
Agelidis Foundation $500
AHEPA (Victoria) Inc $1,000
Akobo Community Development Agency $1,000
Al Ehsan Centre $2,000
Al Muhajir Cultural Organisation $2,000
Al Sadeq Education and Charity Association Inc $1,200
Al Zahra Association Inc $800
Alevi Federation of Australia (AFA) Inc. $1,000
All women Concern $800
Alle Munchkins Inc $500
Am Echad Federation of Jews from Former Soviet union Inc
$800
Amici Del Teatro $800
Andalucian Dancing Group of Geelong $600
Anglo-Indian Australasian Association of Victoria Inc $1,000
Anwar Association Inc $1,000
Arabic Society of Victoria Inc $2,000
Ararat Islamic welfare Association Inc $600
Arcilesbica Australia $500
Armenian General Benevolent union (AGBu) - Victoria Inc
$1,500
Associacion de latinos Residentes de Victoria $750
Association of Filipino Australians in Gippsland $1,000
Association of Filipino-Australian Golden Age of Victoria Inc
$800
Association of Indian Origin Tamils of Sri lanka (Aust) Inc
$800
Association of New Elderly $800
Association of Sri lankan Muslims in Australia (ASlAMA)
$1,500
Association of ukrainians in Victoria $1,500
Association of ukrainians in Victoria (St Albans) $1,500
Associazione Padovani Nel Mondo Inc $1,000
Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Council of Australia $800
Auspicious Arts Project Inc $2,000
Aust-China writer’s Association $400
Australasia Business Development Enterprise Association Inc
$500
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Australasia Coptic Society Inc $1,000
Australia China Friendship Society Victoria Branch Inc $1,000
Australia Hainan Association Inc $1,000
Australia India Business Council $4,000
Australia India Society of Victoria Inc $1,000
Australia Sri lanka welfare Guild Inc $1,200
Australian African Children’s Aid and Support Association Inc. (AACASA)
$800
Australian Anglo-Indian Melbourne Rangers Club $600
Australian Arabic Council Inc $1,500
Australian Arabic women Community Group $1,100
Australian Association of Kastorians Inc $1,000
Australian Bosnian Islamic Centre Deer Park $1,500
Australian Bosnian women’s Group $1,000
Australian Burmese women’s Group Inc $2,000
Australian Burundian Community in Victoria Inc $1,500
Australian Community Dawah Centre $800
Australian Coptic Families Social Club (ACFSC) $1,000
Australian Croatian Association “Hercegovina” Geelong Inc
$2,500
Australian Croatian Community Services $1,500
Australian Croatian Psychiatric Outreach Service Inc $1,000
Australian Croatian Social Club Mornington Peninsula Rye Inc
$800
Australian Cyprian Sports and Social Association Inc $900
Australian Federation of Hellenic Gymnastics and Athletics Association Inc
$1,000
Australian Filipino Community of Northern Victoria & Southern Riverina Inc
$2,000
Australian Gay Multicultural Council (AGMC) $1,000
Australian Humanitarian Aid for Macedonia (AHAM) Inc
$1,000
Australian Intercultural Society Inc $750
Australian Karen Organisation Inc $1,500
Australian Kurdish Community Inc $1,200
Australian lebanese Association for the Orphans Auxilia
$600
Australian lithuanian Community in Melbourne Association Inc
$1,500
Australian Macedonian Folk Dancing Association “Goce Delcev” Inc
$550
Australian Mesopotamian women Association $1,000
Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria Inc (AOCAV)
$2,000
Australian Polish Community Services $1,000
Australian Romanian Community welfare Health & Services Association of Victoria Inc
$1,500
Australian Slovenian Cultural & Sports Association ‘Ivan Cankar’ Geelong Inc
$1,000
Australian Theatre of Poetry Inc $600
Australian Turkish Cultural Platform (ATCP) Inc $1,000
Australian Turkish women’s Cultural Group $1,500
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Australian welsh Male Choir (Cor Meibion Cymreig Australia) Inc
$1,000
Australian western Thrace Turkish Association of Victoria
$2,000
Australian/African Support Group $500
Australian-Asian Association of Victoria Inc $800
Avondale Heights and East Keilor Residents Association
$500
Aweil Community Association in Victoria $1,000
Baai-Bor women union of Australia $500
Ballarat Italian Association Inc $600
Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council (BRMC) $1,000
Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council (BRMC) $1,000
Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council (BRMC) $5,000
Ballarat Sudanese Association Inc $1,000
Bangla Sahitya Sansad (Bengali literary Society) Inc $1,200
Bangladesh Cultural Group Inc. $600
Beit Jala Palestinian Association $2,000
Bengali Puja & Cultural Society of Victoria Inc $500
Bentiu youth Association in Australia $800
Bint Al Huda Iraqi women’s Organisation $1,000
B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc $1,000
Bosnian Choir ‘Behar’ Inc $500
Bosnian Choir Sevdalinka $800
British Australian Community (Inc) $2,000
Brunswick Sri lankan Community Group $1,000
Buddhist Council of Victoria Inc $4,000
Buddhist Vihara Victoria Inc $2,000
