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2010 - African Australians: human rights and social inclusion issues project

A compendium detailing the outcomes of the community and stakeholder consultations and interviews and public submissions

12 Appendices

12.1 Appendix A: Steering Committee and Community Reference Group members

(a) Steering Committee members

(b) Community Reference Group members

(i) Australian Capital Territory

• Dr Kidane Belay
• Mr (David) Mukii Gachugu
• Mr Eskender Abebe
• Mr Gus Mpofu
• Dr Melissa Parsons
• Dr Joyce Adu
• Mr Charles M Njora
• Dr Berhanu Woldekidan
• Dr Ashenafi Tessema
• Mr Kabu Okai-davies
• Ms Alice Omaji
• Mr Ahmed Nur
• Ms Azeza Taher
• Mr Taklow

(ii) New South Wales

• Mr John Osifo
• Mr Makka Krubally
• Ms Grace Land
• Ms Juliana Nkrumah
• Mr Ajang Biar
• Mr Yirgu Beyene-Chassa
• Mr Clement Meru
• Ms Imme Tom
• Mr Girma Andarge
• Ms Abeba Belay
• Mr Mesfin Tessema
• Mr Geoffrey Mangwi Mugi
• Mr Adje Da Silveira
• Mr Varmah Dulleh
• Mr Ahmed Mohammed
• Ms Mereline Murimwa-Rarami

(iii) Queensland

• Mr Johnson Oyelodi
• Ms Gloria Sowah
• Mr Tewdros Fekadu
• Mr Bobby Whitfield
• Mr Daniel Zingifuaboro
• Mr Tamba Thomas
• Mr Berhani Mehari
• Ms Esther Kabamba
• Ms Odette Tewfik
• Ms Ifrah Mohamed
• Ms Leila Abukar
• Ms Abebe Meles

(iv) South Australia and Northern Territory

• Mr Ibrahim Jabateh
• Mr Mohammed Teia
• Mr Wilson Ndung'u
• Mr Leonidas Nitereka
• Mr Abdi Osman Abdalle
• Ms Odette Mbuzukongira
• Ms Frederica Gaskell
• Mr McRoberts Agaa
• Dr Joseph Masika
• Mr Juma Abuyi
• Mr Sidique Bah
• Mr Reagan Bledee
• Ms Brigitta Buntor
• Mr Emmanuel Chubaka
• Mr Mutanda Dan
• Mr Issac Alung Daniel
• Ms Zeleka Habtegioris
• Ms Lidia Inarukundo
• Mr Mabok Beng Mabok
• Ms Khadija Mansour
• Ms Assina Ntawumenya
• Ms Lena Tear
• Ms Sarah Tiong
• Ms Carla Tongun

(v) Tasmania

• Mr Mangok Mangok
• Ms Aminata Saccoh
• Ms Besta Peters
• Mr John Kamara
• Mr Melvin Metzeger
• Ms Amira Reindorf
• Ms Merhawit Tumzghi
• Mr Christopher Kamara
• Ms Louise Waquoi
• Mr Gemechu Chiro Datu
• Ms Faina Iligoga
• Mr Donatien Ntikahavuye
• Mr Alain Mpoyi
• Mr Fawaz Ateem
• Ms Fatmata Fofanah
• Ms Hirut Seboka
• Mr Kiros Hiruy
• Ms Deborah van Velzen

(vi) Victoria

• Ms Shukri Abdi
• Ms Theresa Sengaaga Ssali
• Mr Kassahun Seboqa Negewo
• Ms Fatma Moussa
• Mr Binyam Woldmichael
• Ms Melika Yassin Sheik-Eldin
• Mr Luel Fesseha
• Mr Solomon Alemu
• Mr William Abur
• Ms Mmaskepe Sejoe
• Mr Solomon Kebede
• Ms Negiat Taher
• Ms Zeinab Mohamud
• Ms Mmapelo Malatji
• Mr Berhan Ahmed
• Ms Idil Jama
• Ms Maryam Osman
• Mr Ahmed Yusuf
• Mr Abdulkadir Muse
• Ms Meseret Abebe
• Mr Clement Anguei Deng
• Mr Yousif Mohamed
• Ms Nyaddl Nyoun
• Mr Ahmed Ahmed
• Ms Ajak Nyariel

