Compelling news from the refugee and migrant sector

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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Rethinking the global displacement crisis

1 April 20260 comments

Refugee resettlement in third countries is now not a durable solution to the global crisis of human displacement, according to former Assistant Secretary of the United Nations Professor Gillian…

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Melbourne leading the way in population growth

26 April 20180 comments

Melbourne remains the Australia’s fastest growing city and with the largest total increase in population – according to...

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Migrants and the meaning of ANZAC

24 April 20180 comments

As the national day of commemoration for Australians who served and died in war, the ANZAC story for a long...

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The bush backing refugees

24 April 20180 comments

Refugees and asylum seekers are finding growing support from a surprising quarter – rural Australia. Across Victoria and...

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Migrants delivering an economic dividend – report

24 April 20180 comments

Migrants are making Australia wealthy and not living on welfare or stealing the jobs of local workers, a new study...

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