Wealthy nations are failing to do their fair share in giving sanctuary to Syrian refugees, with just 1.39 per cent having been resettled by first world countries, according to a new report by Oxfam. Oxfam’s analysis came as Syria’s civil…

Yuhana Nashmi has just spent three months journeying around Iran, Iraq and Turkey recording the few remaining speakers of an ancient language, photographing crumbling manuscripts and documenting artefacts and sacred objects under threat of destruction. Yuhana’s work is part of…

Head of the Islamic Council of Victoria Nail Aykan talks about the issues facing his community. Acknowledgements for this story

A group of Karen refugee parents is receiving English lessons at the school their children attend in an innovative new scheme to improve outcomes for both them and their children. The pilot project is being run by settlement agency AMES…

Aid agencies are increasingly becoming worried about the emergence within the humanitarian sector of firms linked to the western intelligence and security establishment. One firm in particular called Palantir – among whose initial investors was the CIA’s venture capital arm…

Australia needs to formally address its long history of racism and poor treatment of indigenous people, according to aboriginal activist and academic Professor Gary Foley. Speaking at forum on social cohesion in Melbourne this month, Professor Foley said Australia should…

Last month marks one hundred years since the beginning of one of the largest and most rapid mass internal movements in history, when six million African-Americans began to move north within their own country in an effort to seek safety.…

The last surviving play script handwritten by William Shakespeare showed his empathy for refugees, a new exhibition has revealed. ‘The Book of Sir Thomas More’ play script is particularly poignant given the current European migration crisis and is to be…

Films and TV shows produced by major media companies in the US are ‘whitewashed’ and there is an ‘epidemic of invisibility’ when it comes to women, ethnic minorities and LGBTI people, a new study has found. One of the most…

Economic debate in Australia has descended into a narrow debate driven by pseudo-economic nonsense that is stifling ideas about nation building, according to a new book. Australia Institute Chief Economist Dr Richard Denniss says rather than having an open debate…

The Victorian government has announced grants funding designed to support Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) communities and organisations in becoming more inclusive of people from non-English speaking backgrounds. The Government hopes that the grants will help to reduce…

Australia has been asked to join a push for a new visa-free migration bloc with a new poll finding overwhelming public support to be able to live and work freely in “like-minded” nations. The push to have a “free mobility…