What are politicians saying at this Federal election in relation to seniors from multicultural backgrounds? As part of The Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria’s (ECCV) policy advocacy on behalf of seniors from non-English speaking backgrounds, ECCV wrote letters to the Greens, Australian Labor Party, and Liberal Party of Australia asking each party five questions in...

The Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV) conducted consultations on strategies to increase culturally diverse employment in local councils across Victoria. The consultations uncovered an intergenerational fissure over the benefits of diversity for Human Resources (HR) managers. A group of HR managers from a range of local government councils including inner urban and outer growth...

ECCV recognises that culturally and linguistically diverse communities (CALD) are often adversely affected by exploitative labour hire practices based on our consultations with CALD communities, service providers and regional Victorian ECCs. While labour hire and insecure work affects many communities, the ethno-specific dimension of exploitation and insecure work remains consistent in certain sectors such as...

This report makes recommendations based on a detailed and targeted process of community consultation with specific ethnic communities as well as through the examination and analysis of case studies from Home at Last clients and Home at Last service data.

Estimates show that 6.5 million Australians with family or friends overseas rely on money transfer services. From 2013 to 2015 the major Australian banks closed their remittance accounts with a devastating effect on Victorian communities with overseas families dependent on remittances. That decision continues to threaten the livelihood of small ethnic-based Money Transfer Operators (MTO)...