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

April 2014

Australia and PNG agree on refugees (Sky News)

3 April 20140 comments

All asylum seekers held in an Australian detention centre on Manus Island who are found to be refugees will be...

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Asylum seekers stranded by Abbott policy (Sky News)

3 April 20140 comments

A United Nations expert on people smuggling and human trafficking says Canberra’s tough but...

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Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria calls for radical affirmative action (news.com.au)

3 April 20140 comments

COUNCILS should set targets to make sure one third of their workers are refugees, foreign-born or from non-English-speaking...

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Asylum seekers transferred to remote detention centre day before court case (The Sydney Morning Herald)

2 April 20140 comments

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has defended moving asylum seekers involved in legal action against the federal...

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