2025 Winners
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The winner of the 2025 Lifetime Community Service Medal is Dr. Astrid Perry-Indermaur OAM
This award recognises an individual’s commitment to community service within a migrant community. The contribution will have had a significant and lasting impact on the social or cultural wellbeing of the community that spans over 30 years.
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The winner of the 2025 Stepan Kerkyasharian AO Community Harmony Medal is Syed Shah Khan Amin Zada
This award recognises an individual’s contribution and achievement in facilitating and promoting social cohesion, understanding and acceptance between members of different cultural or faith communities in NSW.
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The winner of the 2025 Dr G.K. Harinath OAM Sports Medal is Syed Sibtain.
This award recognises the achievements of an individual or sporting code who has promoted cultural understanding and sporting endeavours within or between communities of different cultural and/or linguistic backgrounds.
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The winner of 2025 Multicultural Youth Support Medal is Ahmad Zarar
This award recognises an individual or organisation who have developed a program or community initiative to support disadvantaged school-aged children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including refugee or refugee-like backgrounds.
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The winner of the 2025 Community Languages Teacher Medal is Maida Kulic Vugdalic.
This award recognises the achievements of an outstanding and innovative teacher who instills knowledge and a lifelong love of language and culture in students.
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The winner of the 2025 Multicultural Not for Profit Medal is Dubbo Nepalese Community Australia.
This award recognises the outstanding achievements of a not for profit who has promoted diversity and inclusion in their programming.
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The Arts and Culture Medal winner is Sandra Morales.
This award recognises the achievements of an individual who has promoted cultural understanding and artistic endeavours within or between communities of different cultural and/or linguistic backgrounds.
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The winner of the 2025 Regional Unity Medal is Ashley Young .
This award recognises the contribution of an individual who has significantly benefited the economic, social and cultural wellbeing and unity of a regional community. For the purpose of this award ‘regional’, is defined as being outside the greater metropolitan area of Sydney.
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The winner of the 2025 NSW Human Rights Medal is Sabrina Khan.
This prestigious medal recognises an individual who has made a lasting and meaningful contribution to advancing human rights in NSW.
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The winner of the 2025 Interpreters and Translators Medal is Neena Sinha.
This award recognises the achievements of an interpreter or translator for the role they play in ensuring that the community of NSW has access to essential information and services.
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The winner of the 2025 Best Report in Multicultural Media is The Jewish Independent.
This award recognises excellence in journalism for multicultural media (text, audio, and/or audio-visual report).
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The winner of the 2025 Multicultural Marketing Campaign of the Year is CulturalPulse.
This award recognises excellence in delivering a multicultural campaign. All organisations are eligible to enter including government, business and community groups.
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The winner of the 2025 Multicultural Publication of the Year is The Greek Herald.
This award recognises outstanding contribution of a multicultural media publication in informing and engaging its audience.
