Compelling news from the refugee and migrant sector

Diversity celebrated on ANZAC Day

30 April 20260 comments

Cultural diversity is increasingly becoming a feature of Anzac Day commemorations.
The Karen refugee community at Nhill, in Victoria’s north-east, have been integral to the town’s Anzac Day commemoration for…

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Australia’s migrant population growing and changing – ABS report

30 April 20260 comments

Australia’s overseas-born population has increased to 8.8 million, or 32 per cent of the total population, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ASBS).
The latest data,…

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Teenagers show the way towards social cohesion

30 April 20260 comments

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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75 years of refugee protection marked

30 April 20260 comments

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…

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Refugee’s long journey to safety

27 April 20260 comments

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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Supporting a thousand refugee families to find homes

17 April 20260 comments

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…

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OPINION: Finding new ways to settle refugees

9 September 20160 comments

The world is embroiled in the worst refugee crisis in history with 65 million people displaced from their homes. Among...

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New report outlines plight of child refugees

8 September 20160 comments

Just days after the first anniversary of the death of Alan Kurdi – the little refugee boy whose body washed...

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Asylum seeker finds a home in the ‘burbs

7 September 20161 comment

For Lebanese asylum seeker Salam Assaad, it has been a long and surprising journey from Beirut to Boronia. The mum...

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Educating migrant kids the key to integration – OECD report

7 September 20160 comments

One of the dramatic effects of increased global migration is greater cultural diversity in schools. And several studies...

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