The plight of the Rohingya people, an ethnic minority population from Myanmar who have been forced to flee their homeland as a result of ethnic and religious persecution, has been a subject of recent news coverage. A wave of attacks…

Melbourne is certainly no stranger to street art, but its latest big edition is more thought-provoking than most. Fintan Magee, or ‘Australia’s Banksy’, has treated the city to an enormous mural titled ‘The Refugee’. The Sydney street artist spent the…

THE Tasmanian Government is considering joining a scheme to bring asylum seekers to regional areas in return for a better chance to remain in Australia. Read more: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/tasmania-may-join-asylum-visa-plan/story-fnjj6010-1227377247239

The 2015-16 Federal Budget brings good news and bad news for both the migration and humanitarian sectors and the broader Australian community. Ten billion dollars for young families and small business are the central pillars of the federal government’s spending…

One of the most toxic issues in European politics – the debate around immigration – plunged even lower this week with a standoff between leaders over a controversial binding quota system aimed at sharing the burden of accommodating the tsunami…

The Syrian crisis continues to spiral out of control with 210,000 dead and over 52 per cent of the Syrian population displaced. The Syrian Civil War, which began four years ago, has devastated not only its own country but has…

The Australian Human Rights Commission has launched a suite of free online resources designed to help promote diversity and prevent discrimination in the workplace. The Good Practice, Good Business resources were welcomed by business leaders as a necessary step towards…

Melbourne’s diverse and ever changing cultural landscape has a meeting point in the form of a three-story building. It’s called the Multicultural Hub and it’s arguably one of the city’s best kept secrets. The Hub, owned by the City of…

Young Western Bulldogs footballer Lin Jong was the victim of racial abuse from a member of the crowd at the MCG last Saturday night. Jong has a Taiwanese mother and an East Timorese father; and is one of the rising…

Blinded by a land mine explosion, exiled from his boyhood village by a brutal military regime and after more than 20 years stuck in a camp for the displaced, Karen-Burmese refugee Ngo Way still finds reasons to smile. The 46-year-old…

A small town in western Victoria could be pointing the  way forward for both regional development and resettling refugees after a new study revealed the benefits of embedding refugee communities in regional Australia. The program to resettle refugees in the…

Sentiment among ethnic groups in metropolitan Sydney may have had a significant effect on the outcome of the recent NSW State Election, experts say. NSW Labor leader Luke Foley may have lost up to 10 percentage points in his multicultural…