The Baghdad Supermarket in Craigieburn offers ten varieties of coffee among the cornucopia of mostly Middle Eastern and Mediterranean foods and produce on offer. Owner Bashar Audish will blend any of the ten varieties to customers’ tastes and he usually…

Images of thousands of Afghans desperately trying to flee their country through Kabul’s international airport sparked an international outcry. And as the US and its allies, including Australia, completed their operations to evacuate people from Kabul, the question remains: what…

A global group of city mayors has called on countries around the world to accept more refugees from Afghanistan. As the US and its allies finally exited Afghanistan after 20 years, thousands of Afghans are still attempting to flee the…

More children than ever are becoming migrants or displaced people, according to a new report by the UN children’s agency UNICEF. Around 35.5 million boys and girls were living outside their country of birth in 2020 and another 23.3 million…

The recent Olympics in Tokyo brought back memories of one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Australia’s migration program. It was 1956, and as the Hungarian Olympic team was heading to Melbourne for the games, the Soviet…

A refugee family with three children with disabilities have been supported to settle in Melbourne after a rocky start to their life in Australia. Salam Mardali and Wasan Jabbo and their four children arrived in Australia in November 2019 settling…

Refugees from Syria and Iraq are not being fully utilised in the Australian labour market and very few have got jobs at that are similar to the ones they left behind or commensurate with their education levels and previous employment,…

Former UK Foreign Secretary and leading humanitarian David Miliband has called for a rethinking of the 1951 Refugee Convention to better reflect the reality of human displacement in the 21st Century. Writing in Newsweek magazine, Mr Miliband said the US…

Migration is increasingly being used as a weapon by authoritarian governments seeking geopolitical advantage. Recently Belarus was accused of helping thousands of Iraqi migrants and asylum seekers to fly into its capital, Minsk, and then ushering them into Latvia, Lithuania,…

The Victorian Government is rolling out new funding to support diverse communities to stop family violence. The government’s strategy is to work with multicultural and faith communities to promote equal, respectful relationships while also funding measures to stop family violence…

Australia’s Afghan community has called on the federal government to immediately offer humanitarian visas to 20,000 refugees from vulnerable groups in Afghanistan, including women and minorities.  Thousands of Afghans across Australia hold grave fears for family members and love ones…

An Afghan refugee living in Melbourne has told the horrific story of his family’s fate after the Taliban took control of the capital Kabul. Dr Abdulatif Stanikzai, who fled Afghanistan in2014 after becoming a target of a Taliban execution squad,…