Bulgarian Society of Geelong - Izvor Inc $1,200
Burgher Association (Australia) Inc $1,500
Burmese Muslim Community Association of Victoria $1,000
Cambodian Association of Victoria $2,000
Cambodian Community welfare Centre Inc $750
Cameroon Association of Australia Inc $1,500
Central America Pastoral House Inc $1,000
Centre for Philippine Concerns - Australia Inc $2,000
Chabad Institutions of Australia Inc $1,500
Chaldean women Association in Victoria $3,000
Child Survivors of the Holocaust $800
Chile Magazine Media and Cultural Group $2,000
Chilean Club of Victoria Inc $800
Chilean Club of Victoria Inc $800
Chinese and Vietnamese women’s Cooking Group $500
Chinese Association of Victoria Inc $1,000
Chinese Beijing Opera Club of Melbourne $800
Chinese Community Social Services Centre Inc $900
Chinese Health Foundation of Australia (CHF) $1,500
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Chinese Performing Arts Development $1,500
Chinese women’s Association of Victoria Inc $1,000
Chollo Community Christian Fellowship Inc $1,500
Circolo Filatelico Italiano $500
City of Ringwood Highland Pipe Band $1,000
Colac Sudanese Community Inc $1,000
Committee for Common Celebrations of Greek & Australian National Days
$1,100
Communities Council on Ethnic Issues (Eastern Region) Inc
$2,000
Community In Harmony $1,000
Community of Cypriots of the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne women’s Group
$1,200
Congolese Community of Victoria $1,000
Cook Island Community Services of Victoria $1,200
Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate Archangel Mikhail & St Anthony Church Inc
$1,200
Cornish Association of Victoria Inc $1,000
Council of Slovenian Organisations of Victoria Inc $1,800
Council of Sudanese Groups Inc $1,500
Council of Turkish Associations of Victoria $3,000
Croatian Catholic welfare Association Inc $1,500
Croatian Cultural Association Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac Inc
$1,000
Croatian Media Association Inc (CMA) $900
Cultural Historical Association of Rodriguans and Mauritians in Victoria (CHARM)
$1,500
Darebin Ethnic Communities Council (DECC) $3,000
Darfur Australia Network $1,500
Delegazione ANGET Australia Inc $1,500
Dhamma Sukha Meditation Centre $700
Dinka Ngok Abyei Community Association in Victoria Australia
$1,000
Dutch Australian Social Club ‘The Rocket’ $1,000
Dutch Social Club Diamond Valley Inc $900
Dutch-Australian Club Albury wodonga Inc $600
East African women’s Foundation Inc $4,500
East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation Inc $1,000
Eastern African Community of Castlemaine Inc (EACC) $1,000
Eastern and Central Africa Communities of Victoria $2,000
Eastern Districts Polish Association (Melbourne) $1,000
Eastern Karen Community Association $3,000
Epirotic Philanthropic Society of Australia “Dodoni” $1,000
Eritrean Australian youth Association $750
Eritrean Australian youth Association $750
Eritrean Islamic Society of Australia $750
Eritrean Orthodox Association in Australia Inc $1,000
Ethiopian Community Association in Victoria Inc $2,500
Ethiopian Community women’s Association $1,000
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Ethiopian women Group $1,750
Ethnic Communities Council of the South East Inc (ECCOSE)
$2,000
Ethnic Nationalities Organization (ENO) Burma and North East India
$500
Ethnic Public Broadcasting Association of Victoria $2,000
Fale Hufanga ‘O Tonga (Tongan Sanctuary of Sunraysia) Inc
$1,000
Famiglia Pugliese D’Australia $1,000
Families with Children from China $800
Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils $1,000
Federation of Indian women’s Association of Australia (FIwAA) Inc
$1,500
Federation of Indo-China Ethnic Chinese of Australia Inc
$1,200
Federation of Macedonian Cultural & Artistic Associations of Victoria (FOMKuD)
$1,000
Federation of Macedonian Senior Citizens Groups of the Northern Region of Victoria Inc
$1,800
Federation of Macedonian Senior Citizens Groups of the western Region Inc
$1,200
Federation of Taivgetos of laconia $550
Federation Panepirotic union of Melbourne & Victoria $1,000
Ferla Social Club $900
Fiji Australian Country Association Inc $2,000
Fiji Geelong Friendship Club Inc $1,000
Fiji Sangam Association of Victoria $1,000
Fiji Social and Cultural Organisations of Victoria Australia (FSCOVA)
$1,000
Filipino Australian Association of Ballarat $900
Filipino Australian Friends Association (Northern Victoria) Inc
$1,000
Filipino Australian Friendship Association of Geelong $800
Filipino Australian Social Club of loddon-Campaspe $1,200
Filipino Community Council of Victoria Inc $2,000
Filipino Community of Sunraysia Inc $1,000
Finnish Friendly Visiting Service Inc $700
Finnish Society of Melbourne Inc $1,200
Fitzroy Atherton Multicultural Inhabitants Alliance Inc. (FAMIA)
$800
Fitzroy Social Club $500
Footscray Asian Business Association $1,200
Futuristic Group for Southern Sudanese in Australia (FGSSA) Inc.
