Councils’ role in welcoming migrants and refugees in spotlight

The role of
local councils in migrant settlement and community cohesion will be examined in
a Zoom conference meeting in August.

Melbourne’s
Eastern Region Communities’ Council on Ethnic Issues (CCOEI) is convening the
Migrant Settlement Committee (MSC) Zoom meeting on Friday 6 August.

The keynote speaker will be the chief executive of Welcoming Cities, Aleem Ali, along with Deborah Wu from the Victorian Local Governance Association.

Individuals
or local governments who are not regular MSC participants but would like to
join this meeting should email the MSC Convenor at chair.msc@gmail.com with “Migrant
Settlement Committee” in the title.

Meeting
papers and a Zoom link will be sent to participants closer to the time.