Cultural diversity

The City is home to a richly diverse community with 43% of City residents born overseas (ABS, 2016) and 157 different languages spoken (ABS, 2016). 

We are proud of this diversity and seek to celebrate our cultural vibrancy through an array of multicultural events and community development projects.

Multicultural Reference Cards

The City’s new Multicultural Reference Cards provide contact details for local community services, City programs and services as well as emergency numbers in English and 6 other languages:

• English
• simplified Chinese
• Punjabi
• Farsi
• Indonesian
• Arabic
• Tagalog

ReachDeck

The City’s new website translation service, called ReachDeck, is a free tool providing written translation in 78 different languages and spoken translation in 35 languages.  Click on the orange ReachDeck launchpad icon that appears on the bottom right of your screen to launch the support toolbar.