By Katherine Kwong The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by Chinese communities across the globe on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. Recently it was marked by communities across Australia with food, cultural festivities and…

Australia has its first member of parliament who is from a Palestinian background. Muslim Labor candidate Basem Abdo has won the electorate of Calwell, in Melbourne’s north, despite a tight four-cornered election contest in what has traditionally been a safe…

Newly arrived refugee and migrant communities see gaps and issues with Victoria’s multicultural arrangements. A focus group of 32 community leaders in 21 key cohort migrant and refugee groups in Victoria said that while they value Victoria’s commitment to multiculturalism,…

In just 130 days in office, President Trump has laid waste to much of the US’ and the worlds’ humanitarian arrangements and infrastructure. He has effectively pulled up America’s welcome mat for the first time since the Statue of Liberty…

Opinion – Vanda Fortunato, Chair AMES Australia In the aftermath of Labor’s decisive election victory, there has been much commentary about how the government now has a mandate, and the moral authority, to push through generation-defining reform in areas such…

A new book argues that migration has been essential to the survival of the human species. Oxford University academic Professor Ian Goldin argues that migration has always been part of the human condition and that people have always migrated to…

Through her deeply personal artworks in The Shadow That Follows Me, Chilean émigré Ms Paula Quintela offers a perspective which is unique yet highly relatable. The fortunate among the readers might recall sheltering in the folds of a mother’s skirt…

Ten years ago this month, people smugglers abandoned more than 8000 Rohingya refugees and migrants on rickety boats in the Andaman Sea. An estimated 370 of them died. The deaths brought global attention to a crisis spanning five countries and…

Lack of jobs, economic opportunities and essential services are the greatest challenges for Syrians returning to their homeland in the aftermath of the overthrow of the al Assad government, according to a new report. The report, from the International Organisation…

Volunteering to help individuals can build skills and knowledge, enhance employment opportunities, provide new and challenging experiences, as well as deliver feelings of personal satisfaction through contributing, a new survey has found. It also delivers measurable benefits to those being…

Rather than a ‘brain drain’, the outward flow of talent may actually act as a driver of economic expansion, enhanced human capital, and amplified innovation in migrants’ countries of origin, new research suggests. A new study by the University of…

Human rights lawyers, immigration academics, civil rights activists and Democrat politicians have criticised President Trump for giving white Afrikaners from South Africa refugee status, while denying refuge to others. Trump swept into office on a promise to overhaul the US…