For Royal Children’s Hospital Paediatrician Dr Shidan Tosif, the rewards of being able to help some of the world’s most vulnerable children outweighs all the headaches. For the past seven years Dr Tosif has worked at the RCH – in…

As an escapee from an abusive arranged marriage alone in a strange country with no money, no job and a 15-month-old child, life looked grim for Ritu Dhar. Subjected to emotional and financial abuse and prohibited from doing almost anything…

One of Australia’s leading academics has outlined the importance of educational opportunities to people from migrant backgrounds while urging the nation to utilise their unique skills. He said encouraging many migrants harboured “productive diversity than can be liberated by a…

A new book by one of the world’s leading philosophers has laid out an ethical defence of multiculturalism in the face of rising condemnation of the policy by conservatives across the world. Canadian academic and writer Alan Patten’s book Equal…

A plan to make Tasmania the national hub for assessing refugee claims will be submitted to the federal government by a group of business and community leaders. The group called Tasmania Opportunity, comprising professionals, business people and community groups, has…

The Victorian and Australian governments must make ageing in multicultural communities a top political priority, committing to a state that is inclusive of older migrants, according to the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria. The ECCV has launched a Multicultural Aged…

The European Union’s top court has ruled that governments can deny benefits to citizens from another EU state if they have moved countries “solely” to claim benefits. The ruling has come as a relief to governments under fire from Euro-sceptical…

A teenage refugee from Afghanistan who left his family in search of a better life and is now supporting other trauma survivors is a finalist in this year’s WA Youth Awards. Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-10/refugee-acknowledged-in-wa-youth-awards/5880602

Australia’s immigration policies have been questioned by the UN committee against torture, which has demanded answers on asylum seeker deaths and claims of sexual abuse in offshore detention centres.  Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2014/s4125591.htm

The emergence of Africa as an economic powerhouse has been predicted for more than two centuries. But finally, Africa may be at the dawn of a new economic age, with growing exports fuelling a burgeoning new middle class. In 2010,…

A second wave of migrants escaping the Greek economic crisis has brought much-need skills to Melbourne and and inspired a cultural renewal in the third-largest Greek-speaking city. Victoria Kyriakopoulos reports. Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/greece-is-the-word-for-new-migrants-20141111-11k5cb.html

A plan developed by Tasmanian community leaders and human rights activists would see the island-state become Australia’s asylum seeker processing centre. The Tasmania Opportunity Leaders Summit in Launceston heard the case for making the state an asylum seeker processing centre…