Multicultural Groups More than a quarter of Brisbane’s population was born overseas. Find more statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website.
- Academy of Middle Eastern Dance, founded in 1989, boasts 5 highly skilled teachers and is home to Brisbane’s only Professional Belly Dance Troupe “The Oasis Dancers”.
- AfricanOz – An online resource for people of African heritage or those who have an interest in Africa.
- Alliance Franaise de Brisbane
- Australian American Association Gold Coast Division Inc
- ANTaR Queensland – Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation.
- Australian Arabic Council – Is committed to human rights and community relations issues affecting the Arabic culture and profile.
- Australian Jewish Historical Society – The AJHS publishes the Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, and maintains libraries and archives in Sydney and Melbourne. This site documents the Jewish experience in Australia.
- Australian Lebanese Historical Society – Aims to encourage scholarship in the history of Lebanese settlement in Australia by research, publications and regular events and meetings for members.
- Australian National Committee on Refugee Women (ANCORW Coop. Ltd) 80 percent of the worlds 20 million refugees are women and their dependent children. They are forced to flee from their homes and their countries, in danger of their lives. They often suffer violence, rape and sexual abuse, torture, hunger, and loss of everything they hold dear. Family members are lost or killed. Refugee camps are often as dangerous as the places from which they have escaped. Refugee women are strong and resourceful . Despite all that they suffer, they protect their families, maintain their culture and rebuild shattered communities once conflict is over. When resettled in developed countries, the women take the role of supporting their families to settle into a new and strange environment. ANCORW was established as a vehicle for supporting these women, both within Australia and internationally.
- The Australian Scottish Community Inc
- Australian Tibet Council – A non-profit organisation that works to promote the human rights and democratic freedoms of the Tibetan people.
- Australian Turkish Cultural Platform – Aim to promote and create a bridge between the Turkish and other communities within Australia. The group organise conferences, seminars, concerts, exhibitions, festivals as well as educational programs on Turkish culture.
- Brisbane British Club
- Brisbane Chinese Lions Club
- Brisbane Ethnic Music and Arts Centre Inc (BEMAC)
- Brisbane Multicultural Theatre Group
- Cachiamo Latin Harp – Latino American music group.
- Chinese Australian Historical Society – Information on the history of the Chinese in Australia.
- The Cornish Association of Queensland (CAQ) is an apolitical organisation for people of Cornish birth and Cornish descent living in the Sunshine State.
- Africa Club of Queensland “all people with an African heritage or with an interest in the African continent”
- Australia Japan Society Queensland Inc
- Estonian Archives in Australia – Holds information about the achievements of Estonians living outside Estonia.
- The Ethnic Communities’ Council of Queensland (ECCQ)
- Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia – The national peak body representing Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
- Brisbane German Club
- Jewish Community in Australia
- Latin American Community of Australia (QLD) Inc celebrates the connection between the Latin American community and culture with the wider community in QLD through language, dance, music, visual arts, and food of our talented Latin American communities. LACA QLD is committed to supporting the Latin American community through programs that emphasise health and wellbeing and social inclusion. Our projects aim to engage with people to increase social connectedness using local community resources. One of our long term aims as an organisation is to set up an age care facility that will cater for the specific needs of our Spanish speaking elders. And as people, who come from a collective cultural background, we share that sense of responsibility of looking after one another and to exercise this cultural strength to the fullest, we need to work together
- Malta Virtual Emigration Musuem
- Multicultural Affairs Queensland – is responsible for providing advice on multicultural issues, coordinating multicultural policy development and planning across the Queensland Government and promoting positive community relations. MAQ also manages a multicultural grants funding program, promotes community development activities and provides free cross-cultural training to government agencies.
- Mu’ooz Restaurant – social enterprise (not-for-profit) restaurant that offers an exclusive North-East exotic African menu, combined with quality service. Our profits are directed back to our community via the Eritrean Women and Family Support Network Inc (EAWFSN). Called Mu’ooz, which means “tasty and healthy” in Tigrinya (the language of Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia).
- Norwegian Club of Queensland – Community and social club for Norwegians living in Queensland and for persons interested in Norwegian arts crafts, language, traditions and customs.
- Polish Historical Institute in Australia – Aims to collect, preserve and make available to the public archival materials pertaining to Polish immigration to Australia and the settlement of Poles in Australia since 1940.
- Radio 4EB Ethnic broadcasting radio station
- Multicultural Meetup Groups in Brisbane
- Brisbane Japanese Language Meetup Group Want to practice your Japanese? Meetup with others in your area who are also interested in the Japanese language. All ages and levels of proficiency are welcome!
- Brisbane Spanish Language Meetup Group
- Brisbane French Language Meetup Group
- Brisbane Expat American Meetup Group
- Brisbane Esperanto Society All are welcome to our meetings, whether you already speak Esperanto, have just started learning Esperanto or are just curious about the language.
- Refugee Council of Australia
- Queensland Russian Community Centre is a not for profit organisation which works for the furtherance and assistance of the Russian speaking community and endeavours to maintain Russian culture and pass it to future generations.
- Russian Orthodox Queensland
- Queensland Scottish Association
- Queensland Muslim Times Support for Muslims in Brisbane. The site has a Mosque and halal listing. Our newspaper is published bi monthly mainly in the Brisbane area.
Multicultural Groups on the Gold Coast, Australia
- Australian American Association Gold Coast Division – Aims to foster friendship and understanding between the people of the United States of America and Australia.
- Australian National Committee on Refugee Women (ANCORW Coop. Ltd)
- Chinese Australian Historical Society – Information on the history of the Chinese in Australia.
- The Ethnic Communities’ Council of Queensland (ECCQ)
- Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia – The national peak body representing Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
- German Club
- Gold Coast Swiss Group
- Irish Interest Group of the Gold Coast and Albert Genealogical Society
- Islamic Society of the Gold Coast
