Promoting Harmony
- Premier’s Multifaith Leaders Forums for Victoria’s faith leaders to develope opportunities for interfaith activities and multifaith dialogue. Multifaith Multicultural Youth Forums for young Victorians to share their views about key issues affecting young people and create project ideas to address these.
- Multifaith Advisory Group to ensure ongoing dialogue between the Government and Victoria’s faith leaders.
- Multifaith Multicultural Youth Network (MMYN) to provide advice to the Victorian Government on multifaith, multicultural youth issues and initiatives for young Victorians.
- A $400,000 Multifaith/Interfaith grants program to support interfaith networks and multifaith projects.
- Women creating Harmony Grants program to fund women-led community based projects that build respect and understanding for cultural and religious diversity.
Victoria has a multifaceted approach to multicultural and multifaith diversity, based on encouraging greater understanding and dialogue between all cultural and religious groups. Under the Promoting Harmony Initiative, the Victorian Government has allocated a total of $4.1 million from 2006-2010 to strengthen and promote Victoria’s multifaith and multicultural diversity.
This initiative aims to foster formal dialogue between community leaders, young people and the Government and support a wide range of community-led initiaitives such as:
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