Australia is witnessing a small asylum seeker baby boom as couples who have fled danger or persecution in their homelands feel safe enough to start or extend their families. Settlement agency AMES has reported more than 150 babies born to…

Tony Abbott is the most famous Australian among new arrivals to the country and the Kangaroo is the nation’s most recognisable symbol, a new survey has found. Around 35 per cent of respondents to a survey of newly arrived migrants…

Papua New Guinea’s immigration minister says he will choose which refugees resettle in the country, an apparent contradiction of the Australian Government’s assertion that all genuine refugees detained on Manus Island will be resettled within PNG. Read more: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2014-05-10/png-immigration-minister-says-he-will-choose-which-refugees-on-manus-island-are-resettled/1309130

Former Australian of the Year and Chinese refugee Dr John Yu has criticised the Federal Government’s immigration policy as dehumanising and unfair. Dr Yu delivered the annual Mosman Address last night in the heart of the Federal electorate of Warringah…

More than twenty AMES youth students have taken part in a lawn bowls pilot program over the past two weeks at Blackburn Bowls Club. Now four students say they want to come and play on Saturdays. The club sees it as…

Migration is having a significant positive impact on Australia’s economy and boosting living standards, according to a raft of recent research papers. A recent study by consultants KPMG Econotech found that the continuation of Australia’s current Migration Program compared with…

Around twenty AMES students from Dandenong and Noble Park recently attended a migrant youth employment forum at Monash University’s Berwick campus. The students were eager to explore employment opportunities and make contacts with a range of employers – including Coles,…

Some of Australia’s major theatre companies have launched a bold initiative to better reflect Australia’s cultural diversity on stage. Working across three states in an ambitious new partnership with not-for-profit organisation Performance 4a, Playwriting Australia is seeking to inspire a…

As coalition foreign forces withdraw from Afghanistan, they are leaving behind a vulnerable band of people who were their ears and eyes on the ground. Those who served as guides, interpreters or even just labourers face a life of threats…

A quarter of the refugees settled in Australia over the past decade have come to live in NSW. While the Commonwealth notoriously ‘‘decides who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come’’, once they get here, settling…

Rehearsals are well underway for a performance which brings seven different ethnic communities from all over Gippsland together. Multicoloured Journeys will tell the story of how people of varying cultures make their way to Gippsland and settle in. Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2014/05/06/3998937.htm

Opposition Immigration spokesman Richard Marles says the Government needs to explain to Australia what it is doing about border security and asylum seekers. Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-07/government-has-dropped-the-ball-on-asylum-seekers/5435464