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opportunities to communicate with CALD communities. I know that has really been appreciated over time.
COVID-19 media statements detailing key changes in travel and restrictions are also provided in audio format to two Canberra community radio stations, and these stations collectively broadcast in more than 20 languages spoken in the ACT. Public health advice is also provided through proactive interviews and community radio in response to particular issues and circumstances—for example, the celebration of Eid while remaining COVID safe, and tips on how to comply with public health directions like completing declaration forms.
The COVID-19 media statement is also provided to the RiotACT Chinese edition team to disseminate information to approximately 8,000 Canberrans who read Chinese. And, from this month, Facebook campaign advertising will include a language translation option, which allows both the user and moderator to see the content in a number of languages. Officials are also looking at how this can be applied to broader communication activities.
MR BRADDOCK: What is the vaccination rate for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the ACT?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I will take the detail of that question on notice. I am not sure that we are going to be able to provide a specific figure for Mr Braddock in relation to that. I just do not know that our data will capture all culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the ACT. But it if there is specific information that Mr Braddock is after he can always ask our office and we will do our best to try to get that specific information to him.
We do know in terms of vaccination, again, as per the broader public communications around COVID-19 that engagement with culturally and linguistically diverse communities has been a key priority. We are seeing that right across the community. Indeed, it is recognised as one of the challenges in the vaccination of the aged-care workforce for which, of course, the commonwealth has primary responsibility. Overcoming vaccine hesitancy and ensuring that people in those frontline workforces are able to come forward and confident to come forward and get vaccinated is about addressing insecure work—the consequences of potentially having an adverse reaction to a vaccine, a short-lived reaction, that will mean needing to take a day off work and people being remunerated for that—but also ensuring that people can hear from people they trust, their community leaders and people who speak their language about that. That is something we have been working very closely with the commonwealth and their providers on to ensure it is happening in that aged-care workforce.
More broadly, paid community radio ads have been running in 10 languages, and social media ads have been targeting both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Radio scripts are provided to the Canberra Multicultural Community Forum to read out in different languages through their community radio shows, and resources are available on the COVID-19 website,
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