Multicultural Seminar in Sydney (15-20 Oct)

CLAIR Sydney’s annual Multicultural Seminar was held this year on 15-20 October.

Every year, we organise an official multicultural seminar for Japanese local government staff members and regional international exchange association employees.

This year, eight delegates travelled from Japan, where they work in a variety of organisations, education institutions and local government authorities, to come to Sydney and learn about Australia’s best practices and policies in regard to multiculturalism and the provision of services to a culturally and linguistically diverse population. We were also honoured to have the Executive Director of CLAIR’s Tokyo Headquarters, Mr Kenji Saegusa, in attendance.

The delegation visited and exchanged information and ideas with ten organisations, including the Cumberland Council and Multicultural NSW to hear about the wonderfully multicultural population in their respective local areas, and their various services, infrastructure, policies and practices. CLAIR Sydney would like to extend our thanks to all participating organisations who kindly hosted us.

We expect that the Multicultural Seminar gave the delegates plenty to consider for their own work in policy planning and service provision in Japan.

The delegation visited the following organisations:

– Cumberland Council

– Sydney Local Health District

– NSW State Emergency Service – Bankstown Unit

– University of New South Wales

– Community Migrant Resource Centre (NPO)

– Multicultural NSW

– NSW Department of Education

– Chatswood Intensive English Centre

– Advance Diversity Services (NPO)

– Ethnic Community Services Co-operative (NPO)

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