(vii) Western Australia

• Mr Abdulla Adam
• Mr Eli Manyol
• Ms Ruqiya Ali
• Ms Maria Osman
• Mr Gemechu Dembali
• Dr Casta Tungaraza
• Ms Olivia Mensah-Kamara
• Ms Ruth Sims

12.2 Appendix B: Community Focus Groups

(a) Australian Capital Territory

(b) New South Wales

• African Community Association
• Sudanese Community Association
• Congolese Community
• Sierra Leone Community

• Lismore City Council
• Sanctuary Northern Rivers
• Northern Rivers Migrant Service
• Lismore Refugee Network
• Legal Aid
• Anglican Church Diocese

(c) Northern Territory

• Relationship Australia
• Centrelink
• Legal Aid
• MCNT
• Office of Multicultural Affairs
• Anglicare

(d) Queensland

(e) South Australia

• Sudanese Community Association of Australia
• Acholi Community Association
• Somali Community Development organisation of SA
• Sierra Leone Community in SA
• Nurundian community
• Eritrean Community
• ACCSA/Liberian Community of SA
• Tanzanian Community Chairperson ACCSA
• Congolese Community
• Burundi community
• Sudanese community (GP)
• General Secretary of the Sudanese community
• African Communities Council
• Congolese community
• Sudanese community

• United Liberian Women's Association

• United Congolese Women

• Congolese community
• Liberian Youth
• Sudanese Association of Australia (SA Branch)
• Sudanese Tertiary Student Association South
• Sudanese Equatorian Youth Association (SSEYASA)

(f) Tasmania

• Hobart City Council Community support for refugees
• Migrant Resource Centre
• Uni of Tas (UTas)
• Department of Health and Human Service
• Relationships Australia
• Centacare
• Hobart City Council
• Good Neighbourhood Council of Tas

• Sudanese
• Ethiopian (Muslim and Christian)
• DRC
• Sierra Leone

(g) Victoria

• City of Yarra
• City of Monash
• LaTrobe City Council
• Melbourne University
• Moonee Valley Council
• City of Greater Geelong
• Maribyrnong City Council
• City of Whitehorse
• City of Casey
• DIAC
• Mount Alexander Shire Council
• Moreland City Council

• Settlement Planning Committee
• Settlement Workers
• Community Liaison Officer for African Communities

• East African relief Association
• Oromo community
• GV African Communities Association
• Gippsland Ethnic Communities Council
• Newlands Community Coburg
• Liberian Community Association
• LaTrobe Refugee Resource Centre
• Oromo Australia Community Association
• Sierra Leone Community Association
• MRC North West
• Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services
• EMC - Brotherhood of St Lawrence
• Department of Justice - Justice for Refugees Program
• Chollo Community

• Eritrean

• Mixed Gender

• African Community Settlement workers,
• community development workers
• Eastern and Central African communities

• Settlement Workers
• Family services workers
• Immigration and settlement consultants
• Complex case workers

• Mixed genders
• living in the municipality
• Tanzania
• Kenya
• Sudan
• Congo
• Liberia
• Somalia

• Sudan
• Kenya
• Burundi

• Alliance of African Australian Youth
• EACACOV
• Local government - City of Yarra
• Neighbourhood Justice Centre

• New Hope MRC
• Metropolitan Fire Brigade
• Department of Justice - Justice for Refuges Project
• Australian Human Rights Commission

(h) Western Australia

• Sudanese
• Rwanda
• Nigerian
• Congolese

• Department of Health
• EOC
• WA Police
• DET
• Commerce
• Department for Communities
• Dept Housing and Works
• Dept Child Protection

