annual report 2008-09
Enhancing Victoria’s cultural, religious and linguistic diversity. annual report 2008-09
Enhancing Victoria’s cultural, religious and linguistic diversity.
Annual Report 2008-09 The 2008-09 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 0651 Facsimile (03) 9651 0612 Email [email protected] contents letter to the premier...... 3 chairperson’s report...... 4 improving access 22 and equity for all about the commission enhancing Victoria’s cultural, religious and linguistic diversity...... 6 our role...... 6 about the Multicultural Victoria Act 2004...... 6 objectives and functions...... 6 our commissioners...... 7 our staff...... 7 expenditure...... 7 all of us policy new multicultural a new multicultural policy for Victoria...... 9 9 policy for Victoria community grants program supporting and empowering Victoria’s language services and refugee support community groups...... 10 improving the access and equity ...... funding categories 10 for all Victorian’s...... 22 funding rounds...... 12 language services...... 22 information sessions...... 12 appointments to boards and committees...... 22 assessment process...... 12 refugee brokerage/refugee action programs...... 24 new programs and partnerships...... 12 cultural precincts enhancement fund consultations, committees preserving our heritage for future generations...... 25 and community engagement responding to the needs of our community...... 14 consultations...... 14 joint projects & initiatives parntering for better outcomes...... 26 advisory/consultative committees...... 14 community engagement...... 16 appendices promoting harmony initiative commission meeting attendance register...... 29 grants...... 30 fostering understanding and appreciation of diversity...... 18 multicultural advisory board...... 62 print and online communications...... 20 awards for excellence...... 64 awards and receptions...... 20 victorian refugee recognition record...... 64
Annual Report 2008-09 1 “We draw strength from our diversity, and this Photo Michel Lawrence is one of the reasons why I believe our State is one of the most culturally diverse and one of the most harmonious in Australia.”
George Lekakis Launch of the ‘Greek-Language Writers of Melbourne book, 10 December 2008
2 Victorian Multicultural Commission letter to the premier
The Hon John Brumby MP Premier of Victoria Minister for Multicultural Affairs 1 Treasury Place EAST 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 operations for the period 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.
Yours sincerely,
George Lekakis CHAIRPERSON Photo Michel Lawrence
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where we stand This has been a challenging and rewarding year, both for the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC) and for multiculturalism in the State of Victoria. Broadly, these past 12 months between 2008 and 2009 mark a year of consolidation, of co-operation and a year that compelled us to appreciate our shared cultural space.
The devastation of the Black Saturday bushfires and providing policy advice in the area of reminded us of nature’s capacity for destruction. multicultural affairs. Feedback garnered through And yet, the disaster also sparked an outpouring of regular consultations with communities and key good will that demonstrated the people of Victoria’s stakeholders now directly feeds into the policy capacity for hope and renewal. In the wake of the options that are developed. The Commission’s disaster, the people of this State dug deep, and gave positioning as an Administrative Office aligned generously to help others rebuild their lives. All to the Department of Premier and Cabinet Victorians, regardless of their cultural or religious demonstrates the whole-of-Government approach background, re-discovered the importance of to multicultural affairs in the State of Victoria. community as a wellspring of support in the ashes One of the key strengths of my Commission of Black Saturday. is its continuing engagement with community Victorians have often drawn strength from organisations, helping them to address their adversity. Following a number of unfortunate specific needs and issues; because a community’s assaults on international students, the Premier problems are a society’s concerns. announced a Walk for Harmony to give Victorians That is why we continued to support and an opportunity to show their support for cultural empower communities through promoting diversity and collectively condemn the social unity, delivering on community aspirations and poisons of racism and prejudice. understanding, and celebrating diversity, while More than 40,000 people flocked to Federation providing independent, timely and responsive Square in March for the inaugural Viva Victoria advice to the Government. festival, which was held as part of Victoria’s Cutural The State Government formally endorsed the Diversity Week, the State’s largest annual event for Commission’s strategic aims by announcing some the promotion of cultural, linguistic and religious important funding initiatives for 2009-10. The diversity and community harmony. It’s always State Budget allocated an additional $4.6 million to heartening to see these events as examples of help strengthen Victoria’s multicultural diversity multiculturalism in practice. and help support refugees in Victorian communities. The Week also saw the launch of All of Us, Our Multicultural Advantage initiative received a Victoria’s new multicultural policy. Developed with funding boost with the commitment of $2m over two extensive community consultation and built on a years to promote and support harmony and social strong foundation of partnerships, advocacy and cohesion in Victoria. This initiative will develop a supportive programs, the Policy re-affirms the State range of programs and campaigns to help Victorians Government’s commitment to multiculturalism better understand, embrace and celebrate cultural and sets out how we can make the most of the diversity; leading to improved social cohesion. opportunities to improve our society as a whole. The budget cycle also acknowledged the We look forward to working with the importance of redressing settlement issues for Commonwealth to further develop a national policy refugees. The Refugee Action Program (formerly framework for addressing multicultural issues the Refugee Brokerage Program) received $2 million Australia-wide, to help Australians embrace diversity over two years, which will assist more than as a source of cultural enrichment for us all. 50 newly emerging refugee and humanitarian Since the previous year’s merger of the Victorian communities across Melbourne and regional Office of Multicultural Affairs into the Commission, Victoria, linking services at the local level to support the VMC’s fundamental role as an independent refugees, their families and link between the community and the government their communities. has been augmented with the task of developing The Victorian Multicultural Commission’s popular
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grants program continued to provide financial support to Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse community organisations, providing grants to more than 1,600 such organisations to help them carry out a range of activities which encourage individuals to participate in community life and in the wider Victorian society. The Government earmarked an additional $2 million for the Cultural Precincts Enhancement fund, bringing total investment in the precincts to $10 million. This infrastructural investment is helping to revitalise the well-established Little Bourke Street Chinese precinct, the Lygon Street Italian precinct and the Lonsdale Street Greek precinct, to help these communities retain and share their cultural heritage. These funding initiatives will further enable the VMC to deliver on the needs and aspirations of various community support groups, so that they can contribute to the social fabric of Victoria and Australia as a whole. I would like to extend a special thanks to the Premier, John Brumby for his outstanding leadership, Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, James Merlino, the Parliamentary Secretary, Liz Beattie, the Commissioners, and VMC staff for their active engagement in the promotion of cultural, linguistic and religious diversity in the state of Victoria. Their combined efforts have produced tangible contributions towards our goal of improving social cohesion for all Victorians. I would also like to extend my gratitude for the leadership of our Governor, Professor David de Kretser and Mrs Jan de Kretser for their support of multicultural communities and intiatives. 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 strength in our differences.
George Lekakis Chairperson
TOP Victoria’s faith leaders at the annual Dandenong Interfaith Network Gathering. centre Launch of the Perceptions of Dementia in Ethnic Communities resource, December 2008. above Cultural Diversity Week gala dinner, March 2009.
Annual Report 2008-09 5 about the commission
enhancing Victoria’s cultural diversity
The Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC) is committed to fostering harmony and encouraging the full participation of Victoria’s culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse communities in all aspects of life in Victoria.
OUR ROLE The VMC is committed to working for a prosperous OBJECTIVES AND FUNCTIONS and united future in which diversity is respected The VMC’s objectives and functions, as specified and cultural heritage preserved, and where all in the MVA are: individuals can access opportunities to participate in Objectives and contribute to the social, cultural, economic and • to promote full participation by Victoria’s culturally political life of the State. The Commission’s objectives and linguistically diverse communities in the social, and functions are specified in the Multicultural cultural, economic and political life of Victoria; Victoria Act 2004. • to promote access by Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities to services made About the Multicultural available by governments and other bodies; Victoria Act 2004 • to encourage all of Victoria’s culturally and The Multicultural Victoria Act 2004 (MVA) enshrines linguistically diverse communities to retain and in legislation a preamble and a set of principles express their social identity and cultural inheritance; that recognise the State’s cultural, religious and • to promote co-operation between bodies linguistic diversity as one of its greatest assets. concerned with multicultural affairs; The MVA has made it a legislative requirement • to promote unity among Victoria’s culturally and for all Victorian Government departments to linguistically diverse communities; and annually report to the Minister for Multicultural • to promote a better understanding within Affairs on their activities and achievements in Victoria of Victoria’s culturally and linguistically relation to multicultural affairs. This includes diverse communities. their use of interpreting and translating services, their communications in languages other Functions than English, the appointment of people from • to ensure that the objectives of the Commission different cultural and linguistic backgrounds to are met to the maximum extent that is practicable; government boards and committees, and any other • to investigate, report and make recommendations major improvements or initiatives that promote to the Minister on any aspect of multicultural multiculturalism and meet the identified needs of affairs referred to it by the Minister; Victoria’s CALD communities. • to advise the Minister on factors inhibiting the The MVA was amended in 2008 to formalise the development of harmonious community relations and changes arising from the merger of the Victorian on barriers to the participation of Victoria’s culturally Office of Multicultural Affairs into the VMC in 2007. and linguistically diverse communities in the social, The amendments enhanced the whole-of-Government cultural, economic and political life of Victoria; approach to multicultural affairs and provided • to consult with relevant bodies and people to a greater focus on the community and improved determine the needs of Victoria’s culturally and the accountability of Government Departments linguistically diverse communities, including needs in the area of multicultural affairs. These changes in relation to matters covered by any report prepared streamlined and enhanced the administration of the by the Minister under section 21 (of the MVA); and portfolio and provided better outcomes for Victoria’s • to maintain and further develop harmonious diverse community. community relations between all relevant groups Following the ammendements to the MVA, and in the context of Victoria’s culturally and effective from 1 January 2009, the VMC became linguistically diverse society. aligned to the Department of Premier and Cabinet.
6 Victorian Multicultural Commission ABOVE The Antipodes Festival, March 2009. “The right to express our culture, our religious beliefs and our heritage without fear or favour is an ethos the VMC and the Victorian Government is firmly committed to.”
George Lekakis Muslim Women’s Council of Victoria Iftar Dinner, 13 October 2008
Annual Report 2008-09 7 about the commission
During the reporting period the terms of three Commissioners came to an end: Ms Vicki Mitsos, Ms Viv Nguyen, and Ms Usha Sharma. To ensure the interests of Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse community are represented, the Commission meets regularly to discuss issues of importance to Victoria’s diverse communities. The Commission then promotes the views of the community on a range of boards and committees and at national forums. The Commission held seven full day meetings between July 2008 and June 2009 (See Appendix 1). During the reporting period, Commissioners continued to participate in community functions, consultations, events, conferences and seminars. In 2008-09, the Commissioners collectively attended more than 650 community engagements.
Front row from left Ms. Marcia Pinskier, Mr. Hakan Akyol, Our staff Mr. George Lekakis, Ms. Hang Thi-Bich Nguyen. back row from left Dr. Linda Sydor Petkovic, Ms. Samar During the year the Commissioners were supported Mougharbel, Ms. Elizabeth Drozd, Mr. Yasser Soliman, Dr. Stanley by a team of dedicated staff who worked closely Chiang, Mr. Joseph Caputo, Ms. Elleni Bereded-Samuel. with the Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson and (Absent: S. Jagdeep Singh Shergill). Commissioners to ensure the VMC performed its legislative functions and achieved its core objectives. As at 30 June 2009 this team comprised 29 people. Our Commissioners The VMC comprises of 12 dedicated Commissioners Expenditure who advocate the objectives of the Commission and Salaries and associated salary costs $2,731,172 act as an important conduit between communities Operating Expenses $1,526,611 and the Commission. Community Grants Program $8,216,891 Our Commissioners have a solid understanding Total $12,474,674 of the issues affecting multicultural communities and are actively involved, regularly attending Includes grants under the Community Grants Program, events and playing a vital role in building Language Services Strategy, Refugee Support Package, networks and liaising with different faith and Cultural Precincts Enhancement Fund and Promoting community groups. Harmony initiative. The Commissioners meet 6-8 times a year to provide input into the work being undertaken by the VMC and to discuss a wide range of issues raised with them by communities.
Commissioners Mr. George Lekakis (Chairperson) Mr. Hakan Akyol (Deputy Chairperson) Ms. Elleni Bereded-Samuel Mr. Joseph Caputo Dr. Stanley Chiang Ms. Elizabeth Drozd Ms. Samar Mougharbel Ms. Hang Thi-Bich Nguyen Dr. Linda Sydor Petkovic Ms. Marcia Pinskier S. Jagdeep Singh Shergill Mr. Yasser Soliman
8 Victorian Multicultural Commission all of us policy
a new multicultural policy for Victoria
In March 2009, the Premier launched, All of Us: Victoria’s Multicultural Policy. The policy’s name demonstrates our belief that effective multicultural policy benefits all members of our society and highlights that multiculturalism describes who we are as a people.
All of Us proudly declares the Victorian Government’s commitment to multiculturalism. It is built on a solid legislative framework – including the Multicultural Victoria Act 2004 – which supports human rights and cultural and religious diversity. The policy was developed through an extensive and highly visible consultation process, led by the Premier of Victoria, which included: • the release of a discussion paper prepared by Victoria University; • a high-level roundtable, hosted by the Governor of Victoria; • public consultations held across the State, attended by more than 800 community leaders and stakeholders; • written submissions; and • ongoing high-level liaison with Government departments.
The consultation process ensured that the views of all Victorians are reflected in the policy, and identified a range of priority strategies for the Government to support multiculturalism for the benefit of all Victorians. The policy consists of four themes, which provide the framework for the Government’s priority strategies. The themes are as follows: • advancing equality by supporting the human rights of all Victorians; • supporting our cultural, linguistic and religious diversity; • fostering unity and promoting community harmony; and “All of Us reinforces the strong • boosting our economic advantage. legislative and human rights All of Us demonstrates the ways in which we can achieve a socially progressive society that reaps the platform we have to support real social, cultural and economic benefits that are inherent within our multicultural Victoria. multicultural affairs.”
TOP RiGHT Multicultural Policy Round Table, August 2008 from left, George Lekakis Refugee Week Celebration, 18 June 2009 Hon. James Merlino, Hon. John Brumby and Prof. David de Kretser. BOTTOM RIGHT Dancing at the Polish Festival, November 2008.
Annual Report 2008-09 9 community grants program
supporting and empowering Victoria’s community groups
The Victorian Multicultural Commission supported more than 1,600 Victorian communities and groups from culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse backgrounds during the 2008-09 financial year through funding from its successful and popular community grants program.
In addition to the funding allocated to multicultural Buildings and Facilities Improvement Grants communities during this period, the grants program To assist ethnic community organisations to once again partnered with the Department of undertake minor upgrades to buildings that they Education and Early Childhood Development to own (appendix 2c). provide targeted funding support towards educational and training programs and with the Office of Women’s Educational Program Grants Policy for Women Creating Harmony projects. By The Commission was pleased to receive the supporting communities through these grants, the ongoing support of the Department of Education Commission is working hard to meet the needs of and Early Childhood Development to deliver ethnic communities, promote community cohesion this program, which supports after hours ethnic and strengthen communities’ capacities to sustain schools with the development of classroom their organisations, programs and events. teaching materials in languages with few available resources. he community grants through t Multicultural Festivals and Events Grants program, the commission: Support major festivals, conferences and special • supported more than 1,600 community groups ethnic community events that encourage the and organisations by directly funding community initiatives; participation of the broader community. Grants are also provided to support activities addressing • delivered an accessible, high-quality, client-focused service to Victoria’s multicultural communities; and major issues through a conference or special event (appendix 2e). • assisted groups to retain and celebrate their cultural heritage by supporting local festivals and events; and Strengthening Multicultural Communities Grants • introduced a new funding category to support Support community organisations to undertake interfaith networks and projects and initiatives projects that address the unmet needs of Victoria’s that promote understanding between faiths. CALD communities. Priority was given to projects that: • develop the capacity of new and emerging Funding categories communities and multicultural networks; The funding categories of the Community Grants • provide assistance to migrant and refugee women Program represent the seven areas of greatest need, and/or young people; as identified by communities during consultations • support local heritage projects that acknowledge with the Commission. and document the contribution of migrants and refugees; and Organisational Support Grants • enable organisations to develop partnerships To provide financial assistance for the general costs with other community and government agencies associated with running community organisations that address community needs (appendix 2f). (appendix 2a). Multifaith/Interfaith Grants Program Senior Citizens Grants Supports Multifaith initiatives and Interfaith To support multicultural senior citizens clubs to hold networks which focus on promoting understanding regular social and community strengthening activities of and respect for faiths in Victoria. (appendix 2b).
10 Victorian Multicultural Commission “Through these grants we aim to empower cultural groups to deliver their own programs and events and address the specific needs of their own community.”
George Lekakis Emerging Leaders Forum, July 2008
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“The very fabric of Victoria is made up of a unique and distinctive blend of a number of different cultures, languages and faiths.”
George Lekakis Meeting with Consular Core, 18 June 2009
Funding rounds as diverse and rich in scope as the communities The Community Grants Program included three themselves and included a wide range of activities, funding rounds: including the following: • Round One Multicultural Festivals and Events, for activities being held between July 2008 and Community Strengthening projects January 2009; • A Multicultural Arts Victoria program established • Round Two Multicultural Festivals and Events, a youth band, the Angels Voices Band, involving for activities being held between January 2009 more than 20 young people from the Shepparton and July 2009; and Congolese community. • Major funding round including the Organisational • Somlink’s African Youth Leadership Project Support, the Building and Facilities, the providing youth leadership training to African Strengthening Multicultural Communities, young people residing in inner-metro Melbourne Educational, and Multifaith/Interfaith categories. public housing estates. • Friends of Farm Vigano’s Nostalgia Vigano Information Sessions project to produce a series of interpretive To ensure that all communities have been provided installations at Farm Vigano which commemorate with the opportunity to access the Community the memories and experiences of the local Grants Program, information sessions were Italian migrants. conducted throughout metropolitan and regional • Fruitful Films Banks of the Tigris documentary film Victoria. The guidelines and application forms and community education project celebrating were also made available to all organisations the Jewish contribution to Iraqi music and the registered with the Commission and online, via the cultural ties that link Iraqis of all backgrounds. Commission’s website. • Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre’s 20th Anniversary Heritage Publication documenting Assessment Process the history of RILC over the past 20 years. In the reporting period, the Victorian Multicultural • Springvale Neighbourhood House all women’s Commission received approximately 3,000 swimming group program at Dandenong applications for funding. The Funding Sub-committee Oasis Leisure Centre in collaboration with (Commissioners Mougharbel, Drozd, Bereded- the YMCA. Samuel, Nguyen and Petkovic) met to assess the • Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities’ Council applications and made recommendations based on program providing opportunities for CALD the quality of the expected outcomes and relevance women to overcome isolation, build resilience to program guidelines. These assessments were and gain strength and encouragement through conducted in accordance with the Commission’s interaction and networking with other women. procedures and standards specifying transparency • The New Hope Foundation (Werribee Refugee and equity. The final recommendations were then Resource Centre) ran a three-day camp for 30 newly presented to the Minister Assisting the Premier on arrived young people from refugee backgrounds. Multicultural Affairs, James Merlino, for approval. • Hararian Community Association’s cultural program brought together Hararians of different New Programs and Partnerships ages, and Australian community to train, rehearse During the 2008-09 reporting period, the Commission and perform cultural dance and music. was pleased to support many new community • A Victorian Deaf Society and Holden Street projects and continued to strengthen existing Neighbourhood House program provided access events throughout Victoria. These projects were to ESL classes for deaf migrants.
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Festivals and Events • Polish Festival, a celebration of Polish culture. • Italian Festival, devoted to highlighting the cultural, artistic and economic collaboration between Italy and Victoria. • Fiji Indian Senior Citizens Association Tenth Anniversary Celebrations with entertainment including classical Indian dancing and Bollywood dancing. • Buddha’s Day and Multicultural Festival celebrates Buddha’s birthday and Victoria’s multicultural community Festival Indonesia 2008 – the largest Indonesian-Australian investment, trade and tourism forum in Melbourne. • Chilean Latin American September Festival – A three day multicultural event involving more than 50 Chilean and Latin American community organisations in Victoria. • Turkish Tulip Weekend celebrates the Origin of the Tulip, showcasing Turkish culture (food, music, arts, history) and demonstrating the affinity the Turkish community has with other communities and cultures. • Celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights at Federation Square, food and music festival followed by fireworks display at Yarra River. • South Sudanese Nuer Youth Conference – A conference on Sudanese youth problems in the south eastern suburbs, addressing crime prevention, education, health, violent behaviour and drug and alcohol abuse. • Pako Festa, Victoria’s premier multicultural street festival showcasing Geelong’s diversity, through food, folk dancing, the famous Pako Parade, workshops, art exhibitions, multicultural craft TOP Turkish Tulip Festival, September 2008. displays and entertainment. ABOVE Iftar Dinner at Government House.
CASE STUDY Buddha’s Day and Multicultural Festival The Buddha Day and Multicultural designed to introduce Buddhist Festival hosted by the Buddha’s traditions through a range of artistic Light International Association of and cultural groups, as well as an Victoria (BLIA VIC) and Fo Guang assortment of vegetarian culinary Shan Melbourne, has become one delights. of the most highly anticipated While the program incorporates cultural festivals on the Victorian aspects of the Buddhist faith events calendar. through the World Peace Blessing Held at Federation Square during Ceremony, the Festival continues May, the Festival has consistently to place a strong emphasis attracted large crowds, with more on cooperation, community than 84,000 people attending during understanding and harmony the two-day festival in 2009. amongst all faiths and cultures The program is specifically within our society.
