The gap between rich and poor in Australia is widening with the traditional middle class rump of the population starting to disappear, new research shows. A report by social researchers McCrindle found the top 20 per cent of households now…

A Melbourne asylum seeker has been recognised for two years of unstinting volunteer service to some of Victoria’s most vulnerable and ailing people. Saiprashanthan Candiah (Sai) has been volunteering at Monash Refugee Health in Dandenong for more than two years,…

Victoria’s government is merging its three key multicultural agencies to create one body to oversee the promotion of multicultural and social cohesion policies. The state government says its new ‘Multicultural and Social Cohesion Division’ will work to address the needs…

Migration levels to Australia have fallen by almost ten per cent over the past year, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data. In 2014-15, net overseas migration reflected an annual gain of 168,200 persons, 9.8 per cent less than…

Multinational companies providing Europe with security infrastructure to deal with the refugee influx are also among the biggest sellers of weapons to the areas of conflict which are producing the outflows of migrants, a new report claims. According to the think tank the…

Global migration agency the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is set to come under the aegis of the United Nations in response to the deepening world refugee crisis. An IOM spokesman has confirmed that member states had decided that it…

The USA’s rustbelt cities like Detroit and Pittsburgh are staple backdrops for gritty TV dramas and Hollywood gangster films. But now refugees are helping to rejuvenate these urban victims of deindustrialisation. Cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Cleveland have struggled…

More than seven in ten Australians would welcome refugees into their cities, according a global survey by Amnesty International. Australia ranked as the fifth most welcoming country to refugees, the survey found. China, Germany, Britain and Canada were ranked as…

A new series of short films is giving audiences a rare perspective on the refugee experience by presenting intensely personal and narratively diverse insights into the lives of a group of young refugees. The 2016 Heartlands arts project brings together…

The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has launched a program to support former child soldiers reintegrate into their communities across the globe. The initiative comes as Colombia’s largest guerrilla group has agreed to release all of its soldiers under…

The Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector needs a vital overhaul if it is to survive a deregulated, competitive environment, a major education conference has heard. And rogue operators need to be weeded out to ensure funding is spent efficiently.…

It has taken the brutal rape and murder of six-year-old Afghan girl in Iran to highlight the ongoing and systematic oppression of refugee minorities there. Little Setayesh Ghoreishi was allegedly attacked last month by her teenage Iranian neighbor Amir Hossein in the…