Page 3431 - Week 09 - Thursday, 24 August 2017
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Canberra. The MAC will be responsible for ensuring that the experiences and circumstances of culturally diverse communities, both changing and maturing, are reflected in advice to the Government.
The establishment of the MAC will augment current communication and consultation processes between members of multicultural communities and the ACT Government, by:
• Providing members of the ACT’s CALD communities with opportunities to take a leading role in participation and consultation activities on issues that affect their lives;
• Providing an effective conduit for the Minister for Multicultural Affairs to be informed about the individual and collective views of members of the ACT’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities;
• Raising awareness on the aspirations, needs and concerns of the ACT’s CALD communities, within government and the community; and
• Facilitating interaction between members of Canberra’s CALD communities, the ACT Government and the wider community.
The MAC will also assist in convening and facilitating an ACT Multicultural Summit (the Summit) during the second year of the Council’s three year term. The Summit will enable Canberra’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities to provide advice to the Government on the issued impacting them and participate in the development of initiatives to address these issues.
The Summit will inform the ongoing implementation of the ACT Multicultural Framework 2015-2020 (the Framework). The Framework sets out the ACT Government’s continued commitment to valuing, strengthening and protecting the multicultural community.
Actions detailed in the Framework, together with input from the new MAC, will play a crucial role in ensuring that the ACT Government responds appropriately to the needs of our multicultural community.
(2) The ACT Multicultural Framework 2015-2020 sets out the ACT Government’s vision for an inclusive and cohesive society which draws on people’s cultural and linguistic diversity to enhance the social, economic, cultural and civic development of the ACT and the wellbeing of all Canberrans.
The Framework also provides specific guidance for a cross directorate response to the needs of newly arrived migrants, refugees and established CALD communities, including their unique needs across Government services.
The Framework was developed as a result of extensive consultation with the ACT multicultural community.
(3) (a)-(b)
Aged care policy is the responsibility of the Federal Department of Health. As part this responsibility they have established a National Ageing and Aged Care Strategy for People from CALD Backgrounds.
In the ACT the Towards Culturally Appropriate and Inclusive Services, A Coordinating Framework for 2014-2018 (the Coordinating Framework) provides
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