10 MAY 2012: Peak body the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland (ECCQ) has launched Australia’s first ever nationally accredited certification for health workers in a multicultural society. View media release.
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E-Newsletter Issue 72, 08 May 2012
ECCQ’s fornightly e-newsletter has updates on ECCQ’s work, and what’s happening in the community. To receive our e-newsletter, email library@eccq.com.au
Victoria steps up multicultural funding
2 MAY 2012: Peak body the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland (ECCQ) has congratulated the Victorian State Government for increasing its commitment to multiculturalism in yesterday’s state budget. View media release.
Come work with ECCQ
ECCQ currently has two job vacancies: 1) HR and Office Manager 2) Communications and Media Officer. Both are due on 18 May. View position descriptions.
ECCQ Community Consultation: National Anti- Racism Partnership and Strategy
ECCQ is looking to engage with community and individual stakeholders to inform the development of our submission through identifying issues, solutions and examples of racism to better reflect community concerns. Read more.
ECCQ PUBLIC HEALTH SEMINAR: “Future planning for health service provision, where multicultural health sits within the current national health reforms and emerging multicultural policy”
With Michal Morris, General Manager of the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health on 5.30-7.30pm, Wednesday 2 May
For Queensland this seminar is timely and exceptionally relevant to health policy makers, health service providers and community organisations grappling with the implications of national health reform on health service delivery in culturally diverse environments. Continue reading →
E-Newsletter Issue 70, 11 April 2012
ECCQ’s fornightly e-newsletter has updates on ECCQ’s work, and what’s happening in the community. To receive our e-newsletter, email library@eccq.com.au
Date claimer: ECCQ Multicultural Summit 2012
Mark it in your diary! ECCQ MULTICULTURAL SUMMIT 29 & 30 OCTOBER, 2012 – Working today for a future together: multicultural Queensland 2012-2020
Queensland State Library – Brisbane
www.eccq.com.au/summit
The two-day summit program will feature expert speakers focusing on current and emerging issues facing Queensland’s increasingly multicultural and diverse society at a time of political change, skills shortages but high unemployment in some CALD communities, and high migration demands but inadequate social and physical infrastructure.
Contact
Bilge Ozgun, Project Officer – ECCQ Summit
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
T: (07) 3844 9166 M: 0438 832 129
E: summit@eccq.com.au
ECCQ position paper: ANZAC Day and multiculturalism
The assertion that Anzac Day could provoke division in multicultural Australia is entirely disengaged from the report published by the National Commission on the Commemoration of the Anzac Centenary.
Driving a whole of government approach to multiculturalism
26 MARCH 2012: Peak body the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland (ECCQ) is calling on the new LNP Government to embed Multicultural Affairs Queensland in the Office of the Premier. View media release.
