of its activities and equip students, teachers and parents for diversity, and foster
greater inter-cultural understanding and a sense of belonging
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$104,601 provided under Regional Employment Trials grants to Townsville’s
Language Boost for New Migrants project in 2019-20 to improve the functioning
of the Townsville skills and labour market by significantly addressing the bilingual
and bicultural barriers affecting employment
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$3,300,000 in 2019-20 under the Department’s Respectful Interfaith School
Education program to fund the Anti-Defamation Commission to support
expansion of their Click Against Hate program
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$33,000 in 2020-21 under the Early Learning and Schools Support program to
support the Australian Education Working Group within the International
Holocaust Remembrance Alliance to promote Holocaust education during
Holocaust Memorial Week (and to meet Australia's international obligation as an
IHRA member), and
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Also in 2020-21, $330,000 funding under the same program to the Islamic
Museum of Australia to support the expansion of education programs and
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4.5.7 Attorney-General’s Department
The Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) is a member of the National Security and
Criminal Justice Group. The Safer Communities Fund administered by Home Affairs and
included above at Table l in 4.5.2 Department of Home Affairs sits under the AttorneyGeneral’s Department’s National Security and Criminal Justice program.
AGD’s First Nations Justice and Policy Division is responsible for implementing the
Australian Government’s National Justice Reinvestment Program. While it does not have
a specific focus on racism, there may be some alignment with a policy focus on
institutional racism affecting First Nations peoples.
The Program includes:
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Funding of $69 million from 2022-2026 then $20 million per year from 2026-27
for up to 30 community led initiatives aimed at shifting First Nations’ people’s
interactions away from the justice system
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An additional $10 million over four years for the Justice Reinvestment in Central
Australia Program in Alice Springs and Halls Creek (the Halls Creek commitment
is implemented through the Indigenous Advancement Strategy via an existing
agreement with the National Indigenous Australians Agency), and
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