News outlets play the largest role in immigration content shared on Twitter, suggesting that there is still trust in the well-established, traditional masthead, according to a new study. The study by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre aimed to better understand…

Adelaide-based refugee support worker Rupananda Roy has made history by becoming the first woman from one of Bangladesh’s 50 ethnic minority communities to earn a doctorate. She recently gained her PhD in Development Studies from the University of Adelaide. Ms…

Human rights are in freefall worldwide with the rise of dictatorial leadership across the globe, according to Amnesty International’s latest annual report. The human rights group’s 2017-18 annual report says that world leaders are “undermining the rights of millions,” either…

African nations are effectively being forced to borrow money to support refugees, according to a leading expert on forced migration and international affairs. Professor Alexander Betts, of Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre, in an article in the journal Foreign Policy,…

Much of world celebrated International Women’s Day this year in the shadow of the #me too and ‘time’s up’ campaigns which have given rise to hopes for more equality for women. But for many of the 3.3 billion females on…

Migrant women in Australia find life healthier, wealthier and more independent than in their home countries, according to a new survey. An overwhelming majority of women migrants find life in Australia ‘better’ than in their home countries and believe they…

2018 marks 70 years since Australia’s modern migration system was conceived and the nation’s transformation into a vibrant multicultural society began. In 1948 two seminal things happened. The notion of Australian citizenship was created – before then we were merely…

Najaf Mazari says that there are very few Afghans who can remember time when there was not fighting. Before ISIS there was Al Queda and before that was the Taliban. Before the Taliban there were the Russians and the Mujahideen.…

Australia can make a legitimate claim to being the most successful multicultural society in the world. At 26-per-cent we have the highest proportion of people born overseas than any other high-immigration nation. And that included New Zealand (23 per cent),…

AMES Australia SA staffer makes history AMES Australia Client Support Worker Rupananda Roy has become the first woman from one of Bangladesh’s 50 ethnic minority communities to earn a doctorate. She recently gained her PhD in Development Studies from the…

Australia still appears as ‘the lucky country’ for newcomers with more than half of newly arrived migrant and refugees attracted by our lifestyle and a quarter by our democratic traditions and freedoms, according to a new survey. But new arrivals…

Mother languages spoken by migrants and indigenous groups are under threat because of the rise of nationalism and increasing barriers to migration, according to a group of leading language researchers. This week saw the marking of International Mother Language Day,…