Playing the music he loves put Iranian saxophonist Hadi Mohammadi in an invidious position. Either give up his dream of carving a career and a life out of music or risk ending up in jail – or worse. The crackdown…

THE ROTARY Club of Laurieton will host the Hope Road walkers on Monday July14. Zacharia Mawat Machiek is walking 900 kilometres from Tweed Heads to Sydney to raise the money to build a primary school in his home village in…

FACING questions this morning on the High Court’s decision to temporarily stop the Australian Government delivering Tamil asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Tony Abbott would only say he remained committed to stopping the boats. Sunrise host and…

The UK Government’s new restrictions on migration are having a negative impact on the nation’s economic outlook, according to new research. A study by Oxford University’s Migration Laboratory says that government curbs on highly skilled migrants have shrunk the pool…

The fate of around 200 Tamil asylum seekers remains a mystery as Australia’s Federal Government continues its silence on their whereabouts. Read more: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2014-07-06/fate-of-tamils-remains-a-mystery/1338720

The United Nations’ refugee agency has expressed ‘profound concern’ about reports that refugees seeking Australia’s protection are being intercepted and processed at sea. The Abbott government has refused to confirm or deny Tamil asylum seekers were intercepted trying to reach…

The United Nations has called on the Abbott Government to properly consider claims for protection from asylum seekers amid allegations Australian authorities are attempting to return more than 200 boat people to Sri Lanka. Read more: https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/24384567/un-seeks-boat-people-pledge/

Hieu Van Le came to Australia 36 years ago as a refugee. Now he is about to become the first Asian migrant to rise to the position of governor of South Australia. Mr Le’s arrival in Australia was a far…

Migrant workers have long been a driving force behind the taxi industry, but a new exhibition shows that cab driving can be more than just a source of income. Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/06/30/migrants-driving-force-behind-taxi-industry

Rights groups are calling on Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to take a tough stance in talks with Myanmar’s government amid a deteriorating humanitarian crisis affecting thousands of ethnic Muslim Rohingyas in refugee camps in Rakhine state. Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/07/02/bishop-urged-take-cause-rohingyas

Sunni insurgents sweeping through Iraq as Shia militias mobilise against them; the Syrian conflict reaching new heights of brutality and Australian journalist Peter Greste jailed for seven years in Egypt on charges no one, including the prosecutors, has any clue…

The number of people living as refugees from war or persecution has exceeded 50 million for the first time since WWII, according to the United Nations. The overall figure of 51.2 million for 2013 is six million higher than the…