$600
Geelong Iranian Society $800
Geelong Karen Association $1,200
Geelong lithuanian Folk Dance Group “Gegute” $500
Geelong Scottish Dance Inc $600
Gippsland Ethnic Communities Council (GECC) $5,000
Gippsland Immigration Park $1,000
Gippsland Indian Association Inc $900
Gippsland Indonesian Australian Association $900
Gippsland Mexican Arts Group $800
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Gippsland Multicultural Services Inc $1,000
Gippsland Sudanese Association $2,000
Goulburn Valley Congolese Association $1,200
Goulburn Valley Polish Association Inc $900
Greek & Cypriot Social welfare Centre $600
Greek Australian Recreational & Instructive league of Vic Inc
$800
Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Maribyrnong & Districts $800
Greek Orthodox Community of Box Hill & Districts ladies Auxiliary
$500
Greek Orthodox Community of Broadmeadows and Districts Inc
$1,000
Greek Orthodox Community of Clayton ltd $1,000
Greek Orthodox Community of Oakleigh & District Inc $2,000
Greek Orthodox Community of whittlesea $1,500
Greek Orthodox Parish of “Panagia Soumela” East Keilor, womens Group
$400
Greek Orthodox Parish of “Panagia Soumela” East Keilor, youth Group
$500
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St George” Thornbury - women’s Group
$500
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St George” Thornbury, youth Group
$400
Greek Orthodox Parish of “St Vasilios” Brunswick, youth Group
$500
Greek Orthodox Parish of Saints Methodios and Kyrillos, Preston
$500
Greek welfare Centre $1,200
Greek women Traditional Dancing Group Inc $400
Greek women Traditional Dancing Group Inc $1,000
Greek women’s Club of Northern Suburbs “Anemones”
$800
Grupo Folklorico Violeta Parra $500
Hands For Hope Inc $700
Hararian Community Association Australia Inc $1,200
Hararian Community Association’s womens Group $600
Hararian Community youth Group $400
Harmony Foundation Victoria Inc $1,000
Hazara Australian Community Association of Victoria $1,000
Hazara Community Mildura $1,500
Heavenly Queen Temple Society Inc $800
Hellenic writers Association of Australia $1,000
Hindu Foundation $1,000
Hindu Satsang Mandal of Victoria $1,000
Hispano-American Co-operative for Family Support (COHAF) Inc
$1,000
Holy Trinity Chinese Congregation Coburg $500
Hotham Mission (Asylum Seekers Program) $5,000
Howra women’s Association $800
Humanitarian Crisis Hub $2,000
Ikawiria (Indonesian Community Association of Victoria) Inc
$1,000
Il Piccolo Teatro Di Melbourne Inc $500
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Indian International Student Advisory Centre $2,000
Indo Australian Friendship Council Inc $3,000
Italian Book Club $800
Italian Services Advisory Council Inc $800
Japan Club of Victoria $1,200
Japanese for Peace (JFP) $800
Jat Jagat $700
Jewish Breast Cancer Support Group $850
Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia $1,000
Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia $3,100
Jing Song Senior Chinese Men’s Inc $600
John Pandazopoulos Hall Committee of Management $1,000
Kaiga Tuvalu Victoria $1,000
Kalakruthi Parent Association $750
Kalakruthi Parent Association $750
Karen Baptist Community $1,500
Karnavals Club The Swallows Geelong Inc $800
Klabb Ghannejja Maltin Inc $2,000
Kurdish Association of Victoria $1,000
Kurdish women Society of Victoria $800
Kyabram Italian Social Bocce Club Inc $1,600
la Mirada Inc $2,500
l’Alliance Francaise De Ballarat Et District Inc $700
lao Australian Society Inc $1,000
lao Australian welfare Association $1,500
lao Buddhist Meditation Centre $850
lao Community of Victoria Inc $2,000
latrobe Indian Association Inc $1,000
latrobe Valley Sudanese Professional Association Inc $1,200
lau Nuer Community Association of Australia in Victoria Inc
$1,000
laulaau Mai Farani inc $800
l’Chaim Chabad Inc $1,000
league of Maniates and Friends of Melbourne and Victoria “I Mani” Inc
$800
liberian Community of Geelong $700
liech Nuer Community Association Inc $1,100
longechuk Community Development Services in Australia
$1,000
Maccabi Victoria $1,000
Macedonian Australian Cultural youth Association ‘Tanec’ Inc
$1,000
Macedonian Community Council of Melbourne and Victoria
$1,500
Macedonian Pensioner Club of Altona Inc $1,000
Ma’di Community Association in Victoria Australia (MACA) Inc
$500
Makor library and Resource Centre $2,000
Mallee Sudanese Community Inc $1,000
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Malta Star of the Sea House Inc $1,000
Maltese Historical Association $500
Mandela Soccer Club $500
Mang-Non Vietnamese language School Association $500
Maori Community of Geelong - Te Arahina $1,000
Maroondah Southern Sudanese Christian welfare Association
$500
Melbourne French Theatre $600
Melbourne Hebrew Congregation Inc $1,000
Melbourne Marati Mandal $1,000
Melbourne South Eastern Region Chinese Friendship Centre of Victoria Inc
$800
Melbourne South Eastern Region Chinese Friendship Centre of Victoria Inc
$800
Melbourne.Pl $750
Melton African Support Services (MASS) $5,000
Monash Chinese Friendship Association $2,000
