Nine Iraqi families have finally reached safety in Australia after living precarious and fearful lives in their homeland over the past four years. The families are those of interpreters who worked with the Australian Defence Force when it was deployed…

With about eighty different nationalities present in the community, Mildura has quietly become one of Australia’s most multicultural regional cities. Founded by American irrigators and populated by successive waves of Greeks, Italians, Turks and Croatians before and just after WWII,…

When Mohammed Alshawsh’s eldest son was approaching the age of 18, he and his family faced a difficult decision. A medical scientist from Yemen who had spent 14 years in Malaysia gaining a doctorate in immunology and becoming professor of…

As the Syrian civil war raged around them the children of Aleppo found solace in a simple card game. The game of Tabbeh, played with cards that came in packets of chewing gum, gave them an escape from the bombings,…

The barbarism of the Russian invasion of their homeland has shocked Ukrainians but deepened their resolve to fight for their nation’s survival. This is the message brought by a Ukrainian parliamentary delegation visiting Australia this month. Delegation leader Galyna Mykhailiuk,…

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles has vowed to speed up visa processing while also creating stronger pathways to permanent residency. In a major speech to the Law Council of Australia Mr Giles also promised to strengthen visa review processes. “A migration…

“My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage.” These were words used by former refugee Ke Huy Quan in his Oscar acceptance speech on…

Amid the chaos and devastation of the civil war in Myanmar, an underground education system is emerging. In displacement camps and small villages in areas beyond the brutal control of Myanmar’s military, children are returning to classrooms. Around the town…

Sport and politics have long been uncomfortable bedfellows. From the 1936 Berlin Games to apartheid era cricket and rugby matches and to the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, the intersection of sport and political causes have always generated passionate emotions.…

New York will open a new facility to welcome migrants and create a new agency to coordinate efforts to deal with the arrival of thousands of asylum seekers, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the 24-hour centre after more…

The Australian Human Rights Commission has put forward a proposal for a Human Rights Act which would consolidate human rights protections under a single framework. The Commission says Australia is the only liberal democracy in the world without a national…

The latest US Congress is the most ethnically diverse in history with as many as a quarter of voting members identifying as other than non-Hispanic White. Overall, 133 senators and representatives today identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian American, American Indian…