THINK! Road Safety partners Multicultural Cup for fourth year

Friday 31 July 2026

For 10 years, the Multicultural Power Cup has been using the power of football to build stronger communities across South Australia.

Delivered by Power Community Limited – the charity arm of the Port Adelaide Football Club – the program is supported for the fourth year by the Department for Infrastructure and Transport and THINK! Road Safety.

The Multicultural Power Cup brings together secondary school students from culturally diverse backgrounds as an Integrated Learning subject aligned with the South Australian Certificate of Education.

The program celebrates cultural diversity and expression, promotes inclusion and builds social cohesion and in the last 10 years has reached more than 3,800 students from 29 schools across South Australia.

Since partnering with THINK! Road Safety in 2023, each year students are given a specific THINK! Road Safety task as part of the program. This year, the students were tasked with creating a digital – static or animated – asset to be displayed at an upcoming Port Adelaide game that promotes road safety.

The key themes for the task are based on the Fatal 5 causes of road trauma in South Australia, with the tasks sent to the THINK! Road Safety team, who then select their top five, and award prizes.

The program then culminates in a football carnival at Alberton Oval and in order to play in the carnival, students must reach minimum attendance rates at school. This year, the winning prize has been awarded to the Australian Islamic College.

Multicultural Power Cup is one of two PCL programs that the THINK! Road Safety Partnerships Program embeds road safety education into, the other being the Santos Aboriginal Power Cup.

As part of the 2025-2027 Road Safety Action Plan, delivering THINK! Road Safety partnerships like this are part of the State Government’s commitment to improving road safety outcomes, especially for those that are overrepresented in lives lost and serious injuries.

In 2026 to date there have been 68 lives lost on our roads, with four lives lost in the 16 to 19-year-old age bracket, compared with zero at the same time in 2025. In the same age range, there have been 49 people seriously injured on South Australian roads, six more than this time last year.