Forced into brutal slave labour at 12 and separated forever from his parents, Tibetan refugee Gyaltsen Yeshi is now content to see his own children prosper in safety. “My childhood was very hard,” he said this week at his home…

A second wave of Greek migrants fleeing economic austerity at home is arriving in Melbourne bringing skills and cultural renewal and bolstering the city’s status as the world’s third – largest Greek speaking city. About 8000 people have arrived in…

Former refugees who now call western Sydney home share their stories in a bid to eradicate stereotypes and put a face, and a personality, to the asylum seeker debate. Read more: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/parramatta/refugees-share-their-stories-from-war-torn-middle-east-to-asylum-in-australia/story-fngr8huy-1227441496132

A retired nursing educator from Brighton and a migrant from Lebanon who fate brought together as volunteer tutor and student have forged a friendship that has lasted 25 years. May Farrah and her family arrived in Australia in June 1989…

From the difficulty of shopping to catching a bus, refugees speak about what it was like to settle in Melbourne after fleeing their home country. Read more: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2015-06-19/my-first-week-in-australia-three-refugees-tell-their-stories/1460448

The European Union this week faces one its most important tests of solidarity; and it’s nothing to do with Greece defaulting on its debts. A summit of EU leaders on June 25th – 26th will discuss the continent’s burgeoning refugee…

As a former Mayor of Mildura and country lawyer of 50 years standing Peter Byrne has a wealth of stories in his repertoire and a rare talent for telling them. One story he relishes relating to anyone who will listen…

The ethnic make-up of Melbourne’s suburbs has changed dramatically over the past forty years, according to a new analysis of Census data. In the decades after WWII it was easy to stereotype suburbs by their ethnic make-up; the Italians went…

For the last two years The Welcome Group have been working tirelessly to supply much needed material aid to refugees in Victoria. The completely volunteer run group rely on donated time and materials to provide newly arrived refugees with the…

The International Shorts 1 at the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF) showcased an extraordinarily powerful and thought provoking collection of short films. A peek into the intricate complications of human kind, the one and a half hour screening…

Thousands of refugees are adrift in boats at sea in what is being described as a humanitarian crisis in the making. The refusal of Indonesia and Thailand’s military and Malaysia’s navy to allow boatloads of Burmese Rohingyas and Bangladeshis land…

East of Berlin, in a dreary clearing behind pine trees and a wire fence sits a three-storey metal building. This is just one of several ‘container cities’ that have recently started popping up throughout Germany. These temporary homes were quickly…