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Refugee and migrant communities are breathing a sigh of relief following the Labour Party’s decisive victory in the 2025 federal election. The Coalition’s policies going into the poll included a proposed 100,000-place cut to net overseas migration and refugee places falling from 20,000 to 13,500. Syrian community leader Norma Medawar said many families in her […]
Some foreign skilled workers in Australia are being paid as little as $40 a day, putting them well under the poverty line, a Senate inquiry has heard. A Senate committee examining new laws to protect migrant workers from exploitation was…
Seven years after the start of the conflict in Yemen, the nation continues to face a devastating and unrelenting humanitarian crisis. A new report from the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR says 66 per cent of Yemen’s 30 million people depend…
The government of the Canadian province of Quebec is passing a law to effectively force all new immigrants to learn French within six months. Under its proposed ‘language bill’ all government officials will be required to communicate with new arrivals…
Bangladeshi authorities have bulldozed over 3,000 Rohingya refugee shops over the past month sparking claims the move will cause more hardship among the persecuted Myanmar ethnic minority Bangladesh’s deputy refugee commissioner Shamsud Douza confirmed the demolition saying the shops were “illegal”…
Germany says it will need migration to fill job vacancies crucial to maintaining the European economic powerhouse’s productivity. The declaration from Germany’s new economics minister Robert Habeck comes as a new study shows in some sectors of industry, migrants constitute…
The US government has pledged to adopt a formal definition of statelessness and for the first time to develop an official process to identify and protect stateless individuals in the United States who are not recognised as nationals by any…
Afghan refugee evacuees equivalent to the population of a medium-sized Victorian town have been supported to settle in Victoria since the Taliban seized control of the beleaguered nation in August. Since the end of August, migrant and refugee settlement agency…
The US has sent the first migrants back to Mexico under the reinstated ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. The Trump-era policy makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in US immigration court. The UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the two migrants…
Diversity and inclusiveness are increasingly being recognised as business imperatives, according to an Asian lawyers group. The Asian Australian Lawyers Association (AALA) says that diversity and inclusion should be “embedded” in organisational strategies. AALA members Dominic Nguyen and Kingsley Liu say…
The number of displaced people around the world increased to more than 84 million in the first half of this year, according to a new UN report. The UN refugee agency UNHCR says the rise in people forced to abandon…
Opinion piece – Barat Ali Batoor After a generation-long war in Afghanistan Australia made promises to the people of the country it did not keep, it now not only has the opportunity but the responsibility to act on those promises. …