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10Dec 2010
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Australian Multicultural Foundation

The Australian Multicultural Foundation works to cultivate in all Australians a strong commitment to Australia as one people drawn from many cultures and by so doing to advance its social and economic well-being. It seeks to promote awareness among the people of Australia of the diversity of cultures within Australia and the contribution of people from all cultures to the development of Australia and to the spread of respect and understanding between all cultural groups through any appropriate means

Visit http://www.amf.net.au

Religions for Peace Australia

Religions for Peace is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world’s great religions dedicated to promoting peace.

Respecting religious differences while celebrating our common humanity, Religions for Peace is active on every continent and in some of the most troubled areas of the world, creating multi-religious partnerships to confront our most dire issues: stopping war, ending poverty, and protecting the earth.

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Australian Federation of Islamic Councils

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils serves the Australia and the Islamic community by advocating and promotion of issues of relevance to the Muslim community and to our nation. The AFIC provides national and state representation on Muslim matters and coordinates and provides resources for activities of its State Islamic Councils and member Islamic societies.

Visit http://www.afic.com.au

Affinity Intercultural Foundation

The Affinity Intercultural Foundation has the following mission: "To create and sustain enduring affinity and relationships with people through inter-cultural and inter-faith dialogue and understanding. To add value to the lives of individuals by becoming a catalyst in their learning to lead harmonious and balanced lives, to gain true personal leadership and to apply universal principles in fulfilling their needs of the mind and the heart."

Visit http://www.affinity.org.au

Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils

The Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils is the peak body representing Buddhism in Australia.

The combined membership of the five state Buddhist councils represents more than 200 Buddhist temples & organisations nationwide, their members include the majority of more than 400,000 Australian Buddhists.

Visit http://www.buddhistcouncil.org.au

Interaction Multifaith Youth Network

InterAction is a new network of inspired people with a mission to promote social harmony through projects of common action for the common good. We bring young people from different cultural/spiritual/religious backgrounds together to work side by side for the sake of something greater. With the vision of eventually growing into a national/global network, InterAction links like-minded groups and individuals to achieve common goals through making positive contributions to their local communities as well as humanity as a whole.

Visit http://www.interaction.org.au

Islamic Council of Victoria

The Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) is the peak body for Muslim organizations in Victoria. Among the ICV’s many aims is the promotion of understanding, co-operation, tolerance and respect between all faiths.

Visit www.icv.org.au

Uniting Church of Australia - Relations with Other Faiths

The Relations with Other Faiths Working Group of the Uniting Church in Australia seeks to develop wherever possible a commitment to promote respect and tolerance for the integrity of the beliefs of other faiths, cultures and traditions. This desire not only arises from our common humanity but also from a desire to live in peace and goodwill as neighbours in our communities and the world.

Visit http://assembly.uca.org.au/rof/

Multifaith Disability Project

The Uniting Church in Australia, with support from the State Government of Victoria's Office for Disability, has undertaken a research project to investigate the experiences of people with disabilities and faith leaders. Participants offered their input from Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim perspectives. A report including an Easy English version and DVD of the same title are now available at the Multifaith Disability Project blog. The Multfaith Disablity Project Blog contains events, newsflashes and Video.

Visit Multifaith Disability Project

Faith Communities Victoria

Established in 2010, the Faith Communities Council of Victoria (FCCV) is Victoria’s umbrella multifaith body. FCCV was created to contribute to the harmony of the Victorian community by promoting positive relations between people of different faiths and greater public knowledge and mutual understanding of the teachings, customs and practices of Victoria's diverse faith traditions.

FCCV produces a monthly e-newsletter, titled Many Faiths, One World, which contains information on upcoming multifaith/interfaith events in the State of Victoria and news from around the world.

Visit Faith Communities Victoria

Uniting Through Faith - Victoria and Tasmania

Uniting through Faith seeks to develop closer ties between Christians and Muslims in Australia and Indonesia, increasing participants understanding of each others faith and cultural practices in the belief that through knowledge comes understanding, and only once there is understanding can there be peace. The program brings a delegation of Indonesian Muslims and Christians to Victoria and Tasmania, exposing Australian participants to the working model for interfaith dialogue successfully developed by the SOBAT Interfaith Movement in Indonesia.

Visit http://blogs.victas.uca.org.au/unitingthroughfaith/

The Faith Friendly Charter

The Faith Friendly Charter is the work of OASIS, the Chaplaincy team at Flinders University in South Australia. The Chaplains Team at the University discovered post 9/11 that the arena for inter-faith understanding has become enlarged beyond the meeting house to the everyday. It seeks to nurture Faith Friendly communities in Australia by focussing concern on workplace and educational organisations and beyond, to warp and woof of everyday life.

Visit and read the Faith Friendly Charter.

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We, as leaders of  faith communities, need to develop a more inclusive view of the religious other, to recognise the humanity of the religious other as a starting point. We need to recognise the essential equality of all human beings regardless of religious beliefs. We need to affirm the mutuality and interdependency of all people... We may need even to extend this and recognise that religious other may, just may, have at least some access to the Truth. We may need to accept that the religious others also adopts more or less the same set of essential universal ethical-moral principles we share; that the religious other has feelings of pain and pleasure just like us; that the religious other has similar expectations about their children and family and the preservation of life, property and security; and that the religious other has the same fears and anxieties about the world and the future, just like us.