Letter Published In The Age 10 January 2007
Phong Nguyen, Chairman, ECCVKicking the latest people off the boatCOUNCILLOR Peter Brown's tirade against Sudanese-Australians (Letters, 9/1) adds to the long tradition of established Australians...
View ArticleLetter Published In The Herald Sun 25 January 2007
Phong Nguyen, Chairman, ECCVThe Howard Government yesterday dumped the word multicultural affairs from its Ministry. You can remove the ‘M’ word but you can’t remove the reality that Victoria has one...
View ArticleLetter Published In The Herald Sun 19 May 2007
Phong Nguyen, Chairman, ECCVLetter Published In The Herald Sun – 25 January 2007While the new citizenship test may help people learn about Australia there should be exemptions for some refugees and...
View ArticleLetter Published In The Herald Sun 28 July 2007
Phong Nguyen, Chairman, ECCVLetter Published In The Herald Sun – 19 May 2007Steve Bracks deserves praise for his great support of migrant communities in Victoria. He was a champion of immigration and...
View ArticleLetter Published In The Herald Sun 24 September 2007
Phong Nguyen, Chairman, ECCVVictoria's 100,000 international students bring $3 billion into the Victorian economy every year but are made to feel like second class citizens when travelling on our...
View ArticleLetter Published In The Age 26 January 2008
Sam Afra, Chairman, ECCVIn commemorating Australia day, Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV) celebrates the cultural and linguistic diversity that our vibrant multicultural society has been...
View ArticleLetter Published In The Herald Sun 7 February 2008
Sam Afra, Chairman, ECCVFocussing on the views of residents of one suburb (Migrant Mix Not Right, 5/2/08) may not reflect the wider Victorian community which generally supports cultural diversity. Some...
View ArticleLetter Published In The Age 30 April 2008
Teach Instead Of Test By Peter Van VlietLet's offer refugees classes about their new home rather than exams.The effect of the former Howard government's higher-level citizenship test has been...
View ArticleLetter Published In The Age 3 July 2008
Sam Afra, Chairperson, Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, CarltonDAVID Imber raised many valid points on the challenges faced by low-income renters (Comment & Debate, 1/7). However, an extra...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor The Age 19 January 2010
Unless we make the decision to welcome everybody to Australia and accept that there are differences but, as long as people settle here and obey the law and accept that diverse views, diverse ways of...
View ArticleLetter to the editor The Age 10 January 2010
Parents, educators and community leaders are right to be outraged when a popular social networking site like Facebook is used for racist and derogatory comments targeting various migrant groups and...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor The Age 18 March 2010
It’s always disturbing to hear of Victorians feeling marginalised, persecuted, and exploited for things as trivial as physical attributes, choice of attire, pattern of speech, lifestyle preference or...
View Article5 April 2010 Letter to the editor Herald Sun diversity in the MFB
Everyone has their own ideas on how to nurture diversity and why it is important. The current fracas over the pre-employment training initiative of the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board...
View Article8 February 2011—The gift Australia’s multicultural triumph affords us all
It’s a policy that has sparked no end of controversy and ill-informed conjecture since its introduction. Yet few among even its harshest critics dispute its benefits and most would like to see them...
View ArticleLetter to the HERALD SUN - 6 May 2011
The release of a new study* by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) should give an impetus to a change of thinking about how we define the “successful” resettlement of Humanitarian...
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