Net migration to the United Kingdom has nearly halved over the past year to 431,000, according to new data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The drop from 860,000 in the year to December 2024 will help to defuse…

Families and people struggling with the cost of living are among the biggest winners in this year’s Victorian budget. The budget has been described as “responsible” by the treasurer Jaclyn Symes and promises a $600 million surplus for the first…

Hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity are on the rise across the globe for the sixth consecutive year, according to a new United Nations report. The ‘Global Report on Food Crises’ (GRFC), produced by the Global Network Against Food Crises, says…

Australia continues to host the world’s largest per capita number of permanent migrants in the world with 7.7 million, or 30.14 per cent, according to a new report. The ‘World Population Review’ report, based on United Nations data, found that…

Federico Ferrari uses his own experience as a migrant and a world traveller to volunteer to support new arrived refugees in Australia. Federico volunteers with migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia in Footscray, in Melbourne’s west, helping newly arrived…

An Afghan refugee who was forced to flee the brutal Taliban regime is now carving out a new life and career for himself in Melbourne and dreams of starting his own tech business. Ahmad Milad Mansour, 23, and his family…

The resettlement of vulnerable refugees in third countries has crashed globally since the withdrawal of the US from the United Nations’ administered program. In 2024, 116,528 people were resettled around the world with around 80,000, or 69 per cent, finding…

Asylum seekers are being illegally abused, arrested and deported from the US, according to a new report. The report, by NGOs Human Rights First and Refugees International, accuses the US government of “systemic and grave human rights abuses” carried out…

The humanitarian sector needs to adapt to the profound geopolitical change that is currently underway, according to head of the International Rescue Committee and former UK politician David Milliband. Speaking at a conference at Chatham House, in London, Mr Milliband…

India is set to eclipse the UK as the leading source of migrants settling in Australia, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The new data shows that while the UK remains the leading country of…

Hiring staff from culturally diverse backgrounds can be a boon for businesses, a group of entrepreneurs say. Diversity in a workforce can bring fresh ideas and new ways of working and access to a wider range of customers, they say.…

Refugee and migrant communities are breathing a sigh of relief following the Labour Party’s decisive victory in the 2025 federal election. The Coalition’s policies going into the poll included a proposed 100,000-place cut to net overseas migration and refugee places…