Annual Report 2008-09 13 consultation, committees and community engagement
responding to the needs of our community
The Multicultural Victoria Act 2004 sets out the Commission’s consultative functions and as such the Commission consults with relevant bodies and people to determine the needs of Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
In 2008-09 the Commission continued to facilitate Advisory /Consultative Committees grassroots discussion and information flow with The Commission continued to be active on a range multicultural communities, keeping the Government of advisory or consultative bodies that proactively abreast of community concerns. Community addressed issues pertinent to the multicultural affairs input garnered through the Commission’s regular portfolio including: consultative forums and advocated for the needs • The Police and Community Multicultural of Victoria’s communities through involvement in Advisory Committee (PACMAC), which the advisory boards and committees. Commission co-chairs; • Ministerial Advisory Council on LOTE, ESL and Multicultural Education (MACLEM); THE COMMISSION CONTINUED TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY BY: • Standing Committee on Local Government and Cultural Diversity, which the Commission chairs; • delivering on its commitment to hold at least 60 community consultations throughout • Centre for Dialogue Advisory Board; Victoria to address the needs and concerns of • Multifaith Advisory Group, which the multicultural communities; Commission chairs; • meeting with representatives from community • Multicultural Arts Policy Advisory Committee; organisations individually to address their • Parliament of World’s Religions Board; and specific needs and concerns; and • VMC Advisory Council, which the • maintaining its ‘Open Door’ policy to community Commission chairs. representatives. Ministerial Council on Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (MCIMA) & Standing Committee on Consultations Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (SCIMA) The Commission held its annual state-wide The Commission continued its involvement in community consultations in 11 locations across SCIMA and MCIMA. These national cross- Victoria in September 2008. The consultations are an jurisdictional forums provide an important opportunity to gauge community perceptions of the opportunity to discuss and address issues relating Victorian Government’s performance in multicultural to immigration and multicultural affairs and bring affairs and identify areas for future action to improve a local and state perspective to deliberations on outcomes for CALD communities. issues of national importance. The consultations were attended by over 800 At the meetings in 2008-09 Victoria continued community leaders and service providers, including to advocate for improvements in the provision representatives from peak bodies, ethnic organisations, of settlement services and chaired the MCIMA mainstream services, CALD communities and state, Working Party on Settlement Issues. local and federal government. Activities that the Victorian Government has Cultural Diversity Plans Network undertaken in multicultural affairs and good In 2008-09, the Commission established the Cultural practice examples of service delivery were captured Diversity Plans Network, with representatives from in the 2007-08 whole of Victorian Government all Victorian Government departments responsible achievements report. This report was tabled in for developing each department’s Cultural Parliament on 23 June 2009 and is available to Diversity Plan. the public on the Commission’s website: All Departments are required to develop Cultural www.multicultural.vic.gov.au. Diversity Plans under A Fairer Victoria (2006) to
14 Victorian Multicultural Commission “We listen to the needs of our diverse community and convey that information to the Government with advice on real and practical solutions.”
George Lekakis Meeting with Consular Core, 18 June 2009
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“The Victorian Government continues to be committed to supporting newly-arrived migrants and refugees to settle into our community.”
George Lekakis Refugee Week Celebration, Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau, 18 June 2009
address the provision for culturally sensitive Multifaith Advisory Group service delivery to Victoria’s CALD communities. The Multifaith Advisory Group (MAG) was Through the Network, which meets on a regular established in January 2008 as an outcome of the basis, the VMC facilitates and supports exchange Premier’s Multifaith Leaders Forum in October of ideas and learnings between departments to 2007 and as part of the Victorian Government’s assist in the preparation and implementation of commitment to ongoing dialogue with Victoria’s the plans. faith leaders. The Network also provides an opportunity for The MAG meets quarterly and is made up of information-sharing across departments on broader approximately 20 senior faith representatives who government activities and key developments in provide advice to the Government via the Victorian multicultural affairs. The preparation of Cultural Multicultural Commission on issues of interest and Diversity Plans for all Victorian Government concern to faith communities and opportunities departments is a new requirement under the and strategies to promote community harmony Multicultural Victoria Act. in Victoria. The MAG has enabled strong and sustained Community engagement consultation between the Government and our The Commission also coordinates ongoing diverse faith communities on a range of issues. consultative structures, including the VMC In 2008-09 the MAG: Advisory Council, Multifaith Advisory Group • Presented a joint statement from Victoria’s faith and the Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network. leaders at the National Memorial Service for the Victorian Bushfire Victims on Sunday 22 February; VMC Advisory Council • Promoted and supported the Walk for Harmony The VMC Advisory Council was established in through Melbourne CBD on 12 July; March 2007 to provide advice to the VMC on issues • Provided a joint statement on the environment affecting Victoria’s CALD communities. The Council to the Minister for Environment and Climate is made up of representatives from a wide cross- Change and; section of service providers and peak cultural and • Developed an Interfaith Calendar. faith-based representative organisations, including newly emerging communities and regional and Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network youth organisations. The Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network (MMYN) In its second year, the Council provided valuable continued its activities for a second term with advice relating to the Commission’s priorities, 15 new young people recruited to join the MMYN. including input to the multicultural affairs whole- The MMYN now comprises 25 young people of-Government report. representing a diverse range of faiths, cultures, During 2008, the Council was consulted and ages, geographical locations and life experience. provided advice on major policy work undertaken Alongside their advisory role, MMYN members by the VMC, including the development of Victoria’s were involved in a number of initiatives including: new multicultural policy and settlement issues. • Planning and running a Regional Schools Tour Organisations represented on the Advisory Council to discuss faith, culture and human rights in are listed in Appendix 3. Shepparton in March 2009; and • Hosting a panel discussion at the Everyday People, Everyday Rights Conference in March 2009.
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Standing Committee on Local Government and Cultural Diversity The Standing Committee on Local Government and Cultural Diversity was reconstituted in 2009. It now has representatives from 21 Victorian councils and seven organisations from the local government sector. The Standing Committee continues to provide an excellent forum for the exchange of ideas and strategies in the local government sector to facilitate greater responsiveness to culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse communities in Victoria.
CASE STUDY Youth participation and leadership programs The VMC also supported the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) to run the Multifaith Multicultural Youth Mentoring for Leadership Program again in 2009. The Program came out of a recommendation from the July 2006 Multifaith Multicultural Youth Forum where a need was identified for greater avenues for young people to participate in leadership and mentoring opportunities in the government, community, faith and corporate sectors. The 2009 Youth Mentoring for Leadership program is a continuation of a pilot program conducted at RMIT University and Victoria University in 2008. In 2009 the program targets young people from an extended age range of 18-28 years and incorporates a greater opportunity for dialogue on particular areas of interest, as well as support for the development of youth-led initiatives.
TOP Working party on workplace diversity. centre George Lekakis with local MP John Pandazopoulos and participants at the Dandenong Community Consultation. ABOVE Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs, James Merlino, and George Lekakis with members of the Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network.
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fostering understanding and appreciation of diversity
The 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.
Through the Promoting Harmony initiative the secondary school students, their families and school Commission seeks to promote, enhance and secure communities, and the wider Victorian community. harmony and social cohesion in the Victorian More than 200 events and activities took place community and counter the risk of racial and across Victoria including: the inaugural Viva religious vilification, social isolation and exclusion. Victoria – a multicultural festival at Federation It also strengthens and reaffirms Victoria’s Square that attracted more than 40,000 people, reputation as a welcoming and harmonious society the Premier’s Gala Dinner, the Black Harmony for all of us. Gathering, the Cultural Diversity Quest Awards In the 2006-07 and 2007-08 Victorian State Budgets, and the Cultural Diversity Cup. the Victorian Government allocated a total of $4.1 Through the Community Grants Program, million from 2006 to 2010 to strengthen and promote the Commission supported many more activities Victoria’s multifaith and multicultural diversity. delivered by community groups, service providers, In the 2009-10 budget the Government committed schools and councils. a further $2 million over two years to build on the success of this initial investment. All of Us – Community Harmony Campaign In March 2009, the Victorian Multicultural Commission ran the highly successful All of Us COMMISSION USED ITS THE community harmony campaign for the second COMMUNICATION NETWORKS TO: consecutive year. and understanding of • Promote mutual respect Using images from the All of Us, photographic diversity through campaigns and targeted activities. exhibition initiated by photographer Michel communities, • Inform and connect multicultural Lawrence, the advertisements illustrated Victoria’s including in regard to developments in government rich diversity though a sequence of still images, relevant to multicultural affairs via publications, online resources and media announcements. words and music using the ‘All of Us’ messaging to emphasise the inclusive nature of Victoria and • Celebrate Victoria’s cultural, linguistic and religious diversity through a series of and local engender a sense of pride in being Victorian. and major events. The All of Us community harmony education campaign included advertisements on television (metro and regional) and outdoor advertising in the greater metropolitan area. Cultural Diversity Week During the reporting period the Commission Community Accord coordinated the sixth Cultural Diversity Week The Community Accord continued to be signed by 15-21 March – a series of activities aimed at raising community groups and organisations including Parks awareness of Victoria’s cultural, linguistic and Victoria, Western Health and the Geelong Netball religious diversity. Association. During the past year more than The Commission again oversaw a broad 200 individuals, community groups and organisations community relations and media campaign to reach committed to the principles of the Accord which are cultural and faith community groups, primary and outlined in the Multicultural Victoria Act 2004.
18 Victorian Multicultural Commission “Each year our Cultural Diversity Week celebrates the diverse cultures which make Victoria the vibrant, vital and interesting place that it is.”
George Lekakis Cultural Diversity Week speech at Melbourne Zoo, 24 March 2009
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left to right VMC Publications: All of Us, Multicultural Victoria magazine, VMC Annual Report 2007-08 and the Whole of Government Report 2007-08.
The principles of the Accord include the following: Print • Respect all ethnic, cultural, religious and • All of Us – Victoria’s Multicultural Policy linguistic communities; • Multicultural Victoria magazine • Seek opportunities to work together to re-affirm our (Issues 25, 26, 27 and 28) similarities as human beings and the fundamental • Whole of Government Report: principals which unite us as Victorians; Achievements in Multicultural Affairs 2007-08 • Advocate for the elimination of racial and religious • Victorian Multicultural Commission intolerance; and Annual Report 2007-08 • Reject all forms of racial and religious vilification, violence, harassment and unlawful discrimination. Online The VMC website (www.multicultural.vic.gov.au) provided regular updates on issues of importance Print and Online Communications for community groups, as well as advertising The Commission continued to keep stakeholders community and government events and activities. engaged and informed through a number of high- All VMC publications were also uploaded to the quality publications and online communications. site and made accessible in a form that could be downloaded.
Awards and Receptions CASE STUDY Viva Victoria Functions and events hosted by the Commission provided opportunities for Victorians from diverse More than 40,000 people flocked to Federation Square backgrounds, representing a range of ethnicities on Saturday 21 March 2009 to enjoy a vibrant and religions, to come together and acknowledge celebration of multiculturalism at the inaugural Viva their differences in a positive way. Victoria festivals. Highlights included two stages of In acknowledging the achievements and outstanding music from around the world, a vibrant outstanding contributions made by migrants marketplace of quality handmade products, an and refugees through the Commission’s awards exceptional selection of authentic traditional foods, programs, we encourage greater awareness and children’s activities and exhibitions, entertainers, respect for our cultural diversity. chefs, traders and artists. People from more than 60 cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds were Victoria’s Multicultural Awards for Excellence invited to participate in this event and apart from the The Awards program was established by the entertainment, other activities included an interactive Commission in 2002 to recognise and reward the art display called a Rangoli, which saw an amazing contribution of individuals and organisations in design created from grains, seeds and other natural the promotion of Victoria’s multicultural harmony. ingredients on the day, plus a Bodhi Tree that allowed The ceremony was held at Government House in participants to share their wishes of enlightenment. December 2008 where 188 recipients were presented with awards across nine categories:
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• Ambassador Award • Award for Meritorious Service in the Community • Business Corporate Award • Local Government Award • Media Award • Police and Community Multicultural Advisory Committee (PACMAC) Awards • Premier’s Award for Community Harmony • Service Delivery to Multicultural Victoria Awards • Victorian Multicultural Education Award
The Commission received numerous nominations for the Awards which 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. For a full list of Award recipients see Appendix 4.
Victorian Refugee Recognition Record (VRRR) Each year, the Commission formally recognises the invaluable contribution that refugees make to the community. In June 2009, a total of 21 recipients were added to the VRRR in a ceremony hosted by the Deputy Premier, Rob Hulls MP. For the third consecutive year, the Victorian Government invited photography students from Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE to create a photo exhibition featuring portraits of the recipients. For a full list of the recipients see Appendix 5.
Premier’s Community Receptions Each year, the Premier’s community receptions provide an opportunity to formally acknowledge the contribution of particular communities to the State of Victoria. The Commission coordinated the following community receptions that were hosted by the Premier: • South Korea 17 July 2008 • Egypt 23 July 2008 • Chile 25 September 2008 • Ireland 16 March 2009 • Netherlands 27 April 2009 • Portugal 10 June 2009
TOP Premier John Brumby with Multicultural Awards for Excellence recipients Melaku Ali and Kiemi Lai. CENTRE VRRR recipient Farah Faiq. ABOVE George Lekakis and Mark Stone, Chief Executive of Parks Victoria, at the signing of the Community Accord, March 2009.
Annual Report 2008-09 21 language services and refugee support
improving access and equity for all Victorians During the 2008-09 financial year the Commission undertook a variety of projects and programs designed to improve access by Victoria’s 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 multicultural communities in all aspects of life in Victoria.
language services The Group consists of representatives of language One of the major barriers to accessing government service providers, training providers, the services and information is low English language National Accreditation Authority for Translators proficiency. Victorian Government policy supports and Interpreters (NAATI), the translating and the provision of language services – as the most interpreting professional association and the health, effective means of overcoming this barrier – to legal and education sectors. improve access and outcomes for people who do • Regional Interpreter Skills Course – In September not speak English well or at all. 2008, the Commission engaged RMIT University Through the Language Services Strategy, the to deliver six-week interpreter skills courses in Commission continues to promote the effective use Mildura and Bendigo to increase the pathways for of interpreters to facilitate access to government accredited interpreters in regional Victoria. services. Since the inception of the Strategy in 2002, • The Multilingual Technology Project examined the over 70 projects have been funded to improve the use of information communications technology use of interpreters by government service providers to bolster current interpreting services and how and to help develop and strengthen the quality and additional interpreting service options can be supply of interpreters. provided particularly in rural and regional locations. • The Workforce Development Strategy explored ways to attract and retain interpreters and translators THE COMMISSION WORKED TO IMPROVE ACCESS AND EQUITY BY: in languages spoken by both long-standing and newly arrived communities. The Strategy examined • Encouraging individuals to study to become a range of short to long-term measures to facilitate interpreters in emerging languages by providing 40 scholarships. an adequate supply of appropriately qualified and skilled interpreters to meet the language needs of • Delivering quality programs to improve access to services and support community-led projects CALD communities in Victoria. Part of this strategy for refugees. included the role out of training of VPS staff on • Ensuring equal access for CALD communities how to work effectively with interpreters. to participate in boards and committees by refining guidelines. Appointments to Boards and Committees Work was undertaken in 2008-09 with the State Key achievements include: Services Authority and the Department of Premier and • Interpreter Scholarship project – In 2008-09, a Cabinet to revise the guidelines for the Appointment further 40 scholarships were awarded to encourage and Remuneration of Part Time Non-Executive individuals to study to become interpreters in Directors of State Government Boards and Members emerging languages. Now in its seventh year of Statutory Bodies and Advisory Committees 152 scholarships have been awarded under the to include a more comprehensive and consistent Interpreter Scholarship project, in eleven languages. approach to identifying CALD membership. • Translating and Interpreting External Advisory As a result, the revised guidelines now include three Group was established in April 2009 to garner additional questions that will generate more consistent industry and sector advice on matters relating data on CALD representation on government boards to the provision of language services in Victoria. and committees.
22 Victorian Multicultural Commission Photo Robert Blackburn “The opportunities to participate in the global economy are vast, and if we continue to develop Victoria’s linguistic and cultural capacity in the economy, we will all reap the rewards.”
George Lekakis MLTAV 2009 Conference, 15 May 2009
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Refugee Brokerage/Refugee Action Programs In partnership with key agencies and refugee communities across Victoria, the Commission’s work on the Refugee Brokerage Program (RBP) has met with great success. The state-wide program provides vital support to Victoria’s recently arrived refugee and humanitarian entrants. The RBP works to: • Build capacity within refugee communities; • Support communities to develop ideas and initiatives to address their specific needs; and • Promote and enhance access to existing mainstream services.
The RBP operated across 12 partnerships within Melbourne and Victoria. Initiatives from this Program have included:
• Approximately 200 isolated Iraqi women are independently accessing a range of services through their local council following participation in the RBP; • Provision of critical social support and community infrastructure alongside the employment of refugees in regional areas; • A range of community enterprise initiatives which provide refugees with the opportunity to utilise existing or new skills in a business setting; • Driver education and driving lessons for socially and geographically isolated refugee women and other community members; and • Local leadership training and/ or mentoring support with more established communities delivered to more than 100 refugees.
TOP Interpreter Scholarship Ceremony, April 2009. ABOVE Far to Here, Darfuri youth art exhibition, February 2009.
CASE STUDY Refugee Brokerage Program The West Papuan community During the year, the community including in areas such as mobile in inner Melbourne, through the has worked closely with their RBP phone contracts. Whilst subsequently Refugee Brokerage Program coordinator to develop a community engaging financial counsellors (RBP), has made vital links to plan to address areas of need and through the local council to work service providers and important create links with a wide range of with the community. steps in their self-sufficiency service providers. Some community members have as a community. One of the issues identified was also participated in leadership courses The small community arrived in the need for more education around that have equipped them with the Australia on Temporary Protection financial literacy. The RBP Coordinator knowledge and skills to establish Visas without any prior experience was able to organise financial literacy and operate their own community of living in a city. training for community members associations successfully.
24 Victorian Multicultural Commission cultural precincts enhancement fund
preserving our heritage for future generations
The Cultural Precincts Enhancement Fund (2007-10) was established as an $8 million infrastructure investment by the Victorian Government to revitalise the well established Little Bourke Street Chinese precinct, the Lygon Street Italian precinct and the Lonsdale Street Greek precinct.
In response to community feedback and recommendations made by the Fund’s Steering Committee on proposals received to the Fund, the Government earmarked an additional $2 million, bringing the Government’s total investment in the precincts to $10 million. Ideas were put forward by communities, residents and traders to enhance the infrastructure and community space of the three precincts. Extensive community consultations via the consultative forums formed for each of the three precincts was undertaken on the short listed ideas. The allocation of funding available in this program has been announced by the Premier in all three precincts: • A total of $6.8 million will be allocated for streetscapes improvements across the three
precincts, including a $2.7 million contribution ABOVE The new Chinatown Gateway lighting pillars installed from the City of Melbourne. at the top end of Little Bourke Street. • Funding of $3.5 million has been committed for the Lonsdale Street precinct, of which $2 million will go towards the fit-out of the Antipodes Centre for Greek Culture, Heritage CASE STUDY and Language; • Funding of $4.1 million has been committed Chinatown Lighting Pillars for the Chinatown precinct and funding of $3.9 million has been committed for the Lygon On 13 May 2009, the Premier unveiled the first Street precinct; project completed under the Fund at the Tianjin • As part of these packages, funding of $1.2 million Gardens in Chinatown. The new lighting pillars, will be provided for the upgrade of the Chinese installed at the top end of Little Bourke Street, act Museum, an additional $1.45 million for an as a new gateway to Chinatown and mark the 25th Italian Cultural Heritage Centre at Co.As.It, anniversary of Melbourne’s sister city relationship and $120,000 to RMIT for the creation of public with Tianjin. The traditional Chinese archways at the art at the Southern end of Lygon Street. Swanston Street, Russell Street and Exhibition Street entrances to Chinatown will be refurbished through the Fund. Further improvements will also be made to the Tianjin Gardens, including new Chinese plants, improved signage and new Bronze lion sculptures donated by the Tianjin Government.
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partnering for better outcomes During the 2008-09 financial year, the Commission worked on a large number of projects and initiatives across a range of different portfolio areas. Partnerships were developed with other organisations including: government departments, local governments, the corporate sector, non-government organisations and community organisations.
This partnership approach has allowed for improved CALD audiences in fisheries projects and to outcomes from the initiatives and the provision enhance an understanding by cultural groups of of greater assistance and support to Victoria’s fisheries activities. multicultural communities. LIFE SAVING VICTORIA CENTRE FOR MULTICULTURAL YOUTH (CMY) The Commission met with Life Saving Victoria to The Commission worked with CMY to deliver a discuss the specific needs of various communities Mentoring Program for more than 40 young people and provided advice on specific strategies to convey (16-25 years) which linked individuals with industry water safety messages. leaders. The program involved weekly two-hour discussion sessions and in-depth sessions with METROPOLITAN FIRE BRIGADE (MFB) a range of leaders as well as facilitating dialogue In 2008-09 the Commission was pleased to work between young people of diverse faith backgrounds. with the MFB on a number of projects during Cultural Diversity Week. CITY OF GREATER DANDENONG (CGD) In conjunction with other Victorian government NEW HOPE FOUNDATION departments, the Commission has worked with Along with City West Water, the Commission the CGD on a project to enhance coordination of worked with the New Hope Foundation to deliver resources so as to better respond to the needs a soccer tournament called the Cultural Diversity young people from a refugee background. Cup in March 2009.
Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC) NORTHERN HEALTH Prior to becoming an Administrative Office aligned The Commission partnered with a number of to DPC, the Commission worked with other providers including Northern Health, Barwon government departments, lead by DPC, to coordinate Community Health, and Sunshine Court to the faith component of ceremony for the National commence pilots for using video interpreting in Day of Mourning for the Bushfires which was held health and justice settings. The project will look at in February 2009. the benefits to staff and clients along with an evaluation of any cost benefits. DIVERSITAT & CITY OF GREATER GEELONG The Commission has worked with Diversitat and Northern Metropolitan Institute the local council on the development of a new of TAFE (NMIT) multicultural centre in Norlane. The centre will create The Commission once again partnered with NMIT’s a multifunctional community space and will be an photography department to create an exhibition of administrative base for Diversitat and more than the 2009 VRRR recipients. 30 other ethnic community groups. OFFICE OF WOMEN’S POLICY (OWP) FISHERIES VICTORIA – DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND In May 2009, the Commission partnered with COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Fisheries Victoria to establish an Advisory The Commission worked with the Office of Women’s Committee to consult on strategies to engage Policy on the CALD Women’s leadership Project.
26 Victorian Multicultural Commission Photo Michel Lawrence “This coming together of cultures, each listening and learning from the other, is one of the things that makes Victoria the vital, yet harmonious place that it is.”
George Lekakis Sudanese Community National Conference, 25 July 2008
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The project equips women with the skills, knowledge and resources to seek formal leadership positions in their local communities and the wider Victorian community.
PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD’S RELIGIONS (PWR) The Commission continued to work closely with the PWR organisers and Sport and Recreation Victoria (Major Projects) to ensure the delivery of an engaging and diverse program for this important December 2009 event.
ROYAL WOMEN’S HOSPITAL (RWH) The Commission has provided funding to the RWH to develop a program for utilising bilingual workers for non-medical communication within the hospital. This project proposes to pilot new ways to communicate with patients leading to better outcomes for patients and their families.
VICTORIA POLICE The Commission maintained a close partnership with Victoria Police through PACMAC which met monthly to discuss policing issues and CALD communities. In addition, the Commission worked with Victoria Police on a number of projects including an information day for ESL students at Melbourne Zoo, the Multicultural Awards for Excellence and planning for the Walk for Harmony.
TOP Metropolitan Fire Brigade, March 2009. centre Cultural Diversity Week soccer match. ABOVE Leading Senior Constable Craig Spicer visits with residents of the Western Suburbs.
28 Victorian Multicultural Commission appendices
appendix 1 commission meeting attendance register
appendix 2 grants • Multicultural Festivals and Events • Multicultural Senior Citizens Organisational Support • Organisational Support • Education Programs • Buildings and Facilities Improvement • Strengthening Multicultural Communities • Interfaith and Multifaith Programs
appendix 3 multicultural advisory board
appendix 4 awards for excellence
appendix 5 victorian refugee recognition record
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commission meeting attendance register
NO. OF Ten of the existing VMC Commissioners’ terms expired COMMISSIONER MEETINGS between 3 September and 17 September 2008. ATTENDED Mr George Lekakis 7 All Commissioner positions, excluding that of the Mr Hakan Akvol 7 Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson were advertised Ms Elleni Bereded-Samuel 6 in the local, regional, national and ethnic press during Mr Joseph Caputo 5 June and July 2008. Dr Stanley Chiang 6 Under Section 11 of the Multicultural Victoria Act 2004, Ms Elizabeth Drozd 5 a member of the Commission holds office for a term Mrs Vicki Mitsos 2 not exceeding four years and is eligible for reappointment Ms Samar Mougharbel 7 to a second and third term. Ms Hang Nguyen 4 Ms Vivienne Nguyen 0 There were eight reappointments (including the Deputy Chairperson) and three new appointments Dr Linda Sydor Petkovic 6 to the Commission. Ms Marcia Pinskier 4 Ms Usha Sharma 2 S. Jagdeep Singh Shergill 2 Mr Yasser Soliman 7
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multicultural FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) A2K Media $1,000 Association of Ukrainians in Victoria - St Albans $400 Accademia Letteraria Italo-Australiana Associazione Culturale L'Aurora $300 Scrittori (ALIAS) $1,200 Associazione Nazionale Marinai D'Italia $300 Afghan Australia Community Social Sports Club Inc $400 Atherton Gardens Chinese Neighbourhood $900 Afghan Australian Association of Victoria Inc $1,200 Atherton Gardens Resident's Association $500 Afghan Australian Philanthropic Association $2,000 Auburn South Primary School $700 African Leadership, Learning and Advocacy Group $800 Aust-China Writer's Association $200 AfroArts Inc $800 Australasia Business Development Enterprise Agelidis Foundation $500 Association Inc $300 Al Ehsan Centre $500 Australasia Coptic Society Inc $800 Al Sadeq Education and Charity Association inc $500 Australasia News Pty Ltd - Uthayam $500 Albanian Moslem Society (Shepparton) Inc $500 Australia Burma Society Inc $1,000 Albany Rise Primary School $650 Australia China Friendship Society Victoria Branch Inc $400 Albert Park Primary School $700 Australia Denizli Association $1,500 Albion North Primary School $800 Australia India Solidarity Group $400 Alevi Community Council of Australia Inc $1,500 Australia Sri Lanka Catholic Association Inc $400 Alexandrians Friendship (AAHA) Social Club Inc $300 Australian Ankawa Club $300 Am Echad Federation of Jews from Australian Association of Kastorians Inc $400 Former Soviet Union Inc $900 Australian Assyrian Arts & Literature Foundation $800 Angolan Community Association $1,000 Australian Bosniak Association Inc $800 Antiochian Community Support Association (ACSA) $500 Australian Bosnian Seniors $600 Antipodes International Inc $60,000 Australian Council of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Anwar Association Inc $1,000 Organisations Inc $2,000 Anzano Di Puglia Social Club Ltd $500 Australian Croatian Community Services $500 Arabic Welfare Inc $2,000 Australian Croatian Women Association "Katarina Zrinski" $800 Ararat Golden Gateway Festival Committee $1,200 Australian Federation of Ethnic Schools Archangel Michael Senior Social Club of Oakleigh $300 Associations (AFESA) $1,000 ArciLesbica Australia $400 Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations $1,500 Armenian Mesrob Mashdotz School $700 Australian Greek Ex-Servicemen Elderly Seniors Club of Northcote $400 Armenian Relief Society Nayiri Chapter $500 Australian Greek Ex-Servicemen's Association $1,300 Artesur of Victoria Inc $1,000 Australian Humanitarian Aid for Macedonia Inc $2,000 Asian Business Association Of Whitehorse Inc $5,000 Australian Indian Innovations Inc $13,000 Associacion de Latinos Residentes de Victoria $400 Australian Indonesian Association of Victoria Inc $400 Associated Netherlands Societies in Victoria Inc $3,000 Australian International Food and Culture $400 Association of Filipino Australians in Gippsland $800 Association Inc Association of Former Inmates of Nazi Concentration Australian Irish Welfare Bureau Inc $1,000 Camps and Ghettos from the Former Soviet Union $500 Australian Karen Organisation Inc $800 Association of Greek Elderly Citizen Clubs of Melbourne & Victoria $6,500 Australian Kurdish Community Inc 1100 Association of International Childrens Festivals $2,000 Australian Lebanese Christian Ladies Group – Darrebin $300 Association of Italian Senior Citizens Clubs of Victoria $1,500 Australian Lebanese Youth Association of Victoria $1,000
Association of Sri Lankan Muslims in Australia Australian Macedonian Folk Dancing Association $600 (ASLAMA) $500 "Goce Delcev" Inc Association of the Alliance Francaise of Victoria $1,000 Australian Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Reservoir $300
Association of the Liberian Community of Australia Australian Macedonian Tetovo Association $300 (ALCA Victoria) $2,000 'Shar-Planina' Inc Association of Ukrainians in Victoria $2,500 Australian Nadur Association Inc $400
Association of Ukrainians in Victoria Australian Oromo Community Association $6,000 – Noble Park Branch $1,000 in Victoria Inc (AOCAV)
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multicultural FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Australian Polish Community Services $1,000 Boroondara Chinese Senior Citizens Association Inc $800 Australian Slovenian Social and Sporting Association Bosnian Choir 'Behar' Inc $400 Melbourne Inc $600 Braybrook Secondary College $1,000 Australian Somali Society $700 Brimbank City Council $4,000 Australian Technical College Sunshine $1,600 Brimbank Hungarian Senior Citizens Club $300 Australian Theatre of Poetry Inc $400 Brimbank Senior Citizens Friendly Group $300 Australian Turkish Cultural Platform (ATCP) Inc $8,500 Broadmeadows Special Development School $1,000 Australian Turkish Women's Cultural Group $400 Broadmeadows Turkish Senior Citizens Club $900 Australian Ukrainian Senior Citizens Fellowship "Golden Age" $300 Brunswick East Primary School $800 Australian Western Thrace Turkish Association of Brunswick North West Primary School $400 Victoria Inc $500 Brunswick Special Development School $1,000 Australia-Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce Inc $800 Brunswick Sri Lankan Community Group $300 AUSTURK Education & Cultural Association Inc $400 Buddha's Light International Association $4,000 AVA Boroondara Senior Citizens Group $800 of Victoria Inc Avondale Heights and East Keilor Residents Buddha's Light International Association of Victoria $500 Association $2,000 Inc – Young Adult Division Buddhist Council of Victoria Inc $1,500 Avondale Heights Greek Pensioners and Elderly $300 Citizens Club Buddhist Society of Victoria (BSV) $1,200 Ayios Therapon Welfare Association Inc $500 Buddhist Vihara Victoria Inc $1,000 Azad Gharibian Dance Inc $1,000 Bulleen Heights School $1,100 Baha'i Council For Victoria $500 Burgher Association (Australia) Inc 2000 Bait Al-Hossien $800 Cameroon Association of Australia Inc $700 Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council (BRMC) $4,800 Cantorion Cymreig Victoria (Victorian Welsh Male Voice Choir) Inc $1,200 Ballarat Sudanese Association Inc $350 Carraragarmungee Primary School $800 Banda Musicale Italiana "Vincenzo Bellini" $800 Casey Chinese Seniors Group $300 Bangla Sahitya Sansad (Bengali Literary Society) Inc $1,100 Castlemaine State Festival $2,000 Bangladesh Cultural Group Inc $1,200 Catholic Education Office – Diocese of Ballarat $700 Bangladesh Samity Inc $1,300 Celebrate India Inc $20,000 Banyule City Council $700 Central Victorian Lion Team Inc $500 Baptist Union of Victoria – Multicultural Group $2,800 Centre for Philippine Concerns – Australia Inc $600 Barnabas Counselling, Education & Community $500 Support Services Centre of Greek Ex-Servicemens Elderly Citizens Club of Darebin and District $300 Basava Samithi of Australisia Inc $300 Chabad House of Malvern/Toorak Inc $700 Bayanihan Australia Community Network Inc $1,000 Chabad Institutions of Australia Inc $1,600 Bayswater-Boronia Templer School $500 Chaldean Women Association in Victoria $500 'Bea Cantare' Choir Inc $400 Chile Magazine Media and Cultural Group $4,500 Beechworth Celtic Festival Inc $1,000 China Philatelic Society of Australia Inc $300 Beit Jala Palestinian Association $600 Chinese Association of Victoria Inc $1,000 Belgium Avenue Neighbourhood House Inc $800 Chinese Beijing Opera Club of Melbourne $1,200 Bendigo Australia Indonesia Klub Inc $1,200 Chinese Community Health Advisory of Bendigo Filipino Australian Association Inc $600 Australia Inc (CCHAA) $400 Bengali Association of Victoria Inc $4,800 Chinese Culture School Inc $500 Bengali Language and Culture School Inc $600 Chinese Health Foundation of Australia (CHF) $1,000 Biemnhom Australia Association $500 Chinese Mandarin Community Friendship Association (CMCFA) $500 Bitola Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Whittlesea $300 Chinese Professionals Club of Australia $1,600 B'nai B'rith Shalom Unit Arts Committee $400 Chinese Restauranteurs Association of Victoria Inc Bor Community Association of Australia $1,000 (CRAV) $5,000
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multicultural FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Chinese Senior Citizens Club of Frankston & Peninsula $300 Cultural Historical Association of Rodriguans and Mauritians in Victoria (CHARM) $500 Chinese Senior Citizen's Club of Manningham $900 CXP Music $800 Chinese Singing and Dance Troupe of Melbourne $500 Cypriot Community of Eastern Suburbs-Elderly Citizens $600 Chinese Women's Association of Victoria Inc $700 Cyprus Community of Melbourne & Victoria $4,000 Chinese Xinjiang Senior Citizens Association $500 Cyprus Greek Orthodox Community of "Apostolos $1,000 Christ the Lord Slovak Lutheran Congregation $300 Andreas" Sunshine Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Bentleigh $700 Dandenong and Endeavour Hills Club de Los Abuelos: Italo-Spanish $300 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Footscray $300 Dandenong Youth Services $2,500 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Mildura and Sunraysia $2,200 – City of Greater Dandenong Circolo Pensionati Multiculturale Di Greenvale $300 Darebin City Brass Inc Youth Group $400 City of Ballarat $2,000 Darebin Greek Women's Senior Citizens Group $500 City of Darebin $900 Darfur Australia Network $600 City of Greater Dandenong $500 Delahey Town Club $500 City of Kingston $20,000 Dental Health Services Victoria $700 City of Maribyrnong $2,000 Diversitat $51,200 City of Port Phillip $1,000 Don Bosco Brunswick Youth Foundation Inc $800 City of Stonnington $2,000 Doncaster Primary School $700 City of Whitehorse $800 Donvale Primary School $800 City of Whittlesea $800 Drouin Ficifolia Festival Committee Inc $1,000 Clarinda Greek Senior Citizens Club $250 Dutch Australian Social Club 'The Rocket' $700 Club Astoria German Australian Society $1,000 Dutch Orange Day Inc $5,000 Club De Abuelos De Habla Hispana De Clayton $400 Dutch Women's Club of Geelong Inc $400 Club Tivoli Deutscher Verein Melbourne Inc $800 East African Women's Foundation Inc $2,100 Colac Sudanese Community Inc $1,500 East Doncaster Secondary College $700 Collingwood College $1,500 Eastern and Central African Communities of Victoria Inc $1,200 Collingwood Greek Senior Citizen Club $900 Eastern District Polish Association-Polish School of $1,800 Committee for Common Celebrations of Rowville Greek & Australian National Days $1,000 Eastern Districts Polish Association (Melbourne) $1,600 Communities Council on Ethnic Issues (Eastern Region) Inc $500 Eastern Karen Community Association $800 Community In Harmony $1,300 Eastern Schools Refugee Action Network (ESRAN) $2,000 Community Radio Federation (Community Radio 3CR) $500 Eastern Senior Chinese Association $300 Eastwood Primary School $1,000 Confederazione Fanti D'Italia – ANSI $500 – Cavalieri Della Patria EKOL School of Arts $5,000 Congolese Community of Victoria $2,500 Elderly Club of the Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria $1,000 Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate Archangel Mikhail $400 & St Anthony Church Inc Ensemble 'Nostalgia' - Women Group $600 Coral Park Primary School $700 Epirotic Philanthropic Society of Australia "Dodoni" $400 Corona Italian Seniors Club of Casey $300 Eritrean Elderly Association in Melbourne $600 Corpus Christi Primary School $700 Eritrean Orthodox Association in Australia Inc $1,400 Council of Slovenian Organisations of Victoria Inc $1,500 Ethick Community Mozambique of Victoria Inc $1,100 Council of Sudanese Groups Inc $1,000 Ethiopian Community Association in Victoria Inc $4,500 Council of Turkish Associations of Victoria $10,000 Ethnic Communities Council of the South East Inc (ECCOSE) $2,000 Croatian Folklore Group "Lado" $700 Ethnic Council of Shepparton & District Inc $1,600 Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Footscray $300 Ethnic Public Broadcasting Association of Victoria Croatian Senior Citizens Club Sunshine $300 (3ZZZ FM) $20,000 Cultural Centre of Florinians 'Aristotelis' $1,500 Famiglia Pugliese D'Australia $300
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multicultural FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Faye Dumont Singers Inc $600 German/Austrian Association $500 Federation of Chinese Associations Senior Citizens Gilmore College for Girls Footscray $1,000 Social Club $900 Gippsland Ethnic Communities Council (GECC) $4,500 Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA) $30,000 Gippsland Indian Association Inc $1,300 Federation of Indian Associations of Victoria Inc $500 Gippsland Indonesian Australian Association $600 Federation of Indian Women's Association Gippsland Multicultural Services Inc $2,500 of Australia (FIWAA) Inc $1,800 Gippsland Sudanese Association $500 Federation of Macedonian Cultural & Artistic Associations of Victoria (FOMKUD) $800 Gladesville Primary School $700 Federation of Macedonian Senior Citizens Groups Glen Eira Italian Pensioners & Senior Citizens Club $300 of the Northern Region of Victoria Inc $600 Glenorchy Primary School $1,000 Federation of Macedonian Senior Citizens Groups of the Western Region Inc $500 Glenrowan Primary School $500 Federation of Taivgetos of Laconia $300 Golden Dragon Museum $6,000 Federation Panepirotic Union of Melbourne & Victoria $1,500 Goulburn Valley Afghan Association $800 Festival Indonesia Inc $4,000 Goulburn Valley African Communities Association Inc $1,200 Fiji Indian Senior Citizens Association Inc $1,100 Goulburn Valley Chinese Fellowship Association Inc $800 Fiji Islamic & Cultural Society of Victoria Inc $600 Goulburn Valley Sudanese Association $300 Fiji Melbourne Community Club Inc $600 Great Ryrie Primary School $700 Fiji Senior Citizens Association (FSC) $600 Greek & Cypriot Social Welfare Centre $1,200 Filipino Australian Association of Ballarat $1,100 Greek Australian Cultural League of Melbourne Inc $400 Filipino Australian Senior Citizens Advisory Council Greek Australian Recreational & Instructive League $1,000 in Australia $500 of Vic Inc Filipino Australian Senior Citizens of Victoria (FASCOV) $300 Greek Community of Northcote, City of Darebin & Districts $1,000 Filipino Community Council of Victoria Inc $13,000 Greek Community of Springvale and Districts $300 Filipino Community of Sunraysia Inc $600 Greek Cypriot Parent & Youth Club Western Suburbs $700 Filipino Elderly Get Together Association $300 of Melbourne Greek Democritus Worker's League $500 Filipino-Australian Friends Association (Northern $500 Victoria) Inc Greek Elderly Citizens Club Caulfield $600 Filipino-Australian Society Melbourne's Northwest Greek Elderly Citizens Club Northcote $250 (FASMENOW) $600 Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Maribyrnong & Districts $300 Finnish Society of Melbourne Inc $1,800 Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Moonee Valley $300 Fitzroy Atherton Gardens Table Tennis Association $300 Greek Federal Organisation of Ex-Servicemen's Reserve Fitzroy Chinese Residents Association Inc $500 of Greece in Australia $500 Fitzroy Primary School $1,000 Greek National Resistance Fighters League of Melbourne & Victoria $500 Footprint Enterprises Inc $1,000 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Aust Holy Footscray Asian Business Association $5,000 Monastery Axion Estin $1,000 Frankston City Council $3,300 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia $7,500
Futuristic Group for Southern Sudanese in Australia $500 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia Consolidated (FGSSA) Inc. Trust Parish of St Johns North Carlton $600 Gaatjaak Nuer Community Association of Australia Inc $500 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia Parish of Saint Haralambos Doncaster and Templestowe $500 Galini Greek Elderly Association of Port Melbourne $300 Greek Orthodox Community of Clayton Ltd $1,000 Geelong Dutch Clubs $800 Greek Orthodox Community of Dandenong & Districts $1,000 Geelong Highland Gathering Association Inc $3,000 Greek Orthodox Community of Frankston and Geelong Iranian Society $400 Peninsula Inc $1,100 Geelong Irish Society Inc $500 Greek Orthodox Community of Gippsland Elderly Citizens' Group $600 Geelong Lithuanian Folk Dance Group "Gegute" $600 Greek Orthodox Community of Hobsons Bay Inc $300 Geelong Scottish Dance Inc $850 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Andrew's" Forest Hill Geelong Welsh Ladies Choir $800 Greek School $300
