Australia is one of the top five countries in which to be an immigrant, according to a new survey. The survey by US News and World Review ranked the best countries for immigrants by assessing international perceptions of a country,…

Global migration in raw numbers is booming with the highest numbers of people ever moving from their home countries to others, according a new mapping exercise on global human movement. But despite the narratives being peddled by a rising of…

Migrants are more than holding their own when it comes to the nation’s bottom line with newcomers to Australia contributing as much or more in tax than native-born Australians, new data shows. An Australian Bureau of Statistic report on migrant…

Australia looks set to fill one of two vacancies on the United Nations Human Rights Council following France’s withdrawal from the process, according to recent reports. The appointment would be the first time Australia’s has joined the body and would…

More than a billion people were added to the world’s population over the past 12 years, bringing the total population to 7.6 billion as of mid-2017, according to a new UN report. The world population is currently growing by 1.10…

Migration is having a dramatic and positive impact on Australia’s workforce, according to a new study. In the last half decade, 80 per cent of new staff hired have been new migrants and without them worker numbers in Australia would…

AMES Australia is pleased to announce it has been appointed to provide the Commonwealth Government’s Humanitarian Settlement Program (HSP) in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. The contracts were awarded to AMES Australia and its partner organisations across Australia after a…

At just 21 Hamsa Farah has dabbled in politics, become a leader in his community and plans to work to save the barrier reef. The RMIT student was born in Adelaide after his parents came to Australia in 1994 escaping…

A Human Rights training initiative is helping refugees new to Australia understand their rights and the protections they have under Australian law. The ‘Human Rights Training Package’ was developed in response to frustrations reported by many refugee communities across Australia…

Last year more than a quarter of a million people came to live in Australia. Most new arrivals came from non-English speaking backgrounds and many came as partners and spouses of Australian citizens or residents, or as the partner of…

Su Sullivan says her work supporting isolated and disadvantaged migrant women makes her feel like a big tree. “Sometimes I feel like I’m a tree. A big tree with its branches stretched out like welcoming arms and a big canopy…

Global sea level rises could create hundreds of millions more refugees by 2100, according to alarming new research. A study by US sociologist Charles Geisler found that by the year 2100, rising sea levels could force up to two billion…