Teaching Democracy Workshop

The Herbert & Valmae Freilich Foundation with the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia present:

Teaching Democracy- political extremism, global lessons for local educators
A workshop for teachers working in Australian schools

March 19-20
Sir Roland Wilson Building
Australian National University
Canberra

For more information click here: http://freilich.anu.edu.au/events/teaching-democracy

The Advocate

Pino Migliorino, Chair of FECCA and passionate advocate of multiculturalism, describes his frustrations with the Australian media landscape.

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FECCA's Access and Equity Consumer Survey 2011 – 2012

Each year FECCA runs Access and Equity Community Consultations across Australia. This survey is part of the consultation process. It is designed specifically to hear the stories and thoughts of CALD consumers accessing core government services.

You can access the survey through via link: www.surveymonkey.com/s/MGJLZQ8

Director - FECCA

FECCA is seeking a skilled, experienced and highly motivated director to manage FECCA's national office.

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MP under fire: telling migrants to use deodorant 'ridiculous'

The head of Australia's peak migrant body has hit back at Brisbane MP Teresa Gambaro's comments that migrants should be taught to use deodorant and to queue, saying the statement had no place in modern Australia.

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Controversial Hammered Music Festival for neo-Nazis to be held in Brisbane in 2012

A CONTROVERSIAL neo-Nazi music festival will be held in Brisbane this year, drawing white supremacists from around the world.

Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia chairman Pino Migliorino said the festival was the work of a "lunatic fringe" and he was concerned about the underlying message of the festival.

"It's an appalling set of beliefs that they have," he said.

"The reality is a great majority of Australians are not racist and are comfortable with cultural and linguistic diversity."

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