Government-funded training places are continuing to disappear, according to the latest data. The number of people enrolled in government-funded training has declined 10.7 per cent to 1.6 million students in 2015 compared with 2014, according to the latest figures released…

Most newly-arrived migrants and refugees believe in low taxes, leaving the GST rate where it is and that Australia is still a land where hard work is rewarded, according to a new survey. But they also believe in climate change,…

Tomorrow, Hashmat Najib will vote for the first time in his life in the 2016 federal election. The 22 year old is a refugee and an ethnic Hazara and would never have been allowed to vote in his homeland of…

Australians are softening on the issue of offshore processing of asylum seekers, according to the results of a new polling by the Lowy Institute. The surveys, conducted in June 2016, also found Australians also oppose a Trump presidency in the…

The USA’s rustbelt cities like Detroit and Pittsburgh are staple backdrops for gritty TV dramas and Hollywood gangster films. But now refugees are helping to rejuvenate these urban victims of deindustrialisation. Cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Cleveland have struggled…

One of Australia’s highest-profile indigenous women who led a campaign to promote indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution has been appointed as the AFL’s head of inclusion and social policy. Tanya Hosch, a Torres Strait Islander and the second woman on the AFL…

In a satirical dig at the miserable conditions they find themselves in, a group of Syrian refugees has advertised the tent they are living in on Airbnb. In the advertisement, the Syrians say they have been living for three months…

Increasingly ruthless people smuggler operations using over-crowded, unsafe vessels is leading to a dramatic increase in drowning deaths among migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean this northern summer. About 2,800 migrants have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea so…

A record 65.3 million people were uprooted worldwide last year, many of them fleeing wars only to face barriers, tough entry laws and racism as they reach foreign borders, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said this week.…

A galaxy of international stars has weighed in to support refugees, refugee agencies and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to mark Refugee Week 2016. Cate Blanchett, Dame Helen Mirren, Will Ferrell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Margot Robbie and Patrick Stewart…

British MP Jo Cox, who has died after being shot and stabbed this week, was a humanitarian campaigner and aid worker for more than a decade. Reports say she was attacked by a 52-year-old man who shouted “Britain First!” –…

The Heartlands 2016 Arts Project focuses on ten young people from refugee backgrounds who use the film medium to tell their stories. Transcending cultural barriers, insights are revealed into the communal nature of humanity.