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Multicultural Education

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  Help get the kids off Nauru

  October 24, 2018

  ​Federation members are encouraged to participate in community campaign activities in the next week to advance an end to the indefinite mandatory detention of asylum seekers (and in particular children).

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  Cards of kindness

  August 16, 2018

  Federation was proud to deliver $1400 worth of Opal and gift cards to the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown on behalf of members across NSW who collected them following a request from the union.

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  Language learning fundamental to social cohesion, Annual Conference hears

  July 13, 2018

  Improvements need to be made to language education provision in NSW public schools, Federation’s Multicultural Officer/Organiser Amber Flohm said at Annual Conference earlier this week.

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  Wear red on 20 June to support Refugee Week action

  June 07, 2018

  Refugee Week is Australia’s peak annual activity to raise awareness about issues affecting refugees and to celebrate positive contributions made by refugees to Australian society.

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  International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – Harmony Day

  March 21, 2018

  The 21st March takes its rise from the Sharpeville massacre that took place during Apartheid South Africa which occurred on this date in 1960. This saw a military response to a civil rights movement and since that date has been acknowledged as the day that freedom from racial discrimination is maintained as a human right.

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  Cultural diversity in schools, anti-racism and EAL/D pedagogy explored during CPL multicultural conference

  July 21, 2017

  Confronting ethnic stereotypes and the challenges of teaching in a multicultural society were key concerns put to educators at a Centre for Professional Learning conference in Sydney today.