Moreland Turkish women’s Group $800
Multicultura Australia Inc $5,000
Multicultural Arts Victoria $5,000
Multicultural womens Group $600
Muslim women’s Council of Victoria $2,000
Nasir Community Development Agency (NCDA) $1,000
National Council of Jewish women of Australia $1,500
Nepalese Association of Victoria Inc $1,500
Networking women of Victoria Inc $1,000
New Generation Inc $800
New Zealand Maori Club $1,500
Nigerian Society in Gippsland $800
Niruththa Indian Fine Arts Association Inc $500
Niruththa Indian Fine Arts Association Inc $1,000
North East Filipino Community Association (NEFCA) $1,000
North East Melbourne Sudanese Community Forum $1,000
North East Multicultural Association (NEMA) $5,000
North Eastern Bocce Association Inc $600
North Eastern Melbourne Chinese Association Inc (NEMCA)
$1,600
North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc $1,000
North Victorian Great African ‘Nogafa’ Inc $500
Northern Turkish women’s Association $1,100
Nubian Mihaira $1,000
Nuer Community in Victoria Inc $2,000
Olympian Society Inc $1,000
Otuho Community of Australia $1,000
Palestinian Community Association of Victoria $1,500
Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria leonidas Inc
$2,000
Pan Argoliki Philanthropic Brotherhood To Palamidi Inc
$500
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Pan Australian Federation of Thessalian Associations Inc
$1,200
Pankoaki Brotherhood of Victoria “O Ippocrates” Association Inc
$900
Panpieriki Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria ‘Olympus’ Inc
$1,000
Panpyliaki Brotherhood of Navarinon of Melbourne and Victoria
$700
Pantrifilian Association of Melbourne and Victoria Inc $1,000
Papadakis Park Inc $500
Pensioners Association of Bulleen and Templestowe $2,040
Peru united Soccer Club $500
Peruvian Folklorien Dancing Group $800
Philanthropic Society Nomoy Kavalas Agios Silas Inc $600
Philanthropikos Syllogos-Dimos Meligala Messinias O Profitis Elias Inc
$600
Philippine Rondalla Victoria (PRV) $500
Polish Choir “Syrena” $500
Polish Dance Ensemble ‘lowicz’ $500
Polynation Combine Centre Inc $800
Polyplatanos Clabouschischa Social Club $900
Pontian Association of Melbourne ‘Euxenos Pontos’ $1,200
Pontian Community of Melbourne and Victoria $1,000
Port Melbourne Greek Community Inc $1,000
Pride of the Cook Islands $2,000
Punjab warriors Sports and Cultural Club Inc $1,000
Pureland Buddhist Association of Australia $900
Quantin Binnah Community Centre $2,000
Refugee and Immigrant women’s Support Group Springvale
$800
Relief Association of South Sudan (Victoria) Inc (RASS)
$800
Reservoir Baptist Church $1,200
Reskeon Maltese Association Inc $1,000
Rethimnian Association of Melbourne $1,000
Return to Anatolia Inc $1,000
Richmond South yarra Chinese Parents Association Inc
$1,200
RISE Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees $3,000
Robinson Reserve Arabic Speaking women’s Group $500
Roma Social Club Inc $700
Russian Cultural and TV Association Inc “Sputnik” $1,000
Russian Folkloric Group $800
Russian House Victims of Chernobyl National Relief Fund Inc
$500
Russian women’s Association ‘Ogonyok’ Inc $1,500
Saint Maratken Community Society Inc $500
Salaam Australia Council Association Inc $1,100
Salesian youth Club $1,000
Salvadorean Community Council of Victoria Inc $1,200
Scottish Clans and Associations Council $1,600
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Selimiye Foundation ltd $1,200
Selimiye youth Support & Recreation Inc $1,000
Selso Drustvo Beranci Social Club Inc $1,000
Serbian Orthodox Choir ‘Kornelije Stankovic’ $500
Serbian Orthodox Church & School Community St Stefan
$600
Serbian Orthodox Church of “St Stefan” - Keysborough, youth Club
$750
Serbian Orthodox Dancing Group Sumadja $600
Serbian Sisters Group ‘Zene Mironosice’ $600
Serbian Social Club $500
Serraion Society of Victoria Inc $750
Shalom Association Inc $1,800
Shurolok Music Appreciation and Performance Group Inc
$500
Shyaw Newspaper $800
Sierra leone Australia Community of Victoria (SlACOV)
$1,500
Sikh welfare Council of Victoria Inc $2,000
Slavic women’s Group ‘Nase Zene’ Inc $800
Slovenian Australian Cultural & Sport Association Planica Springvale Inc
$1,000
Social Club ‘Stiv Naumov’ Village logovardi Inc $1,000
Social Support Group Preston $1,200
Social Support Network Group ‘Friends’ Springvale $800
Somali Australian Council of Victoria Inc $1,500
Somali Community Inc $2,000
Somali Community Information Services Network Inc $1,000
Somali Cultural Association $2,100
Somali Support and Development Association Inc $1,000
Somali women’s Action Group $1,000
South Eastern Region Melbourne Oromo Community Association Inc (SERMOCAVA INC)
$1,500
South Melbourne Chinese women’s Group $500
South Sudanese Family Foundation $600
Southern Ethnic Advisory & Advocacy Council Inc (SEAAC)
$1,500
Southern Sudanese Community of Australia $1,500
Springvale Asian Business Association $1,500
Springvale Indochinese Mutual Assistance Association Inc
$2,000
Springvale Mandarin Support Network $1,200
St Andrews luqa Social Club $1,500