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multicultural FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Dimitrios" Ascot Vale Hope Connection $400 Greek School $600 Horn of Africa Communities Network $1,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of "The Holy Cross" Box Hill and Districts $700 Houma-Fahefa Alumni (Tongan) Association of Victoria Inc $800 Greek Orthodox Parish of "The Three Hierarchs" $300 Clayton, Greek School House of Persia Community & Cultural Centre $1,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of Coburg and Pascoe Vale Human Rights Arts and Film Festival $600 "Presentation of Our Lord" $4,000 Hume City Council (Roxburgh Park Homestead Greek Orthodox Parish of St Albans & Districts $300 Community, Arts and Cultural Centre) $700 Greek Orthodox Parish of St Athanasios Springvale $300 Hungarian Senior Citizens Club of Greater Dandenong $400 Greek Orthodox Parish of St Dimitrios Moonee Ponds $300 Il Piccolo Teatro Di Melbourne Inc $700 Greek Orthodox Senior Citizens Group of Whittlesea $500 Indian Arts Academy $300 Greek Senior Citizens Association of St Gregorios $300 Indian Senior Citizens Association of Victoria $1,000 Greek Senior Citizens Club of Carnegie and $300 Indian Subcontinent Cultural and Community Murrumbeena Welfare Association Inc $300 Greek Senior Citizens District of Richmond $1,000 Indonesian Club Melbourne Inc $500 Greek Senior Citizens of Frankston and Peninsula $2,500 International Buddhist College of Victoria Inc (IBCV) $600 Greek Studies Program – La Trobe University $2,000 International Women's Group $900 Greek Women's Club of Maribyrnong $800 Iranian Society of Victoria Inc $2,500 Greek Women's Club of Northern Suburbs "Anemones" $300 Iraqi People Association Inc $700 Halkidikeon Association Aristotle the Stageritian $700 Isik College $400 Hamerkaz Shelanu Inc $2,100 Islamic Association of Australia $800 Hamilton Primary School $1,300 Islamic Society of Melbourne Eastern Region $500 Hampton Park Primary School $1,200 Islamic Women's Welfare Council of Victoria $1,800 Harmony Chinese Opera Group of Melbourne $1,000 Italian Catholic Federation Morwell $900 Harrisfield Primary School $1,000 Italian Pensioners Club of Wangaratta $1,100 Hazara Australian Community Association of Victoria $1,300 Italian Senior Citizens Club of Frankston $300 Hazara Community Mildura $500 Italian Social Club Altona $600 Healthy Tourism Senior Citizens Club 'Vigor' $300 Japanese for Peace (JFP) $1,000 Healthy Tourism Senior Citizens Club 'Vigor' – Inner Metro South Russian Community Language School $900 Jat Jagat $300 Heidelberg United Alexander Football Club Ltd $3,000 Jesuit Social Services $6,700 Heidelberg United Alexander Senior Citizen Club Inc $300 Jewish Community Council of Victoria $3,400 Hellenic Association of Mornington Peninsula Jing Song Senior Chinese Men's Inc $300 Aged Citizens Club $900 John Pandazopoulos Hall Committee of Management $500 Hellenic Community of the City of Moorabbin (Kingston) & Districts Ltd $800 Justice & Freedom for Ceylon Tamils Inc Human Rights & Refugee Action Group $400 Hellenic Women's Federation of Victoria $800 Kaiga Tuvalu Victoria Inc $1,000 Hellenic Writers Association of Australia $400 Kalakruthi Parent Association $400 Hellenic Youth Federation of Victoria Inc $500 Kensington Chinese Friendship Association $300 Highton Primary School $700 Keon Park Greek Senior Citizens Club $250 Hindi Niketan Inc $600 Kew Home of Chinese $600 Hindu Foundation $1,000 Keysborough Turkish Islamic & Cultural Centre Inc $800 Hindu Society of Victoria (Inc) $5,000 Kingston Chinese Senior Citizens Club $400 Hispanic Latin American Festival & Cultural Association $10,000 Kingston Indian Senior Citizens Association $300 Hispano-American Co-operative for Family Support (COHAF) Inc $3,000 Klabb Ghannejja Maltin Inc $1,000 Hmong Australia Society Inc $800 Knox Chinese Elderly Citizens Club $300 Holy Saviour Primary School $700 Kurdish Association of Victoria $1,800 Hong Bang Vietnamese Ethnic School $300 Kurdish Women Society of Victoria $800
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multicultural FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) La Fiera Myrtleford Committee $1,000 Macedonian Senior Group "Tumbe Café" $250 La Mirada Inc $2,500 Macedonian Women's Pensioner Group of Keilor Downs $300 Lakeside Secondary College $1,000 Macedonian Women's Pensioners Association Lao Australian Society Inc $800 of Footscray $300
Latin American Friendship Fonda La Clinica $2,500 Macedonian Women's Senior Citizens Club of Victoria Inc of West Sunshine $300 Latin American Multicultural Association $500 Macedonian Womens Senior Citizens Group of Altona North and District $600 Latrobe Community Health Service Inc $400 Ma'di Community Association in Victoria Australia Le Belle Arti $500 (MACA) Inc $2,000 Le Page Primary School $700 Malayalee Catholic Society of Victoria Inc $500 League of Maniates and Friends of Melbourne Malta Star of the Sea House Inc $600 and Victoria "I Mani" Inc $300 Lemnian Community of Victoria Senior Citizens Group $300 Maltese Association Hobsons Bay $900 Maltese Historical Association $500 Liberian Community Association for Unity, Social and $600 Economic Development LICAU-SED (Victoria) Inc Maltese Pensioners Association Inc $400 Lien Tri Temple $300 Maltese Senior Citizens Social Club St Albans $600 Literary Creative Association "Lukomorie" $300 Manchester Primary School $900 Live@Collingwood Music Festival $800 Maribyrnong Library Service (Maribyrnong City $1,700 Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services $2,200 Council) Longechuk Community Development Services Marlborough Primary School $900 in Australia $700 Maroondah Southern Sudanese Christian Welfare $500 Longhorns Basketball Club Inc $500 Association Lopit Community Association of Australia $600 Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary School $700 Louise Multicultural Community Centre Inc $1,100 Meadow Heights Learning Shop Inc $400 Lygon Street Festa Inc $20,000 Meadow Heights Turkish Women's Association $600 Macedonian Australian Cultural Youth Association Melbourne Ai-Yue Choir Inc $400 'Tanec' Inc $1,300 Melbourne Chin Community $800 Macedonian Australian Senior Citizens Group "Ilinden" $600 Melbourne French Theatre $1,700 Macedonian Community Council of Melbourne $500 and Victoria Melbourne Hebrew Congregation Inc $400 Macedonian Community Welfare Association $600 Melbourne Irish Festival Committee Inc (St Patrick's Festival Melbourne) $1,000 Macedonian Elderly Group of Keilor Downs $300 Melbourne Linh Son Buddhist Congregation Inc $1,000 Macedonian Orthodox Community of Melbourne and $300 Victoria Ladies Association Melbourne South Eastern Region Chinese Friendship Centre of Victoria Inc $1,500 Macedonian Pensioner Club of Altona Inc $1,000 Melbourne University Overseas Students Service $700 Macedonian Pensioner Group 'Uspeniena Presveta $300 Bogorodica' Sydenham Melton Secondary College $1,000 Macedonian Pensioners Association of Footscray $300 Migrant Information Centre (Eastern Melbourne) $2,600 Macedonian Senior Citizen Group of Hillside Inc $500 Mill Park Primary School $800 Macedonian Senior Citizen Women's Group "Pelister" of St Albans $300 Minaret College Inc $500 Macedonian Senior Citizens Club of West Sunshine $300 Monash Chinese Events Organising Committee $10,000 Macedonian Senior Citizens Club Pelister Monash Chinese Friendship Association $600 of St Albans Inc $300 Monash Maltese Seniors Social Group Inc $300 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Altona North $300 Montemurro Social Club 'San Rocco' $400 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Ardeer $700 Moonee Valley City Council $1,500 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Hobsons Bay $600 Moreland Turkish Educational and Social Affairs $5,000 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Monash $300 Centre Inc Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Zlatna Sonce Mornington Dutch Australian Senior Club $600 of Footscray $300 Morwell Senior Italian Citizens Club $700 Macedonian Senior Citizens Women's Dancing Group "Veseli Makedonki" $300 Mount Beauty Music Muster Inc $1,200
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ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Mount Eliza North Primary School $800 Operation Recreation Inc T/as Bayside Festival $500 Mount Eliza Secondary College $1,500 Operation STITCHES $500 Multicultura Australia Inc $50,000 Oromo Women's Association in Australia Inc South Pacific Region $500 Multicultural Arts Victoria $61,500 Ouyen Incorporated $500 Multicultural Sudanese Centre $800 Pacifika People's Community Group (PPCG) Inc $2,000 Muslim Women's Council of Victoria $1,600 Palesviaki Enosis of Melbourne and Victoria $600 Nadezhda Russian Senior Citizens Club $4,000 Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria Nafsika Stamoulis Hellenic Museum Ltd $12,500 Leonidas Inc $1,000 Nang Hong Non-Profit Association $1,200 Pammessinian Brotherhood of Melbourne & Victoria Ltd $600 Nasir Community Association $600 Pan Australian Federation of Thessalian Associations Nasir Community Development Agency $500 Inc $1,100 National Celtic Festival Inc $1,800 Panagia Kamariani Greek Senior Citizens Club $600 National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies $5,000 Panagia Soumela Pontian Association of Whittlesea $400 National Council of Jewish Women Australia (Vic) Pancretan Association of Melbourne Australia Ltd $1,100 Golden Age Club $500 Panjab Warriors Sports and Cultural Club Inc $1,000 National Council of Jewish Women of Australia $800 Pankoaki Brotherhood of Victoria "O Ippocrates" Natya Kala Mandir $500 Association Inc $1,000 Nepalese Association of Victoria Inc $1,000 Panpieriki Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria $600 New Hope Migrant and Refugee Centre $1,900 'Olympus' Inc New Hope Migrant and Refugee Centre (Mornington Panpyliaki Brotherhood of Navarinon of Melbourne $300 Branch) $600 and Victoria New Star Art School $700 Papadakis Park Inc $300 New United Villages of Florina $3,000 Penders Grove Primary School $1,800 New Zealand Maori Club $1,000 Peninsula & Rye Greek Women's Group $300 Newport Maltese Association $300 Pensioner Macedonian Womens Group of Brimbank $400 Niruththa Indian Fine Arts Association Inc $800 Phat Quang Temple Inc $1,500 Noble Park English Language School $1,500 Philanthropikos Syllogos-Dimos Meligala Messinias O Profitis Elias Inc $1,000 Norlane West Primary School $1,200 Philippine Fiesta of Victoria Inc $1,000 North East Multicultural Association (NEMA) $1,500 Platform Youth Theatre Inc $500 North Eastern Melbourne Chinese Association Inc (NEMCA) $2,000 Polish Association in Melbourne Inc $500 North Geelong Secondary College $1,200 Polish Club 'Forty Plus' $400 North Melbourne Chinese Association 1600 Polish Community Council of Victoria Inc $3,000 North Richmond Community Health Centre $25,000 Polish Dance Ensemble 'Lowicz' $500 North Richmond Elderly Chinese Friendship Polish Senior Citizens Club Morwell $300 Association Melbourne $700 Polish Senior Citizens Club of Caulfield $500 North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc $1,200 Pontian Association of Melbourne "Euxenos Pontos" $500 Northern Federation of Ethnic Senior Citizens Clubs $700 Port Melbourne Greek Community Inc $700 Northern Melbourne Sri Lankan Association $400 Port Melbourne Greek Community Senior Citizens Club $300 Northern Melbourne Vietnamese Elderly Association $300 Portarlington and District Greek Elderly Citizens Club $300 Northern Region Indian Seniors' Association of Victoria $300 Prahran Chinese Elderly Citizens Association $300 Nubian Mihaira $1,200 Preston Girls Secondary College $700 Nuer Christian United Churches $1,000 Pride of the Cook Islands $700 Nuer Community in Victoria Inc $800 Quang Minh Temple $1,000 Nuer Youth Association of Australia $500 Rabat Malta Senior Citizens Association $300 Okyanusya Theatre & Culltural Activities Group $2,000 Rajasthani Kutumb of Victoria Inc $1,200 Olympian Society Inc $400 Reconciliation Manningham $400
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multicultural FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre Inc $8,000 Slovenian Australian Social & Sports Club Jadran $600 Regional Arts Victoria $1,000 Slovenian Welfare & Information Office $300 Rejoice Chinese Christian Communication Centre Inc $500 Society for Asian Languages & Arts Inc $400 Reservoir East Primary School $700 Solouchin Literary and Theatrical Society $600 Rethimnian Association of Melbourne $1,500 Somali Australian Council of Victoria Inc $1,000 Return to Anatolia Inc 2000 Somali Community Inc $1,600 Richmond Asian Business Association Inc $5,000 Somali Support and Development Association Inc $800 Ringwood Highland Games Inc $1,500 Somali Women's Development Association $400 Robinson Reserve Neighbourhood House $300 Somalian Cultural School $400 RODU $1,000 Somaliland Youth Network Society (SLYNS) $600 Rosamond Special School $300 South Eastern Region Migrant Resource Centre $800 Rotary Club of Mooroopna Inc $2,000 South Sudan Equatorial Community Association $1,200 Royal District Nursing Service – Homeless $500 Southern Ethnic Advisory & Advocacy Council Inc Persons Programs (SEAAC) $500 Russian Cultural and TV Association Inc "Sputnik" $900 Southern Sudanese Community of Australia $1,000 Russian Ethnic Representative Council of Victoria $3,500 Spanish American Foundation for the Arts (SAFA) Inc $1,500 Russian Senior Citizens Club Yarraville $1,000 Spanish Association of Geelong $800 Russian Seniors Club (Joy) $300 Spanish Latin American Welfare Centre Inc (CELAS) $2,500 Rye & Peninsula Greek Senior Citizens Club $600 Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre Inc $1,000 Saint Addai Community Society Inc $400 Spinete Social Club $900 Saint Gaetan Society Inc $700 Springvale Asian Business Association $2,500 Saint Maratken Community Society Inc $500 Springvale Indochinese Mutual Assistance $400 Salvadorean Community Council of Victoria Inc $800 Association Inc San Donato Association Inc $1,000 Springvale Mandarin Support Network $400 Sangam Community Association Inc $1,000 Springvale Neighbourhood House $3,000 Santa Marija Assunta Association $1,000 Springvale Primary School 2000 Sapthaswara School of Carnatic Music $1,200 Springvale Senior Citizens Multicultural Club $500 Scottish Clans and Associations Council $800 Sri Lanka German Technical Training Institute Old Boys Association of Australia $800 Selimiye Youth Support & Recreation Inc $300 Sri Lankan Elders' Welfare Association "SEWA" $500 Senior Citizens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish $300 of Saints Methodios and Kyrillos, Preston Srotar Ashor $600 Serbian Orthodox Church Community St Albans Business Group Association Inc $5,000 "St Nicholas" Geelong $800 St Albans Good Friday Association Inc $900 Serbian Pensioner Group 'St Sava' Greensborough Inc $600 Serbian Social Club $300 St Andrews Luqa Social Club $500 Serbian Social Services and Support Inc $800 St Anthony Greek Orthodox Church $300 Serbian Welfare Association of Victoria Inc (SWAV) $1,000 St Anthony's Primary School $600 Shalom Association Inc $400 St Athanasius Coptic Centre $800 Shire of Campaspe $800 St George Association Inc $300 Shranish Association of Melbourne $400 St Georges Antiochian Orthodox Church Association $1,100 Shri Sanatan Dharam Society of Victoria Inc $300 St Helena Maltese-Australian Social Club $300 Shurolok Music Appreciation and Performance St John of Kronstadt Russian Welfare Society Inc $600 Group Inc $2,000 St John's Church Vietnamese School $700 Sicilia Nostra Senior Citizens Club $800 St Joseph's Committee $300 Sierra Leone Australia Community of Victoria (SLACOV) $1,200 St Marks Adult Day Centre and Respite Services $500 Sindhi Association of Australia Inc $1,000 St Mark's Coptic Church $300 Singh Sabha Sports Club $400 St Monica's Primary School $1,700
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multicultural FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) St Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church The Highway Gallery Inc $400 Ladies Society $400 The Hornbill Chin Association of Australia $800 St Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church S eniors Group $300 The Indian Tamil Association of Victoria $500 St Nicholas Orthodox Church $600 The Indonesian Society of Victoria – PERWIRA $1,400 St Nicholas Philanthropic Society of Proty $500 The Italian Australian Coordinating Committee of Gippsland $700 St Paul's Feast Committee $600 The Jewish Cultural Centre & National Library Kadimah $400 St Sebastian Association Inc $400 The Jewish Film Foundation of Australia Inc $5,000 St Vincent's Hospital (Melbourne) Limited $1,000 The Khmer Buddhist Centre Inc $2,000 St Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox Church $400 The Korean Society of Victoria Australia $1,500 Stawell West Primary School $900 The Melbourne Comhaltas Inc $300 Stella Maris Maltese Association Inc $300 (Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Melbourne Branch) Strathmore Heights Greek Senior Citizens Club $300 The New Hope Foundation (Werribee Refugee Resource Centre) $800 Student Leadership Ambassador Program (SALP) – Team ALG 22 $400 The New Hope Foundation Inc (Flemington) $1,100 Sudanese Community Association of Victoria Inc $1,000 The New Hope Foundation Inc (Refugee Resource Centre Footscray) $4,000 Sudanese Lost Boys Association of Australia $1,500 The Nigerian Society of Victoria Inc $800 Sudanese Women On The Move Network Inc (SWOM) $1,300 The Old Macaroni Factory $3,000 Sunraysia Contemporary Alevi Cultural Centre Inc $400 The Oromo Islamic Light School $1,000 Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities' Council Inc $3,000 The Pan Maniot Youth Union of Australia Inc $600 Sunshine College $1,200 The Panmacedonian Association of Melbourne $8,000 Sunshine Heights Primary School $1,200 and Victoria Sunshine Polish Charity Association Inc $600 The Pushkin Lyceum $1,200 Sunshine Primary School $300 The Robert Burns Club of Melbourne Inc $700 Surfside Primary School $300 The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria Ltd (RASV) $2,000 The Samoan Advisory Council of Victoria Inc $1,500 Sveti Georgi Selo Velusina Humanitarian Association $400 of Victoria The Samoan Community Link of Victoria $700 Swiss Club of Victoria $1,500 The Song Room Inc $1,600 Taiwanese School of Melbourne $400 The Spanish Film Festival in Australia (National) $2,000 Tamil Australian Friendship Society Inc $600 The Ukrainian Youth Association of Australia (Melbourne) Inc $400 Tamil Educational, Cultural and Charitable Association $1,000 (TECCA) The United Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation of South Eastern Melbourne $1,400 Tarerer Gunditj Project Association Inc $1,000 The Zambian Association of Victoria Inc $500 Tarxien Social Club Inc $900 THE-HE Vietnamese Language Centre $500 Tatura Italian Social Club Inc $700 Thessaloniki Association "The White Tower" Inc $25,000 Temple Society Australia $700 Thiasos Themida $400 Temple Society German Language School Bentleigh- $800 Moorabbin Thomastown Secondary College $1,400 Templestowe Heights Primary School $800 Thornbury Primary School $800 Thai Culture and Food Festival Inc $5,000 Tibetan Buddhist Society $1,600 The Albanian Australian Islamic Society $700 Tibetan Community of Australia (Victoria) Inc $600 The Association of Hazaras in Victoria Inc $1,400 Timorese Association in Victoria $1,600 The Australian Chaldean Federation Traralgon East Community Group (TECG) $500 of Victoria/Australia $800 Turkish Sub-Branch of the Victorian RSL of Australia $1,200 The Australian Greek Orthodox Community of Moreland Inc $300 Turkish Womens Recreation Group Inc $650 The Committee for Sri Lanka Inc $500 Ukrainian Arts and Culture $1,300 The Federation of Chinese Associations (Vic) Inc $40,000 Ukrainian Education Council of Australia $500 The Goan Overseas Association of Victoria Inc $800 Ukrainian Senior Citizens Club in Melbourne $1,000
Annual Report 2008-09 39 appendix 2
multicultural FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Ukrainian Social Club $500 Wilmot Road Primary School $900 United Jewish Education Board $300 Wingate Avenue Community Centre $600 United Nations Association of Australia Women's Friendship Group $400 (Victorian Division) Inc $6,000 Womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish $400 United Somali Organisation in Australia Inc $800 of Moonee Ponds United Somali Women Organisation in Victoria $500 Wyndham Humanitarian Network $1,000 UnitingCare-Cutting Edge (UCCE) $400 Xaghra Association of Australia Inc $300 University High School $700 Xinjiang Chinese Association of Australia Inc $900 Uruguayan Social Club of Melbourne Inc $1,000 Yarra Multi-Culture Sports Centre (Organisation) Inc. $300 Vedanta Society of Australia $1,000 Yarra Settlement Forum $1,000 Victoria Hua Xin Chinese Women's Association Inc $700 Yarra Valley Italian Cultural Group Inc $600 Victoria Multicultural Education Services Inc $1,000 Yirol Mothers & Daughters Network in Victoria Inc $900 Victoria Police Soccer Club Inc $1,000 YMCA Victoria – North Melbourne Community Centre $800 Victorian Arabic Artists Association Inc $3,100 Young Filipino Australian Ambassadors Inc $300
