Federico Ferrari uses his own experience as a migrant and a world traveller to volunteer to support new arrived refugees in Australia. Federico volunteers with migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia in Footscray, in Melbourne’s west, helping newly arrived…

50 years of Australia’s Vietnamese community Hieu Van le is one of the most distinguished former Vietnamese refugees who have made Australia home. In 2014 he was sworn in as Governor of South Australia after a career in business, finance…

The gift of a small tractor is helping to make flourish a community garden established in regional Victoria by a group refugees. About twenty families of Burmese-Karen refugees harvest traditional and familiar foods from the garden on the outskirts of…

An Afghan refugee has written a visceral and revealing book that reveals the practical and emotional plight of his generation, whose dreams of building a modern, pluralistic nation in their homeland were destroyed by the return of the Taliban. Mohammed…

The 2025 federal budget will see continued support for refugee settlement, but the migrant intake will shrink as the government weighs global economic and geopolitical instability against an ongoing domestic cost of living crisis. Australia’s commitment to settle 20,000 refugees…

Fewer migrants arriving in Australia and a jump in people leaving the country has seen the nation’s population growth hit its lowest level in two years, according to new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data. Australia’s population grew by 1.8…

Victoria’s Syrian community has held a peace vigil on the steps of Parliament House to call for an end to recent violence and massacres in Syria. The silent vigil was aimed at drawing attention to recent civilian massacres in parts…

Mexico has become an exemplar of refugee settlement in the wake of the US’ new draconian immigration policies with 50,000 successful recent settlement outcomes, the United Nations had reported. The UN refugee agency UNHCR has helped to support the integration…

The US Government under Donald Trump is preparing to revoke temporary legal status for approximately 240,000 Ukrainian refugees who fled Russia’s invasion. This places them at risk of fast-track deportation as the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year and…

Three Venezuelan rappers have created a song called ‘Donaltron’ – a protest piece in which they make their plea to President Donald Trump to not deport them. The song by a trio called Junior Caldera, Davicito59 and Luxor, has become…

Two MPs from south-east Melbourne have featured in a new book that tells the stories of migrant families’ journeys to Australia and their sense of identity. The federal member for Holt Cassandra Fernando MP and state upper house member Lee…

The European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum is in disarray after Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has refused to implement the legislation, throwing into doubt its practical viability. “Poland will not implement the migration pact in a way that…