– Communities Inspiring and Teaching Youth (CITY) led by Youth Off The Streets
with Community Minds and DLA Piper45
•
NSW Department of Education Anti-Racism Contact Officer program in schools.46
•
Multicultural NSW funding for All Together Now to run the Agent C project to
develop training with and for young people in order to challenge divisive and
hateful conspiracy theories and fake news.47
•
The CAPE project run by All Together Now to increase community resilience
against the threat of far-right hate and extremism by training and supporting a
state-wide network of frontline workers working with young people.
•
Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety’s two schemes to address
the root causes of violent extremism:
– The Voluntary Case Management Scheme providing support for people who
are at risk of or are radicalising towards violent extremism to connect them
with the services and identify ways to reconnect them with the community,
and
– Support and Engagement Order Scheme which allows a court to order that a
person radicalising towards violent extremism must follow a tailored support
and engagement plan which includes addressing their broader needs as well
including health, housing, employment and connection to community.48
• The Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies funded by the Victorian
Government and hosted by Deakin University with a range of tertiary institution
and community sector partners, including: Reconciliation Australia, All Together
Now, University of Huddersfield in England, Queensland University of Technology,
Department of Premier and Cabinet Victoria, the Victorian Equal Opportunity and
Human Rights Commission, Victorian Multicultural Commission and the South
Australian Office of the Commissioner for Children and Young People.49
Monitoring and evaluation
Non-government stakeholders strongly linked the inability to accurately quantify the
extent of racism with the lack of funding for meaningful community-facing anti-racism
work. This is further complicated by an inability to secure appropriate funding to
monitor and evaluate existing policies and programs at a state and territory level.
Without the data and supporting resources to understand the need for anti-racism work
or conduct impact analysis of existing policies and programs, anti-racism work occurs at
the state and territory level as the result of reactive government action, limited by the
45
NSW Government | Multicultural NSW (2024) The COMPACT Story, accessed 12 February 2024
46
NSW Government | Education (2024) ACROs, accessed 12 February 2024
47
All Together Now (2024) Conspiracy theories and fake new: Agent C, accessed 12 February 2024
48
Victorian Government | Justice and Community Safety (2024) Countering violent extremism, accessed 12 February 2024
49
Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (2024) accessed 12 February 2024
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