Migrant and refugee communities are more vulnerable to natural disasters and extreme weather events than the general population, according to a raft of new research. The recent Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA) conference heard how new strategies…

Australia’s population is growing older and more diverse posing issues for the care of people in retirement, according to new population ageing research. Rafal Chomik, a researcher at the Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research, told the recent Federation…

Migrants are not to blame for Australia’s housing crisis, but treating housing as an investment vehicle is, according to Greens MP Max Chandler Mather. Speaking at the recent Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA) conference in Brisbane, Mr…

Racism is widespread throughout Australia and entrenched in society, according to a new report that sets out a national framework for tackling the scourge of racism. The report, titled ‘An Anti-Racism Framework: Experiences and Perspectives of Multicultural Australia’, was unveiled…

Imelde Sabushimike is the first woman from Burundi’s ethnic minority Twa people to go to university and to become part of the government in her homeland. Now Burundi’s Minister for National Solidarity, Social Affairs, Human Rights and Gender, Ms Sabsushimike…

On 7 October last year, 1200 people were killed and around 250 taken hostage in a Hamas terror attack on Israel launched from the Gaza strip. In response, the Israeli Government led by Benjamin Netanyahu launched a devastating year-long bombing…

Australia has been ranked 9th on a ranking of the best-skilled migration visa countries in the world. The survey, by New York based business magazine ‘Insider Monkey’, ranked the top 15 skilled migration destinations in the world. “Australia continues to…

The Afghan community in Australia has stepped up to provide significant support their compatriots suffering under the increasingly authoritarian Taliban regime, a new study shows. A survey by the Australian national University’s Migration Hub found that since the Taliban takeover…

More than 700,000 people, half of them children, are now internally displaced across Haiti, according to a crisis report by the UN’s migration agency IOM. The latest figures represent a 22 per cent increase in the number of internally displaced…

The US has committed to taking in 125,000 refugees over the next financial year, the White House says. President Biden has recently signed the Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2025. The document again set the refugee admissions…

Migration should be regarded as a solution to economic problems and the effects of climate change and not as population crisis, according to the head of the UN’s migration agency IOM. Director General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)…

Cath Scarth, CEO of AMES Australia Among the plethora of false claims uttered by former US President Donald Trump during his recent debate with Vice President Kamela Harris were two that have resonance in Australia. Trump claimed there are millions…