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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Sector News

August 2014

Refugees’ real-life stories an eye-opener for students (The Sydney Morning Herald)

29 August 20140 comments

The greatest lessons learnt at school do not always come from textbooks and chalkboards, as a group of students from...

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Mentors encourage refugee kids to apply for university places (SBS)

29 August 20140 comments

For many students, university is the ultimate goal. But often, refugee kids miss out because they find Australia’s...

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Who I am: asylum child and poet of repute (The Australian)

29 August 20140 comments

FARAWAY corners of this wide brown land are not unfamiliar to 12-year-old Maryam Sathat Sobhani. She has been detained...

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Asylum seekers volunteer at Dandenong Salvation Army shop to keep busy and contribute (Herald Sun)

28 August 20140 comments

GREATER Dandenong asylum seekers are immersing themselves in voluntary work to keep busy and contribute to the community....

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