Craig Foster says that football is the perfect metaphor for a just and humane world. The former Australian soccer captain and human rights advocate says football represents a world view that sees everyone as essentially equal. “There are rules in…

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…

Newly minted federal MP Cassandra Fernando is the living embodiment of her South East Melbourne electorate. She’s a migrant, she’s hard working and she speaks her mind. And the new member for Holt, the first Sri Lankan-born member of Australia’s…

An Afghan doctor has begun rebuilding his career in Australia after being forced to flee when the Taliban seized control of the strife-torn nation. Dr Helmand Hassas managed to escape through a secretive, clandestine route operated by opponents of the…

The Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA) has announced its 10th annual festival which kicks off on October 6. This year’s theme is “Movement” Pohyb – Posun – Action – Motion – Progress – Change – Expansion. The organisers…

A stunning and deeply personal art exhibition by a group of Syrian women artists who fled the conflict in their homeland is on display in Melbourne’s CBD. The exhibition titled ‘Amal’, which means ‘hope’ in Arabic features 28 works that…

China’s arbitrary detention of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minority groups in the western region of Xinjiang may amount to “crimes against humanity”, outgoing UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet has said in a new report. The damning report, was…

Six months ago this week Russia invaded Ukraine sparking a war of attrition along a thousand-kilometre front line of death and devastation. The destruction and loss of life has resulted in the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe since the Second…

A new refugee peak body is seeking to give communities a direct voice on issues that affect them. The Refugee Communities Association of Australia (RCAA) was formed in 2019 but has been rebooted as Australia comes out of the pandemic.…

Former Syrian refugee Norma Medawar recently returned to her homeland for the first time since she left amid a devastating civil war in 2014 My first visit home to Syria since I left eight years ago in the middle of…

A year after the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban regime, despite promises to the contrary, human rights and women’s rights have been wound back and the country has been plunged into a humanitarian crisis. The Taliban has imposed severe…

They say sport is a reflection of a society’s collective ambition and a measure of its social equity. And for a group of freshly arrived Afghan refugees, a visit to an AFL match was a first glimpse of Australian culture…