Eligibility and assessment criteria

This award recognises an individual who has helped build social cohesion by promoting understanding, respect and acceptance between people from different cultural and faith communities across NSW.

This award recognises multicultural champions including youth, volunteers, professionals, and human rights advocates.

Nominee must be an individual.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Community Harmony Medal nomination form.

This award recognises an individual who has made a long-term commitment to serving a migrant community. The nominee must have provided community service for 30 years or more, making a significant and lasting contribution to the social or cultural wellbeing of their community.

This award recognises volunteers, professionals, media professionals, journalists and others who have dedicated their lives to supporting our multicultural society and strengthening their community.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the  Lifetime Community Service Medal nomination form.

This award recognises an individual who has made a significant contribution to the economic, social or cultural wellbeing of a regional community and helped bring people together.

The nominee must be an individual who lives in a regional area. For this award, a regional area is any area outside Greater Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Regional Unity Medal nomination form.

This award recognises an individual, group or organisation that has used arts and culture to promote understanding and connection between people from different cultural or language backgrounds.

Nominees must be an individual, group or art organisation that has used arts or cultural activities as part of their work or volunteering.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Arts and Culture Medal nomination form.

This award recognises the achievements of an outstanding and innovative teacher who instils knowledge and a lifelong love of language and culture in students.

Nominees must be a past or current professional community language teacher.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Community Languages Teacher Medal nomination form.

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.

Nominee must be an individual who is an interpreter or translator by profession.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Interpreters and Translators Services Medal nomination form.

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.

The initiative may support physical or mental health, encourage early support and prevention, improve people’s understanding of health information, or make it easier for people to access health services.

The program must show that it responds to the needs of multicultural communities and has achieved measurable results that create lasting improvements in health and wellbeing.

The contribution may include program delivery, advocacy, or health literacy initiatives, but not research-only projects.

Nominees can be individuals, community, or not-for-profit organisations that support culturally diverse communities.

NSW Government employees, NSW Health employees and NSW Local Health Districts cannot be nominated on their own. However, they can be part of a joint nomination with an individual or community organisation where they have partnered to deliver a multicultural health initiative.

The initiative must be based in New South Wales and serve multicultural communities in NSW.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Multicultural Health Medal nomination form.

This award recognises the outstanding achievements of a not for profit who has considered diversity and inclusion in their work.

Nominee must be a not for profit.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Multicultural Not for Profit Medal nomination form.

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.

Open to organisations and individuals.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Multicultural Youth Support Medal nomination form.

This award recognises an individual or sporting organisation that has used sport to promote cultural understanding, inclusion and connection between people from different cultural or language backgrounds.

Nominee must be an individual or a sporting code.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Sports Medal nomination form.

This award recognises excellence in journalism for multicultural media (text, audio, audio-visual).

Open to all multicultural media including student journalists.

Work must have been published or broadcast in NSW or had an impact on the NSW community.

All entries must have been published or broadcast between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026.

Media content nominated under the previous 2026 Multicultural Community Medals is not eligible.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Best Report in Multicultural Media nomination form.

This award recognises a multicultural media publication that has made an outstanding contribution to informing and engaging its audience.

The award is open to multicultural media outlets or organisations that publish in a language other than English or serve a specific multicultural community.

Entries must either be in a language other than English or show how the work supports a specific multicultural community. Entries in another language must include an English translation. All nomination questions must be answered in English.

The work must have been published, broadcast or had an impact in NSW.

All entries must have been published or broadcast between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026.

Media content nominated under the previous 2026 Multicultural Community Medals is not eligible.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Multicultural Publication of the Year nomination form.

This award recognises excellence in delivering a multicultural marketing campaign. This award is open to public relations, advertising, and digital agencies, not for profits and volunteer groups and internal marketing teams in organisations.

Joint entries are allowed.

The campaign must have included NSW community in the target audience.

The campaign must have been conducted between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026. Marketing campaigns nominated under the previous 2026 Multicultural Community Medals are not eligible.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Multicultural Marketing Campaign of the Year nomination form.

The Multicultural Honour Roll is a special recognition given to someone who has passed away. It honours the important work they did to help build a more inclusive, strong and peaceful community for everyone.

Their name and achievements are remembered in a permanent public record, so their contribution to the people of New South Wales is remembered even after their death.

Nominee must be an individual who has passed away at the time nominations close.

To view the assessment criteria and for more information, download the Multicultural Honour Roll nomination form.