Victorian Association of World War II Veterans Young Generation Filipino Citizens Club $400 from Former Soviet Union $800 of the South East Victorian Assyrian Community $500 Youth Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of the Presentation of St. Dimitrios Moonee Ponds $300 Victorian Community Support Network $800 Yugoslav-Australian Workers Centre Victorian Eritrean Community Association $3,000 'Brotherhood Unity' Inc $600 Victorian Fijian Sports Club $400 Zahrira Social Club $900 Victorian Greek Australian Elderly Citizens Group $800 Zimbabwean Community in Australia (Victoria) $1,700 Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women's Zionist Council of Victoria $3,000 Coalition Inc (VIRWC) $1,000 Zomi Association Australia Inc $1,000 Victorian Nagarathar Sangam Australia $1,000 TOTAL $1,346,000 Victorian Scottish Union Inc $1,000 Victorian Sikh Association Inc $2,500 Victorian Tamil Cultural Association $1,000 Vietnamese Community in Australia – Vic Chapter (VCA) $25,000 Vietnamese Ethnic School of Broadmeadows $300 Vietnamese Parents Association of Victoria $600 Vietnamese Senior Citizens Club of Hume $300 Vitoria Women's Fellowship Group $1,200 Viva Italia Festival Wangaratta Inc $800 Wangaratta High School $700 Warrnambool City Council $2,000 Waverley Chinese Senior Citizens Club $900 Werribee Secondary College $1,200 Western Health $500 Western Region Bengali School Inc $600 Western Region Health Centre $400 Western Suburbs Indigenous Gathering Place $800 Western Victoria Sri-Lankan Buddhist Association Inc $600 Whitehorse Club $1,000 Whittlesea Chinese Association Inc (WCA) $1,600 Whittlesea Community Connections $800 Whittlesea Vuong Trung Vietnamese Womens Group $700
40 Victorian Multicultural Commission appendix 2
Multicultural Senior Citizens Organisational Support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) African Communities Elderly Association of Victoria $1,300 Australian Greek and Cypriot Senior Citizens Club of Melbourne $1,800 Agrupacion de Pensionistas Y Tercera Edad de Victoria $2,300 Australian Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Mentone $1,400 Altona North Senior Citizens Centre $2,400 and Districts ANCRI Sezione di Melbourne $1,500 Australian Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Oakleigh $2,450 ANCRI Werribee $2,200 Australian Greek Ex-Servicemen's Association $2,000 Antiochian Community Support Association (ACSA) $2,000 Australian Greek Isolated Group $1,600 Arabic Elderly Pensioners Group $1,800 Australian Lebanese Christian Ladies Group – Darrebin $500 Arabic Senior Citizens Group $1,000 Australian Lebanese Christian Ladies Group – Moreland $900 Armenian Relief Society Nayiri Chapter $1,200 Australian Lebanese Christian Ladies Group - Moreland $900 Armenoro Senior Citizens Association $2,000 Australian Macedonian Disability Pensioner Group "Vardar" Melbourne $1,100 Asklipios Greek Women's Group $1,400 Australian Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Reservoir $1,400 Assoc Marinai D'Italia Gruppo "M.O. Pugliesi" $1,500 Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria $1,800 Association of Former Inmates of Nazi Concentration Seniors Group Camps and Ghettos from the Former Soviet Union $1,000 Australian Serbian Pensioners Club of St George $2,100 Association of Greek Elderly Citizen Clubs Church, St Albans & Districts of Melbourne & Victoria $3,300 Australian Thornbury Pensioners Club $1,400 Associazione Amica Pensionati Italiani Di Hawthorn $1,200 Australian Yugoslav Multicultural Pensioner Group $900 Associazione Arma Aeronautica $1,300 Australian Yugoslav Pensioners Group $1,600 Associazione Elbani nel Mondo $2,000 AVA Boroondara Senior Citizens Group $1,200 Associazione Emilia Romagna del Victoria $1,300 AVA Elderly Group in Maribyrnong $800 Associazione Figli D'Italia Inc $900 Avondale East Keilor Senior Citizens Club $1,100 Associazione Laziali Pensionati di Geelong $1,500 Avondale Heights Greek Pensioners and Elderly $2,000 Associazione Nazionale Artiglieri D'Italia Sezione Citizens Club di Melbourne $1,000 AVWA Yarra City Senior Citizens Group $800 Associazione Nazionale Carristi D'Italia, Sezione Di Melbourne $800 Ballarat Polish Seniors Club $1,000 Associazione Nazionale Combattenti Della Guerra Barry Road Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,400 Di Liberazione $1,400 Bellarine International Women's Senior Citizens Club $650 Associazione Nazionale Marinai D'Italia $800 Benevolent Brotherhood of Kolindros $1,200 Associazione Pensionate Laziali di Monash $1,250 Benvenute Donne Glenroy $1,200 Associazione Piemontesi Victoria $1,300 Bigla Senior Citizens Association $1,500 Associazone Pensionati Laziali Australia $2,200 Bitola Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Whittlesea $2,250 Atherton Gardens Chinese Neighbourhood $1,000 BlackRiver Macedonian Australian Association $900 Australia Ceylon Fellowship $1,200 Avondale Heights, Moonee Valley & District Australia Denizli Association $800 Boroondara Camberwell Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,300 Australian & Bosnian-Herzegovinan Community Club Boroondara Chinese Senior Citizens Association Inc $1,400 Brcko Melbourne $1,800 Bosnian and Herzegovinian Elderly Citizens Club $1,400 Australian Ankawa Club $1,400 Box Hill Chinese Elderly Citizens Club $4,000 Australian Armenian Welfare Society $1,100 Brighton Greek Senior Citizens Association $1,500 Australian Bosnian Seniors $1,000 Brimbank Hungarian Senior Citizens Club $1,700 Australian Coptic Senior Citizens Club of Manningham $1,200 Brimbank Senior Citizens Friendly Group $700 Australian Croatian Club Bocce – Gospic $1,200 Broadmeadows Greek Elderly Citizens Club $1,600 Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Association Geelong $1,200 Broadmeadows Greek Womens Club $950 Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club Broadmeadows Turkish Senior Citizens Club $2,200 "Vila Velebita" Broadmeadows $1,100 Broadmeadows Vietnamese Senior Citizens Club $1,200 Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Clifton Hill $1,200 Brunswick Greek Elderly and Pensioners Association $2,450 Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Gladstone Park $1,100 Calabresi Pensioners Association of Australia $1,400 Australian Cyprian Sports & Social Association Seniors $2,000 Camberwell Senior Citizens Club $1,400
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Multicultural Senior Citizens Organisational Support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Cantanzaro Senior Citizen's Club of Monash $1,400 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di North & West Melbourne $900 Casey Hungarian Senior Citizens Club $2,200 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di North Fitzroy $1,400 Centro Argentino of Victoria (CAV) Seniors $1,000 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di North West Essendon $1,100 Ceylonese Welfare Organisation $2,200 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Nunawading/Box Hill $1,800 Ceylonese Welfare Organisation $2,200 Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Pascoe Vale $1,400 Chilean Federation of Older People $800 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Port Melbourne $1,000 Chinese Community Health Advisory of Australia Inc Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Richmond $1,200 (CCHAA) $2,000 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di San Luca, Chinese Senior Citizens Club of Frankston & Peninsula $1,000 Lalor, Thomastown $2,300 Chinese Senior Citizen's Club of Manningham $2,400 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di St Albans $1,600 Chinese Singing and Dance Troupe of Melbourne $1,000 Circolo Pensionati Italiani di St Mary Magdlen Chadstone $1,200 Chinese Xinjiang Senior Citizens Association $2,200 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Tatura $950 Chios Brotherhood Korais of Melbourne and Victoria Ltd $1,000 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Tullamarine $1,500 Circolo Fiumano Melbourne $1,150 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Waverley $1,200 Circolo Pensionati "Don Bosco" $1,900 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di West Brunswick $1,500 Circolo Pensionati Abruzzesi Abruzzesi Senior Citizens Circolo Pensionati Italiani Doutta Galla-Essendon $1,200 Social Club $2,800 Circolo Pensionati Italiani East Keilor Circolo Pensionati Campani Italiano Di Clayton $2,200 & Avondale Heights $2,200 Circolo Pensionati Casa D'Abruzzo Club $1,500 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Merlynston $2,400 Circolo Pensionati del Reggio Calabria Club $1,150 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Napoli Family Club $1,600 Circolo Pensionati della Comunita' Vizzinese $2,000 Circolo Pensionati Multiculturale Di Greenvale $2,000 Circolo Pensionati Federazione Clubs Laziali Circolo Pensionati Pugliesi $2,200 Melbourne Victoria $1,400 Circolo Ricreativo Pensionati Italiani Di St Ignazio $1,100 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Airport West $2,000 Clarinda Greek Senior Citizens Club $800 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Ascot Vale $2,000 Club Astoria German Australian Society $1,000 Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Bentleigh $2,000 Club De Abuelos De Habla Hispana De Clayton $1,300 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Bundoora $2,200 Cobradah Senior Citizens Centre $500 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Campaspe $800 Collingwood Fitzroy Indo-Chinese Elderly Group $1,600 Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Casa Nostra $1,200 Collingwood Greek Elderly Womens Association $1,200 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Coburg $3,600 Collingwood Greek Senior Citizen Club $850 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Deer Park $1,200 Combined Pensioners & Superannuants Association Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di East Brunswick $750 of Victoria – Noble Park Branch $1,200 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Essendon $2,200 Community Club 'Smile – Ulibka' $1,200 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Footscray $1,800 Community of Cypriots of the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne Elderly Group $2,000 Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Geelong $1,200 Community of Niki $1,650 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Gladstone Park $1,600 Confederazione Fanti D'Italia – ANSI Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Greenvale $1,600 – Cavalieri Della Patria $2,200 Circolo Pensionati Italiani di Hadfield $1,300 Corona Italian Seniors Club of Casey $1,200 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Kensington $1,200 Cosenza Senior Citizens of Kingston $1,500 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Cranbourne Hampton Park Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,550 Kew/Hawthorn/Camberwell $1,200 Cranbourne Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,800 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Knox $1,500 Cretan Elderly Club of Melbourne and Victoria $1,500 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Lilydale $1,200 Croatian Senior Citizens Association Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Mildura and Sunraysia $1,800 "Cardinal Stepinac" Geelong $1,800 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Mordialloc $600 Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Altona $1,100 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Moreland $1,200 Croatian Senior Citizens Club of Footscray $1,250 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di Newport-Williamstown $1,400 Croatian Senior Citizens Club St Albans $1,800
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Multicultural Senior Citizens Organisational Support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Croatian Senior Citizens Club Sunshine $1,200 Galini Greek Elderly Association of Port Melbourne $1,500 Croatian Senior Citizens Group Keysborough $3,300 Geelong Dutch 50 Plus Club $1,800 Croydon Dutch Social Club $1,500 Geelong Dutch Clubs $850 Croydon Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,200 Geelong Golden Age Polish Seniors Club $1,200 Cultural Centre of Florinians 'Aristotelis' $1,600 Geelong Hungarian St Laszlo Senior Citizens Social Club $1,400 Cultural Vietnamese Women's Association $1,100 German Friendship Society Bendigo $1,000 Cypriot Community of Eastern Suburbs-Elderly Citizens $1,600 German/Austrian Association $900 Cyprus Greek Orthodox Community of $2,600 "Apostolos Andreas" Sunshine Gippsland Croatian Association $800 Cyprus Senior Citizens Turkish Club $1,200 Giuliani Senior Citizens Association of Geelong $1,800 Dandenong and Endeavour Hills Club de Los Abuelos: Glen Iris/Burwood Greek Seniors Citizens Club $1,600 Italo-Spanish $1,600 Glenroy Greek Elderly Group $1,200 Darebin Greek Women's Senior Citizens Group $1,600 Glenroy Italian Senior Citizen's Centre $2,200 Deer Park Senior Citizens Club $1,000 Glenroy Maltese Senior Citizens Group $1,600 Deutscher Verein KG Nerrische Insulaner $1,900 Goche Delchev Senior Citizens Association $2,200 Diamond Valley Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,500 Golden Sun Disabled & Senior Citizens Association $1,600 Doncaster Italian Senior Citizens Group $2,700 Greek Community of Springvale and Districts $2,200 Dutch Australian Society Social Club $900 Greek Community over 50's Elderly Citizens Club $1,200 Dutch Independent Senior Citizens of Oz $900 Greek Cyprian Senior Citizens of Glen Eira $1,800 East African Elders Association Inc $800 Greek Cypriot Parent & Youth Club Western Suburbs Eastern Senior Chinese Association $800 of Melbourne $1,900 Elderly Club of the Pallaconian Brotherhood $2,200 Greek Cypriot Senior Citizens Club of Whitehorse of Melbourne and Victoria and District $2,000 Elderly Filipino Association of Australia $1,200 Greek Democritus League Elderly Citizens Club $1,200 Elderly Group of the Greek Orthodox Community Greek Elderly Citizens Club Caulfield $1,600 of Hobson Bay $1,600 Greek Elderly Citizens Club Highett $1,300 Eltham Dutch Over Fifties Club $1,200 Greek Elderly Citizens Club Northcote $2,400 Epping Combined Pensioners Association $1,200 Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Geelong $1,400 Eremia Greek Elderly Association of Port Phillip $1,400 Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Manningham $2,200 Eritrean Elderly Association in Melbourne $1,300 Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Maroondah $1,400 Ethiopian Community Association in Victoria $2,000 – Seniors Group Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Moonee Valley $2,000 Ethnic Chinese Happy Age Association of Victoria $3,000 Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Moreland $2,000 Fawkner Senior Citizens Centre $500 Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Newport $900 Federation of Chinese Associations Senior Citizens Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Nunawading $1,600 Social Club $1,950 Federation of Taivgetos of Laconia $2,600 Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Werribee $1,400 Federazione Pensionati Italiani Del Victoria $1,500 Greek Elderly Citizens of Clayton and District $2,200 Greek Elderly Club North Fitzroy & North Carlton $1,800 FIDCA Federazione Italiana Combattenti Alleati $1,300 Melbourne Greek Elderly Club of the Bellarine Peninsula $2,200 Fiji Senior Citizens Association (FSC) $1,150 Greek Elderly Women's Club of Frankston $1,100 Filipino Australian Senior Citizens Advisory Council and Peninsula in Australia $2,200 Greek Federal Organisation of Ex-Servicemen's $1,400 Filipino Elderly Get Together Association $1,200 Reserve of Greece in Australia Greek Macedonian Elderly Club of Werribee Filipino-Australian Society Melbourne's Northwest $1,200 (FASMENOW) $1,200 & Werribee South Fitzroy Atherton Gardens Table Tennis Association $500 Greek National Resistance Fighters League of Melbourne & Victoria $1,150 Fitzroy Vietnamese Elderly Group $1,100 Greek Orthodox Community of Box Hill and Districts, Flemington Chinese Bridge Club $500 Elderly Citizens Club $2,200 Frankston Bosnian Elderly Club $1,200 Greek Orthodox Community of Clayton Ltd $2,000
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Multicultural Senior Citizens Organisational Support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED)
Greek Orthodox Community of Gippsland, Greek Seniors & Pensioners Association Clayton $2,100 Elderly Citizens' Group $1,600 & District Greek Orthodox Community of Lalor, Thomastown, Greek Seniors 60 Walker Close $1,200 Epping and Districts, Women's Group $2,000 Greek Women's Association of the Western Suburbs $1,400 Greek Orthodox Parish of "Panagia Soumela" East Keilor, Senior Citizens Group $1,400 Greek Women's Club of Maribyrnong $1,500 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Andrew's" Forest Hill, Greek Women's Elderly Friendly Club Preston $1,200 Senior Citizens Group $1,600 Green Gully Senior Citizens Social Club $2,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Athanasios" Springvale, Senior Citizens Group $2,000 Grupo Primavera Prahran Latin American Association $1,800 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Constantine and Helen" Gruppo Pensionati Italiani di Keilor $1,600 South Yarra, Senior Citizens Group $1,400 Hadfield Golden Years Social Club $1,500 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Dimitrios" Ascot Vale, $1,600 Senior Citizens Group Halkidikeon Association Aristotle the Stageritian $1,500 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Eleftherios" Brunswick, Health Centre Italian Group $800 Senior Citizen' Group $1,500 Hellenic Community of the City of Moorabbin Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Haralambos" (Kingston) & Districts Ltd $2,200 Templestowe, Senior Citizens' Group $2,000 Hellenic Stegi Friendly Elderly Citizen's Club of Darebin $2,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Vasilios", Brunswick, $1,300 Senior Citizens' Group Hellenic Women's Federation of Victoria $1,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of "The Holy Trinity" Footscray $800 Hera Greek Ladies Club $1,200 Greek Orthodox Parish of "The Presentation of Our Hope Connection $600 Lady to the Temple" North Balwyn, Senior Citizens $1,300 Group Hungarian Senior Citizens Club of Greater Dandenong $2,200 Greek Orthodox Parish of "The Presentation of Hungarian Senior Citizens of Prahran & District $1,800 Our Lord" – Coburg Senior Citizens Group $1,400 Imvrians Society of Melbourne $1,300 Greek Orthodox Parish of "The Three Hierarchs" Clayton, Senior Citizens' Group $1,400 Independent Hellenic Senior Citizens Association of Clayton $1,500 Greek Orthodox Senior Citizens Group of Whittlesea $1,400 Independent Italian Senior Citizens Club of Sunshine $1,000 Greek Orthodox Senior Citizens Shepparton & District $1,000 Independent Senior Citizens Club – Nunawading $1,500 Greek Pensioners Club of North Fitzroy $1,200 Indian Senior Citizens Association of Victoria $1,600 Greek Senior Citizen Association of Moorabbin $2,000 Indochinese Elderly Assocation in the Eastern Suburbs $2,600 Greek Senior Citizen Club of Airport West and District $2,000 Instituto Nazionale per la Guardia D'Onore alle Reali Greek Senior Citizens Association of South Melbourne Tombe del Pantheon $2,200 and Albert Park $1,400 International Women's Group $1,600 Greek Senior Citizens Association of St Gregorios $1,200 Iranian Senior Citizen Society of Victoria $1,300 Greek Senior Citizens Association of the Bass Coast $1,250 Irymple Bocce Club $1,500 Greek Senior Citizen's Club – Hobsons Bay $1,400 Islamic Elderly Group $2,000 Greek Senior Citizens Club Altona and Region $1,400 Islamic Society of Melbourne Eastern Region $2,200 Greek Senior Citizens Club Hawthorn $1,600 Italian and Ethnic Senior Citizens Club of Flinders $2,700 Greek Senior Citizens Club of Carnegie and Murrumbeena $2,600 Italian Catholic Federation Morwell $1,300 Greek Senior Citizens Club of Dandenong $2,650 Italian Community of Keilor Association $1,800 Greek Senior Citizens Club of Flemington & Kensington $1,300 Italian Elderly Citizens Group Holy Spirit East Thornbury $1,400 Greek Senior Citizens Club of Gladstone Park & Tullamarine $1,600 Italian Pensioners Association of Mill Park $1,600 Greek Senior Citizens Club of Prahran 'St Demetrios' $1,600 Italian Pensioners Club of North Altona $1,600 Greek Senior Citizens District of Richmond $1,600 Italian Pensioners Club of Wangaratta $1,600 Greek Senior Citizens of Frankston and Peninsula $2,000 Italian Senior Citizens Club of Frankston $1,400 Greek Senior Citizens of North Balwyn & Districts $1,500 Italian Senior Citizens Club of Lalor & Thomastown $1,600 Greek Senior Citizens of Southern Eastern Regions Italian Senior Citizens Club of Moorabbin $1,900 and Districts $1,400 Italian Senior Citizen's Club of Preston $4,000 Greek Senior Elderly Citizens Club The Dormition of Our Lady $1,700 Italian Senior Citizens Recreation Group of Caulfield $1,700 Greek Senior Women's Club Hobsons Bay $1,000 Italian Social Club Altona $1,600
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Multicultural Senior Citizens Organisational Support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Italian Speaking Senior Citizens Association of Epping $1,400 Macedonian Senior Citizens Club Geelong $1,650 Italian Welfare Association of Whittlesea Macedonian Senior Citizens Club of West Sunshine $1,500 Senior Citizens $1,500 Macedonian Senior Citizens Club Pelister Italian Women's Health Group Fawkner/Campbellfield $1,600 of St Albans Inc $1,200
