Multicultural March

Multicultural March celebrates Australia’s cultural diversity, which is about inclusiveness, respect, and a sense of belonging for everyone. 2025 saw various events to celebrate including international film screenings, mask making and art workshops.

Harmony Week

Harmony Week is a key part of Multicultural March, celebrating Australia’s rich cultural diversity. It promotes inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for all. In 2025 this was held Monday 17 – Sunday 23 March. During Harmony Week, we encourage everyone to wear orange to show their support. For more information visit: Harmony Week

To mark the occasion, our Children’s Librarians have curated a special reading list featuring stories of diversity, kindness, inclusion and acceptance. Click here to read the recommendations.

Social Cohesion Plan

Stay tuned for our survey on the next steps towards developing our Social Cohesion Plan 2026-2031!

Multicultural in the Library

The City of Randwick is incredibly diverse, with migrants from the United Kingdom and New Zealand, as well as communities with Chinese, Greek, Indonesian, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian speaking backgrounds. Randwick City Library provides many services and activities for people whose first language is other than English.

• Multicultural Activities - Randwick City Library offers a wide range of events and activities designed with our multicultural community in mind. Join multilingual events for children, technical tutoring classes, English conversation classes or a book club.
• Community Language Collections - Randwick City Library holds collections of resources in a number of languages. These resources include books, magazines, ebooks and audio-visual material in a variety of community languages.
• Resources for Learning English - Randwick City Library has a great selection of resources, both physical and online, for those looking to improve their English skills (including listening, reading, vocabulary, grammar and more) or complete the IELTS test.
• English Conversation Classes - Randwick City Library provides English Conversation classes for people wishing to improve their English language skills. Migrants from all non-English speaking backgrounds are welcome to attend classes. This is a great way to meet new people and help you feel part of the community.

For more information on multicultural resources and events in the Library, please visit our multicultural page.

Randwick City Council is a Refugee Welcome Zone

Randwick City Council welcomes and supports refugees and asylum seekers in our city. In 2006, Randwick Council adopted the Refugee Council of Australia's 'Refugee Welcome Zone' initiative by signing a declaration that communicates:

• 'A commitment in spirit to welcoming refugees into our community',
• 'Upholding the human rights of refugees',
• 'Demonstrating compassion for refugees' and
• 'Enhancing cultural and religious diversity in our community.'

More information is available from the Refugee Council of Australia website

Citizenship Ceremonies

Randwick City Council is holding two in-person citizenship ceremonies each month at the Prince Henry Centre in Little Bay. Ceremonies are by invitation only. Use this link for more information.

Inner East Sydney Migrant Interagency (IESMI)

Randwick City Council convenes the Inner East Sydney Migrant Interagency, a network of 104 members from 73 agencies. The interagency works with diverse communities and focuses on workforce development, identifying referral pathways, a range of collaborative projects and activities that celebrate our diverse community.

Helping new arrivals

Assisting newly arrived migrants, Council maintains close links with migrant and multicultural services. For more information, contact:

Sydney Multicultural Community Services: programs in Aged Care, Settlement and the broader community through Australian Government funded initiatives such as Multicultural Home Care Packages and the 22 member consortium NSW Settlement Partnership (NSP).

Refugee Advice Casework Services (RACS): RACS gives a stronger voice to people seeking asylum. Affiliated with and proudly supported by the University of New South Wales and provides legal assistance, outreach, policy & reform and education.

TAFE NSW AMEP: The Adult Migrant English Program is funded by the Australian Government and provides up to 510 hours free English tuition to help migrants and refugees settle successfully in Australia.

Language aides and interpreters

In order to assist the needs of residents who have English as a second language, a number of Council staff have been trained as language aides to provide assistance to people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Council also has access to the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National) (TIS).

Information in other languages on our website

Google Translate is available to use on the Randwick City Council's website. This is to ensure our content is available in as many languages as possible including Chinese, Greek, Indonesian, Russian, and Spanish.

For more information, please click here.