Ensure that all of Council’s engagement and education processes effectively reach areas of the community that traditionally have difficulty being heard where they are stakeholders. This includes:

• young people,
• Indigenous people,
• people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds,
• rural people,
• people with a disability,
• single mothers, and
• low income families.

Specifically, develop and implement a:

• cultural diversity policy, and
• Indigenous engagement policy.

Responsible Officer: General Manager, City Development

Council will work with the following in carrying out this strategy:

• Department of Communities
• Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
• Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
• Migrant Settlement Services
• Youth Services Network
• Hambledon House Community Centre
• National Farmers Federation – local branch
• FNQ NRM Ltd (link to Aboriginal Plan and stakeholder groups)
• Dept of Education and The Arts
• James Cook University
• TAFE
• Disability Services Queensland