Maria Bunn
Outstanding Service to Multiculturalism Award
2016 Maria Bunn
Maria Bunn, from Hillarys, has been committed to working with the CaLD sector for more than 30 years. With a focus on aged care, Maria has been instrumental in developing partnerships between aged care providers and CaLD communities, establishing 18 clusters in residential care facilities to support older people from CaLD backgrounds. Maria wrote the Multicultural Aged Care Handbook to support care providers, which has now sold more than 800 copies. She has also coordinated the ‘Let me speak’ project initiative of the Ethnic Disabilities Advocacy Centre and Headwest to support CaLD people with disability and acquired brain injury.
Program was presented 20 March 2016.
