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Her Story: Celebrating immigrant and refugee women's contributions

On behalf of the Immigration Museum and all hosting women’s organisations, the Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Coalition (VIRWC) invites you to the launch of ‘Her Story’ on Friday, 4th March 2011, a project that features over a hundred of migrant and refugee women’s stories. Refugee women are welcome to submit their stories.

‘Her Story’ Launch
Date: 4th March 2011 (Friday)
Time: 10:30a.m. – 1:00p.m.
Venue: Immigration Museum of Victoria,
400 Flinders Street, Melbourne

All women are welcome to the launch. Five women will be reading their stories. Mrs de Kretser, Chief Patron of the VIRWC and Ms Andrea Coote MLC, Parliamentary Secretary for Family and Community Services will be launching the project.

RSVP to ‘Her Story’ by calling or emailing the VIRWC office by 3rd March 2011 (Thursday).
For more information about ‘Her Story’, please contact the VIRWC office at 9654 1243 or email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Visit the VIRWC website for more information.

 Acknowledgements

Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing acknowledges and pays respect to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, on whose land this website was developed. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, their ancestors and elders, both past and present and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We hope our work contributes to the wider project of respect and recognition between cultures in Australia. Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing receives project funding from the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care to administer the Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care (PICAC) program in Victoria.

 

Did you know?

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37%
37% of people aged 65 years and over in Australia were born overseas.
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There are over 400 separately identified languages spoken in Australian homes.
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Australians follow more than 120 religious and spiritual beliefs.
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28% & 20%
28% percent of people using home care and 20% percent of people using permanent residential care are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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36%
36% of care attendants in residential aged care are identified as being from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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Australia’s Indigenous peoples are two distinct cultural groups made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. But there is great diversity within these two broadly described groups exemplified by the over 250 different language groups spread across the nation.