Australia’s newsrooms are failing minority communities and driving negative sentiment towards cultural diversity, according to a new study. The Deakin University study also found that too few of the stories about minority communities incorporated a viewpoint from that community. The…

Multicultural community leader and lawyer Chin Tan has been named the nation’s new race discrimination commissioner. Attorney-General Christian Porter announced Chin Tan would take up the role from this week. Mr Tan has most recently been working at Swinburne University…

The majority of young refugees resettled in Australia in recent years are adjusting well to their new lives and thriving, according to new research. The study, which looked at almost 700 refugee children, found the majority were living with both…

UN rep briefs AMES staff of global trends The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Representative for Australia and the Pacific Thomas Albrecht last week visited AMES Australia to conduct community consultations and brief AMES staff of developments…

The exodus of migrants from Venezuela is building toward a humanitarian crisis on a par with the movement of people across the Mediterranean, according to the United Nations migration agency, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Growing numbers of people…

A ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ is underway with the disruptive impacts of technology affecting change in workplaces and having significant implications for employment and training, particularly the demand for specific skills and capabilities. A raft of new research is examining how…

Afghan refugee Mirwais Janbaz vividly remembers his first brush with death. As a seven-year-old he was sent by his family to buy bread at a shop just 100 metres from his home. “I was just ten metres from the bread…

Migration continues to be a defining political and social issue in Europe but the rhetoric and hyperbole coming from some of Europe’s populist leaders are not backed up by the latest numbers and trends in the flow of people into…

More than 70 children who have been separated from their parents by the US government’s draconian asylum seeker policy have gone missing in the nation’s labyrinthine system of immigration detention. The US government has not been able to find the…

Australian TV audiences across the country have fare-welled and thanked SBS newsreader Lee Lin Chin after she announced her resignation from the broadcaster last week. Hundreds of social media posts applauded Chin – who was born in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta…

The contributions migrants have made to Australia over seven decades is being celebrated in a photographic exhibition and a series of web-based stories compiled by migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia. The ‘Heartlands 2018: What Makes an Australian’ project…

Human migration out of Africa began more than two million years ago – much earlier than previously thought – according to analyses of ancient tools and bones recently discovered in China. Artefacts found by archaeologists on the Loess Plateau in…