A new World Bank study shows that giving migrants and refugees access to government services and support has benefits for the newcomers and the established community. A team from the bank worked with the government of Colombia to study the…

Dozens of Afghan families are being reunited in Australia following months of separation caused by the return of the Taliban regime in their homeland. In recent weeks the wives, children and extended relatives of Afghans who worked with, of for,…

For twenty years Omar Sobhani covered war and social transformation in Afghanistan as a photojournalist working for Reuters; recording the human cost of armed struggle as well as the hopes and dreams of a new generation. He never dreamt that…

When Afghan evacuee ‘Abdul’ and his family moved into his first Australian home in a quiet street in Glenroy, in Melbourne’s north, he was not expecting the welcome he received. The residents of the street – themselves mostly migrants, or…

An extra 16,500 humanitarian places over the next four years for refugees fleeing Afghanistan and some temporary measures to address the rising cost of living are the key take outs for the humanitarian sector from the 2022 federal budget. Australia’s…

A poet, writer and TV presenter with a deep commitment to her community has won the Melbourne Afghan community’s peak women’s award. Shugoofa Bakhtary is the 2022 Bakhtar Women of the Year, an award which acknowledges her “exceptional contribution, achievement,…

A new creative initiative to build awareness of the need the combat domestic and family violence in Australia’s Korean community has recently launched. ‘The Ari Project’ is a creative rendering of messages around preventing violence against women in the context…

Around 1100 Ukrainians have arrived in Australia since Russia invaded the country on February 24, according to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Most arrived on tourist visas but will be offered three-year temporary protection visas and access to work, study…

A campaign has been launched to have charges dropped against an Italian mayor who opened up his community to refugees and asylum seekers at the height of Europe’s migrant crisis. Domenico Lucano was the mayor of Riace, a village of…

Australia is missing out on the potential benefits of temporary skilled migration while also allowing the exploitation of migrant workers, according to a new report from the Grattan Institute. Titled ‘Fixing temporary skilled migration: A better deal for Australia’, the report…

Britain’s High Court has ruled that the UK Home Office’s practice of confiscating the phones of asylum seekers is unlawful. Reports from the UK say the Home Office has implemented a secret policy of seizing phones belonging to asylum seekers…

Among the dozens of comedians performing at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival is a young man whose start in life was not intuitively conducive to humour. At the age of four Oliver comic playwright and actor Oliver Twist fled…