St Athanasius Coptic Centre $500
St George Association Inc $600
St Helena Maltese-Australian Social Club $1,000
St Paul’s Elderly Support Group $400
Stella Maris Maltese Association Inc $1,200
Stonnington Ballroom Dancing Association Inc $1,000
Sudanese Disability Action Group in Victoria Inc $1,500
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Sudanese lost Boys Association of Australia $2,000
Sudanese luacjang Group of Australia $1,200
Sudanese welfare Ministry, Anglican Parish of Footscray
$1,000
Sudanese women On The Move Network Inc (SwOM) $1,250
Swan Hill Muslim Association Inc $500
Tamil Society of Melbourne $900
Te waka Oneocean $1,000
Thai Community Of Geelong (TCG) Inc $500
The Albanian Australian Islamic Society $500
The Association of Hazaras in Victoria Inc $1,000
The Association of the Refugee Children from Aegean Macedonia
$500
The Australian Chaldean Federation of Victoria/Australia
$1,550
The Australian Greek Orthodox Community of Moreland Inc
$1,350
The Ballarat African Association $1,000
The Ballarat Togolese Association (BTA) $1,000
The Bosnian lily Geelong Association Inc. $1,000
The Goan Overseas Association of Victoria Inc $2,000
The Greek Orthodox Community of Mildura & District $1,500
The Hellenic Orthodox Community of Geelong Inc $1,000
The Hindu Society of Victoria (Inc) $2,000
The Hoa-lu Scouting Group $800
The Hunan Association of Victoria Inc $800
The Indonesian Society of Victoria - PERwIRA $1,000
The Iraqian & Australian Friendship Association Inc (I.A.F.A.I]
$3,000
The Jewish Cultural Centre & National library Kadimah $1,000
The Jewish Film Foundation of Australia Inc $2,500
The Melbourne Comhaltas Inc (Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Melbourne Branch)
$500
The Nguyen Huu Hung Charitable Fund Inc (NHHCF) $2,000
The Pan Maniot youth union of Australia Inc $600
The PanKorinthian Association of Melbourne and Victoria
$500
The Panmacedonian Association of Melbourne and Victoria
$1,500
The Philanthropic Society of Kaloneri Siatista $800
The Polish Museum and Archives in Australia Inc $700
The Saint Mary Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church - Social Support Services Inc
$2,000
The Samoan Advisory Council of Victoria Inc $2,000
The Sephardi Association of Victoria $900
The ukrainian youth Association of Australia (Melbourne) Inc
$2,200
The united Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation of South Eastern Melbourne
$800
The united women’s Group of liberia $600
The Victorian Maronite Community Inc $2,000
Timorese Association in Victoria $3,000
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Tripoli Social Club Inc $600
Turkish women’s Recreation Group Inc $1,000
Twich Community Association in Victoria $1,000
ukrainian Arts and Culture $800
ukrainian womens Association in Victoria State Executive
$1,400
unisoul Inc $2,000
united Jewish Education Board $1,000
united Somali Organisation in Australia Inc $2,000
united Somali women Organisation in Victoria $2,000
unity in Diversity Inc $1,000
unity in Diversity Inc $1,000
uruguayan Social Club of Melbourne Inc $1,100
Vedanta Society of Australia $1,000
Ventana Hispana (Spanish window) Inc $1,000
Verchovyna ukrainian Dance Ensemble $500
Victoria Hua xin Chinese women’s Association Inc $1,000
Victorian African women’s Association Inc $1,000
Victorian Arabic Artists Association Inc $1,000
Victorian Arabic Social Services (VASS) $2,000
Victorian Eritrean Community Association $1,500
Victorian Immigrant and Refugee women’s Coalition Inc (VIRwC)
$5,000
Victorian Iraqi Social Club Inc $1,000
Victorian local Government Multicultural Issues Network (VlGMIN) -MAV
$2,500
Victorian Scottish union Inc $1,500
Victorian Sikh Association Inc $5,000
Victorian Somali Social Club $1,000
Vietnamese Community in Australia - Vic Chapter (VCA)
$2,000
Vietnamese Mothers Group Inc $500
Vietnamese Tenants Association Inc $1,000
Vietnamese women’s Association in Broadmeadows Inc
$600
Vitoria women’s Fellowship Group $1,000
welsh Society of Geelong Inc $800
west Papuan Community $2,000
western Victoria Sri-lankan Buddhist Association Inc $1,000
western Vovinam Training Centre $1,000
westvale Olympic Soccer Club $1,000
whittlesea Chinese Association Inc (wCA) $700
whittlesea Green Island Turkish women’s Group Inc $600
whittlesea Trung Vuong Vietnamese womens Group $400
whittlesea u3A Inc $500
wimmera Development Association $600
wings of Care (Kanfei Chesed) Inc $1,200
wodonga Australian Croatian Club Inc $750
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
women’s Friendship Group $2,600
womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Clayton
$500
womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Coburg
$500
womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Moonee Ponds
$500
womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of South yarra
$500
wonthaggi Karen Association Inc $1,000
xinjiang Chinese Association of Australia Inc $600
young Filipino Australian Ambassadors Inc $800
young Generation Filipino Citizens Club of the South East
$1,000
