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

March 2015

Shout Out youth program helps Broadmeadows Sudanese migrant connect with community

23 March 20150 comments

ELGAILI  Mangati has struggled to “fit in” since arriving in Australia as a refugee from Sudan almost 10 years ago....

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Older migrants ‘struggle to access basic services’ (SBS)

18 March 20150 comments

Australia’s largest migrant community group says migrants who arrive in Australia at an older age often struggle to...

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Strangers on a bus: Sydney show gives a seat and voice to asylum seekers (The Guardian)

16 March 20150 comments

Origin-Transit-Destination features former refugees telling unvarnished stories of finding their way to, and making their...

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Peter Dutton to test lower court’s asylum judgment (The Australian)

16 March 20150 comments

IMMIGRATION Minister Peter Dutton has launched a High Court challenge to a lower court’s ruling that is undermining the...

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