Compelling news from the refugee and migrant sector

Refugee’s journey comes full circle

18 December 20240 comments

In 2009 Bwe Thay arrived in Melbourne as a refugee from Burma and was supported by settlement agency AMES Australia.

This week, he became a member of the… Read Full Article

Refugee family rescued from care crisis

11 December 20240 comments

A refugee family facing significant and multiple barriers to settlement have been supported to build happy, successful lives in Adelaide thanks to a collaboration between humanitarian settlement… Read Full Article

New book highlights our shared humanity

11 December 20240 comments

A compelling new book tells the inspirational stories of second-generation migrant Australians, who share their families’ settlement journeys and their own search for identity.

Titled ‘At the Heart… Read Full Article

Melbourne’s united nations of food

11 December 20240 comments

Driving into the Pacific Market at Ardeer, in Melbourne’s west, you are met with an array of flags and numerous food trucks.

Pakistani, Italian, Indian and many other… Read Full Article

Syrian community celebrates the end of Assad

10 December 20240 comments

Australia’s Syrian refugee community is celebrating the fall of the brutal Assad regime in their homeland but they also have concerns about what the future holds for… Read Full Article

Refugee family reunited after 12 years

20 November 20240 comments

When the Ahmad-Zada family were deported from Pakistan to Afghanistan earlier this year as undocumented Afghan refugees, they feared the worst.

Maryam Ahmad-Zada and her husband Habibullah had… Read Full Article

Sector News

July 2014

Art in Australia. An exhibition by asylum seekers and refugees by the Refugee Art Project (Yareah Australia)

30 July 20140 comments

Art in Australia. An exhibition by asylum seekers and refugees by the Refugee Art Project at Still Alive. 4th – 10th...

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Children in detention is state-sanctioned abuse: Australian church task force (ABC)

30 July 20140 comments

The Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce has accused the Federal Government of state-sanctioned abuse of asylum seeker...

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Queensland ‘gets it right on multiculturalism’ (Sydney Morning Herald)

29 July 20140 comments

A Nigerian woman chats happily to four of her Nigerian girlfriends in Harrid’s Cafe in the northern Brisbane suburb of...

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Refugees feel welcome, despite struggles (The Australian)

28 July 20140 comments

THE vast majority of refugees who arrived in Australia since 2012 say they feel welcomed in their new country, despite...

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