AIS 10th year Anniversary The Australian Intercultural Society will celebrate the tenth year of its establishment on 1 June 2010 with a program organized at one of Melbourne's historic venues, the Hotel Windsor. The program includes short speeches from prominent VIP Melbournians and an award ceremony.

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Spirit of Anzac Tour 2010 The Intercultural Study Tour to Turkey is a part of AIS's international Dialogue Project that has been continuing for the past five years. This year, the AIS have completed its 6th Annual Intercultural Study Tour to Turkey. The Spirit of Anzac Study Tour took place between the dates of April the 20th and May the 5th of 2010.

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Catholic and Muslim Youth Dinners
A project of dialogue between the Catholic and Muslim youth have commenced with two dinners held amongst girls and the boys of the both faiths...

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Study tours

The Intercultural Study Tour to Turkey is a part of AIS's international Dialogue Project that has been continuing for the past five years. This year, the AIS have completed its 6^th Annual Intercultural Study Tour to Turkey.

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Iftar dinners

For the past seven years, Iftar dinners have brought people from all walks of life, including politicians, government officials, academics, leaders of different faiths, members of the media, public servants and community leaders around the same table to break bread together and discuss vital issues such as social cohesion and integration in Australian society.

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Conferences

Over the past ten years, the AIS have organised or co-organised many other important conferences such as the National Cohesion Symposiums, Anti-Terror Summit, Islamophobia and Gulen Movement.

Australian Intercultural Society

The Australian Intercultural Society (AIS) promotes interreligious and cross-cultural relations, harmony and social inclusion in the diverse multi-faith, multicultural communities in Australia, acting as a catalyst for social and policy change. The main avenue for this is through educational awareness, development of social policy and social interaction

Welcome

Introduction

Australia is a nation enriched by diversity of many different cultures. Promoting intercultural dialogue, social harmony and cohesion in these diverse multicultural communities in Australia is imperative. In order to achieve an ideal harmony, there needs to be more concrete relationships between the multicultural communities of Australia.
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Our beliefs

Our Beliefs

The Australian Intercultural Society (AIS), since its inception in 2000, has been working tirelessly to engender community harmony and inclusion by means of overcoming the discrimination and ignorance that exists between communities, becoming a catalyst for a social change.
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Our vision

Our Vision

The rights of all human beings is equally important, and the rights of an individual cannot be sacrificed for the sake of any society, race or culture.
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Highlights

Monash Lectureship
With the support of the Australian Intercultural Society, Monash University have...
Annual Neighbourhood Day
The Australian Intercultural Society celebrates Neighborhood Day marked by the traditional...
Muslim-Catholic MOU
On 29 July 2009, the Australian Intercultural Society and Catholic Archdiocese of...

Annual Neighbourhood Day

The Australian Intercultural Society celebrates Neighborhood Day marked by the traditional Ashurah Day. The sharing of a delicious sweet called Noah's Pudding is practiced by both Muslims and Christians in particular around the Mediterranean region.

Dialogue Asia-Pacific

Dialogue Asia-Pacific is a quarterly magazine that focuses on intercultural and interfaith dialogue with a wide spectrum of articles that encompass education, health, religion, society, culture and science...

Muslim-Catholic MOU

On 29 July 2009, the Australian Intercultural Society and Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne have signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering many partnered projects on interfaith dialogue and education.

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Monash Lectureship

With the support of the Australian Intercultural Society, Monash University have launched a Lectureship in Islamic Studies in 2007. Currently, there is a course in Islamic Studies offered by Monash and ACU national.

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