The Victorian Government has increased funding to diverse communities to stage events showcasing and sharing their cultures, traditions and food. Minister for Multicultural Affairs Richard Wynne today announced more than $885,000 to support 476 festivals and events around the state…

For Firas Chamous, 2019 represents a year of new beginnings.    Having arrived in Australia as a refugee fleeing the conflict in Syria in August 2018, in March of this year Firas began working within his field again as a…

Australia has succeeded in shrinking the median age of its migrant population to 44, according to the latest round of migration statistics released in the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census for 2019.   Particularly stark is the difference between…

Refugees who have come to Australia as a result of the conflict in Syria and Iraq are overwhelmingly happy, and feel safe and welcome, according to the first survey of settlement outcomes for this group of new arrivals. And the…

Education systems need to innovate and concepts of learning need to be turned on their head if they are to equip children for a rapidly transforming world, according to one of the world’s leading educationalists. Speaking at the recent EduTECH…

Digital skills are seen by workers as being the most essential for the modern workplace, according to a new survey. But the study also found that younger workers value emotional, or ‘soft’ skills, most. The survey of 1,000 workers from…

Developing entrepreneurial skills, digital literacy as well as creativity and an innovative mindset will be the key to surviving in the workplace of the future, according to social entrepreneur and author Jan Owen. Speaking at the recent EduTech Conference in…

The dystopian image of jobs in the future being taken by robots, workers having dozens of different careers and disruption and change wrought by automation and artificial intelligence is a myth, according to a new report. A new ‘insights’ paper…

Refugee Week event celebrates refugee businesses  AMES Australia and not-for-profit microfinance organisation Thrive staged an event at Federation Square this week to showcase the talents of refugee entrepreneurs. Titled ‘Thriving’, the Refugee Week event was a result of the two…

The ‘broad utility’ and exploitation that temporary migrants provide and receive in Australia’s job markets are the focus of a new report from the Scanlon Institute on the “spectacular” rise in temporary work visas. The report says temporary migrants have…

The world’s population is expected to almost stop growing by the end of this century in a trend unprecedented in modern history, according to new research. Washington-based think tank The Pew Research Centre has analysed global fertility rates contained in…

Remittances now support one in every seven people worldwide, according to the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Defined as “private transfers of funds by an overseas worker to an individual in his or her country of origin,” these payments…