Compelling news from the refugee and migrant sector

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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Rethinking the global displacement crisis

1 April 20260 comments

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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Refugee phrasebook breaks down language barriers

28 September 20152 comments

An online phrasebook specifically designed for the needs of refugees is helping thousands throughout the world. The...

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Euro deal on asylum seekers closer

24 September 20150 comments

European Union interior ministers have voted to relocate 12,000 asylum seekers across the continent using a quota system...

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Migrant crisis agreement hangs in the balance

16 September 20150 comments

Europe remains in the grip of a migration crisis with European Union nations locked in an impasse over plans to...

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Opinion – Global migration the new norm

15 September 20150 comments

The use of the word ‘crisis’ in relation to the influx of hundreds of thousands of displaced persons into Europe...

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