Multicultural Awards winners

2024

ACT Multicultural Individual Champion Award

• Winner: Beatrice Macharia
• Highly commended: Zakia Patel

ACT Multicultural Community Organisation Champion Award

• Winner: Multicultural Hub Canberra
• Highly commended: Australia Triumphant Network (ATN) Canberra Inc

ACT Multicultural Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion

• Winner: Hao Gu
• Highly commended: Australian Multicultural Action Network (AMAN) Inc

ACT Multicultural Art, Media or Culture Award

• Winner: Canberra School of Bollywood Dancing

2023

ACT Multicultural Individual Champion Award

• Winner: Mijica Rose Lus
• Highly commended: Tendayi Ganga
• Highly commended: Dr Lubna Alam

ACT Community Organisation (Multicultural Champion) Award

• Winner: ALO Enlightened Women Inc.
• Highly commended: Refugee and Migrant Swim Program

ACT Outstanding Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion

• Winner: Dr Lubna Alam
• Highly commended: Andrew Sein
• Highly commended: Ravi Krishnamurthy

ACT Multicultural Art, Media or Culture Award

• Winner: Radio Manpasand
• Highly commended: Canberra Telugu Vaani and Samithi Inc.

Special Lifetime Achievement Award

• Recipient: Domenic Mico OAM

2022

ACT Multicultural Individual Champion Award

• Winner: Dr Jane Chimungeni-Brassington
• Highly commended: Emeritus Professor John Minns
• Highly commended: Dr Shamaruh Mirza

ACT Community Organisation (Multicultural Champion) Award

• Winner: Her Kitchen Table
• Highly commended: ABC Canberra

ACT Outstanding Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion

• Winner: Nazmul Hasan
• Highly commended: Dr Shanti Reddy

ACT Multicultural Art, Media or Culture Award

• Winner: be:longing online magazine
• Highly commended: Jahin Tanvir
• Highly commended: Bangla Radio Canberra

2021

ACT Multicultural Individual Champion Award

• Winner: Dr Marrwah Ahmadzai
• Commendation: Amardeep Singh

ACT Community Organisation (Multicultural Champion) Award

• Winner: Initiatives for Women in Need Inc (IWiN)
• Commendation: Girls on Bikes

ACT Outstanding Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion

• Winner: Sandipan Mitra
• Commendation: Nishi Puri

ACT Multicultural Art, Media or Culture Award

• Winner: Jacqui Malins
• Commendation: Arianne Tan

2020

ACT Multicultural Individual Champion Award

• Winner: Lieta Sauiluma-Duggan
• Commendation: Yelin Hung

ACT Community Organisation (Multicultural Champion) Award

• Winner: Quality Training in Construction
• Commendation: Born to Shine
• Commendation: ACT Council of Social Services and Carers ACT

ACT Outstanding Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion

• Winner: Libraries ACT
• Commendation: Zouheir Dalati

ACT Multicultural Art, Media or Culture Award

• Winner: Chinese Voice Program of CMS FM 91.1
• Commendation: The Cubby House of Tales team, Canberra Youth Theatre

2019

ACT Multicultural Individual Champion Award

• Winner: Harry Oppermann
• Commendation: Dr Madhumita Iyengar

ACT Community Organisation (Multicultural Champion) Award

• Winner: Legal Aid ACT
• Commendation: Charles Weston School

ACT Outstanding Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion

• Winner: Dr Ajoy Kar
• Commendation: Dr Sunita Dhindsa

ACT Multicultural Art, Media or Culture Award

• Winner: Canberra School of Bollywood Dancing
• Commendation: Varaporn (Nim) Osborne

2018

• Outstanding Volunteer Award for Services to the Community: Adrian Arulanandam
• Organisational Excellence Award for Services to the Community through Social Enterprise, Business, the Public Sector or Education: Canberra Muslim Community
• ACT Multicultural Champion of the Year Award: Sarah Mosslar
• ACT Multicultural Honour Roll Award: Inductee: Companion House, led by Director Kathy Ragless
• Outstanding Excellence Award in the area of Creative Services and Experiences for the Community through Art, Media or Culture: Zsuzsi Sobaslay

2017

• Business Enterprise Award: ACT AM 1323 Pty Ltd Trading as STAR AM Canberra
• Community Organisation Award: Multicultural Employment Services (MES)
• Education Award: Polish School Canberra
• Media Award:  Community Radio 2XXFM/Latino American Community
• Multicultural Advocate of the Year: Ziaul Hoque
• Multicultural Advocate of the Year: Chin Wong
• Multicultural Young Person of the Year: Mostafa Eshan
• Outstanding Volunteer of the Year: Krishna Nadimpalli
• Outstanding Volunteer of the Year: Diana Rahman

2016

• Business Enterprise Award: Derek Jiang
• Community Organisation Award: Lisa Stephan
• Education Award: ACT Community Languages Schools Association
• Media Award: Rosemarie John and Joseph Ellis
• Multicultural Advocate of the Year Award: Lucky Prasad
• Multicultural Young Person of the Year Award: Laura Welsh
• Public Sector Award: The Environmental Health Unit from the ACT Government’s Health Directorate
• Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award: Dean Sahu Kahn and Dr Willy Senanayake

2015

• Business Enterprise Award: Premier Capital Properties
• Community Organisation Award: Health Care Consumers' Association of the ACT
• Education Award: Bunyarra Children's Centre
• Media Award: Helen Musa
• Multicultural Advocate of the Year Award: Dr Krishna Nadimpalli
• Multicultural Young Person of the Year Award: Jeeven Nadankumar
• Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award: Mohammed Ali