2026 Winners
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The winner of the 2026 Community Harmony Medal is the Reverend Bill Crews AM.
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 2026 Lifetime Community Service Medal is Ken Habak 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 2026 Regional Unity Medal is Gargi Ganguly.
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 2026 Community Languages Teacher Medal is Monica Njoroge-Eaton.
This award recognises the achievements of an outstanding and innovative teacher who instils knowledge and a lifelong love of language and culture in students.
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The winner of the 2026 Interpreters and Translators Medal is Marta Barany BEM OAM.
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 2026 Multicultural Health Medal is CASS Care Ltd.
This award recognises an individual or organisation that has developed a program or community initiative in New South Wales that improves the health of culturally diverse communities.
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The winner of the 2026 Sports Medal is NRL In League In Harmony.
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 Arts and Culture Medal winner for 2026 is Leo Tanoi.
This award recognises the achievements of an individual, group or organisation whose work 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 2026 Multicultural Not for Profit Medal is the Chinese Australian Forum.
This award recognises the outstanding achievements of a not for profit who has promoted diversity and inclusion in their program.
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The winner of the 2026 Multicultural Youth Support Medal is Adina Dawod.
This award recognises an individual or organisation who has 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 2026 Best Report in Multicultural Media is the Khushee Gupta Don’t Talk Back podcast.
This award recognises excellence in journalism for multicultural media (text, audio, and/or audio-visual report).
Read Khushee Gupta and the ‘Don’t talk back’ story
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The winner of the 2026 Multicultural Publication of the Year is Indian Link.
This award recognises an outstanding contribution of a multicultural media publication in informing and engaging its audience.
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The winner of the 2026 Multicultural Marketing Campaign of the Year is SendMoneyPacific by CulturalPulse.
This award recognises excellence in delivering a multicultural campaign. All organisations are eligible to enter including government, business and community groups.
