EACH week, RICHARD MARLES and SARAH HENDERSON give their view on an issue affecting Geelong. Read more: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/opinion/is-21st-century-geelong-still-a-multicultural-city/story-fnjuhr1j-1226949171646

THE tide has officially turned on the people-smuggling trade with the number of asylum seekers returned from Australian detention or offshore processing centres now outstripping the total number of those seeking to come by boat since the election. In what…

Acclaimed director of the Choir of Hard Knocks & the Choir of Hope and Inspiration Jonathan Welch is the choir-master of “Voices Without Borders”. Reporter Joel Carnegie joined the group at rehearsal to find out why a choir like this…

Cape Verde, the tiny island nation off Africa’s west coast, is a virtual microcosm of global migration. In Cape Verde, the number of people who have left almost equals the numbers who remain and just about everyone has a close…

An opposition Cambodian MP has expressed concerns about proposals for Cambodia to resettle refugees processed in Australian detention centres. Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/naca/radionews/episode/340886/Concerns-over-Cambodian-refugee-deal

The University of Washington, in the US, has become the first in the world to require students to complete a course in diversity before they can graduate. The university, sited in multicultural Seattle – home to truly global brands such…

ON his first day in Geelong, asylum seeker Leo Seemanpillai knocked on the door of Grovedale’s St Paul’s Lutheran Church and found it locked. He knocked again on his second day, then again the next, then again until his knocking…

Publicly funded training places are disappearing in most states, according to new data. The total number of students enrolled in publicly funded training across Australia for 2013 decreased 3.4 per cent to 1.88 million students from 1.94 million in 2012,…

Using bilingual assistants when researching culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities can dramatically improve research outcomes, a new study has found. The use of first language research assistants can deliver a deeper understanding of participants’ experiences, essential cultural knowledge and…

It’s the summer boat season in Europe. Everyone’s out on their boats, including tens of thousands of refugees from Africa making the trip across the Mediterranean. Not all of them make it. So far this year about 42,000 people have…

ASYLUM seeker Leo Seemanpillai dreamt of rescuing his Tamil family from exile in a refugee camp in India. He told them regularly of his hope for them to join him in Geelong where he had found so much peace and…

Youth students from AMES St Albans have taken part in an exciting arts project that has seen contemporary artworks go on display at the local Library and a nearby gallery. This collaborative project, titled ‘Brimming out of the Frame’, between…