The number Australians either born overseas or with one parent born overseas has risen above 50 per cent of the population for the first time since the colonial era, according to a new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) snapshot report.…

The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors (MSWPS) has used its 113th annual Exhibition to show support for the Ukrainian community through a fundraising program featuring special Sunflower artworks. Sunflowers – ‘soniashnyk’ in Ukrainian — have been grown in…

The global humanitarian sector is struggling to keep pace with soaring needs and costs and reform is coming too slowly, a new landmark study has warned. The ‘State of the Humanitarian System 2022’ report, published by ALNAP, a global network…

Point Cook, in Melbourne’s western suburbs, is arguably the nation’s most multicultural community with residents born in 140 different countries. This is one of the fascinating results of the recent 2021 Australian Census’ deeper dive into cultural diversity. For the…

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth stepped down at the end of August after nearly 30 years in the job. Mr Roth has led the organisation since 1993, transforming it from a small group of regional ‘watch committees’ into…

A perfect storm of global crises have combined to push up levels of acute malnutrition in dozens of refugee locations across the world, most of them in Africa, according the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR. A new report, the ‘2021 Annual…

Aspiring international students have lodged a record number of visas applications in June, in what is a boost to universities and education providers looking for a post-COVID growth in business. A Home Affairs Department update shows around 42,700 student visa…

Bangladesh has asked China to help repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, in a worrying move for almost a million displaced Rohingya.   The deal stems from a visit by China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who as promised better trade ties, investment and…

One of the world’s leading scholars on refugee issues, Professor Stephen Castles, has passed away. The former Director of Oxford University’s ground breaking Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) died in Australia, aged 77. Prof Castles was Director of the RSC from…

Rising xenophobia, racism and hate speech in South Africa that is aimed at migrants, refugees, asylum seekers has drawn criticism from a group of UN human rights experts. The group of UN Special Rapporteurs warned that the ongoing xenophobic mobilisation…

Britain’s Home Office has been accused of “denying reality” by claiming that asylum seekers are “fine” with being sent to Rwanda, even after they have threatened to kill themselves in detention. Government documents published by the Observer newspaper revealed Home…

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued a warning about scams that are targeting people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities as well as people with a disability and indigenous Australians. Deputy Chair of the ACCC, Delia Rickard…