youth Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Clayton $500
youth Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Coburg $500
youth Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Springvale
$500
youth Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of the Presentation of St. Dimitrios Moonee Ponds
$500
Zahrira Social Club $750
Zevk’u Seda Classical Turkish Choir $1,500
Zhangzhou Origin Assocation of Victoria $750
Zimbabwean Community in Australia (Victoria) $1,500
Zomi Association Australia Inc $1,750
sUB totaL $620,490
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities Inc (ADEC)
$4,000
Adult Multicultual Education Services $13,000
Afghan Australian Philanthropic Association $3,000
Afghan-Australian women & youth Association Inc (AAwyA)
$1,500
Afghani women Social Support Group $1,500
African women’s Network $4,000
Agelidis Foundation $1,000
All women Concern $2,500
Antiochian Community Support Association (ACSA) $5,000
Ararat Islamic welfare Association Inc $900
Australia India Business Council $1,500
Australian Arabic women Community Group $1,500
Australian Burmese women’s Group Inc $2,000
Australian Burundian Community in Victoria Inc $1,500
Australian Chollo Community Inc $3,500
Australian Community Dawah Centre $3,500
Australian Croatian Community Services $2,500
Australian Croatian Psychiatric Outreach Service Inc $2,500
Australian Humanitarian Aid for Macedonia (AHAM) Inc
$8,000
Australian Karen Organisation Inc $5,000
Australian Mesopotamian women Association $4,000
Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria Inc (AOCAV)
$2,000
Australian Polish Community Services $6,000
Australian Turkish Association Inc $8,000
Australian Turkish Cultural Platform (ATCP) Inc $3,000
Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council (BRMC) $2,300
Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council (BRMC) $8,000
Bengali Puja & Cultural Society of Victoria Inc $2,000
Bentiu youth Association in Australia $2,500
Bhutanese Community in Australia Inc $7,000
Bourio-anatolies $3,000
Box Hill Sudanese Refugee Re-Settlement Project (Sewing Program)
$2,000
Burmese Muslim Community Association of Victoria $2,500
Cambodian Association of Victoria $2,000
Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE (GippsTAFE) $5,000
Central Highlands Regional library Corporation $3,000
Chaldean women Association in Victoria $5,000
Chilean Club of Victoria Inc $3,000
Chinese Performing Arts Development $5,000
Chollo Community Christian Fellowship Inc $5,000
City of Greater Dandenong (library) $8,000
Coburn Primary School $2,000
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
Colac Sudanese Community Inc $3,000
Communities Council on Ethnic Issues (Eastern Region) Inc
$3,000
Congolese Community of Victoria $2,000
Cook Island Community Services of Victoria $3,000
Council of Turkish Associations of Victoria $8,000
Cultural Historical Association of Rodriguans and Mauritians in Victoria (CHARM)
$3,000
Darebin Ethnic Communities Council (DECC) $5,000
Diversitat $10,000
Drummond Street Relationship Centre Inc $6,000
East African women’s Foundation Inc $2,500
Eastern and Central Africa Communities of Victoria $4,000
Eastern Community legal Centre $8,000
Eastern Karen Community Association $2,000
Ethiopian Community Association in Victoria Inc $1,500
Federation of Indian Associations of Victoria Inc $15,000
Federation of Indian women’s Association of Australia (FIwAA) Inc
$3,000
Fiji Australian Country Association Inc $3,000
Filipino Community Council of Victoria Inc $6,000
Frankston Multicultural Community Network (FMCN) $8,000
Gasworks Arts Park $3,000
Gippsland Ethnic Communities Council (GECC) $10,000
Gippsland Ethnic Communities Council (GECC) $5,000
Gippsland Indian Association Inc $2,000
Gippsland Sudanese Association $2,000
Golden Dragon Museum $8,000
Goulburn Valley Congolese Association $2,000
Goulburn Valley Sudanese Association $2,000
Greek Orthodox Community of Dandenong & Districts $10,000
Hazara Community Mildura $1,000
Hellenic writers Association of Australia $2,000
Highett Neighbourhood Community House $2,000
House of Persia Community & Cultural Centre $5,000
Indian International Student Advisory Centre $20,000
Indian Senior Citizens Association of Victoria $8,100
International women’s Group $1,500
Karen women’s Social Support Group $2,000
Kialla united FC Inc $5,000
KommonGround Inc $6,000
Kurdish women Society of Victoria $2,000
Kuusa Services Inc $8,000
lao Australian welfare Association $5,000
laverton Community Children’s Centre Inc $10,000
liberian Community Association for unity, Social and Economic Development lICAu-SED (Victoria) Inc
$3,000
loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services $2,000
oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services $2,000
longechuk Community Development Services in Australia
$1,000
lutheran Church of Australia Victoria District St James Moorabbin
$3,000
Meadow Heights learning Shop Inc $4,000
Mexican Social and Cultural Association of Victoria Inc
$10,000
Migrant Information Centre (Eastern Melbourne) $10,000
