For any woman who has given birth, it would come as no surprise that ‘giving birth’ is also aptly referred to as ‘being in labour’. It’s quite a clever alternative expression when you come to think of it. The word…
No pressure in this peer group
Imagine you have a problem that is taking over your life. You’re having trouble concentrating, you don’t sleep well and you don’t know what to do about it … it’s damaging your mental and physical health. Even worse, imagine that…
60 seconds with Luisa Salvo
Multicultural Champion and trainee marathon runner What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I have recently changed from working fulltime to part time and I’m loving it. I am really enjoying spending time with my children. I have also…
'Dealing with it myself': A new project to support working carers
MCWH has been funded by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services for an important new initiative focusing on people from an immigrant or refugee background who are in paid employment at the same time as informally caring for a family…
Celebrating International Women's Week
Emerging from the activism of immigrant and refugee women workers, International Women’s Day has become a special day for women around the world. This year, MCWH has joined with all the Victorian Women’s Health services to celebrate the entire week…
The WRAP #29: Celebrating diversity, one voice and 60 seconds with Monique Hameed
Laurence and Annie/flickr Happy new year WRAP readers! True, it is the end of February, but Chinese New Year has come around in perfect time for us to legitimately begin our first WRAP for the year by wishing you health…
Let’s hear it for diversity!
George A. Spiva Art Centre/ Diversity Mask Let’s face it, diversity is a good-news story. Diversity in our workplaces or government policies and frameworks not only brightens the day, but it actually means quite a lot for people who have…
One voice
Preventing the Practice of FGM/C in Primary Schools. Image by Jessica Lea/UK DFID We’ve all been guilty of it: voicing our dissatisfaction and anger at the things that are unfair and unjust and then proceeding to do nothing about them.…
60 seconds with Monique Hameed
Australian Indigenous Studies Tutor and MCWH Project Officer What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Working at the MCWH! Also I’ve been enjoying my work with the Undercurrent Community Education Project doing workshops around sex and consent in the…
Funding for Multicultural Centre to support FGM/C awareness
Today marks Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation Day. The Australian Government has taken this opportunity to announce funding of more than $265,000 for MCWH to deliver the National Education Toolkit for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Awareness (NETFA) project…