In an extraordinary reversal of an exodus that has seen hundreds of thousands of Somalis risk death at sea to flee their war-torn homeland to seek refuge in Yemen, thousands of Yemenis are now fleeing from their own strife-riven country…

Leading businesswoman Ann Sherry has hit out at the lack of racial diversity on Australian boards saying that if businesses and organisations don’t get the gender balance right they stand no hope of meeting more ambitious cultural diversity targets. Carnival…

Forced to choose between staying put in a conflict zone with people around you being killed or maimed, and escaping with the help of a ruthless people smuggler, what would you do? A not for profit organisation is asking people…

A 45-foot fishing boat that carried 66 asylum seekers on a perilous voyage across the Indian Ocean is to become a new exhibit at one of Australia’s leading maritime museums. Curators from the Western Australian Museum have started examining the…

One is a television fantasy drama and the other one of the most interminable and complex challenges facing humanity. But the TV hit ‘Game of Thrones’ and the Syrian refugee crisis intersected this month when novelist George R.R. Martin took…

Learning and education systems are entrenching privilege in the hands of an increasingly smaller group of people, according to a leading sociologist. Professor Alan France says knowing how to ‘play the system’ gave more privileged elites the power to enhance…

A new initiative has been proposed to improve religious literacy to ensure religious freedom is appropriately considered in legislative and regulatory reform. Religious freedom advocates plan to take action to increase education on religion within government and the public service…

Communicating vital information to a multitude of people that possess different languages and cultures can be a difficult but often lifesaving necessity. Understanding seemingly simple procedures such as instructions in an emergency can be impossible when the appropriate communication techniques…

Organisers of White Ribbon Day have pledged to focus on the support and education of culturally diverse communities within Australia as part of the annual event, which raises awareness of family and domestic violence. ‘Diversity’ has been added to the…

Rising numbers of European and other countries are using their foreign aid budgets to meet the costs of addressing the global refugee crisis, according to a new report. The research published this week by Concord, the peak body for European…

More Mexicans are leaving than arriving in the United States, reversing a trend of 50-years of mass migration, according to a new study. Slightly more than 1 million Mexicans and their families, including American-born children, left the U.S. for Mexico…

The news media has this month been dominated by the tragic attacks in Paris. But, perhaps surprisingly, it is not Europe – and not even Beirut – that is the epicentre of global terror attacks; and Islamic State is not…