About our Partners
Our porject is supported by two key industry partners: the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) and the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC).
Municipal Association of Victoria
The Municipal Association of Victoria is the peak representative and advocacy body for Victoria's 79 councils. The MAV and the Municipal Association Act 1907 anointed the MAV the official voice of local government in Victoria. Today, the MAV is a driving and influential force behind a strong and strategically positioned local government sector. Our role, broadly speaking is to represent and advocate the interests of local government, lobby for a 'fairer deal' for councils, raise the sector's profile, ensure its long-term security and provide policy advice, strategic advice, capacity building programs and insurance services to local government.
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Victorian Multicultural Commission
VMC is an independent statutory authority that was originally established in 1983 under the name of the Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission. Since then, the Commission has provided independent advice to the Victorian Government to inform the development of legislative and policy frameworks as well as the delivery of services to our culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse society. The VMC is the main link between Victoria?s culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities and the Government, conducting more than 50 community consultations each year. The VMC?s objectives and functions, as specified in the Multicultural Victoria Act (MVA) 2004, are to: promote access by Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse communities to services made available by governments and other bodies; encourage all of Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse communities to retain and express their social identity and cultural inheritance; promote co-operation between bodies concerned with multicultural affairs; promote unity among Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse communities; and promote a better understanding within Victoria of Victoria's culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
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