CDN wants to know what you think about us!

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 17:47

CulturalDiversity News in conjunction with the Australian Human Rights Commission wants to know what you think about this eForum and the work that we do. We have developed a short survey that should take no more than 5 minutes to fill. Please help us meet your priorities and click here for the survey. Thanks!

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Diverse Older People demand action on rights

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 14:54

NSW Council on the Ageing has released a consultative report on action priorities for ageing people from culturally diverse backgrounds. In October 2008 Council on the Ageing (COTA) NSW approached the Multicultural Health Communication, Metro MRC and the NSW Transcultural Aged Care Service (TACS) to discuss issues impacting on older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. In 2009 COTA NSW invited the Ethnic Communities Council of NSW to join the partnership towards hosting the first Diversity and Ageing in Action Forum in 2010.

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AHRC Race Commissioner calls for criminalisation of race hate at UN Hearings

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:33

GRAEME INNES
Race Discrimination Commissioner
Australian Human Rights Commission

I acknowledge the Chair and CERD Committee, the Australian Government delegation, and the Australian NGO delegation, in particular Dr Djiniyini Gondarra from East Arnhemland, and Rosie Kunoth Monks from Utopia. The Commission Shadow Report recognises, and welcomes, the Government's positive achievements addressing racial inequality in Australia. We recognise the constraints on Government of caretaker convention. And we welcome their commitment to maximise their participation in this session. I'll make three brief observations, and then turn to key issues from the Commission report.

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Why a sustainable Australia needs multiculturalism

Monday, 16 August 2010 11:10

Sustainable population – not a debate about who we want here

The debate about a sustainable population for Australia only makes sense if it involves all Australians – as citizens, as producers, and as consumers. So the debate has to make sure everyone feels they have a stake and their input is respected; not only the middle aged, middle class, male and generally White people who dominated Dick Smith’s “population puzzle” video on the ABC last Thursday night, and were barely leavened in the Q and A studio audience by Suvendrini Perera, (Curtin U academic and Fairfax OpEd writer) on the panel, and Tanveer Ahmed and his dad on the floor.

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