Australia’s soccer team has always been a reflection of the nation’s waves of migration and the current Socceroos are a case in point. During the 1960s and 70s the team was made up of mostly first-generation migrants from Europe. At…

The Myanmar military regime’s repression of its critics has taken a new sinister twist with civilian quasi-militia groups carrying our torture and murder, human rights groups say. The NGO Human Rights Watch says that the Myanmar junta has effectively outsourced…

Australia’s TV newsrooms are still dominated by Anglo-Celtic reporters and presenters despite the nation becoming increasingly diverse, a new study has found. The study says more than three quarters of presenters and reporters on free to air news and current…

Nine years after the then respective Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and John Key signed the deal, the first group of refugees from Nauru and Manus Island have arrived in New Zealand. The federal government confirmed recently that the first group…

Federal Attorney General Mark Dreyfus has laid out the government’s anti-racism strategy in major speech this month. Delivering the Australian Human Rights Commission’s annual Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture, Mr Dreyfus said “Australia’s continued success as a multicultural nation must include…

The number of people displaced by gang-related violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, has tripled in the past five months, according to a new report from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The report identified more 113,000 internally displaced people (IDPs)…

A group of the world’s most powerful CEOs has been quietly supporting the US refugee settlement effort get back to its pre-COVID intake levels. Led by Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai and Accenture’s Julie Sweet, the ‘CEO Council’ of 36 top US…

More than a year after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Afghanistan’s female flag-bearer from the past two Olympic Games is rebuilding her life in Australia. In July 2021, Kimiya Yousofi ran a personal best of 13.29 seconds in the…

The discovery of almost a hundred migrants found stripped naked near the border between Greece and Turkey marks a new low in Europe’s problematic treatment of people seeking asylum. And the incident has sparked a bitter dispute, largely on twitter, between…

Australians’ sense of belonging to the nation has declined over time, according to a new study from the Scanlon Foundation. But it also found that Australians are finding more meaning in their links to their local neighbourhood, local community and…

Modern slavery has surged over the past five years with 50 million people now trapped in work or marriage against their will, according to a new report. The report, from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), says the crisis has been…

Australia is increasingly becoming an urban-dwelling nation with the major cities seeing unprecedented population increases, according to new data from the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The number of Australians living in the capital cities increased by 2.5 million, or…