The inspirational, heart-wrenching and hair-raising stories of refugees who have found safety and new a life in Australia are told in compelling, first-hand detail in a new book. Refugee Heroes: has collected the visceral accounts of dozens of refugees who…

Ron Barassi Reserve is a small community ground in Melbourne’s Docklands. Flanked by the Bolte Bridge and North Wharf, it is the unlikely home ground of the Afghan national women’s soccer team. Since fleeing the fleeing the Taliban’s takeover in…

Almost 20 million people – or about half of Afghanistan’s population – are now suffering ‘emergency’ levels of food insecurity, according to the World Food Program (WFP). More than a million children under 5, who are especially at risk of…

Europe’s refugee crisis looks set to be weaponised by Italy’s far-right as the nation’s election looms. Just days after the downfall of Italy’s last government, Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League party, began targeting refugees. First up were a…

Over six years, more than 400 refugee and asylum seekers have been supported to start businesses by Micro-finance provider Thrive to the tune of $5.5 million, the organisation’s annual report reveals. The report shows Thrive is continuing to support refugees…

Balendran Thavarajah arrived in Australia in 2000 penniless and unable to speak English. Twenty-two years on, he is a successful tech entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies employing dozens of many people. ‘Bala’ grew up on Sri Lanka’s Jaffna Peninsula…

When Mo Farah, a four-time Olympic gold medal athlete, revealed recently that he had been trafficked into the UK as a child and then forced to work as a domestic labourer, it made headlines across the world. In a BBC…

The number of Chinese people seeking asylum outside their country has grown steadily over the 12 years that Xi Jinping has been in power, new data from the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR shows. The numbers of asylum seekers have increased…

Newly arrived migrants and refugees have higher levels of trust in government and politics than Australian-born people but participate much less at community levels, new research has found. Using data from the Scanlon Foundation’s annual Mapping Social Cohesion survey, Monash…

Most of the refugees who have fled Ukraine want to ultimately return home but around two-thirds expect to stay in their current host countries until the conflict ends, according to a new survey by the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The…

SBS has produced a fascinating interactive platform that explores data from the 2021 Census to delve into Australia’s diversity. The ‘SBS Census Explorer’ gives insights into the many and varied diverse communities living in Australia as well as the diversity…

Refugee families from the Syria-Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have achieved significant settlement, employment and social outcomes four to five years after arriving Australia, new research has found. A focus group survey of 35 families from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, commissioned…