Multicultura Australia Inc $4,000
Multicultural Arts Victoria $2,000
Muslim women’s Council of Victoria $5,000
Muslim women’s Council of Victoria $4,000
Nadezhda Russian Senior Citizens Club $2,500
National Council of Jewish women of Australia $5,000
New Zealand Maori Club $3,000
North Eastern Melbourne Chinese Association Inc (NEMCA)
$4,000
North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc $3,000
Northern Turkish women’s Association $6,000
Nuer Community in Victoria Inc $2,000
Nuer youth Association of Australia $2,000
Pammessinian Brotherhood of Melbourne & Victoria ltd
$5,000
Refugee Council of Australia Inc $20,000
Regional Information and Advocacy Council Inc $2,000
Reservoir Baptist Church $1,500
RISE Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees $5,000
Russian Cultural and TV Association Inc “Sputnik” $3,000
Serbian Social Services and Support Inc $1,500
Slovenian welfare & Information Office $10,000
Somaliland Society of Australia Inc $2,000
South Eastern Samoan Assembly of God $4,000
South Sudanese Family Foundation $2,000
Southern Ethnic Advisory & Advocacy Council Inc (SEAAC)
$10,000
Sports without Borders $20,000
Sports without Borders $20,000
Springvale Monash legal Service Inc $8,000
Springvale Neighbourhood House $5,000
Sri lankan Study Centre for the Advancement of Technology and Social welfare (SCATS)
$2,000
St Monica’s Primary School $1,000
Sudanese welfare Ministry, Anglican Parish of Footscray
$5,000
Swan Hill Muslim Association Inc $4,000
Te waka Oneocean $3,500
The Goan Overseas Association of Victoria Inc $3,300
The Grange Community Centre $4,000
The Korean Society of Victoria Australia $5,500
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oRganisation gRant (gst exCLUded)
The New Hope Foundation (werribee Refugee Resource Centre)
$1,000
The New Hope Foundation (werribee Refugee Resource Centre)
$6,500
The New Hope Foundation (werribee Refugee Resource Centre)
$740
The New Hope Foundation Inc (Frankston) $5,500
The New Hope Foundation Inc (Oakleigh) $6,000
The Victorian Maronite Community Inc $10,000
Thornbury High School $8,000
ukrainian women’s Association in Australia ‘Our word’ Magazine
$2,500
united Somali Organisation in Australia Inc $3,000
united Somali women Organisation in Victoria $6,000
unitingCare-Cutting Edge (uCCE) $2,000
Ventana Hispana (Spanish window) Inc $2,500
Victorian Arabic Social Services (VASS) $6,000
Victorian Co-operative on Children’s Services for Ethnic Groups (VICSEG)
$6,000
Victorian Eritrean Community Association $4,000
Victorian Sikh Association Inc $15,000
western Edge youth Arts Inc $5,000
westgate Baptist Community - Refugee Support Services
$5,000
whittlesea Community Connections $3,000
whittlesea Turkish women’s Association $3,000
windermere Child & Family Services Inc $5,000
wingate Avenue Community Centre $4,000
wings of Care (Kanfei Chesed) Inc $3,300
women’s Health in the South East (wHISE) $6,000
yarra Valley Italian Cultural Group Inc $5,500
yMCA Carlton Baths Community Centre $5,000
Zahrira Social Club $2,000
Zotung Community in Australia $2,500
sUB totaL $734,640
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Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities Migrant Resource Centres Directors Network
Adult Multicultural Education Services Multicultural Arts Victoria
Australian Multicultural Foundation Multifaith Multicultural youth Network
Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council Multifaith Multicultural youth Network
Bendigo Ethnic Communities Council Municipal Association of Victoria
Buddhist Council of Victoria Russian Ethnic Representative Council
Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health Sikh Interfaith Council of Victoria
Centre for Multicultural youth Sri lankan community
Eritrean women’s Association of Victoria Tamil Cultural Association of Victoria
Ethnic Communities Council of Sunraysia Victorian Cooperative on Children Services for Ethnic Groups
Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria Victorian Council of Churches
Gippsland Multicultural Services Victorian Multicultural Commission
Hindu Society of Victoria Vietnamese Cultural Heritage Centre
Islamic Council of Victoria western English language School
Jewish Community Council of Victoria
vmC advisoRy CoUnCiL memBeRs By oRganisation / CommUnity
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appendix 4
awaRds foR exCeLLenCe
meRitoRioUs seRviCe to the CommUnity - individUaLs
Mr Albert Abarquez Mr Joseph Michael Ellul Ms Angela Maisano Mrs Cveta Saveska
Mr Sam Afra, JP Mr Sam Tuanbin Feng Mr Joseph Mamone Mr Francesco Scarcella
Mr Apostolos Alexiadis Mrs Silvana Ferraro Ms Melba Marginson Mrs Thekla Scarcella
Ms Catherine Alexopoulos Mr Jerzy wieslaw Fiedler Mr luigi Mastromauro Ms Maria Selga
Mr Alfonso Aloe Mr Joe Gagliardi Mr Paul Mavroudis Mr Apoloniuz Semkowski
Mr John Artavilla Ms Giuseppina Galiano Mr Eddie Micallef Mr Arvind Shrivastava
Mr Vince Ballerini Mrs Mary Gatt Mr George Micallef Mrs Roma Siachos
Ms Maria Bevacqua Mr Dennis Gaylard Mr Joe Michels Mr Satnam Singh