12.3 Appendix C: Stakeholders consulted

(a) National

(i) African Community Stakeholders

(ii) Generalist Stakeholders

(b) ACT

(i) African Community Stakeholders

(ii) Generalist Stakeholders

(c) New South Wales

(i) African Community Stakeholders

(ii) Generalist Stakeholders

(d) Northern Territory

(i) African Community Stakeholders

(ii) Generalist Stakeholders

(e) Queensland

(i) African Community Stakeholders

(ii) Generalist Stakeholders

(f) South Australia

(i) African Community Stakeholders

(ii) Generalist Stakeholders

(g) Tasmania

(i) African Community Stakeholders

(ii) Generalist Stakeholders

(h) Victoria

(i) African Community Stakeholders

(ii) Generalist Stakeholders

(i) Western Australia

(i) African Community Stakeholders

(ii) Generalist Stakeholders

12.4 Appendix D: List of public submissions received

1. Negewo Kassahun
2. Confidential
3. Badasse Nagassa
4. Riak Agok
5. Anglicare Tasmania
6. Confidential
7. Binyam Bethelhem
8. Western Sydney Tenants' Service Paramatta
9. Name withheld
10. Redmond Mark
11. Lismore Neighbourhood Centre for Northern Rivers Refugee Interagency
12. Armidale Sanctuary Humanitarian Settlement
13. Wyndham Humanitarian Network
14. Crawford Georgina
15. Kuel David
16. Hamilton James Street Doctors
17. Consumer Affairs Victoria
18. Hanger David
19. Federation of Ethnic Community Councils
20. Appadier Ranijäng
21. Young African Speakout event
22. Kongor Students Association of Australia
23. Atem Atem
24. Fozdar Farida
25. Weldemariam Toshome
26. Migrant Resource Centre North West Region
27. Name withheld
28. Lucas David
29. Confidential
30. Clarke Anne
31. Pascoe John
32. Name withheld
33. African Seniors Club Australia & Community and Business Audit Society
34. Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission
35. Granville Multicultural Community Centre
36. Otti Emmanuel
37. Confidential
38. Twefik Odette
39. Australian Catholic University
40. Humed Abdurahim
41. Juma Andrew
42. Confidential
43. Confidential
44. Anonymous
45. Richard Moggaoriwani
46. Marufu Bellington
47. Confidential
48. Name withheld
49. Name withheld
50. Confidential
51. Migrant Education at Tasmanian Polytechnic
52. Mercy Family Services
53. Aguil
54. Footscray Community Legal Centre
55. Office of Multicultural Interests
56. Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
57. The House of Welcome
58. Anglicare Sydney
59. Association of Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors
60. Office of the Child Safety Commissioner
61. Adu Ammish
62. Mwaiteleke Pendo
63. Eritrean Community in Australia
64. Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning Program
65. Nyuon Nyadol
66. NSW Young Lawyers Human Rights Committee
67. Jesuit Social Services
68. Lees Paul
69. Multicultural Development Association
70. Name withheld
71. Name withheld
72. Izon Meredith
73. Queensland Program of Assistance for Survivors of Torture & Trauma
74. All African Forum
75. Adam Abdulla
76. Survivors of Torture and Trauma Assistance and Rehabilitation Service
77. St Vincent de Paul Society Assisting Refugee Kids & Catholic Education Office
78. Goulburn Valley African Communities Association
79. Legal Aid New South Wales
80. Migrant Resource Centre of South Australia
81. Melbourne Catholic Migrant & Refugee Office
82. Department of Immigration and Citizenship
83. La Trobe Refugee Research Centre
84. Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture
85. Community Relations Commission for a multicultural NSW
86. South Eastern Region Migrant Resource Centre
87. Zaiter Monica
88. Public Interests Advocacy Centre & Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors
89. Name withheld
90. Mohamed
91. Abebe Meseret
92. Chege Kenneth
93. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
94. Sangbong Divine
95. Eastern and Central Africa Communities of Victoria
96. Horn of Africa Relief and Development Agency
97. Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies
98. Federation of African Communities Council 99 – 106 Confidential

12.5 Appendix E: Abbreviations and acronyms

ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics

ACT Australian Capital Territory

AMAC Australian Multicultural Advisory Council

AMEP Adult Migrant English Program

AMES Adult Migrant Education Services

ATO Australian Taxation Office

AUSCO Australian Cultural Organisation

CALD Culturally and Linguistically Diverse

CCS Complex Case Support

CPHR Community Partnerships for Human Rights (Program)

DEEWR Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

DFEEST Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology (SA)

