Multicultural Matters in the Federal Election 2025
In the lead up to the election, Fethi Mansouri discussed ‘Multicultural Matters’ as part of the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria Federal Election Forum 2025, alongside Brendan Coates, the Housing and Economic Security Program Director at the Grattan Institute,
Farah Farouque, Chief Executive Officer at ECCV and with host Jon Faine AM.
The panel discussed the evidence and dismissed myths connecting housing affordability to migration, as well as inclusive policy, multiculturalism and racism. In his summary remarks, Fethi stated:
“I really would like to see that things like immigration decisions are not made during a political election during an election cycle because unfortunately and unavoidably… people will be making decisions …and making policies on the run which do not speak to the needs of our society, to the needs of our economy, to the needs of this beautiful country that we live in.”