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

Campaign launched to raise $1m for new Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Footscray (Herald Sun)

11 December 20130 comments

Australia’s largest asylum seeker organisation is coming to Footscray in a major coup for refugees living in the...

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Port Melbourne migrant goes from dole queue to Mexican food entrepreneur (Herald Sun)

11 December 20130 comments

From the dole queue to running the business of the year, Port Melbourne trader Cesar Duran has travelled a long...

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Asylum seeker family from Myanmar allowed to stay in Australia temporarily (ABC)

9 December 20130 comments

The Federal Court has given a temporary reprieve to an asylum seeker family battling to stay in Australia to access...

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The life and times of Australian multiculturalism (ABC)

9 December 20130 comments

The word ‘multicultural’ entered the national vocabulary in August 1973, via the Immigration Minister Al Grassby....

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