The increasing prevalence of technology in leisure and learning is having a profound and potentially negative effect on how humans interact with each other, empathise and behave creatively, according to one of the world’s leading neuroscientists. Baroness Susan Greenfield has…

For Eritrean refugee Nadia Hassan Australia has truly proved to be the land of opportunity. The mother of three has built a thriving import and retail business in the heart of multicultural Footscray. She says that hard work, persistence and…

A seminal new United Nations report aims to reframe the way many countries deal with refugees and migrants, creating a responsible and predictable international system to handle them at a time when their numbers are at the highest level since…

With a rapidly ageing population and an economy stuck in neutral, Japan is having to kick start a national conversation about migrants and refugees for the first time in its history. Traditionally an insular society wary of foreigners and protective…

Germany this month announced new laws requiring migrants and refugees to integrate into society in return for being allowed to live and work in the country. Under the coalition government’s measures, asylum seekers face cuts to support if they reject…

He believes in God and he believes in us, the Australians who helped make his children safe. He’s travelled so far for so long across the front line of a global refugee debate that he views it only in forms…

Melbourne’s western suburbs will be home to more than a million people by 2031 and with almost 40 per cent of them born overseas, the area will be Australia’s most multicultural region. Wyndham and Melton have overtaken the Gold Coast…

This week The Greens proposed an increased intake of refugees in Australia that will rise up to 50,000 every year. The plan would see 40,000 refugees and asylum seekers given resettlement on humanitarian grounds every year. Another 10,000 refugees would…

The European Union is on the verge of breakthrough in achieving a consensus on the way the bloc approaches the migration crisis that has beset it for half a decade. The EU has finally launched a drive to overhaul its…

Australia’s population topped 24 million this week with the proportion of Australians born overseas hitting a 120-year high, according to the latest batch of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) population data. The percentage of Australian residents born overseas has increased every…

A group of Karen refugee parents is receiving English lessons at the school their children attend in an innovative new scheme to improve outcomes for both them and their children. The pilot project is being run by settlement agency AMES…

Aid agencies are increasingly becoming worried about the emergence within the humanitarian sector of firms linked to the western intelligence and security establishment. One firm in particular called Palantir – among whose initial investors was the CIA’s venture capital arm…