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

Refugees embrace new children’s services training to emerge as qualified childcare workers (ABC News)

5 April 20140 comments

Refugees who come to Australia often remain isolated in their communities, but a new day care organisation south-west of...

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Human Rights Commission probes health of children in detention (ABC News)

4 April 20140 comments

Australia’s asylum seeker policy has come under the microscope today, at an inquiry held by the Human Rights...

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Australia’s Immigration Minister makes surprise visit to Cambodia (ABC News)

4 April 20140 comments

The second trip to Cambodia by an Australian cabinet minister in two months has raised questions about whether the...

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Long-time refugee camp resident Hawa Hassan, resettled in Australia, reaches out to recent arrivals (ABC News)

4 April 20140 comments

Hawa Hassan is no stranger to death and destruction. As civil war gripped her home country of Somalia in 1990,...

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