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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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‘Guesthouse Project’ seeks to connect communities

17 October 20160 comments

Inner city Brunswick is currently home to a full-scale pop-up structure that experimentally adapts the traditional...

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Aussies expect newcomers to ‘fit in’ – study finds

14 October 20161 comment

Australians are reluctant to change in the face of influxes of refugees and migrants but expect the new arrivals to...

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AHRC outlines radical approach to asylum seekers

14 October 20160 comments

The Australian Human Rights Commission has come up with an alternative set of policies it says would allow Australia to...

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More Chinese coming – short term and long term

14 October 20160 comments

Permanent or long term migration into Australia appears to be stabilising with totals of new arrivals topping 266,000 in...

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