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Multicultural Affairs
Celebrating Cultural DiversityCassy O'Connor MP | Policies | 1 Mar 2018 |
Nigerian Community in Tasmania, Public InaugurationI warmly congratulate the Nigeria Community in Tasmania Inc. for their incorporation. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 15 Oct 2019 |
Greens Commit to Increase Multicultural Grants and Tackle RacismTasmania’s growing diversity of communities will be strengthened through increased multicultural grants funding and investment in anti-racism programs. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 1 Mar 2018 |
Migrant Resource Centre in LauncestonMigrant Resource Centre in Launceston deliver services and provide support to humanitarian entrants, migrants and culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Northern Tasmania. Andrea Dawkins | Parliamentary Activity | 17 Aug 2017 |
Labor and Liberals Vote Down Parliamentary Prayers ChangeIt was disappointing that both Labor and the Liberals voted down the Greens' attempt to modernise State Parliament's Standing Orders. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 16 Aug 2017 |
Time to Rethink Parliamentary PrayersThe daily Tasmanian Parliamentary recitation of the Lord’s Prayer no longer reflects contemporary Tasmanian society, which is multicultural and multi-faith. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 7 Aug 2017 |
Questions to Be Answered on Multicultural GrantsIn Harmony Week, the Liberals need to explain why a very modest Multicultural Grants funding round has allocated $5000 towards a Christian celebration of Easter in Launceston that does not appear to meet the program guidelines. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 22 Mar 2017 |
Another Weak Response from Premier HodgmanComments made at a rally in support of mutual respect and tolerance by Her Excellency, the Governor, Kate Warner, should have been strongly backed by the Premier. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 24 Oct 2016 |
Parliament No Place for Hatred and BigotryNo Parliamentarian or community leader should ever stand by and allow minority or community groups to be singled out and vilified. Andrea Dawkins | Parliamentary Activity | 15 Sep 2016 |
Hodgman Abandons LGBTI Tasmanians and other Groups to Risk of Hate SpeechThe Premier demonstrated his weakness and the utter hypocrisy of his Party today. On the one hand he was speaking against sexist language at the launch of a report into the impact of family violence on children, while on the other, tabling... Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 20 Sep 2016 |
Support for Asylum Seekers During World Suicide Awareness WeekIt is important we find the words and the ways as a community to talk about suicide and the devastating toll it has on people's lives. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 14 Sep 2016 |
Appeal to Premier for Support of Hazara PeopleThe Hazara people are among the most persecuted of minorities. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 23 Aug 2016 |
Changes to Anti-Discrimination Act DivisiveThe current exemptions under section 55 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 apply to academic, artistic, scientific or research purposes or any purpose in the public interest. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 18 Aug 2016 |
International Migration Strategy Needed to Growth Rural and Regional TasNotes the recently released report from the Regional Australia Institute (RAI) indicating regional Australia is missing out on potential population growth by failing to attract international migrants. Andrea Dawkins | Parliamentary Activity | 17 Aug 2016 |
Australia's Asylum Seeker ShameAustralia has been detaining asylum seekers offshore on Nauru and Manus Island under the direction of the Federal Liberal Government. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 17 Aug 2016 |
Parliament Still Waiting for Anti Racist LawsThe violent bashing of a Hobart taxi driver should be condemned by political and community leaders in the strongest terms. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 21 Jun 2016 |
Multicultural Friends of ParliamentThe specific purpose of the Multicultural Friends of Parliament was to listen to the concerns and to the views of those many people and communities who make Tasmania a dynamic and multicultural community where peoples from over 170... Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 25 May 2016 |
Non-Denominational Interfaith PrayerIn the ACT the prayer has been replaced with a silent reflection and in the US Congress there is a rotation between prayers of different faiths. Andrea Dawkins | Parliamentary Activity | 3 May 2016 |
Australia's Immigration Policy BrutalA young Somali refugee has set herself alight on Nauru, the second refugee to self-immolate in the past week. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 3 May 2016 |
Political and Social Conflict Over Environment a Focus for StompinThe Panorama journey started in the car on the way to Triabunna with a podcast. Atmospheric electronica enmeshed with mechanical sounds set the scene to the inspiration behind Panorama. Andrea Dawkins | Parliamentary Activity | 26 Apr 2016 |
Students teach anti-racism attitudesThe presentation by the Students Against Racism group is a fantastic initiative that has been running since 2008 where students visit high schools and talk to people about their life. Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 23 Sep 2015 |
Love Makes a WayThe callous approach taken by the Liberal Party - and backed by the Labor Party - is much to the abhorrence of humanists Australia-wide. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 26 Aug 2015 |