Six years after their first swimming lessons, Karen refugees Soo Hlaing Pethan and Ree Say Kunoo (pictured) have started work as lifeguards at Werribee’s outdoor pool. Since arriving in Wyndham after spending years in a refugee camp on the Thai-Burmese…

Migrant and refugee children could be falling through cracks in the education system because teachers are not equipped to meet the needs of students from CALD backgrounds, a New South Wales study has suggested. The study of NSW teacher training…

Accounting may be removed from the priority list for skilled migrants, the federal Employment Department has indicated. The department says there are now too many unemployable accounting graduates. “Vacancy levels are now at their lowest since the (job index) began…

There is hope a unique exchange program at Wagga Wagga’s Mt Austin High School today, will enable local students to better understand the city’s growing refugee community. Just over 30 migrant students from Chatswood High’s Intensive English Centre will visit…

The Country Fire Authority (CFA) is a volunteer and community-based fire and emergency service organisation focussed on working together with communities to keep Victorians safe from fire and other emergencies. Statewide, the CFA helps protect 3.3 million Victorians, and more…

Thanks to the heavens opening, Coogee beach was all but deserted at midday on Sunday, save for a large and colourful group of swimmers and surf lifesavers. Wearing bright pink, participants in the Migration 2 Surf program gingerly approached the…

AMES has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Royal Children’s Hospital in a move to improve cross cultural support for patients and families. The MOU recognises the growing number of families attending the hospital who do not speak…

Refugees who come to Australia often remain isolated in their communities, but a new day care organisation south-west of Brisbane is helping to bridge that gap by training migrants to become qualified childcare workers. As well as providing home-based childcare,…

Former Heartlands Refugee Art Prize winner Minela Krupic is bringing her poignant and thought-provoking first solo exhibition Palimpsest to Point Nepean National Park from April 5, 2014. The Palimpsest exhibition explores the stories of migrants quarantined at Point Nepean through…

Australia’s asylum seeker policy has come under the microscope today, at an inquiry held by the Human Rights Commission in Sydney. It is examining the treatment of children in detention. Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-04/human-rights-commission-probes-health-of-children/5368896

The second trip to Cambodia by an Australian cabinet minister in two months has raised questions about whether the Abbott Government is planning to send asylum seekers there. The Immigration Minister, Scott Morrison, has made a previously-unannounced trip to Phnom…

Hawa Hassan is no stranger to death and destruction. As civil war gripped her home country of Somalia in 1990, she and her husband fled. “When I left, it was awful. I saw people being killed, I see people die,…