Mulder, Beryl (1941 - )

Born in the Netherlands in 1941, Beryl Mulder lived in Surinam and Zambia before migrating to Australia in 1982. She has worked in Multicultural Affairs for more than 20 years, in government agencies (including for the Office of Multicultural Affairs) and in non-government organisations (such as the Multicultural Council of the Northern Territory.) In 2006 she served as Senior Deputy Chair of the Federation of Ethnic Community Councils.

Beryl Mulder completed a Bachelor degree in the Social Sciences as a mature age student and has a special interest in access and equity, advocacy, anti- racism, reconciliation and immigrant women's issues. She is a founding member of the Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (ANESBWA) and is a volunteer community worker with immigrants and refugees from non-English speaking backgrounds in the Northern Territory.

Featured in

• Being Seen And Heard: Migrant Women Organising In Australia, A Documentary History (2006 - )

Of Netherland Descent

• Netherlands Born Community of Australia

Senior Deputy Chair

• Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia

  Beryl Mulder has had a number of roles in FECCA. In 2006 she was a Senior Deputy Chair

Related Corporate Bodies

• Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (1987 - )

  Beryl Mulder was a founding member of the Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia

  [1987 - ]

• Office of Multicultural Affairs (1987 - 1995)

  Beryl Mulder was the Regional Coordinator of the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) for the Northern Territory from 1988 until 1995, when the OMA's activities were absorbed by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (DIEA). She continued to work for the DIEA as a community and multicultural affairs liaison officer until 2000 but found the work environment and culture less to her liking than when she worked for the OMA.

Related People

• Buckland-Fuller, Dorothy (1922 - )

  Beryl Mulder and Dorothy Buckland-Fuller are contemporaries and have a high regard for the work each has done on behalf women of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. They have both served on the executive of the Federation of Ethnic Communties Councils of Australia.

• Messimeri, Voula (c. 1956 - )

  Beryl Mulder served as Senior Deputy Chair on the executive of the Federation of Ethnic Community Councils of Australia while Voula Messimeri was Chair.

  [2006 - ]

• Mottee, Matina (1931 - )

  Matina Mottee and Beryl Mulder were both inaugural officers bearers of the Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women