OUR ROLE

FECCA is the peak, national body representing Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. FECCA's role is to advocate, lobby and promote issues on behalf of its constituency to government, business and the broader community.

Established in 1979, FECCA is a non-political community-based organisation. Apart from its national office, it is supported by the work of a voluntary Executive Council.

FECCA strives to ensure that the needs and aspirations of Australians from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds are given proper recognition in public policy.

We work to promote fairness and responsiveness to our constituency in the delivery and design of Government policies and programs. We promote multiculturalism as a core value that defines what it means to be Australian in the 21st century.

Our work is not limited to this. FECCA also strives to protect the fundamental rights of all Australians, regardless of cultural, spiritual, gender, linguistic, racial, social, political or other affiliations or connections.

In undertaking this work, FECCA monitors a wide range of issues including:

• Government and Opposition policy positions
• Access and equity issues
• The media
• cultural institutions;
• community harmony;
• social welfare and justice;
• health services;
• immigration, refugee issues and citizenship;
• racism, and
• youth and women’s issues.

FECCA’s Executive and national office staff also promote information and assistance through a variety of media work in a strategic way with other peak organisations and government agencies, to represent the views of its constituency.

Our goal is to enrich and enhance Australian society through the fullest participation of all members of the community. FECCA’s core business and organisational principles are based on the concept of social justice. They involve:

• promoting full access and equity;
• advocating community harmony and the celebration of diversity;
• championing human rights, and
• arguing that multiculturalism is central to the social, economic and cultural health of Australia in the 21st century.