Tasmania's government is being pressed to do more to support the state's culturally-specific groups.
Places of worship and cultural centres can be important places for developing a sense of community.
The Multicultural Council of Tasmania says stronger migration policies could help attract more migrants to the state, which has set an ambitious goal to boost its population.
Sakthi Ravitharan is a medical student at the University of Tasmania.
She's rehearsing for the first Carnatic Music Concert in the state.
It's a Hindu spiritual form of music.
Ms Ravitharan learned to sing Carnatic music at her home in Victoria.
She moved to Tasmania to study two years ago.
"I think Tasmania is a really, really beautiful place, um and there is a lot of cultural diversity here."
But there's one important thing she says is missing.
"Hobart is lacking a worship centre which I think could maybe improve people coming, like migrants maybe coming from overseas and also interstate."
She's hired a university theatre to perform the Carnatic Music Concert.
About 500 families are registered with the Hindu Society of Tasmania.
They currently gather at temporary facilities.
But Ramesh Narayana, from the Society, says major cultural event are very difficult to organise, and people often travel interstate to mark them.
"We have births, deaths and everything, but for that occasion we need priests but we have to bring them from mainland so it is a very expensive matter and some people can't afford that."
The Hindu Society of Tasmania would like to build a permanent cultural centre and place of worship in Hobart.
There are no permanent places of worship for other faiths in the city apart from Christian churches, one mosque and a synagogue.
Tasmania's Sikh community has created an unofficial temple in a rented semi-rural property east of Hobart.
But the President of the Sikh Society of Tasmania, Narindar Gill, says a permanent site would help many feel more at home.
"Because Sikhs everywhere in the world, wherever they travel, the first place they always look for is a Gudwara because they know where their community will be congregating so they feel at ease, and safe when they've got that. It's where they also then start to network within their community and then obviously grow out of that."
The Tasmanian Government wants to increase the state's population to 650,000 by 2050.
Currently, Tasmania's population is just over 500,000.
But Anna Reynolds, from the Multicultural Council of Tasmania, says migrant retention could be the key to achieving the government's goal.
The Multicultural Council is conducting research on the experiences of migrants to - and from - Tassie.
Ms Reynolds says preliminary findings suggest migrants move interstate because of perceptions of increased job opportunities, bigger ethnic communities and more cultural facilities.
"Having a vibrant community that can provide advice, provide services, provide contact with people that speak your own language is really, really essential and so some of that has been missing in Tasmania. The government, we think, needs to do a little bit more on multicultural policy if they would like to see migrants making up a bigger part of the Tasmanian population."
Key findings of the research will be provided to the Tasmanian Government to assist in the state's growth strategy.
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