DIAC Department of Immigration and Citizenship

DoCS Department of Community Services (NSW)

DPCD Department of Planning and Community Development (Vic)

ELS English Language School

ESP Employment Service Providers

ESL English as a Second Language

FaHCSIA Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

FGM Female Genital Mutilation

FECCA Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia

FRSHE Family Relationships Services for Humanitarian Entrants

GP General Practitioner

HECS Higher Education Contribution Scheme

IEC Intensive English Centre

IHSS Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy

ILO International Labour Organisation

IOM International Organisation for Migration

LCPs Local Community Partnerships

LGA Local Government Area

LLNP Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program

MCIMA Ministerial Council on Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

MEAs Multicultural Education Aides

MLO Multicultural Liaison Officer

MRC Migrant Resource Centre

NAATI National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters

NAP National Action Plan

NAYSS Newly Arrived Youth Support Service

NBESP Nation Building and Economic Stimulus Plan

NESB Non-English Speaking Background

NGO Non-Government Organisation

NSW New South Wales

NT Northern Territory

NYARS National Youth Affairs Research Scheme

PBS Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

QLD Queensland

RDA Racial Discrimination Act 1975

SA South Australia

SGP Settlement Grant Program

SHP Special Humanitarian Program

SPP Special Preparatory Program

SPRC Social Policy Research Centre

SWL Structured Workplace Learning

TAFE Technical and Further Education

Tas. Tasmania

TIS Telephone Interpreter Service

UNCRPD United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

VET Vocational Education and Training

Vic. Victoria

VU Victoria University

WA Western Australia

12.6 Appendix F: Acknowledgements from MyriaD Consultants

A task of this magnitude and complexity can only be successfully accomplished by the invaluable contributions of people with a wide array of expertise and skills.

Firstly, we would like to thank the members of the national Community Reference Group and the Steering Committee who provided considerable input into the design of an appropriate and respectful project methodology, particularly in relation to appropriate community action research strategies.

Our research team comprised of a number of talented multilingual research and consultation experts, including:

• Ahmed Ahmed
• Amina Maleken
• Frederica Gaskell
• Khadija Mansour
• Nyadol Nyuon
• Odette Tewfik

Each of these researchers provided the depth and insight that is so often missing from the way in which community consultations are understood and documented in research projects such as these.

We would like to recognise the insight, passion and the dedication of the numerous community representatives and community leaders who attended the community consultations conducted across the nation, and extend our deepest gratitude to the individuals and families who opened their homes and hearts to the project in an effort to ensure that others benefited from their courage to share their stories of both resilience and struggle.

We were greatly encouraged by the positive responses of both public stakeholder consultation attendees and those who provided written submissions, all of whom welcomed the opportunity to participate and have input into this important project.

MyriaD Consultants would also like to thank the following peak African Australian organisations for assisting with the consultations and providing important feedback throughout the research process:

• African Australian Association of Qld
• Africa-Australian Friendship Association (NT)
• African Communities Council (NSW)
• African Communities Council of South Australia
• African Community Association (WA)
• African Think Tank (Vic)
• African Women's Advocacy Training Program (NSW)
• Australian Centre for African Australian Women's Issues (Vic)
• East and Central African Communities of Victoria (Vic)
• Federation of African Communities Council Inc
• Horn of Africa Communities Network Inc

Many individuals within these organisations worked closely with the research team as community partners and ensured that the appropriate rigour, respect and protocol was followed when engaging with diverse African Australian communities.

Our thanks also go to the many other government and non government organisations, including Migrant Resource Centres and other Settlement Support Services, who often co-hosted the consultative forums that were held in many locations across every State and Territory. Thank you also to AMES (Vic) for their active support and participation, including conducting various focus group discussions with the Community Aides. This work could not have been accomplished without their significant time and effort.

The research team is also particularly appreciative of the support, guidance and professionalism of the Race and Cultural Diversity Unit at the Australian Human Rights Commission, particularly the Project Manager, Claire Nield. Thank you for your vision and courage in pursing the project and ensuring its outcomes.

Finally thanks should also go the number of experts and academics commissioned to write background papers, all of which provided invaluable insights and critical contextual information.

Yours in deep appreciation,

MyriaD Consultants