Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says the Australian government will cover the costs of asylum seekers to be temporarily resettled on Nauru as refugees within the next month. Mr Morrison told ABC’s 7.30 the Government will give those refugees a small…

COUNCILS should set targets to make sure one third of their workers are refugees, foreign-born or from non-English-speaking backgrounds, a lobby group has suggested. The Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria wants to make it easier for migrants and refugees to…

Most Australians support multiculturalism and recent migrants are positive about life here, despite occasional pockets of community dissatisfaction, according to the latest Scanlon Foundation/Monash University social cohesion research. Two new reports, the Recent Arrivals Survey and the Local Area Survey,…

A Melbourne Baptist minister is walking from Melbourne to Canberra hauling a model of the wooden asylum seeker boat that brought him to Australia. The boat, with the words ‘Thank You’ inscribed on the side, will be delivered to Parliament…

ABC TV News recently featured an item about the settlement of Karen refugees in Nhill, in western Victoria. AMES and Deloitte are currently preparing a joint report that considers the economic benefits of the Karen settlement in Nhill. The report…

SUNRAYSIA’S diverse culture has a history of its own and is one that will be celebrated as part of Cultural Diversity Week, starting today. Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities Council chief executive Dean Wickham said the history of multiculturalism in Sunraysia…

The night Reza Barati died at Australia’s offshore detention centre on Manus Island, hip-hop artist Urthboy was already writing a song about Australia’s hard-line asylum seeker policy. ”[It] started with me getting my head around how we were using our…

With Australia’s asylum seeker policy and its bearings on human rights making headlines around the world, Cowra Shire Councillor Ruth Fagan said this year’s choice of guest nation for the Festival of International Understanding is more important than ever. Read…

Australia’s asylum seeker resettlement arrangements on Manus Island and Nauru will be questioned by the UN human rights commissioner. Australia is set to face a high-level international call to review its offshore asylum seeker detainment arrangements after the death of…

Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers is inhumane and lacks compassion, Canberra’s Christian leaders say. Newly appointed Catholic Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Christopher Prowse (pictured) spoke out about public attitudes towards asylum seekers at a church service at St Christopher’s…

The group representing Australia’s psychologists is calling for what it calls a rethink of overseas processing of asylum seekers. Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/naca/radionews/episode/320058/Psychologists-call-for-rethink-of-overseas-processing

TASMANIAN youth unemployment numbers have topped national figures in a scathing report released yesterday by the Brotherhood of St Laurence welfare group. An average figure gained from the report shows that one in five regional Tasmanians, 19.6 per cent of…