Italian Women's Senior Citizens Association $1,600 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group – Lalor, of Whittlesea Thomastown, Epping & Mill Park $1,800 Kariatides Oakleigh Greek Womens Group $1,600 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Altona Meadows, Laverton and Point Cook $1,200 Kastellorizian Senior's Club $1,600 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Ardeer $1,300 Kensington Chinese Friendship Association $500 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Avondale Kensington Elderly Indochinese and Middle Aged Heights, East Keilor, Moonee Valley and Districts $1,100 Vietnamese Group $1,600 Macedonian Senior Citizens' Group of Doncaster Kensington Indo-Chinese Elderly Group $900 & Templestowe $2,200 Keon Park Greek Senior Citizens Club $2,000 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Hobsons Bay $2,000 Kew Home of Chinese $1,000 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Kingspark $1,300 Kingston Chinese Senior Citizens Club $800 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of Monash $2,200 Kingston Indian Senior Citizens Association $1,200 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of the City Greater Dandenong St Dimitrija $1,400 Kingston Turkish Senior Citizens $1,300 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group of the City Knox Chinese Elderly Citizens Club $2,600 of Darebin Pelister $1,400 Knox Hungarian Senior Citizens Club $2,200 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Zlatna Sonce of Footscray $900 Kondia Limnos Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,300 Macedonian Senior Citizens Women's Dancing Group Korean Elderly Citizens Association of Victoria $1,000 "Veseli Makedonki" $700 Korumburra Italian Social Club $1,200 Macedonian Senior Group "Tumbe Café" $1,200 Kouchkovski Social Club $1,400 Macedonian Women's Group "Elpida Karamandi" $1,200 Kurdish Association of Victoria $1,500 Macedonian Women's Group of Hillside – Melton $900 Kyabram Italian Ladies Association $1,400 Macedonian Women's Pensioner Group of Keilor Downs $1,300 Lakhanda Media Centre $1,000 Macedonian Women's Pensioners Association $1,200 Lalor Thomastown Combined Pensioners Association $1,200 of Footscray Lao Elderly Association $2,000 Macedonian Women's Senior Citizen Group Lalor $1,300 Latvian Relief Society "Daugavas Vanagi" of Geelong $1,600 Macedonian Women's Senior Citizens Club of West Sunshine $1,100 Le Belle Arti $1,650 Macedonian Womens Senior Citizens Group $1,600 Lebanese Elderly Group $1,200 of Altona North and District Lefcadian Brotherhood "LEFCADA" $1,800 Macedonian Women's Senior Citizens Group of Avondale Heights, Moonee Valley & Districts $950 Lemnian Community of Victoria Elderly Citizens Club $1,500 Macedonian Womens Senior Citizens Group $1,200 Lemnian Community of Victoria Senior Citizens Group $2,200 of Hobsons Bay Lien Tri Temple $600 Macedonian Women's Senior Group Tumbe Café $800 Macedonian Australian Senior Citizens Group "Ilinden" $1,300 Macedonian Women's Social Club of Whittlesea $1,400 Macedonian Beranci Social Seniors $500 Maltese Association Hobsons Bay $2,600 Macedonian Orthodox Church Footscray $950 Maltese Association Northern Suburbs $1,600 Macedonian Orthodox Community of Melbourne Maltese Bocce Social & Recreation Club $1,000 & Victoria Elderly Citizens Group Epping $3,000 Maltese Community of Shepparton and District $1,100 Macedonian Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria Ladies Association $1,800 Maltese Pensioners Association Inc $800 Maltese Senior Citizens Club Airport West Inc $1,500 Macedonian Pensioner Group 'Uspeniena Presveta $1,200 Bogorodica' Sydenham Malvern Greek Senior Citizens Association $1,800 Macedonian Pensioners Association of Footscray $1,300 Malvern Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,400 Macedonian Senior Citizen Group 'Markovi Kuli' Inc $1,000 Maroondah Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,300 Macedonian Senior Citizen Group of Hillside Inc $1,200 Mauritian Silver Edge Club $1,500 Macedonian Senior Citizen Women's Group "Pelister" of St Albans $1,200 Meadow Heights Turkish Senior Pension Association $1,600
Annual Report 2008-09 45 appendix 2
Multicultural Senior Citizens Organisational Support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Medjimurski Club Mildura $700 Panagia Soumela Pontian Association of Whittlesea $1,200 Melbourne Murugan Cultural Centre $1,900 Parea Inc $800 Merrilands Italian Senior Citizens Club $2,200 Peninsula & Rye Greek Women's Group $1,600 Mildura Greek Elderly Citizens Club $1,400 Pensioner Macedonian Womens Group of Brimbank $1,000 Mill Park Greek Elderly Citizens Club $1,600 Pensioners Association of Bulleen and Templestowe $1,000 Mill Park Senior Citizens Club $1,200 Philipino Elderly Association South East Region Victoria (PEASER) $1,650 Monash Korean Senior Citizens Club $1,200 Polish Association of Ballarat $1,500 Monte Lauro Social Club (Buccheri) Ltd $1,300 Polish Club 'Forty Plus' $900 Montemurro Social Club 'San Rocco' $1,200 Polish Cultural & Social Club 'Palma' $1,100 Moreland Italian Women's Group $1,200 Polish Senior Citizens Club - Geelong $3,000 Moreland Maltese Elderly Citizens' Association $1,600 Polish Senior Citizens Club 'Astry' - St Kilda $2,000 Moreland Maltese Pensioners Group $1,500 Polish Senior Citizens Club Footscray $2,200 Mornington Dutch Australian Senior Club $1,900 Polish Senior Citizens Club in Albion $1,350 Morwell Senior Italian Citizens Club $1,400 Polish Senior Citizens Club in Rowville $2,200 Multi Ethnic Senior Citizens Group Preston $900 Polish Senior Citizens Club Melbourne $1,100 Multicultural Senior Citizens Group of Whittlesea $1,300 Polish Senior Citizens Club Millenium $900 Multicultural Womens Group $600 Polish Senior Citizens Club Morwell $1,400 Nadezhda Russian Senior Citizens Club $2,200 Polish Senior Citizens Club of Altona $1,400 National Council of Jewish Women Australia (Vic) $1,200 Golden Age Club Polish Senior Citizens Club of Caulfield $1,650 Neret Senior Citizens Club $2,000 Polish Senior Citizens Club of Collingwood $1,300 New Life Association $1,300 Polish Senior Citizens Club of Doncaster $1,300 New United Villages of Florina $1,300 Polish Senior Citizens Club of Frankston $900 Niddrie Senior Italian Citizens Club $2,200 Polish Senior Citizens Club of Moorabbin $1,200 Nieuw Holland Dutch Social Club $1,300 Polish Senior Citizens Club of Reservoir $1,100 Nisyrian Philanthropic Society $800 Polish Senior Citizens Club of St Albans $1,500 Noble Park North Multicultural Elderly Citizens Club $1,300 Polish Senior Citizens Club Waverley Vic $1,250 North Eastern Greek Elderly Citizens $1,900 Polish Senior Citizens Mutual Support Club of Keilor Downs $1,200 North Richmond Elderly Chinese Friendship $2,800 Association Melbourne Port Melbourne Greek Community Senior Citizens Club $1,150 North West Reservoir Italian Pensioner Group $2,200 Portarlington and District Greek Elderly Citizens Club $1,400 Northcote Australian Greek Society Care for the Aged $1,100 Portarlington Maltese Pensioners Association $1,600 Northcote Italian Pensioners Club $900 Prahran Chinese Elderly Citizens Association $3,300 Northcote Macedonian Senior Citizens Club 'Kajmakcalan' $1,200 Prahran Chinese Womens Association of Australia $2,200 Northern Federation of Ethnic Senior Citizens Clubs $2,200 Prahran Polish Elderly Citizens $1,300 Northern Mauritian Seniors Club $1,100 Preston Greek Senior Citizens Club $2,200 Northern Melbourne Vietnamese Elderly Association $2,000 Preston-Reservoir Indo-Chinese Elderly Group $1,700 Northern Metropolitan Multicultural Seniors PTOLEMEI Association of Greek Senior Citizens $2,200 Club Network $3,300 From Egypt & Middle East Northern Region Indian Seniors' Association Raduga Russian Senior Citizens Club of Frankston $1,000 of Victoria $500 & Peninsula Nunawading Hungarian Senior Citizens Club Inc $2,100 Regioni D'Italia Bocce Association $1,400 Oakleigh Coptic Senior Social Club $1,200 Reservoir Greek Elderly Citizens Club $2,200 Old Citizens of Ascot Vale & Districts $1,200 Reservoir Italian Pensioners Club $2,200 Opera Nazionale Per I Caduti Senza Croce $1,600 Resistenza Circolo Sette Fratelli Cervi, Victoria $1,000 Pamissos Messinis $500 Reskeon Maltese Assoc & Reskeon Seniors Group $2,200 Panagia Kamariani Greek Senior Citizens Club $2,000 Richmond Chinese Elderly Welfare Association $2,200
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Multicultural Senior Citizens Organisational Support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Richmond Indo-Chinese Elderly Group $2,600 Spanish Speaking Senior Citizens of Broadmeadows and Districts $1,300 Risorgimento Club St Margaret Mary $1,400 Spanish Speaking Senior Women’s Group $1,000 Rodriguan Social Club of Victoria $2,600 North East Region Rosanna Macleod Circolo Pensionati $1,600 Spinete Social Club $1,400 RSL Italian Sub-Branch $1,200 Spotswood Multicultural Older Group $1,250 Russian Australian Senior Citizens Club in Prahran $1,100 Springvale Ethnic Chinese Elderly Caring Friendship Association $2,200 Russian Ethnic Representative Council of Victoria $1,000 Springvale Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,600 Russian Senior Citizens Club Yarraville $1,200 Springvale Senior Citizens Multicultural Club $1,150 Russian Seniors Club (Joy) $850 Sri Lankan Elders' Welfare Association "SEWA" $1,200 Rye & Peninsula Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,800 St Albans Senior Citizens Club $1,200 Saint Gaetan Society Inc $2,000 St Eleftherios Greek Elderly and Invalid $1,650 Saint Nicolaas Club of Greater Shepparton $1,300 Pensioners Group Salaginto – Filipino Senior Citizens Caring Group $800 St Francis Filipino Senior Citizens Club of Whittlesea $1,200 Santa Marija Assunta Association $950 St Georges Antiochian Orthodox Church Association $2,200 Savoy Ladies Recreation Group $1,300 St Joseph's Committee $1,600 Senior Citizens Group of Heatherton $1,600 St Kilda Greek Senior Citizens Group $1,200 Senior Citizens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish St Kilda Mauritian Social Club $1,100 of St Paraskeve St Albans $1,200 St Olivers Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,150 Senior Citizen's Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of the Holy Monastery of the Virgin $1,200 St Paul's South Eastern Suburbs Association $1,300 "Axion Estin" Northcote St Theresa Aged and Retired Service (STARS) $800 Senior Citizens Melbourne Croatia $2,000 Stonnington Chinese Association $3,500 Senior Citizens of the Greek Community of Forest Hill $1,600 Stonnington Greek Senior Citizens Association $1,700 Senior Multicultural Skills Exchange Group for Women $1,200 'The Friendship Club' Senior Polish Friendship Club $1,200 Stonnington Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,400 Senior Slavic Women's Group Springvale $900 Strathmore Heights Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,400 Serbian Pensioner Club "King Peter" $1,100 Suez Basketball Senior Social Club Association of Victoria $2,200 Serbian Pensioners Church Association Free St Sava Melbourne $700 Sunraysia Alevi Senior Citizens $1,000 Serbian Pensioners Club "Branko Radicevic" Geelong $900 Sunshine-St Albans Indo-Chinese Elderly Group $3,400 Serbian Senior Citizens & Pensioners Club 'Tzar Lazar' $900 Tamil Senior Citizens Fellowship $2,200 Shepparton Italian Women's Group $1,000 Tamil Seniors Social Club $1,000 Sicilia Nostra Senior Citizens Club $800 Tatura Italian Women's Group $900 Sikh Senior Citizens Association of Whittlesea $750 Tatura Italo Australian & Friends $1,350 Slovenian Australian Social & Sports Club Jadran $1,200 The Argos District Australian Greek Senior Citizens Club of Kastoria $1,400 Social Care Program, Temple Society Australia $1,000 The Greek Nazarene Senior Citizens Club $1,200 Society Kalamata 23 March Brotherhood $1,100 The Italian Pension Club of Kingston $1,500 Somali Elderly Women's Group (part of East African Women's Foundation) $1,200 The School for Korean Senior Citizens $600 South American Senior Citizens Club of Frankston The Spanish Speaking Friendship Club of Springvale $1,400 and Peninsula $1,200 The Western Suburbs Greek Elderly Citizens Club $1,400 South Eastern Yugoslav Pensioner Group Springvale and Dandenong $1,400 Thomastown East Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,600 South Melbourne Greek Womens Club 'Olympia' $1,200 Thomastown East Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,600 South Yarra Greek Senior Citizens Thornbury Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,800 "Kontandinos and Eleni" $1,750 Tiszavirag Hungarian Senior Citizens Club $800 Spanish Association of Geelong $1,500 Turkish Cypriot Elderly Women's Association $1,400 Spanish Speaking Elderly Group of North Melbourne $900 Ukrainian Pensioner's Club Geelong $1,100 Spanish Speaking Pensioners and Senior Citizens Club of Werribee $950 Ukrainian Senior Citizens Centre Ardeer $1,200
Annual Report 2008-09 47 appendix 2
Multicultural Senior Citizens organisational support Organisational Support ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Accademia Letteraria Italo-Australiana Scrittori (ALIAS) $800 Ukrainian Senior Citizens Club in Melbourne $2,600 Acholi Community Association in Australia $2,000 Ukrainian Social Club $1,050 Afar Community Association of Victoria Inc $1,500 Union of Christians from Constantinople Inc $2,000 Afghan Australia Community Social Sports Club Inc $1,500 Unione Nazionale Sottufficiali Italiani in Congedo $1,200 Afghan Australian Association of Victoria Inc $1,500 United Filipino Elderly Group $1,200 Afghan Australian Philanthropic Association $800 United Slavic Pensioner Group Footscray $1,200 Afghan Mosque Project Committee Inc $800 Uruguayan Social Club of Melbourne, Senior Citizen Sub-Committee $1,100 Afghanistan Study Centre (ASC) Inc $1,000 Victorian Association of Argos Orestiko & District Inc $2,000 African Australian Sport Association $1,500 Victorian Association of World War II Veterans from Akobo Community Development Agency $1,000 Former Soviet Union $2,900 Al Ehsan Centre $2,000 Victorian Assyrian Community $2,000 Al Sadeq Education and Charity Association inc $1,200 Victorian Greek Australian Elderly Citizens Group $1,300 Alawi Islamic Association of Victoria Inc $3,000 Vietnamese Australian Senior Association of Victoria (VASA-VIC) $2,200 Albanian Moslem Society (Shepparton) Inc $1,200 Vietnamese Chinese Elderly Association in the West $4,000 Alexandrians Friendship (AAHA) Social Club Inc $1,000 Vietnamese Elderly Community Collingwood $1,100 All Women Concern $800 Vietnamese Senior Citizens Club of Hume $1,100 Alle Munchkins Inc $500 Vizzini Social Club $2,200 Alliance Francaise de Geelong $800 Waverley Chinese Senior Citizens Club $4,000 Al-Sajad Association Inc $1,000 Welcome Womens Group $1,350 Am Echad Federation of Jews from Former Soviet Union Inc $800 Werribee Dutch Seniors Club $1,100 Andalucian Dancing Group of Geelong $400 Werribee Friendship Club $2,200 Anglo-Indian Australasian Association of Victoria Inc $1,000 Werribee Macedonian Senior Citizens Club $1,100 Antiochian Community Support Association (ACSA) $1,500 West Sunshine Greek Elderly Club $1,850 Anwar Association Inc $1,000 Western Region Maltese Women's Group $1,600 Anzano Di Puglia Social Club Ltd $800 Whitehorse Club $800 Arabic Australian Family Association $500 Whitehorse Older Persons Action Group $2,200 Arabic Society of Victoria Inc $2,000 Whittlesea Maltese Senior Citizens Club $2,000 Arabic Welfare Inc $1,500 Whittlesea Northern Cyprus Turkish Women's Group $1,300 ArciLesbica Australia $500 Whittlesea Senior Citizens Club $800 Argentinian Social Circle South East Melbourne Inc $1,500 Whittlesea Turkish Elderly and Pensioners Association $2,000 Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) $1,500 Whittlesea Turkish Women's Association $2,000 – Victoria Inc Williamstown Italian Social Club $1,450 ARVN Rangers Association of Victoria Inc $500 Wonthaggi Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,500 Aspendale Gardens Senior Citizens of Kingston Inc $600 TOTAL $917,750 Associacion de Latinos Residentes de Victoria $750 Association Nationale Combattente Reduci Italiani – Myrtleford $400 Association of Filipino Australians in Gippsland $1,000 Association of Former Inmates of Nazi Concentration Camps and Ghettos from the Former Soviet Union $1,000
Association of Sri Lankan Muslims in Australia $1,500 (ASLAMA) Association of Ukrainians in Victoria $1,500 Association of Ukrainians in Victoria – Geelong Branch $700 Associazione Figli D'Italia Inc $700 Associazione Nazionale Bersaglieri D'italia (Sezione di Melbourne) Vic Inc $600
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organisational support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Associazione Nazionale Famiglie Delli Emigranti (ANFE) $700 Australian Polish Historical Society $700 Associazione Padovani Nel Mondo Inc $1,000 Australian Punjabi Association Melbourne Inc $600 Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Council of Australia $800 Australian Slovenian Cultural & Sports Association 'Ivan Cankar' Geelong Inc $1,000 Atherton Gardens Chinese Neighbourhood $1,000 Australian Slovenian Social and Sporting Association $1,000 Auspicious Arts Project Inc $2,000 Melbourne Inc Aust-China Writer's Association $400 Australian Somali Society $1,200 Australasia Business Development Enterprise Australian Somali Youth Association $1,200 Association Inc $500 Australian Tamil Literary & Arts Society Inc (ATLAS) $500 Australasia Coptic Society Inc $1,000 Australian Thornbury Pensioners Club $1,300 Australia (Nur) The Light Foundation Inc $2,000 Australian Turkish Association Inc $2,000 Australia Burma Society Inc $1,500 Australian Turkish Cultural Platform (ATCP) Inc $1,000 Australia China Friendship Society Victoria Branch Inc $800 Australian Turkish Institute Inc $1,200 Australia Hainan Association Inc $1,000 Australian Turkish Men's Cultural Group $2,000 Australia Sri Lanka Catholic Association Inc $1,000 Australian Turkish Women's Cultural Group $1,500 Australia Sri Lanka Welfare Guild Inc $1,200 Australian Welsh Male Choir (Cor Meibion Cymreig Australian African Children's Aid and Support Australia) Inc $1,000 Association Inc. (AACASA) $800 Australian Western Thrace Turkish Association of $2,000 Australian Association of Kastorians Inc $1,000 Victoria Inc Australian Assyrian Arts & Literature Foundation $800 Australian/African Support Group $500 Australian Bosnian Women's Group $1,000 Australian-Asian Association of Victoria Inc $800 Australian Burundian Community in Victoria Inc $1,500 Australia-Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce Inc $800 Australian Chollo Community Inc $1,500 Avondale Heights and East Keilor Residents Association $500 Australian Croatian Association "Hercegovina" Geelong Inc $2,500 Aweil Community Association in Victoria $1,000 Australian Croatian Community Services $1,500 Ayios Therapon Welfare Association Inc $1,100 Australian Croatian Psychiatric Outreach Service Inc $1,000 Babylon Tower Club $1,500 Australian Croatian Social Club Mornington Peninsula Baha'i Council For Victoria $1,000 Rye Inc $800 Bait Al-Hossien $400 Australian Croatian Women Association "Katarina Zrinski" $800 Bakarzala Charitable Association Inc $800 Australian Federation of Ethnic Schools Associations Ballarat African Association $1,000 (AFESA) $5,000 Ballarat Indian Association $1,000 Australian Federation of International Students Inc (AFIS) $1,000 Ballarat Italian Association Inc $600 Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations $1,000 Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council (BRMC) $1,000 Australian Filipino Community of Northern Victoria Banda Musicale Italiana "Vincenzo Bellini" $1,000 & Southern Riverina Inc $2,000 Bangla Sahitya Sansad (Bengali Literary Society) Inc $900 Australian Gay Multicultural Council (AGMC) $1,000 Bangladesh Cultural Group Inc $3,000 Australian Humanitarian Aid for Macedonia Inc $1,000 Bangladesh Samity Inc $1,500 Australian Intercultural Society Inc $750 'Bea Cantare' Choir Inc $500 Australian Karen Organisation Inc $1,500 Bengali Association of Victoria Inc $2,000 Australian Kurdish Community Inc $1,200 Beth-Nahrin (Assyrian) Cultural Club $1,600 Australian Lebanese Christian Ladies Group – Darrebin $400 Bint Al Huda Iraqi Women's Organisation $1,000 Australian Lebanese Football Association Inc $800 B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc $1,000 Australian Lebanese Youth Association of Victoria $1,200 Bonegilla Former Residents Association (Vic) Inc. $500 Australian Lithuanian Community in Melbourne Association Inc $1,500 Bor Community Association of Australia $1,500 Australian Macedonian Tetovo Association Bosnian Choir 'Behar' Inc $500 'Shar-Planina' Inc $500 Bosnian Choir Sevdalinka $800 Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria Inc (AOCAV) $2,000 British Australian Community (Inc) $2,000
Annual Report 2008-09 49 appendix 2
