It’s the lunch time rush in an eatery at Campbellfield in Melbourne’s north and an Australian couple sits in the window seat sharing a plate of kebabs; a Chinese family is sitting in a back corner eating pulao rice and…

Future reforms to Australia’s mental health system must include a focus on assisting those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) in order to achieve extensive and inclusive benefits, according to the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Council of Australia (FECCA).…

Education activist and terror attack survivor Malala Yousafzai has put US presidential candidate Donald Trump back in his place and provided food for thought for any other politicians attacking people of the Muslim faith. “The more you speak about Islam…

As 2015 draws to an end, world leaders are locked in intractable debates over how to react to a spiraling global migration emergency and all of the humanitarian issues it is creating. There has been a significant jump in first-time…

The number of people forced to flee war or conflict will top 60 million before the end of 2015, the United Nations refugee agency has said, creating the worst refugee crisis in history. One in every 122 people on Earth…

As the end of 2015 approaches and with more than a million asylum seekers registered in Germany and hundreds of thousands in other European nations, debate about global migration is getting a whole lot more complicated and sometimes bizarre. In…

Two bizarre interconnected and unsettling debates are going on in the US currently about perceived threats to the nation. And these debates – about whether or not to allow Syrian refugees to settle in the US, and whether stricter gun…

Hani and Hayam Pito are not your average refugees. As comfortable, middle-class professionals the future looked bright for them and their eight-year-old son Elias. Working as English teachers in the Syrian city of Al-Hasekah, they had a nice home, a…

A celebrity makeup artist who is a former Yugoslavian refugee has launched a poster campaign to show refugees’ important contributions to Australian society. The posters aim to shed a positive light on asylum seekers who come by boat and to…

Forced to choose between staying put in a conflict zone with people around you being killed or maimed, and escaping with the help of a ruthless people smuggler, what would you do? A not for profit organisation is asking people…

A new exhibition of compelling images from the island nation of Nauru offers an alternative perspective on a place that has become synonymous with the offshore detention of asylum seekers. Photographer Sally McInerney has produced a series of candid portraits…

The death toll in the Syrian conflict has risen beyond 200,000 people after four-and-a-half-years of civil war. The violence has forced more than four million to flee the country, fueling a refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe and…