The deadly clashes on Manus Island last week flared after asylum seekers realised the Australian government was ”lying to them” about plans to resettle them in Papua New Guinea, a migration agent who worked on the island has said. Read…

REFUGEES might not be allowed to work in Australia, but they are allowed to make runs. The Australian Migrant Education Service (AMES) is running free cricket clinics for asylum-seekers in Sunshine. Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/west/free-cricket-clinics-in-sunshine-for-refugees/story-fngnvmj7-1226836764792

The documentary film ‘Mary Meets Mohammad’ was shown at the National Theatre on Friday night with a strong turnout of around 75 people in attendance. Presented by Braidwood’s Rural Australians for Refugees, the film is touring Australia with Amnesty International.…

Asylum seekers say the Australian government blew up their wooden vessel before sending them back to Indonesia in a life boat. Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/02/26/asylum-seekers-say-australia-blew-boat

A United Nations assessment has found Australia guilty of almost 150 violations of international law for indefinitely detaining refugees, with some labelling it ‘Australia’s Guantanamo Bay’. Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s3952255.htm

The group representing Australia’s psychologists is calling for what it calls a rethink of overseas processing of asylum seekers. Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/naca/radionews/episode/320058/Psychologists-call-for-rethink-of-overseas-processing

A new exhibition celebrates the contributions of migrant and refugee women to Australian art and culture. The Transience exhibition – at Footscray Community Arts Centre from March 1 to 16 – explores the impact of displacement and resettlement on women’s art and…

Climate change will emerge as the largest driver of human displacement and migration, according to a new report. The paper ‘Climate Change and Migration Dynamics’, published by the US-based Migration Policy Institute (MPI), has identified sea-level rise, higher temperatures, disruption…

AUSTRALIA has sent a group of asylum seekers back to Indonesia in a lifeboat, in the latest “turn back’’ under the Abbott government. Senior Indonesian sources have told the ABC that the large orange lifeboat was discovered at about midday…

WA’s aged-care sector says migrants could help address a shortfall of workers that is forecast to worsen as the population ages. Industry and lobby groups have backed a push by Age Discrimination Commissioner Susan Ryan to have aged-care workers added…

A “COMMUNITY passport” is giving asylum seekers free swimming, classes and healthcare in Darebin. Asylum seekers can show the passports to access a range of services free of charge through the Darebin Asylum Seeker Support Project, including access to swimming…

TASMANIAN youth unemployment numbers have topped national figures in a scathing report released yesterday by the Brotherhood of St Laurence welfare group. An average figure gained from the report shows that one in five regional Tasmanians, 19.6 per cent of…