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…
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,…
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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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…
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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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…
Women will be the focus of Australia’s revamped foreign aid effort after Foreign Minister Julie Bishop pledged that...
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A photograph of a boy sitting dazed and bloodied in the back of an ambulance after surviving a regime airstrike...
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Australia should and could triple its humanitarian refugee intake to 42,000 people a year, according to charity Oxfam. The...
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The largest single movement of people in human history occurred in 1947 when India and Pakistan were partitioned in what...
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