The Victorian Government has opened a round of grants for Multicultural Festivals and Events Program and is encouraging organisations to apply for funding for events held between 1 July 2020 and 31 December 2020.   Small grants up to $2,000 (community…

Melbourne and Australia have been placed in the top tier of an annual index that ranks countries and cities on their ability to attract and grow talent. According to the latest 2020 Global talent Competitiveness Index, Australia makes the top…

A new snapshot of migrant incomes in Australia shows that new arrivals are increasingly the drivers of economic activity and are filling key roles in the professions. The data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) also shows that refugees…

International discussions are about to begin on how refugees can have a greater say in their own resettlement arrangements. A meeting at Ottawa, in Canada, this month will look at how to ensure the active participation of refugees in resettlement…

Migration should be incorporated into planning for global sustainable development and used as tool to facilitate development and the improvement of opportunities for people across the globe, according to a raft of new research. The research papers point out the…

The chances of displaced refugees being resettled in a third country are dwindling as the numbers in need of sanctuary outpace the available places, according to new data from the UN’s refugee agency. Out of 1.4 million refugees estimated to…

As US President Donald Trump continues to hollow out his nation’s refugee programs, local elected leaders across the country, including republicans, are calling for the numbers of refugees accepted by America to increase. Hundreds of elected leaders have put their…

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Myanmar to “take all measures within its power” to protect its Rohingya minority from genocide. For the first time, a global court has pronounced judgement against Myanmar for the 2017 military purge…

The European Union (EU) has been paying other countries to keep migrants away from its shores effectively using aid money as an instrument of migration policy, according to two new reports. The reports, released separately by the New York Times…

The earliest humans in North America were far more diverse than previously thought with evidence they came from the arctic, Europe and elsewhere, according to new research. The findings, which have stunned the anthropological world, came from the study of…

One of the results of Boris Johnson’s election win in the UK elections was that protections for unaccompanied child refugees have been removed. The Conservative government has removed the protections from its EU Withdrawal Bill meaning that the legal means…

A new book by acclaimed author Isabel Allende is an epic story of displacement, the search for a home and the battle between freedom and repression. And although set in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War, ‘A Long Petal…