The Australia Day speeches of two schoolgirls from the northern Victorian town of Nhill are signposts to the inspiring and exemplar story of a community that had embraced diversity…
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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees – the cornerstone of the international refugee protection regime.
For 75 years, the convention…
Eritrean refugee Jahar Mussa Mahmud survived conscription by a brutal military regime, the harsh conditions of a notorious military camp and ten years as a refugee living precariously in…
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A thousand refugee families across Melbourne have safe and secure homes thanks to the work of former Karen-Burmese refugee, Law Baw.
As a housing worker with migrant and refugee settlement…
Refugee resettlement in third countries is now not a durable solution to the global crisis of human displacement, according to former Assistant Secretary of the United Nations Professor Gillian…
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Migrant women in Australia are finding more independence, equality and a healthier and wealthier life with more opportunity than in their home countries, according to a new survey.
An overwhelming…
This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) allows viewers to be transported through screen into the...
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Forced into brutal slave labour at 12 and separated forever from his parents, Tibetan refugee Gyaltsen Yeshi is now...
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Recent migrants are amongst the happiest people in Australia, according to a new study by the Australian Bureau of...
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The rapid slowing down of growth in overseas migration to Australia is fuelling concerns for the nation’s economy. New...
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