Multicultural Affairs Queensland

22/09/2026

Blueberries, culture and community? A berry good combination, indeed! 🫐

The Mundubbera Blueberry Festival returns this weekend, with three days of festivities for locals and visitors alike.

If you're attending Saturday's Berry Big Day Out, make sure you stop by Cultural Infusion, hosted by North Burnett Community Service - NBCS. From cultural performances and food tastings to arts, crafts and community connection, it's a chance to experience the many cultures that enrich regional Queensland.
📅 26 September 2026
📍 Bicentennial Park, Mundubbera
⏰ 10am-2pm

17/09/2026

His dad's a chef. His mum's a chef. His sister's a chef. Roberto, therefore, never really had a choice. 🍝

He started at 15 in Sardinia, cooked his way through England and the Canary Islands, and came back to Australia in 2012 to see the country he was born in. Now he's at Eat Street turning pasta through a wheel of Grana Padano, cooked with his heart, which he'll tell you is the most Italian thing about him.

We're proud to share Roberto's story in partnership with Eat Street Northshore for Multicultural Queensland Month.

16/09/2026

Pam came to Eat Street in 2013 as a customer. Looked around at the lights and the music and thought: Filipino food belongs here. Her husband Genesis said it out loud. "I think that's our name. The Filipino Street Food."

Twelve years later she's still here, still on the charcoal grill, with her brother Jay beside her and their three kids in the kitchen behind. A karinderia is a Filipino neighbourhood eatery, the kind you eat at every week, and that's exactly what they've built. Everything from scratch. Even the atchara that comes with the pork barbecue skewers, a pickled green papaya salad that takes hours and never gets shortcut. Ever.

Pam grew up in Pampanga, the culinary capital of the Philippines. Her Lola came to Australia in the 1980s dreaming of opening a Filipino restaurant. Two generations later, her recipes are feeding Brisbane every weekend.

We're proud to share Pam's story in partnership with Eat Street Northshore for Multicultural Queensland Month.

09/09/2026

A hockey field can be more than a place to play. It can be a place to belong. 🏑💙

The Toowoomba Hockey Association Inc.’s Belong in Hockey program began by welcoming Yezidi refugees to the sport and has grown into one of Australia’s most inclusive sporting communities.

Today, Belong in Hockey Toowoomba brings together people of different cultures, ages, and abilities, helping tackle social isolation, build confidence, and forge friendships, while giving people a stronger sense of connection and belonging.

And the impact reaches beyond players. Volunteers say the program has given them a sense of purpose and helped them gain a deeper understanding of different cultures.

Toowoomba Hockey Association is also helping drive gender equality on and off the field, by creating more opportunities for women and girls to participate, lead and succeed in sport. Their legacy has strengthened community connections and set a best-practice example for community organisations across Queensland and beyond.

Please join us in congratulating Toowoomba Hockey Association. 🏆

02/09/2026

Bring your appetite—the table’s set! 🍴

Chinchilla Community Commerce & Industry Inc. is bringing back their iconic One Long Table event and Heeney Street is about to come alive with food, music and community vibes.

One veeeeerrrrrry long table will run down the middle of the street, serving up flavours from around the world, cultural performances and a whole lot of fun! It’s the perfect night to try something new and celebrate the cultures that make Chinchilla shine.
📍 Heeney St, Chinchilla QLD
📅 Saturday 5 September
⌚ 4pm–9pm

We're proud to support this vibrant community event through our Celebrating Multicultural Queensland program.

02/09/2026

Let’s do that again! Relive the fun and festivities from the 2026 Multicultural Queensland Awards 🎬

02/09/2026

01/09/2026

Steven Hu trained as a graphic and interior designer in Shanghai and spent years working as an artist on the Gold Coast before he ever cooked professionally. That started at home, for the love of it, and he enjoyed it enough to buy a restaurant in Broadway twenty years ago. 🥟

He's been cooking the food he grew up with ever since, first in Sunnybank, and now as Little Shanghai at Eat Street. "I thought it was a great and unique idea. The concept of such a venue I had never seen."

His own favourite dish is bao, which he likes precisely because it refuses to sit still. Any filling, any size, endless variations on the same idea. His family eats them constantly.

What keeps him at it is much simpler than any of that. "I feel so happy when I see people come back again and again for the same dishes. I know it's worth however hard the work is." 🇨🇳

Steven's story is one of six we're sharing for Multicultural Queensland Month, celebrating the people and cultures behind the food, in partnership with the Queensland Government and Multicultural Affairs Queensland.

30/08/2026

There are two things no Argentine is ever casual about. One is barbecue. The other is football, and in Emilio's case Messi specifically. Both come down to the same thing, which is getting everyone in one place at the same time. That's what he's built El Gaucho around, just opened at Eat Street as one of our newest micro-restaurants. ⚽🔥

El Gaucho keeps the menu short so Emilio can do a few things properly. Meat flame grilled over charcoal, rolls built to order, chimichurri made from scratch. "We never compromise on the quality of our meat or our homemade chimichurri. Those two elements define the flavour of El Gaucho."

First time round, get the Gaucho Feast: tender beef, chorizo, ribs, fries and salad; the whole Argentine barbecue in one sitting. Then come back for the empanadas, made by hand and quietly the best thing on the board. He's new here, and he already knows exactly what he's here for. "Watching customers take their first bite and immediately smile." 🇦🇷

Emilio's story is one of six we're sharing for Multicultural Queensland Month, celebrating the people and cultures behind the food, in partnership with the Queensland Government and Multicultural Affairs Queensland.