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

April 2014

Refugees embrace new children’s services training to emerge as qualified childcare workers (ABC News)

5 April 20140 comments

Refugees who come to Australia often remain isolated in their communities, but a new day care organisation south-west of...

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Human Rights Commission probes health of children in detention (ABC News)

4 April 20140 comments

Australia’s asylum seeker policy has come under the microscope today, at an inquiry held by the Human Rights...

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Australia’s Immigration Minister makes surprise visit to Cambodia (ABC News)

4 April 20140 comments

The second trip to Cambodia by an Australian cabinet minister in two months has raised questions about whether the...

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Long-time refugee camp resident Hawa Hassan, resettled in Australia, reaches out to recent arrivals (ABC News)

4 April 20140 comments

Hawa Hassan is no stranger to death and destruction. As civil war gripped her home country of Somalia in 1990,...

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