1. Settlement and Social Cohesion in Australia Chief Executive Officer
COUNCIL OF
AUSTRALIA
Settlement and Social Cohesion in Australia
November 2017
Nicholas Tebbey
Chief Executive Officer

2. Today: Social inclusion and social cohesion
The role of settlement in promoting social inclusion
Ensuring the success of social inclusion activities

3. Multiculturalism and cohesion

4. BUILDING A NATION

5. SETTLEMENT IN Australia

6. ABOUT THE SETTLEMENT COUNCIL
The national peak body for settlement agencies
Focused on the best possible settlement outcomes for migrants and refugees settling in Australia
Approx. 80 member organisations in every state and territory
Governed by an Executive Committee with representatives from each state and territory

7. Settlement Council of Australia
INCLUSIVE SETTLEMENT
Settlement Council of Australia

8. ACHIEVING SOCIAL COHESION
Australians Today (Scanlon Foundation, 2015)
When asked if they are satisfied with their lives, 81% indicated that they were and only 5% that they were dissatisfied.
Almost two out of three (62%) of those who arrived since 2001 indicated that they were ‘very happy’ or ‘happy’, one in four (23%) that they were ‘neither happy nor unhappy’, and close to one in eight (13%) that they were ‘unhappy’ or ‘very unhappy.’

9. ACHIEVING SOCIAL COHESION
Mapping Social Cohesion (Scanlon Foundation, 2016)

10. THE ROLE OF SETTLEMENT SERVICES IN ACHIEVING SOCIAL COHESION
Migrants are resilient and hard working.
Government is committed to the sector.
Service providers are mature, flexible and innovative.
Services are inclusive, tailored and responsive to individuals

11. Family and Social Support
Education
Employment
Health & Wellbeing
Housing
Language services
Transport
Civic Participation
Family and Social Support
Justice

12. Settlement Council of Australia
SOCIAL INCLUSION AS A SETTLEMENT OUTCOME
Settlement Council of Australia

13. ENSURING SOCIAL COHESION
Settlement services are delivered successfully to migrants from all cultural backgrounds without discrimination based on race, religion or nationality.

14. SETTLEMENT
COUNCIL OF
AUSTRALIA
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