organisational support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Buddhist Council of Victoria Inc $4,000 Council of Turkish Associations of Victoria $1,500 Buddhist Council of Victoria: Buddhist Education in Cranbourne Italian Senior Citizens Club $1,800 Victorian Schools Program $700 Cretan Elderly Club of Melbourne and Victoria $1,500 Buddhist Vihara Victoria Inc $1,000 Croatian Catholic Welfare Association Inc $1,500 Burgher Association (Australia) Inc $1,500 Croatian Cultural Association Cardinal Alojzije $700 Burmese Welfare Operation $800 Stepinac Inc Cambodian Chinese Friendship Association of Victoria $1,200 Croatian Media Association Inc (CMA) $700 Cambodian Community Welfare Centre Inc $750 Cultural Historical Association of Rodriguans and Mauritians in Victoria (CHARM) $1,500 Cameroon Association of Australia Inc $1,500 Cyprus Community of Melbourne & Victoria $2,000 Canto Coro Inc $900 Darfur Australia Network $1,500 Central America Pastoral House Inc $1,000 Delegazione ANGET Australia Inc $1,500 Central Community Centre Inc $2,000 Dinka Ngok Abyei Community Association $1,000 Central Highlands Asian-Australian Association in Victoria Australia of Victoria $500 Dutch Social Club Diamond Valley Inc $800 Centre for African Australian Women's Issues $5,000 Dutch Women's Club of Geelong Inc $600 Chabad House of Malvern/Toorak Inc $800 Dutch-Australian Club Albury Wodonga Inc $600 Chabad Institutions of Australia Inc $800 East Africa Castlemaine Community (Inc) EACC $3,094 Chile Magazine Media and Cultural Group $2,000 East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation Inc $1,000 Chilean Federation of Older People $800 Eastern Districts Polish Association (Melbourne) $1,000 China Philatelic Society of Australia Inc $400 Eastern Karen Community Association $3,400 Chinese Association of Geelong Inc $2,000 Eritrean Australian Youth Association $750 Chinese Association of Victoria Inc $1,000 Eritrean Community in Australia Inc $1,500 Chinese Beijing Opera Club of Melbourne $600 Eritrean Islamic Society of Australia $750 Chinese Health Foundation of Australia (CHF) $1,500 Eritrean Jeberti Association In Victoria $1,500 Chinese Mandarin Community Friendship Association (CMCFA) $800 Eritrean Women's Association of Victoria $1,200 Chinese Nurse Association Australia Inc $500 Ethick Community Mozambique of Victoria Inc $2,000 Chinese Poets & Authors Society of Victoria $500 Ethiopian Community Association in Victoria Inc $3,000 Chinese Singing and Dance Troupe of Melbourne $500 Ethiopian Women Group $1,750 Chios Brotherhood Korais of Melbourne and Victoria Ethnic Communities Council of the South East Inc $2,000 Ltd $700 (ECCOSE) Chollo Community Christian Fellowship Inc $1,500 Ethnic Council of Shepparton & District Inc $5,000 Circolo Filatelico Italiano $400 Ethnic Public Broadcasting Association of Victoria $2,000 City of Ringwood Highland Pipe Band $1,000 Famiglia Pugliese D'Australia $1,000 Club Frecce Tricolori Victoria $1,000 Faros Senior Citizens Inc $600 Cobram italFest $600 Federation of Indian Associations of Victoria Inc $2,500 Colac Sudanese Community Inc $1,000 Federation of Indian Students of Australia (FISA) $2,500 Committee for Common Celebrations of Greek Federation of Indian Women's Association of $1,500 & Australian National Days $2,000 Australia (FIWAA) Inc Federation of Indo-China Ethnic Chinese of Communities Council on Ethnic Issues Australia Inc $1,200 (Eastern Region) Inc $2,000 Federation of Macedonian Cultural & Artistic Community In Harmony $1,000 Associations of Victoria (FOMKUD) $1,000 Community of Cypriots of the Northern Suburbs $1,200 Federation of Macedonian Senior Citizens Groups of Melbourne Women's Group of the Northern Region of Victoria Inc $1,800
Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate Archangel Mikhail $1,200 Federation of Messinian Organisations of Melbourne & St Anthony Church Inc And Victoria $1,200 Cornish Association of Victoria Inc $1,000 Federation of Taivgetos of Laconia $550 Coro Furlan Melbourne Inc $500 Federation Panepirotic Union of Melbourne & Victoria $1,500 Council of Slovenian Organisations of Victoria Inc $1,500 Federazione Pensionati Italiani Del Victoria $1,500
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organisational support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Fiji Geelong Friendship Club Inc $500 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Vasilios" Brunswick, Youth Group $500 Fiji Indian Senior Citizens Association Inc $1,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of Saints Methodios and Fiji Sangam Association of Victoria $1,000 Kyrillos, Preston $500 Fiji Social and Cultural Organisations of Victoria Greek Orthodox Parish of St Dimitrios Moonee Ponds $500 Australia (FSCOVA) $1,000 Greek Orthodox Youth Association of Oakleigh Filipino Australian Association of Ballarat $800 – Sts Anargiri $1,000 Filipino Australian Friendship Association of Geelong $500 Greek Philanthropic Community of Shepparton & District $600 Filipino Australian Social Club of Loddon-Campaspe $1,200 Greek Senior Citizens Club of Carnegie and Filipino Community Council of Victoria Inc $1,500 Murrumbeena $800 Filipino Community of Sunraysia Inc $500 Greek Senior Citizens of Frankston and Peninsula $800 Filipino Senior Citizens Club of the South East Inc $600 Greek Women's Club of Northern Suburbs "Anemones" $800 Filipino-Australian Friends Association (Northern Grupo Folklorico Violeta Parra $500 Victoria) Inc $1,000 Finnish Friendly Visiting Service Inc $700 Hamazkaine Armenian Educational and Cultural Society (Gomidas Chapter) $700 Finnish Society of Melbourne Inc $1,200 Hamerkaz Shelanu Inc $700 Fitzroy Atherton Multicultural Inhabitants Alliance Inc. (FAMIA) $800 Hammurabi Cultural Society $1,500 Fitzroy Chinese Residents Association Inc $1,200 Hands For Hope Inc $700 Fitzroy Chinese Women's Group $900 Hararian Community Association Australia Inc $1,200 Footscray Asian Business Association $1,200 Harmony Foundation Victoria Inc $700 Friends of Farm Vigano Inc $1,000 Hazara Australian Community Association of Victoria $1,000 Geelong Dutch Clubs $800 Hazara Community Mildura $1,500 Geelong Scottish Dance Inc $800 Hellenic Writers Association of Australia $800 Geelong Sudanese Association Inc $1,000 Hellenic Youth Federation of Victoria Inc $600 Gippsland African Society $1,000 Hindu Foundation $1,000 Gippsland Indian Association Inc $800 Hindu Satsang Mandal of Victoria $1,000 Gippsland Indonesian Australian Association $900 Hispano-American Co-operative for Family Support (COHAF) Inc $1,500 Goulburn Valley Afghan Association $1,800 Holy Trinity Chinese Congregation Coburg $500 Goulburn Valley African Communities Association Inc $1,500 Hope and Care for All (HCFA) International Inc $500 Goulburn Valley Ethnic Professionals' Association $600 Hope Connection $2,000 Goulburn Valley Pacific Islander Association Inc $1,000 Hotham Mission (Asylum Seekers Program) $5,000 Goulburn Valley Polish Association Inc $800 House of Persia Community & Cultural Centre $1,000 Greek & Cypriot Social Welfare Centre $1,500 Howra Women's Association $800 Greek Australian Recreational & Instructive League of Vic Inc $600 Hungarian Scout Group 54-63 Co-operative Ltd $500 Greek Democritus Worker's League $5,000 Ikawiria (Indonesian Community Association of Victoria) Inc $1,000 Greek Elderly Citizens Club of Newport $1,200 Il Piccolo Teatro Di Melbourne Inc $800 Greek Elderly Women's Club of Frankston and Peninsula $1,000 Indo-China Ethnic Chinese Association of Victoria Inc $1,000 Greek Orthodox Community of Box Hill & Districts Indonesian Muslim Community of Victoria Inc $750 Ladies Auxiliary $500 Iranian Society of Victoria Inc $1,500 Greek Orthodox Community of Broadmeadows and Districts Inc $1,000 Islamic Association of Australia $1,500 Greek Orthodox Community of Clayton Ltd $1,000 Italian Catholic Federation $800 Greek Orthodox Community of Dandenong & Districts $800 Italian Elderly Citizens Club Noble Park Inc $900 Greek Orthodox Community of Hobsons Bay Inc $1,000 Italian Services Advisory Council Inc $800 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St George" Thornbury, Italian Social Club Swan Hill $1,000 Women's Group $400 Japan Club of Victoria $1,200 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St George" Thornbury, Youth Group $400 Japanese for Peace (JFP) $800
Annual Report 2008-09 51 appendix 2
organisational support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Jat Jagat $700 Maltese Community of Shepparton and District $800 Jewish Breast Cancer Support Group $850 Maltese Historical Association $500 Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia $3,000 Mandela Soccer Club $500 Jewish Museum of Australia Inc $3,000 Mang-Non Vietnamese Language School Association $500 John Pandazopoulos Hall Committee of Management $1,000 Maori Culture Community of Geelong $1,000 Kaiga Tuvalu Victoria Inc $1,000 Maronite Sports Division $400 Kalakruthi Parent Association $750 Maronite Youth of Melbourne $800 Kardelen Youth Association Inc $1,500 Maroondah Southern Sudanese Christian Welfare Association $500 Karen Baptist Community $1,500 Mauritian Silver Edge Club $800 Karnavals Club The Swallows Geelong Inc $800 Meadow Heights Learning Shop Inc $800 Khmer Community of Victoria $900 Meadow Heights Turkish Women's Association $1,200 Klabb Ghannejja Maltin Inc $2,000 Meeting Melbourne Maronites 25-45 $600 Kurdish Association of Victoria $1,500 Melbourne Chin Community $1,000 Kurdish Women Society of Victoria $800 Melbourne French Theatre $600 Kurdish Women's League of Australia Inc $1,000 Melbourne South Eastern Region Chinese Kuusa Services Inc $8,000 Friendship Centre of Victoria Inc $1,000 Kyabram Italian Social Bocce Club Inc $1,600 Melbourne.Pl $750 Ladies Auxiliary Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish Monash Chinese Friendship Association $2,000 Of St Johns Carlton $400 Monash Maltese Seniors Social Group Inc $700 L'Alliance Francaise De Ballarat Et District Inc $700 Multicultural Arts Victoria $3,000 Lao Australian Welfare Association $1,000 Multicultural Senior Citizens Group Inc of Kingston Lao Community of Victoria Inc $2,000 and Surrounding Regions $1,500 Latin American Multicultural Association $800 Museum of Chinese Australian History Inc $800 Lau Nuer Community Association $1,000 National Council of Jewish Women Australia (Vic) Golden Age Club $1,200 L'Chaim Chabad Inc $1,000 National Union of Greek Australian Students $2,500 League of Maniates and Friends of Melbourne $800 and Victoria "I Mani" Inc Nepalese Association of Victoria Inc $1,500 Lebanese Folklore Dabke Group $600 NESB Links $2,000 Liberian Community Association for Unity, Social and Networking Women of Victoria Inc $1,000 Economic Development LICAU-SED (Victoria) Inc $500 New Generation Inc $800 Liech Nuer Community Association Inc $1,100 New Zealand Maori Club $1,500 Liech Nuer Community Women Association $1,000 In Australia Niruththa Indian Fine Arts Association Inc $500 Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services $5,000 North East Melbourne Sudanese Community Forum $1,000 Maccabi Victoria $1,000 North East Multicultural Association (NEMA) $5,000 Macedonian Australian Cultural Youth Association North Eastern Bocce Association Inc $700 'Tanec' Inc $1,000 North Eastern Melbourne Chinese Association Inc Macedonian Community Council of Melbourne (NEMCA) $2,500 and Victoria $1,500 North Melbourne Chinese Association $1,000 Macedonian Community Council of Shepparton and District Inc $1,000 North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc $1,000 Macedonian Human Rights Committee for Nubian Mihaira $1,000 Melbourne and Victoria Inc $2,000 Nuer Community in Victoria Inc $1,500 Macedonian Pensioner Club of Altona Inc $1,000 Nuer Women's Group $1,500 Maharashtra Mandal Victoria Inc $500 Olympian Society Inc $800 Makor Library and Resource Centre $1,000 Onside Victoria Inc $1,500 Maltese Bocce Social & Recreation Club $500 Palestinian Community Association of Victoria $1,500 Maltese Community Centre LV $2,000 Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and $1,500 Maltese Community Council of Victoria Inc $1,500 Victoria Leonidas Inc
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organisational support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Pammessinian Brotherhood of Melbourne Russian Women's Health Group $600 & Victoria Ltd $2,000 Saint Addai Community Society Inc $1,000 Pan Argoliki Philanthropic Brotherhood To Palamidi Inc $500 Saint Maratken Community Society Inc $500 Pan Australian Federation of Thessalian $1,000 Associations Inc Salesian Youth Club $1,000 Pan Korinthian Association of Melbourne and Victoria $500 Salvadorean Community Council of Victoria Inc $1,500 Panevrytanian Association of Melbourne Australia Samoan Community Education Centre $1,500 'The Velouchi' Inc $1,000 Satyam Shivam School of Music $800 Pankoaki Brotherhood of Victoria "O Ippocrates" $1,000 Association Inc Scottish Clans and Associations Council $1,500 Panpyliaki Brotherhood of Navarinon of Melbourne and Victoria $1,500 Selimiye Foundation Ltd $1,200 Pantrifilian Association of Melbourne and Victoria Inc $800 Selimiye Youth Support & Recreation Inc $1,000 Senior Citizens Melbourne Croatia $1,000 Panvictorian-Panelladic Associations of Friends $1,000 of Peace Serbian Australian Pensioners Group $800 Papadakis Park Inc $500 Serbian Orthodox Choir 'Kornelije Stankovic' $500 Papua New Guinea Australia Association Inc $1,500 Serbian Orthodox Church & School Community $600 Pascoe Vale Italian Community Bocce Club $700 St Stefan Phat Quang Temple Inc $600 Serbian Orthodox Church of "St Stefan" – Keysborough, Youth Club $750 Philanthropic Society Nomoy Kavalas Agios Silas Inc $800 Serbian Orthodox Dancing Group Sumadja $500 Philanthropikos Syllogos Velika Messinias Leykothea Melbourne Australia Inc $500 Serbian Pensioners Club "Branko Radicevic" Geelong $700 Philippine Rondalla Victoria (PRV) $500 Serbian Sisters Group 'Zene Mironosice' $400 Polish Association of Kingsville and Ladies Serbian Welfare Association of Victoria Inc (SWAV) $4,000 Auxilliary Inc $800 Shepparton Italian Catholic Federation $800 Polish Choir "Syrena" $500 Shepparton Italian Social Club Inc $1,200 Polish Community Council of Victoria Inc $2,000 Shurolok Music Appreciation and Performance Polish Siberyaks Association in Victoria $500 Group Inc $500 Polish Women's Association of Geelong $500 Sierra Leone Australia Community of Victoria (SLACOV) $1,500 Polynation Combine Centre Inc $800 Sikh Welfare Council of Victoria Inc $1,500 Pontian Community of Melbourne and Victoria $1,000 Sinhala Cultural & Community Services Foundation Inc $1,200 Refugee and Immigrant Women's Support Group $800 Springvale Slavic Women of Gippsland $800 Rejoice Chinese Christian Communication Centre Inc $500 Slavic Women's Group 'Nase Zene' Inc $700 Relief Association of South Sudan (Victoria) Inc $800 Slovenian Australian Cultural & Sport Association (RASS) Planica Springvale Inc $1,000 Reskeon Maltese Association Inc $1,200 Slovenian Australian Social & Sports Club Jadran $1,300 Rethimnian Association of Melbourne $1,000 Social Support Group Preston $1,200 Richmond South Yarra Chinese Parents Association Inc $800 Social Support Network Group 'Friends' Springvale $800 Roma Social Club Inc $700 Society Kalamata 23 March Brotherhood $1,000 Russian Cultural and TV Association Inc "Sputnik" $800 Somali Australian Council of Victoria Inc $1,500 Russian Ethnic Representative Council of Victoria $2,000 Somali Community Information Services Network Inc $1,500 Russian House Victims of Chernobyl National Relief Fund Inc $800 Somali Inter-Riverine Community Development Association Inc $1,500 Russian Senior Citizens Club Yarraville $1,000 Somali Support and Development Association Inc $1,500 Russian Seniors Club (Joy) $850 South American Senior Citizens Club of Frankston $1,500 Russian Welfare Society – Russian Children's Choir $400 and Peninsula Russian Welfare Society – Russian Women's Group $800 South East Arabic Elderly Citizens Club SEAEC $900 Russian Welfare Society – Russian Men's Group $800 South Eastern Chinese Association Inc $700
Russian Welfare Society – Russian Orthodox South Eastern Region Melbourne Oromo Community $1,500 Church Choir $500 Association Inc (SERMOCAVA INC) Russian Women's Association 'Ogonyok' Inc $1,200 South Melbourne Chinese Women's Group $500
Annual Report 2008-09 53 appendix 2
organisational support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) South Sudan Equatorial Community Association $1,500 The Association of the Refugee Children from Aegean Macedonia $400 South Sudanese Women's Network $1,500 The Australian Chaldean Federation of $1,500 Southern Ethnic Advisory & Advocacy Council Inc Victoria/Australia (SEAAC) $1,500 The Australian Greek Orthodox Community $1,000 Southern Sudanese Community of Australia $1,500 of Moreland Inc Spanish American Foundation for the Arts (SAFA) Inc $2,000 The Basque Society Inc $1,300 Spanish Latin American Welfare Centre Inc (CELAS) $2,500 The Democratic Republic Of Congo Community Association of Victoria (DRCCAV) Inc $1,500 Spanish Speaking Senior Women’s Group North East Region $1,000 The Federation of Chinese Associations (Vic) Inc $2,000 The Greek Choir of the Cultural and Educational Springvale Asian Business Association $1,000 Club of Florinians $700 Springvale Ethnic Chinese Elderly Caring The Greek Orthodox Community of Mildura & District $1,000 Friendship Association $2,000 The Gujarati Association of Victoria Inc $1,500 Springvale Mandarin Support Network $1,200 The Hellenic Orthodox Community of Geelong Inc $1,000 Sri Lankan Study Centre for the Advancement $1,000 of Technology and Social Welfare (SCATS) The Hunan Association of Victoria Inc $800 St Albans Good Friday Association Inc $1,000 The Indonesian Society of Victoria - PERWIRA $1,000 St Andrews Luqa Social Club $1,500 The Interfaith Centre of Melbourne $3,340 St Anthony's Youth Association Inc $500 The Italian Australian Coordinating Committee of Gippsland $1,000 St Athanasius Coptic Centre $700 The Jewish Cultural Centre & National Library Kadimah $1,000 St Eleftherios Greek Elderly and Invalid Pensioners Group $1,000 The Jewish Film Foundation of Australia Inc $2,500 St Helena Maltese-Australian Social Club $1,000 The Jewish Taskforce Against Family Violence $1,000 St John of Kronstadt Russian Welfare Society Inc $1,500 The Korean Society of Victoria Australia $2,000 St Judes Estates Ministry Carlton $1,000 The Melbourne Comhaltas Inc (Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Melbourne Branch) $500 St Mary's Italian Elderly Citizen's Club Inc $600 The New Hope Foundation Inc (Refugee Resource $1,500 St Nicholas Philanthropic Society of Proty $1,000 Centre Footscray) St Nikola Pensioner Social Club Inc $1,000 The Panmacedonian Association of Melbourne and Victoria $600 St Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox Church $1,000 The Philanthropic Society of Kaloneri Siatista $800 Stella Maris Maltese Association Inc $1,000 The Polish Museum and Archives in Australia Inc $700 Stonnington Ballroom Dancing Association Inc $1,000 The Samoan Community Link of Victoria $800 Sudanese Community Association of Australia Inc The Victorian Chin Community Association Inc $3,000 (SCAA) $2,000 The Victorian Maronite Community Inc $1,000 Sudanese Community in Warrnambool Inc $2,500 Thessaloniki Association "The White Tower" Inc $1,000 Sudanese Disability Action Group in Victoria Inc $1,500 Thiasos Themida $800 Sudanese Lost Boys Association of Australia $1,500 Tibetan Buddhist Society $1,000 Sudanese Women On The Move Network Inc (SWOM) $1,000 Tigrian Community Association in Victoria $1,500 Sudan's Bor Youth Association of Australia $1,000 Timorese Association in Victoria $1,500 Sunraysia Contemporary Alevi Cultural Centre Inc $700 Tripoli Social Club Inc $800 Sveti Georgi Selo Velusina Humanitarian Association $1,200 of Victoria Turkish Islamic Society Victoria $1,000 Tamil Australian Friendship Society Inc $900 Turkish Women's Group $600 Tamil Society of Melbourne $1,000 Turkish Womens Recreation Group Inc $800 Tangasseri-Australian Association of Melbourne Inc $1,400 United Jewish Education Board $1,000 Tarxien Social Club Inc $400 United Maba Community Association of Australia Inc $800 Tatura Italian Social Club Inc $1,500 United Somali Organisation in Australia Inc $2,000 Thai Community Of Geelong (TCG) inc $500 United Somali Women Organisation in Victoria $2,000 The Alawi Islamic Social Centre $1,000 United Sri Lankan Muslim Association of Australia Inc $1,500 The Albanian Australian Islamic Society $500 Unity in Progress $700
54 Victorian Multicultural Commission appendix 2
organisational support
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Vedanta Society of Australia $600 Womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Coburg $400 Ventana Hispana (Spanish Window) Inc $1,000 Womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish Vic African Women's Association Inc $1,000 of Moonee Ponds $400 Victorian Arabic Artists Association Inc $1,000 Womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of South Yarra $500 Victorian Association of Argos Orestiko & District Inc $1,000 Womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish Victorian Assyrian Youth Group $800 of Templestowe $400 Victorian Brotherhood of Mani United Inc $600 Xinjiang Chinese Association of Australia Inc $550 Victorian Chaldean Woman's Group $1,500 Youth Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Clayton $400 Victorian Co-operative on Children's Services Youth Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Coburg $400 for Ethnic Groups (VICSEG) $2,000 Youth Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish Victorian Eritrean Community Association $1,500 of Springvale $500 Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women's $5,000 Youth Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of the Coalition Inc (VIRWC) Presentation of St. Dimitrios Moonee Ponds $400 Victorian Iraqi Social Club Inc $1,000 Zahrira Social Club $750 Victorian Lithuanian Pensioners Association Inc $900 Zevk'u Seda Classical Turkish Choir $1,500 Victorian Multi Ethnic Slavic Welfare Association $1,000 Zhang Zhou Origin Association of Victoria $750 Victorian Romano Pralipe Association $1,200 Zimbabwean Community in Australia (Victoria) $1,500 Victorian Scottish Union Inc $800 Zionist Council of Victoria $1,000 Victorian Turkish Cultural Association Inc $750 Zomi Association Australia Inc $1,750 Vietnamese Community in Australia TOTAL $688,684 – Vic Chapter (VCA) $2,000 Vietnamese Cultural Group $700 Vietnamese Mothers Group Inc $1,100 Vietnamese Parenting Support Group $700 Vietnamese Tenants Association Inc $1,000 Vietnamese Women's Association in Broadmeadows Inc $1,500 Vietnamese Women's Association of North West Region Inc $1,200 Vietnamese Young Mother's Support Group $700 Vitoria Women's Fellowship Group $1,000 Welsh Society of Geelong Inc $600 West Papuan Community $2,000 Western Vovinam Training Centre $1,000 Westvale Olympic Soccer Club $1,000 Whittlesea Chinese Association Inc (WCA) $700 Whittlesea Combined Pensioners Association of Victoria Inc $500 Whittlesea Green Island Turkish Women's Group Inc $600 Whittlesea Multicultural Communities Council $5,000 Whittlesea U3A Inc $500 Whittlesea Vuong Trung Vietnamese Womens Group $800 Williamstown Italian Social Club $1,000 Wodonga Australian Croatian Club Inc $750 Women's Friendship Group $1,200 Womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Community of Hobsons Bay $400 Womens Group of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Clayton $400
