program examples provided via federal and local government stakeholder interviews are included here. Community engagement with reporting racism State and territory stakeholders shared concerns about the extent to which community members facing racism are empowered to report their experiences with a clear understanding of possible outcomes, and a full understanding of the level of personal and emotional investment the process will require of them. In line with abovementioned findings regarding anti-racism policies and programs being focused on addressing communities facing racism, stakeholders expressed further concerns about the additional barrier to reporting that community members may face in not understanding their rights, or what remediation may look like. There are two implications of this finding. Firstly, there are likely community members experiencing racism, and associated negative impacts, without access to appropriate supports to address their concerns. Secondly, data that seeks to quantify the level of racism within communities is severely limited by the obstacles – real or perceived - community members face in reporting. Without a cohesive community-focused campaign to create awareness of, and comfort with the process of reporting racism, it is unlikely that any data set will accurately approximate the extent of racism in Australia. Individual examples of community engagement programs were provided by federal participants in this research, almost exclusively focused on NSW and Victorian government efforts to counter violent extremism. These included: • • Multicultural NSW COMPACT (Community Partnership Action) Program, a state wide network of over 60 community organisations, peak bodies, community sector organisations, private sector partners, schools, universities, government agencies and police established in 2015 as a response to the 2014 Martin Place siege in Sydney. COMPACT aims to build community resilience to counter violent extremism and has funded partnership programs between 2021 and 2024 with more than 70 partner organisations. The majority of these are CALD organisations given the focus on countering extremism has until recently been on CALD communities in Australia. Partnership project examples not led by CALD specific organisations include the following: – All Together Now’s Agent C project (see footnote below) – PCYC Better Together project in Armidale with NSW Police Force, NSW STARTTS and University of New England Oorala Aboriginal Centre – NRL Harmony Project with National Rugby League (NRL) with Moving Forward Together Association, PCYC, and NSW Police Force – Advocacy and Victim Support led by Islamophobia Register Australia with Charles Sturt University (Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation), and 30