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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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New app to stop exploitation of migrant workers

21 March 20170 comments

A new smart phone app aimed at combating the tackling the abiding problem of underpayment of migrant workers and young...

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Uganda the latest refugee hot spot

21 March 20170 comments

Uganda is emerging as one of the world’s largest hosts of refugees as hundreds of thousands of people pour across...

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Pope Francis calls for human response to refugee crisis

21 March 20170 comments

Pope Francis has made an impassioned plea for a global and comprehensive response to the worldwide refugee crisis calling...

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Turnbull’s multicultural proclamation largely backed

21 March 20170 comments

Multicultural groups have largely approved of the federal government’s recent ‘multicultural statement’, which for...

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