Legendary UK filmmaker Ken Loach’s apparently final film is the story of what happens when a group of Syrian refugees are settled in a dying mining village in England’s northeast. At the start of ‘The Old Oak’, the name of…

A National Multicultural Health Framework at the federal level, and multicultural health strategies at the state and territory level as well as prioritising the collection and reporting of accurate and consistent data are among the recommendations stemming from Australia’s inaugural…

Refugees across the globe are coming under threat of expulsion by a growing number of nationalist or autocratic regimes. Syrians who found refuge from the civil war in their homeland in Lebanon and Turkey face being sent home to uncertain…

They are the forgotten people of cities around the world – gig workers and delivery drivers who go about their difficult and often dangerous jobs with little recognition or thanks. But an Australia-first initiative is providing a safe space where…

People from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities are being targeted disproportionately by scammers offering bogus jobs, according to a new report by the National Anti-Scam Centre. The report says CALD communities were disproportionally impacted by job scams as were…

It’s an awkwardly symbolic scenario when more than 50 years after the brutal despot Idi Amin expelled South Asians from Uganda, a British Prime Minister of Indian heritage is arresting and deporting asylum seekers to Africa. The historical comparison speaks…

A former Afghan refugee who employs and trains fellow displaced people in his social enterprise construction business has won the 2024 Australia for UNHCR-SBS Les Murray Award for Refugee Recognition.  Hedayat Osyan founded CommUnity Construction seven years ago to support…

Opinion by Jalal Ahmadzai – a former Afghan refugee who works in Marketing and Communications writes about the role of misinformation in social media and Islamophobia born from it, via AMES Australia.   April 13, 2024 – Panic ensues inside…

I have been living permanently in Melbourne for the past 20 years and in 2023 my family and I decided to go back to Nepal for a year. I needed to go back to be with my family but making…

Twelve years after he fled Iran in fear of his life Melbourne chef and humanitarian Hamed Allahyari can now call Australia his forever home. As asylum seekers, Hamed and his family lived in limbo as they tried to rebuild their…

Many migrants could face financial difficulty in older age, a new study has found. The study, by Canadian sociologist Leafia Zi Ye, says that migrants typically enter the labour market with lower wages than native-born citizens do, but eventually catch…

A global index, run by the UN refugee agency UNHCR, that publicly ranks countries by how much they are doing to protect refugees could work as a lever increase refugee resettlement. This is the suggestion of a leading academic in…