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

July 2014

Two-thirds majority back current or higher immigration intake (The Australian)

16 July 20140 comments

HIGHER migration levels are favoured by a fifth of Australians, in an exclusive Newspoll survey revealing robust support...

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Students’ petition for held asylum kids (The Australian)

15 July 20140 comments

THREE more asylum seekers are missing from community detention in South Australia, taking the number on the run in the...

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Boat turnback has fractured relations with Indonesia (ABC)

13 July 20140 comments

Oppositon Foreign Affairs spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, discusses the repatriation Sri Lankan asylum seekers and what...

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Poll shows increased concern over asylum policy (ABC)

11 July 20140 comments

An Essential Media poll has shown that 27 per cent of voters believe that Australia’s asylum seeker policy is too...

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