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

December 2013

Asylum Seeker support centre leases Footscray property (Ray White Commercial)

4 December 20130 comments

Australia’s leading asylum seeker organisation the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has secured a commercial building...

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Morrison caps number of protection visas (Sky News)

4 December 20130 comments

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has thrown down the gauntlet to Labor and the Greens by using his powers to cap...

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Aus government blocked from re-introducing temporary protection visas (ABC)

3 December 20130 comments

The Australian government has been frustrated in its attempts to re-introduce Temporary Protection Visas for refugees on a...

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PM puts refugee convention in spotlight (Prime 7)

3 December 20130 comments

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has raised the prospect of Australia leaving the United Nations refugee convention after a key...

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