Miss Olga M. Black Mr Sebastiano (Nello) Giansiracusa Ms Rosa Monteleone Ms Bunnary Soch
Ms Olga Bogovic Mrs Francesca Giombanco Mr lorenzo Nardella Mr Mehmet Sadik Sozer
Mr Edwin Edward Bonello Mr Jose Gonzalez Ms Irene Nomicos Mr Idilio Suero
Mr Vincenzo Bonnicci Mrs likyelesh Gossa Mr Michael North-Coombes Mr John Jung liang Tai
Mr Giuseppe Bordonaro Mr Ian Green Mr Gabby Ocampo Ms Josephine Taliana
Fr Cyril A. Bozic OFM Prof Mei Gu Guan Mrs Aliki Pandis Mr Anastasios Theodorellos
Mr Barry Buckle Dr Fahmi Haniffa Mr Antonis Papazoglou Mr Costas Tolongos
Mr Vincent Camilleri Ms Maria Hartel Mr Jamie Pardes Mr Anthony Torsello
Mr Roland Henry Carmody Mr Tom (Trieu Thong) Huynh Mr Andrew Pavlou Ms Cecilia Tse
Ms Antonietta Carrafa Cav. Dr Francesco Incani Mr Anthony Petsis Mr Anestis Tsousis
Mrs Thalia Carydias Mrs Theodoula Ioannou Mrs Niki Pezaros Mr Gregory Vaisman
Mr George Catsourakis Monsignor Peter Jeffrey Mrs usha Phakey Mrs Fotini Vassos
Mr Huaide Chen Mr Ilija Josevski Mr Carmelo Piedimonte Mr Ramaprasad Vemula
Mr Raja Chetty Mr Mohammad Haroon Khosti Mr Dimitrios Potamidis Mr Aris Vlahogeorgos
Mr william Constantine Mrs Anna Kontekakis Mr Ivan Stanley Prosenak Mr Peter Vlahos
Ms Helen Constas Mr Harish Kumar Dr (Mrs) Rama Rao Mr Charles walker
Mr Rodney Crooks Dr Santosh Kumar Mrs Helen Rapassanis Mrs Mary Catherine walsh
Mrs Maria Thelma Davies Mr Ganemy Kunoo Mr werner Remsnik Mr Zuo xin wang
Mr Peter De Maio Mr Prasanna Namal Kurukularatne Ms Demetria Reyes Ms Jie xiao
Mrs xanthi Dellis Mr Ioannis lambrianidis Mr Eusebio (Sam) Riego Mrs Sevinc yurtsever
Ms Farzaneh Dehghan Mrs Kim le Mrs laura Riego Mr Charles Zammit
Dr Graham Dettrick Ms Katina lerias Mr Vasilios Rouvalis Mr David Zhou
Mr John Diplaris Mrs Haydee luporini Ms Eleni Sakelaridis
Mr Kazim Donma Mr V.l. ly Mr Vincenzo Salemi
Mr Constantine Efthymiadis Mr George McNaughton Mr Simeon Sarres
meRitoRioUs seRviCe to the CommUnity – oRganisations
Alay Kapwa Association Inc Richmond Chinese Elderly welfare Association Inc
Filipino/Australian Association of Ballarat Sicilia Nostra Senior Citizens Club
Hindu Foundation South Asia Times
Indonesian Club The Mauritian Silver Edge Club
North Eastern Melbourne Chinese Association Sri lanka German Technical Training Institute Old Boys Association
Pancretan Association of Melbourne
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awaRds foR exCeLLenCe
amBassadoR awaRd
Ms Ruth Harley
Mr wilbert Mapombere
Ms Hannah Kinross
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
LoCaL goveRnment awaRd
City of Stonnington
edUCation awaRd
Mr Michael Ring
Richmond west Primary School
Narre warren South P-12 College
seRviCe deLiveRy to mULtiCULtURaL viCtoRia - individUaLs
Mr Shorsh Ali Ahmad Mr Marcello D’Amico Mr Nick loupos Ms Anthea Sidiropoulos
Ms Judie Bainbridge Mrs Bahanita Danish Mr Nicholas Alexander Moraitis Mrs Dalal Sleiman
Ms Matija Barisic Ms Giuliana D’Appio Ms lotana Motuku Mrs loula Spiridonos-Papazois
Ms Jennifer Barrera Mr Ali Darwish Mr Adel Moussa Ms usha Sripathmanathan
Ms Anne Bartley Ms Melinda Doolan Mr Daniel Issac Musa Mr Anastasios Stathopoulos
Mrs Jenny Better Ms Effie Dres Mr Justo Paras Sr lorraine Testa ASJM
Ms Nuangwong Boonyanate Mrs Madhu Dudeja Ms Despina Rovolidis Ms Eva wakim
Mr Ivan Chan Mr Peter Gogorosis Mr Angelo Ruggieri Mr Thomas Patrick walsh
Mr Hussam Cheebo Ms Fatma Hodzic Mr Georges Ruta Mr Arthur Bw yong
Ms Giovanna Citta Mr Qing Song lin Dr Stewart Sharlow Dr xiaokang Zhou
seRviCe deLiveRy to mULtiCULtURaL viCtoRia -oRganisations
Antonine Monks loddon Prison
Aus Audio Visual Arts Association Parentslink Regional Parenting Service at MacKillop Family Services
City of Greater Dandenong - libraries Outreach Program Partaz Nou Kiltir
Jewish Aid Australia Spectrum MRC - Ethnic youth Council
latino-American women’s Association of Victoria windermere Child and Family Services
BUsiness awaRd
Pitruzzello Estate
Vicki’s Bickies
poLiCe and mULtiCULtURaL advisoRy Com-mittee awaRds
Inspector Tom Rawlings
Senior Constable Maha Sukkar
Constable Rebecca Amiridis
Foundation House – The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture
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The VMC would like to congratulate the 20 recipients on their achievements.
vRRR 2010 recipients
Hipolito Acosta Hre ling Phong Nguyen
Anwar Alishek Adem Osman Malekin) Bogdan Platek
Akier Manut Nyarnhom Hania Mayer Ridha Salman
Hussam Al-Mugotir Kyaw Soemoe Zamera Shariffie
Danielle Charak Shafiq Monis Rashidi Sumaili
Saw Ananias Ganemy Kunoo Bon Nguyen Noel Surur
Thataw Kunoo Giang Nguyen
viCtoRian RefUgee Regonition ReCoRd (vRRR )
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annual Report 2009-10The 2009-10 Annual Report covers the core
work of the Commission and its achievements
within the context of its objectives and
functions, as outlined in the Multicultural
Victoria Act 2004.
This report can also be viewed online at: www.multicultural.vic.gov.au
Copies of this Annual Report can be obtained
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