Young Australians are facing uncertain and insecure futures after leaving school and their working lives will bear little resemblance to their parents’, according to a new book. Monash University education academic Lucas Walsh says young Australians’ post-school lives are becoming…

Canadian social activist Naomi Klein’s new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate is ostensibly about climate change and the forces driving it. But it is as much about the destructiveness and wanton waste of our consumerist habits, corrupt…

A new report shows a quarter of all drownings last year involved people who were born overseas. Life Saving Victoria’s annual drowning report has identified several groups of people that require swimming and water safety education. Nigel Taylor, Life Saving…

Australia’s poorest urban communities, including many people recently arrived to Australia, are largely clustered in suburbs increasingly located in mid-to-outer metropolitan areas, according to new research. The report said disadvantaged places in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane encompassed significant cultural diversity…

In an extraordinary reversal of an exodus that has seen hundreds of thousands of Somalis risk death at sea to flee their war-torn homeland to seek refuge in Yemen, thousands of Yemenis are now fleeing from their own strife-riven country…

A 45-foot fishing boat that carried 66 asylum seekers on a perilous voyage across the Indian Ocean is to become a new exhibit at one of Australia’s leading maritime museums. Curators from the Western Australian Museum have started examining the…

Communicating vital information to a multitude of people that possess different languages and cultures can be a difficult but often lifesaving necessity. Understanding seemingly simple procedures such as instructions in an emergency can be impossible when the appropriate communication techniques…

When three of Syrian refugee George’s friends were killed during the bitter fighting in his home city of Aleppo, he knew it was time to leave. He and his parents and two siblings fled to Lebanon to live with an…

The economic cost of a larger intake by Australia of humanitarian migrants would be “small and manageable”, according to leading economist and former Reserve Bank official Gordon Menzies. Menzies, an associate professor of economics at the University of Technology who…

Former Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi has been appointed as the United Nation’s refugee chief as the organisation wrestles with the worst refugee crisis in history. The 58-year-old diplomat replaces the highly regarded Antonio Guterres, of Portugal, who was United Nations…

People from newly emerging culturally and linguistically diverse communities are much more vulnerable to become the victims of miscarriages of justice that the general population, according to eminent lawyer Kimani Boden. “I think definitely people from CALD communities are at…

Australia needs to ‘reboot’ the conversation about its refugee and asylum seeker policy in the face of international developments in migration and the tide of refugees sweeping into Europe, according to leading historian Professor Klaus Neumann. Speaking at the 2015…