Community News

  • The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health Seeking Chinese Participants for Health Survey

    Chinese women needed for health survey The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health is looking for Chinese women to complete their health survey. This could help make a difference to health guidelines, policies and services that support Chinese communities. Everyone who completes the survey by 5pm (AEST) Monday 5 December 2022 will have a chance…

  • Volunteering Opportunities – AMEP Seeking Volunteer Tutors

    AMEP (Adult Migrant English Program) is seeking volunteer tutors (including Chinese speaking volunteer tutors) to support others in the community to enhance their learning. The AMEP is a Government initiated English program, supporting refugees and migrants living in Australia from various countries (including Chinese speaking origin) to learn English and learn more about Australian culture,…

  • Headway – Free business advice, financial counselling, and mental health and wellbeing support for Victorian small businesses

    Headway – Free business advice, financial counselling, and mental health and wellbeing support for Victorian small businesses. The Victorian Government is supporting small business owners, their employees and trusted advisers with helpful tools and services through Headway – a wellbeing initiative for small businesses. A range of free services are available including business advice, financial…

  • MyAus App for New Migrants to Australia

    Migration Council Australia (MCA) has developed MyaAus App – a free multilingual app (含中文) that contains information for settling in Australia. The MyAus App can be downloaded from Apple Store or Google Play on your mobile phone. More info: https://www.myausapp.com/

  • When to Take a RAT Test (Rapid Antigen Test)

    应在何时使用快速抗原检测(RAT): 如何进行快速抗原检测 – Instructional Rapid Antigen Test (Chinese Simplified) 如何理解快速抗原检测结果 – Rapid antigen test – understanding your result (Chinese Simplified)

  • Inaugural Speech by Jason Li MP in NSW Parliament on 23 March 2022

    Inaugural Speech by Jason Li MP in NSW Parliament on 23 March 2022 is available on NSW Hansard:  https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Hansard/Pages/HansardResult.aspx#/docid/HANSARD-1323879322-123287/link/2263

  • Earth Hour 2022: 8.30pm Saturday 26 March

    Earth Hour 2022: 8.30pm Saturday 26 March. The Earth Hour is “calling on Australians everywhere to sign up to switch off and join a worldwide community of millions supporting stronger action on climate change.” More info: https://www.earthhour.org.au/

  • Congratulations to Gabrielle Wang (王兴霜) for Being Named Australian Children’s Laureate 2022-23

    Congratulations to fourth-generation Chinese Australian Gabrielle Wang (王兴霜) for recently being named Australian Children’s Laureate for 2022-23 by the the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation. Gabrielle Wang, children’s book author and illustrator, will be traveling around Australia over the next two years as Laureate, giving classes, talks and generally inspiring children to read more stories and…

  • Survey of views in relation to COVID-19 vaccination for 5-11 year old children (by the Victorian Department of Health)

    *** Survey of views in relation to COVID-19 vaccination for 5-11 year old children (by the Victorian Department of Health) Survey link (调查链接): https://dhhschange.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d4ncDp5KSx8GnlA(可选择中文) By completing the survey, you will help the Victorian government to:  understand the different opinions on vaccination for 5-11 year old children  plan services to help parents and guardians make decisions…

  • New Police Assistance Line (131 444) for Reporting Non-urgent Incidents

    Contact the new Police Assistance Line (131 444)拨打新的警务援助热线（131 444） Report non-urgent incidents, such as报告非紧急事件，例如 stolen property 财物被盗 lost property 财物遗失 damaged property 财物损坏 general questions 普通咨询 For support in English, call 131 444如以英语求助，请拨打131 444 For support in your language, call TIS National on 131 450 and ask for the Victorian Police Assistance Line or visit…

  • Free Telehealth Trial for Dementia (失智症) Patients and Caregivers

    The University of Melbourne is recruiting participants for a free telehealth trial for dementia (失智症) patients and caregivers. This is for an international study called HOMESIDE, which is exploring the effects of music and reading interventions for people living with dementia and their family caregivers. In this study, only the carer must speak English (the person…