The diversity of our City is a strength which can contribute to our Community Vision ‘A Liveable, Sustainable community.’

The Multicultural Plan will guide activities undertaken by Council to ensure everyone can contribute and participate. It will support a strong, cohesive and inclusive society.

The people that live, work study and visit the City of Marion are very diverse. For example, 29% of residents were born overseas and 21% of them speak languages other than English at home. This Plan will help Council to understand their experience of the City and to provide information, services, facilities and decisions that include them.

Council has many responsibilities to manage. The Multicultural Plan will be considered when staff develop their work programs and when Council sets its annual budget for projects and services.

Council can also use the Multicultural Plan when it applies for grants and advocates to the state and national governments for its community’s needs.

Council is seeking feedback from residents, visitors, and other stakeholders that have a connection to the City of Marion and want to be involved in its future. 

We are especially interested to hear from people with diverse backgrounds, including culture, religion, language and birthplace, but anyone can do the survey.

If you want to provide comments on behalf of an organisation you are welcome to send us a letter or email submission.

The survey can be translated using the language button on the Making Marion website.

There will be three community drop-in sessions where you can speak to Council staff about your ideas and comments.

We are providing a variety of opportunities for our community to contribute to the development of the Multicultural Plan.

Members of three of the largest and fastest growing multicultural communities in the City (Chinese, Indian and Nepalese) are invited to attend a workshop. They will explore the four themes of the Multicultural Plan through interactive activities.

Hard copies of the survey will be available in City of Marion’s Community Centres, Libraries and the main Administration office. You can also request a hard copy to be posted to you.

Community engagement, also known as ‘public consultation’, is about involving people in decision-making. Community engagement helps Council to make decisions which consider community needs, interests and aspirations. 

Community engagement enhances local democracy.

Your feedback is important to us. Your comments and ideas will be summarised so that we can understand the community’s views. We will publish the feedback we receive but your name, address, email address or other personal information will not be identified. We will use your comments and ideas to develop a draft Multicultural Plan in early 2025. We will also ask for feedback on the draft Plan before it is approved by Council.