Annual Report 2008-09 55 appendix 2
EDUCATION PROGRAMS
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Afghan Australian Philanthropic Association $1,500 Portuguese Cultural Centre of Melbourne Inc $2,000 Al Sadeq Education and Charity Association inc $2,000 Relief Association of South Sudan (Victoria) Inc (RASS) $2,500 Am Echad Federation of Jews from Former Soviet Union Inc $2,000 Serbian Ethnic School Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic $2,000 Arabic Culture School $1,600 Society for Asian Languages & Arts Inc $1,200 Armenian Mesrob Mashdotz School $1,000 Somalian Cultural School $1,500 Associazione Culturale L'Aurora $3,000 Spanish Language, Heritage and Community School 'Jose Gervasio Artigas' Inc $2,000 Australian Federation of Ethnic Schools Associations (AFESA) $5,000 St John's Church Vietnamese School $2,500 Australian Kurdish Community Inc $2,500 T.Kosciuszko Polish Language Saturday School $1,500 Australian Oromo Community Association Temple Society German Language School in Victoria Inc (AOCAV) $1,800 Bentleigh-Moorabbin $2,000 AUSTURK Education & Cultural Association Inc $700 The Association of Hazaras in Victoria Inc $1,200 Bayswater-Boronia Templer School $1,000 The Australian Shia Muslim Assembly Inc $1,000 Bayswater-Boronia Templer School $1,000 The German Saturday School Inc $1,700 Bengali Language and Culture School Inc $1,500 The Pushkin Lyceum $1,000 Bharathi Academy $750 The Thai Language School of Melbourne Inc $1,500 Bharathi Academy $750 The United Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation of South Eastern Melbourne $2,000 Bosnian Teacher's Association Inc $2,000 THE-HE Vietnamese Language Centre $2,000 Cambodian Chinese Friendship Association of Victoria $1,500 Truong Vinh Ky Vietnamese Language School Inc $1,000 Chabad Institutions of Australia Inc $2,000 Van Khoa Vietnamese Language School $800 Chinese Association of Victoria Inc $2,000 Vedanta Society of Australia $1,000 Croatian Ethnic School ≠– Bartol Kasic Inc $1,500 Vietnamese Ethnic School of Broadmeadows $1,500 Eritrean Islamic Society of Australia $8,000 Werribee Chinese School Inc $4,000 Greek Orthodox Community Gippsland, Greek School $1,000 Western Region Bengali School Inc $3,500 Greek Orthodox Community of Dandenong & Districts $1,500 Xin Jin Shan Chinese Language and Culture School Inc $900 Greek Orthodox Community School of Mentone "Taxiarches" $10,000 TOTAL $131,500 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Dimitrios" Ascot Vale, Greek School $1,600 Greek Orthodox Parish of "The Holy Cross" Box Hill and Districts $3,500 Greek Orthodox Parish of "The Three Hierarchs" Clayton, Greek School $1,000 Greek School of the Greek Orthodox Parish of Bentleigh $2,000 Hamerkaz Shelanu Inc $4,000 Hararian Community Association Australia Inc $1,500 Hazara Australian Community Association of Victoria $2,000 Healthy Tourism Senior Citizens Club 'Vigor' – Inner Metro South Russian Community Language School $2,500 Imam Ali Islamic Centre Inc $2,000 Islamic Association of Australia $1,500 Keysborough Vietnamese Language Centre Inc $1,500 Korean Language School of Melbourne $2,500 Lac Viet Vietnamese Language School $1,500 Liech Nuer Community Association Inc $2,000 Mang-Non Vietnamese Language School Association $2,000 North Victorian Buddhist Association Inc $2,000 Polish Community Council of Victoria Inc $2,500
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Buildings and Facilities Improvement
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Alawi Islamic Association of Victoria Inc $10,000 Spanish Association of Geelong $6,000 Alevi Community Council of Australia Inc $10,000 St Anthony Greek Orthodox Church $5,000 Association of Ukrainians in Victoria - Geelong Branch $5,000 St Georges Antiochian Orthodox Church Association $10,000 Australian Association of Kastorians Inc $8,000 St Mark's Coptic Church $7,000 Australian Slovenian Cultural & Sports Association Sudanese Community Association of Australia Inc 'Ivan Cankar' Geelong Inc $6,000 (SCAA) $15,000 Cambodian Chinese Friendship Association of Victoria $8,000 Sunraysia Contemporary Alevi Cultural Centre Inc $7,000 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di San Marco in Lamis $12,000 The Victorian Maronite Community Inc $8,000 City of Stonnington $3,000 Whitehorse Club $5,000 Club Astoria German Australian Society $1,675 Wodonga Australian Croatian Club Inc $9,000 Croatian Media Association Inc (CMA) $10,000 TOTAL $402,995 Dar Alawda Wendel Community Centre Inc $12,000 Filipino Community Council of Victoria Inc $4,600 Greek Orthodox Community of Gippsland, Elderly Citizens' Group $5,000 Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne & Victoria (Parish of "St George" Thornbury) $10,000 Greek Orthodox Community of Wangaratta and District Inc $5,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of "St Athanasios" Greek School $8,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of St Andrew's Forest Hill $5,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of St Dimitrios Moonee Ponds $6,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of St Raphael, Bentleigh $10,000 Greek Orthodox Senior Citizens Group of Whittlesea $14,000 Greek Senior Citizens of Frankston and Peninsula $5,000 Grupo Cultural e Folclorico Sol De Portugal Inc $12,000 Hazara Australian Community Association of Victoria $10,000 Hindu Satsang Mandal of Victoria $12,000 Jewish Holocaust Centre Inc $8,000 Jewish Museum of Australia Inc $10,000 Kalymnian Philanthropic Brotherhood Melbourne Inc $8,000 Keysborough Turkish Islamic & Cultural Centre Inc $8,000 Maltese Community Centre LV $12,000 Melkite Catholic Eparchy of Australia Victorian Vicariate - St Joseph's Parish Fairfield $5,000 Moorabbin Hebrew Congregation Inc $8,000 Pan Argoliki Philanthropic Brotherhood To Palamidi Inc $15,000 Pancretan Association of Melbourne Australia Ltd $5,000 Peninsula & Rye Greek Women's Group $2,720 Phat Quang Temple Inc $10,000 Rye & Peninsula Greek Senior Citizens Club $1,000 Samadhi Buddhist Meditation Association Inc $10,000 Selimiye Youth Support & Recreation Inc $6,000 Serbian Orthodox Church of "St Stefan" - Keysborough, Youth Club $7,000 Serraion Society of Victoria Inc $10,000 Sinhala Language and Cultural School $5,000 Slovenian Australian Social & Sports Club Jadran $8,000
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Strengthening Multicultural Communities
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Afghan Australian Development Organisation (AADO) $2,000 Federation of Indian Women's Association of Australia (FIWAA) Inc $2,000 All Women Concern $3,000 Fiji Social and Cultural Organisations of Victoria $2,000 Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Council of Australia $2,000 Australia (FSCOVA) Aurora School $2,000 Filipino Community Council of Victoria Inc $3,000 Australia (Nur) The Light Foundation Inc $20,000 Friends of Farm Vigano Inc $20,000 Australian Croatian Community Services $6,000 Fruitful Films Pty Ltd $3,000 Australian Federation of International Students Inc Geelong Sudanese Association Inc $2,000 (AFIS) $4,500 Gippsland Indian Association Inc $1,500 Australian Karen Organisation Inc $2,500 Gippsland Multicultural Services Inc $10,000 Australian Multicultural Foundation $10,000 Jesuit Social Services $10,000 Australian Somali Society $4,000 Kurdish Women Society of Victoria $3,000 Australian Turkish Association Inc $3,000 Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services $10,000 Australian Vietnamese Women's Association $3,000 Lutheran Church of Australia Victoria District $3,000 Aweil Community Association in Victoria $3,000 St James Moorabbin Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council (BRMC) $10,000 Melbourne.Pl $2,000 Bengali Association of Victoria Inc $5,000 Mildura Rural City Council $10,000 Multicultural Arts Victoria $22,500 Bint Al Huda Iraqi Women's Organisation $2,000 National Council of Jewish Women of Australia $5,000 Blind Citizens Australia $6,000 National Ethnic & Multicultural Broadcasters' Council Bor Community Association of Australia $2,500 (NEMBC) $5,000 Burgher Association (Australia) Inc $2,000 New Australia Media $20,000 Burmese Welfare Operation $3,000 New Hope Migrant and Refugee Centre $5,000
Caulfield Junior College – Hebrew Immersion $3,000 New Hope Migrant and Refugee Centre Program Committee (Mornington Branch) $1,000 Centre for African Australian Women's Issues $10,000 North East Melbourne Sudanese Community Forum $2,500 Chaldean Women Association in Victoria $3,000 North East Multicultural Association (NEMA) $30,000 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di San Marco in Lamis $2,000 Nuer Community in Victoria Inc $2,000 Colac Sudanese Community Inc $6,000 Palestinian Community Association of Victoria $4,000 Communities Council on Ethnic Issues (Eastern Poi Piripi Performing Arts Inc $10,000 Region) Inc $3,000 Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre Inc $17,000 Council of Turkish Associations of Victoria $10,000 Refugee Council of Australia Inc $20,000 Croatian Media Association Inc (CMA) $5,000 Robinson Reserve Neighbourhood House $2,000 Cultural Heritage Unit, University of Melbourne $10,000 Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc $2,000 Darfur Australia Network $3,500 Scarab Studio $5,000 Deaf Children Australia $5,000 Selimiye Youth Support & Recreation Inc $3,500 Dinka Ngok Abyei Community Association in Victoria Australia $2,000 Serbian Welfare Association of Victoria Inc (SWAV) $10,000 Doveton Pool in the Park YMCA $2,500 Somlink Inc $10,000 East African Women's Foundation Inc $15,000 South Sudan Equatorial Community Association $2,000 East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation Inc $5,000 South Sudanese Women's Network $2,500 Eastern and Central African Communities Southern Ethnic Advisory & Advocacy Council Inc $5,000 of Victoria Inc $8,000 (SEAAC) Spanish American Foundation for the Arts (SAFA) Inc $2,000 Eastern Karen Community Association $2,000 Spanish Latin American Welfare Centre Inc (CELAS) $5,000 Ethiopian Community Association in Victoria Inc $5,000 Springvale Learning and Activities Centre Inc. $3,000 Ethnic Communities Council of the South East Inc $8,000 (ECCOSE) Springvale Neighbourhood House $11,000 Ethnic Council of Shepparton & District Inc $10,000 St Dominics Parish Melton $4,000
Ethnic Youth Council – Spectrum Migrant $5,000 Sudanese Community Association of Australia Inc Resource Centre (SCAA) $3,000
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Strengthening Multicultural Communities Strengthening multicultural cOMMUNITIES
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Sudanese Lost Boys Association of Australia $3,000 Sudanese Women On The Move Network Inc (SWOM) $3,000 Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities' Council Inc $2,800 The Association of Hazaras in Victoria Inc $3,000 The Centre – Connecting Community in North and West Melbourne Inc $5,000 The Federation of Chinese Associations (Vic) Inc $5,000 The Jewish Taskforce Against Family Violence $8,000 The New Hope Foundation (Werribee Refugee Resource Centre) $1,500 The New Hope Foundation Inc (Refugee Resource Centre Footscray) $5,000 The Victorian Maronite Community Inc $2,500 Try Youth & Community Services Inc $4,000 Twich Community Association in Victoria $3,000 Victoria Police (Moonee Valley) $40,000 Victorian Arabic Social Services (VASS) $3,000 Victorian Deaf Society $3,000 Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women's Coalition Inc (VIRWC) $8,000 Victorian Multi Ethnic Slavic Welfare Association $1,500 Western Edge Youth Arts Inc $3,000 Whittlesea Chinese Association Inc (WCA) $2,000 Whittlesea Community Connections $5,000 Wings of Care (Kanfei Chesed) Inc $1,500 TOTAL $626,800
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Interfaith and Multifaith programs
ORGANISATION GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) GRANTS SUMMARY Anglican Northwestern Region Interfaith Network $2,000 FUNDING CATEGORY GRANT (GST EXCLUDED) Arabic Welfare Inc $5,000 Multicultural Festivals and Events $1,336,200 Australian Intercultural Society Inc $12,500 Multicultural Senior Citizens B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc $10,000 Organisational Support $917,750 Braybrook & Maidstone Neighbourhood House $2,000 Organisational Support $688,680 Casey Multi-Faith Network Inc $10,000 Education Programs $131,500 City of Kingston $5,400 Buildings and facilities Improvement $402,990 City of Monash $14,000 Strengthening Multicultural Communities $626,800 City of Port Phillip $20,000 Interfaith and Multifaith Programs $371,700 City of Whitehorse $2,000 TOTAL GRANTS $4,475,629 Clifton Creative Arts Centre $5,000 Council of Turkish Associations of Victoria $10,000 Craigieburn Secondary College $1,000 Darebin Interfaith Council $4,000 Faith Communities Forum, Victorian $5,000 Frankston City Council $2,000 Gippsland Indian Association Inc $10,000 Globalisation For The Common Good $15,000 Goulburn Valley Sudanese Association $2,000 Greek Orthodox Parish of St Dimitrios Moonee Ponds $2,000 Hindu Satsang Mandal of Victoria $8,000 Imam Ali Islamic Centre Inc $8,000 Indonesian Club Melbourne Inc $2,500 Interfaith Education Committee $6,800 Islamic Women's Welfare Council of Victoria $1,500 Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia $29,000 Jewish Museum of Australia Inc $10,000 Lakhanda Media Centre $4,000 Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services $16,000 Melbourne Hebrew Congregation Inc $3,000 Minaret College Inc $7,000 New Zealand Maori Club $5,000 Rye Beach Community Action Group Inc $10,000 School of Social Sciences - La Trobe University $35,000 Shalom Association Inc $5,000 St Mark's Uniting Church $6,000 St Paul Apostle Catholic Church – Ecumenical and Interfaith Committee $2,000 The Committee for Sri Lanka Inc $5,000 The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion $3,000 The WellSpring Centre $20,000 Uniting Church in Australia $10,000 Unity in Diversity Inc $6,000 Victorian Council of Churches $10,000 Whittlesea Interfaith Network (WIN) $20,000 TOTAL $371,700
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Victorian multicultural commission Advisory council
AS AT 30 june 2009 Victorian Multicultural Commission Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities Adult Multicultural Education Services Australian Multicultural Foundation Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council Bendigo Ethnic Communities Council Buddhist Council of Victoria Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues Eritrean Women’s Association of Victoria Ethnic Communities’ Council of Sunraysia Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria Gippsland Multicultural Services Hindu Society of Victoria Islamic Council of Victoria Jewish Community Council of Victoria Migrant Resource Centres Directors Network Multicultural Arts Victoria Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network Municipal Association of Victoria Russian Ethnic Representative Council Sikh Interfaith Council of Victoria Sri Lankan community Tamil Cultural Association of Victoria Victorian Council of Churches Vietnamese Cultural Heritage Centre Western English Language School
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awards for excellence
FOR MERIToriOUS SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY – individuals Mr Peter Adamis Mr Vincenzo Galtieri Mrs Galina Lobanov Mr Demos Savva Mrs Joan Adamson Mrs Maria Gardani Calandro Mr Egon Lutjens Mrs Umran Simsir Cr Sam Alessi Mr Iakovos Garivaldis Mr David Manne Mr Kuldip Singh Bassi Mrs Leonilla Alexeev Mr Carmine Gattuso Mrs Afshan Mantoo The Late Mr Joginder Singh Rai Mr Tissa Amarasekera Ms Claire Gazis Mrs Sithy Marikar Mrs Jessica Smugrevski Mr George Andreou Ms Angela Giardino Mrs Agnes Marton Mr Rucio Sosnowski Mrs Esther Antos Mrs Figen Hasimoglu Mr Frank Merlino Mr Luigi Sozzi Ms Tania Bacash Mon Frank Hickey Mrs Valentina Mezentseff Ms Christoula Stefanatos Ms Julianna Balazs Mr Russell Jack AM Ms Jolanta Mielczarek Mr Bhim Sud Mr Vincenzo Barca Mr Chris Kalaitzis Mr Lucio Miranda Mr Kouy Taing Mr Frank Bevacqua Mrs Maria Kallinteridis Dr Mohamed Firdausy Mohideen Mr Martin Taliana Mr Aleksander Bialocerkowski Ms Dilpreet Kaur Jaswal Mr Denis Muto Mr Mean Te Mrs Teresa Borzillo Mr Abdul Khan Mr Eamon Naughton Ms Brigitte Tornatora Mr Anton Brne Mr Menachem Khoen Ms Marika Orosz Mrs Antonietta Tricarico Mr Peter Bujnowski Mrs Bernadette Khoury Ms Kathryn Osmond Mr Ilias Tsinanis Mr Josef Caf Moefaauo Lotomau Komiti Mr Achilleas Papadopoulos Mr Nick Tsousis Mr Michele Capaldo Mr Stylianos Konstantinidis Cr Kris Pavlidis Mr Teddy Tuason Mr Sai Kit Chan Mr Spyros Korosidis Mr Antonis Polycarpou Mrs Eleftheria Tzouvelis Mrs Alison Chapman Mr Michael Kypreos (Metaxas) Dr Ambalavaner Ponnampalam Ms Lucy Urbancic Mr Philip K.S. Chui Mr Domenico Lagana Ms Elly Potamidis Mrs Rosa Volpe Ms Slava Crooks Mr Yin Choi Lam Mr Satishwar Prakash Mr Arthur Sung Ta Wu Mr Romolo Di Giulio Mrs Donata Lattanzio Ms Birute Morta Prasmutas Mr John Zafiropoulos Mrs Renza Dirksz Mr Wellington Lee Ms Maria Presti Mr George Zangalis Mr Franco Dondio Mr Paul Lesur Mr Haralambos Prodromidis Mr Lian Ren (Jerry) Zhu Mr Costas Elisseou Mrs Ghyliane Lesur Mrs Anna Romeo Mr Marko Zitterschlager Ms Anna Feoktistova Ms Zhao Ran Li Mrs Franciska Sajn Ms Marilyn Zukalski Mr Percy Fernandez Ms Xiu Yu Lin Mr Carlo Salustro Mr Nickiforos Floratos Mr Vincent Kou Chiang Liu Mr Jim Sarris
FOR MERIToriOUS SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY – individuals ORGANISATIONS Association Latinos Residents of Victoria Inc Indian Senior Citizens Association Australian Asian Association of Victoria Inc Polish Senior Citizens Club in Footscray Chinese Cancer Society of Victoria Inc Sicilia Nostra Senior Citizens Club Inc Filipino Australia Friendship Association of Geelong Inc South-Eastern Yugoslav Pensioner's Group Dandenong Filipino Silayan Dance Academy
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awards for excellence awards for excellence
FOR SERVICE DELIVERY TO MULTICULTURAL VICTORIA – individuals Mr Abdul Nasir Aatifi Mrs Alicja Gotlib Ms Claire Naffah Mr Harbir Singh Kang Ms Fatha Ade Mr Bill Hatzisimeonidis Ms Natalija Nesvadba Mr Roman Syrek Mr Melaku Ali Mr Meca Khoa Ho Mr Stephen O'Malley Mr Loc Trinh Ms Barbara Chapman Ms Renate Kamener Mr Chin Nhu Ong Ms Liz Tripodi Mr Tony Charbel Ms Rashika Kulasinghe Mr Aristos Panagakis Mrs Sebastiana Valvo Ms Mila Abenoja Cichello Ms Carol Makhoul Mr Menios Paterakis Mr Sotirios Vassos Ms Sulaika Dhanapala Mrs Nelly Mavraganis Dr Senake Perera Mrs Liang Wanghua Mr David Diaz Mr Vlassis Mavraganis Ms Pina Piedimonte Mr Vajira Ekanayake Ms Kavisha Mazzella Mr Trevor Prabhakaran Ms Carmen Gatt Mrs Geeti Mukhlas Mr Fritz Schwab
FOR SERVICE DELIVERY TO MULTICULTURAL VICTORIA – ORGANISATIONS AMES Community Guide Program Otway Community College Spectrum MRC – Aged & Disability Services/Employed Carers Australian Indian Innovations Inc Innovative Program Brotherhood of St Laurence Suzuki Night Market – Queen Victoria Market Centre for Philippine Concerns Australia Inc Tabulam & Templer Homes for the Aged Inc City of Greater Dandenong – Youth Services – Sports Inclusion Program Turkish Tulip Festival – Australian Turkish Cultural Platform City of Yarra – Belonging In Australia Project Uniting Care Cutting Edge Vietnamese Veterans Association of Victoria – Hong Bang Edmund Rice Centre Vietnamese Ethnic School Jewish Cultural Centre & National Library Kadimah Wellsprings for Women Inc. Louise Multicultural Community Centre
AMBASSADOR AWARDS EDUCATIONS AWARDS Cr Christopher Gahan Ms Chau Cong Ms Kiemi Lai Eastern Schools Refugee Action Network (ESRAN) Australian Karen Organisation Noble Park Primary School
MEDIA AWARD – THE AGE PACMAC AWARDS Ms Dewi Cooke Inspector Nigel Howard Ms Farah Farouque Senior Constable Crystal Cartwright Constable Nadia Hammoud Police Community Exemplary Award – Migrant Information PREMIER’S AWARD FOR COMMUNITY HARMONY Centre, East Melbourne Federation Square
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AWARD City of Whittlesea
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victorian refugee regonition record (VRRR) The VMC would like to congratulate the 21 recipients on their achievements.
VRRR RECIPIENTS 2009 Mr Terefe Aborete Ms Fartun Farah Mrs Malvina Malinek Mr Javad Alizada Mrs Saba Feniger Mrs Anita Milicevic Mrs Immaculate Bihamba Mr Sash Herceg Mr Chan Goch Cham Nyok Mrs Lydia Charlamow Mrs Qingyun Huang Mr Andrew Ohide Mr Hung Xuan Chau Mrs Nida Hussein Mr Parsuram Sharma-Luital Mrs Rose Elias Mrs Fowzia Issa Mr Leigh Phong Thanh Trinh Ms Farah Faiq Mr Thon Makuei Thon Ms Farhnaz Zamani
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