Supporting Multicultural Communities - Infrastructure

Overview

The Australian Government is inviting organisations through a closed non-competitive process to apply to deliver improved infrastructure under Program 2.5 – Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship over three years from 2025–26 to 2027–28. The program will fulfil the 2025 election commitments to support multicultural communities as outlined in Labor’s costed plan to Build Australia’s Future. The grant will fund organisations to deliver new builds, upgrade (renovation) or extensions to infrastructure that provides benefits to multicultural communities. These projects will provide direct support to multicultural community organisations demonstrating the Government’s commitment to support both small and large communities and more diverse organisations with strong local links and who provide innovative support direct to their communities. The objectives of the program are to: support multicultural organisations to deliver new construction or extend/upgrade existing infrastructure to provide access to purpose-built facilities improve amenity and accessibility through investment in community infrastructure. The intended outcomes of the program are to: maintain and enhance access to multicultural infrastructure and amenity encourage and facilitate multicultural communities to connect and commune in a designated safe physical environment improve equity outcomes and social inclusion. Eligible applicants hold relevant project knowledge, and are considered to possess: appropriate cultural awareness to deliver facilities that will meet the needs of multicultural communities an ability to work with multicultural communities to increase the uptake of Australian values, boost civic participation and enable connection through the use of community spaces a willingness to strengthen inclusion and social cohesion.