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Telling the stories that matter - with empathy, insight and purpose
Telling the stories that matter - with empathy, insight and purpose
Islamophobia and antisemitism are on the rise in Australia following recent events in the Middle East. The ABC has reported Australian Muslims are now receiving death threats, verbal abuse, and physical assaults, while Muslim-owned businesses are being boycotted. The attacks began in Australia roughly seven weeks after October 7, 2023, and have increased compared to […]
AMES Australia breast cancer screening effort to feature at world congress A pioneering project to increase breast screening rates in migrant communities that AMES Australia helped deliver will be the subject of a presentation at the World Cancer Congress later…
The UN Refugee Agency and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have launched today an action plan to improve employment opportunities for refugees. The plan not only identifies the challenges, opportunities and best practices in the integration of refugees…
Community fair a hot with locals The annual Community Cultural Fair held at the Drill Hall last Sunday was another great success thanks to the enthusiasm and energy of Multicultural Hub staff and volunteers. The event featured about a cavalcade…
News outlets play the largest role in immigration content shared on Twitter, suggesting that there is still trust in the well-established, traditional masthead, according to a new study. The study by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre aimed to better understand…
African nations are effectively being forced to borrow money to support refugees, according to a leading expert on forced migration and international affairs. Professor Alexander Betts, of Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre, in an article in the journal Foreign Policy,…
Migrant women in Australia find life healthier, wealthier and more independent than in their home countries, according to a new survey. An overwhelming majority of women migrants find life in Australia ‘better’ than in their home countries and believe they…
Najaf Mazari says that there are very few Afghans who can remember time when there was not fighting. Before ISIS there was Al Queda and before that was the Taliban. Before the Taliban there were the Russians and the Mujahideen.…
AMES Australia SA staffer makes history AMES Australia Client Support Worker Rupananda Roy has become the first woman from one of Bangladesh’s 50 ethnic minority communities to earn a doctorate. She recently gained her PhD in Development Studies from the…
Australia still appears as ‘the lucky country’ for newcomers with more than half of newly arrived migrant and refugees attracted by our lifestyle and a quarter by our democratic traditions and freedoms, according to a new survey. But new arrivals…
More than 1200 child migrants have died since 2014 nearly half of them while attempting to cross the Mediterranean, according the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This represents less than 5 per cent of the total number of migrant deaths…
A global agreement on a framework to help manage migration for the nearly 260 million people living outside their countries of origin has moved a step closer with publication of two seminal documents. This week the ‘zero draft’ the Global…
Syrian twin sisters Maya and Sarah Ghassali have launched a radio program aimed at giving refugees the opportunity to tell their stories to the broader community. The ‘Refugees on Air’ radio podcast on community-based SYN Media regularly posts stories and…