Migrants to Australia are among the highest earners and largest per capita contributors to tax revenues, according to the latest Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data. The figures also show refugees are the most successful business people of all newcomers…

The more someone uses a smartphone, the less likely they are to trust people from other religions or nationalities and even neighbours, according to new research. But the researchers found reliance on smartphones had no correlation with how much people…

When his bus was pulled over by armed extremists outside his home city of Aleppo, Syrian refugee Jack Dawli stared death in the face. He was hauled off the vehicle with several others and quizzed at gunpoint about his identity…

A group of Karen Burmese refugee women at Nhill in western Victoria have opened a social enterprise business in the town’s main street selling homewares and fabric products. The women, who number around 25, have been gathering at the Nhill…

An historic, though little known, solution to the response to the global displacement crisis and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants in Europe and other places may have been overlooked, according to a European academic. University of Bremen…

Adnan Hanna and his family are establishing new lives in Australia after fleeing Syria following an ordeal in which Mr Hanna was taken hostage by armed militants demanding a ransom for his release. Sixty-year-old Mr Hanna and his wife, Gorjet…

Take a drive through Footscray or a dozen other western Melbourne suburbs this week and you’ll see an astonishing sight. The power poles and public buildings are all decked out in red, white and blue – the colours of the…

Alternative ways of settling refugees in third countries have been outlined in a ground-breaking report that comes as the global humanitarian displacement crisis continues to spiral out of control. The report by migration think tank the Migration Policy Institute says…

The largest single movement of people in human history occurred in 1947 when India and Pakistan were partitioned in what were literally the last days of the British Raj. When the new Islamic country of Pakistan split from India it…

Two major international magazines have published strong editorials calling for a global action on the refugee crisis to mark World Humanitarian Day (WHD). Time Magazine and the world’s foremost medical journal, The Lancet, have both carried crusading editorials highlighting the…

Economies across large swathes of the globe could shrink dramatically by mid-century as fresh water grows scarce due to climate change and potentially triggering new and larger refugee crises, the World Bank has warned. The Middle East could be hardest…

Large corporate businesses have launched a push to broaden cultural diversity among their senior staff as a new report reveals fewer than five per cent of the nation’s leadership come from non-European backgrounds. The big four accounting firms – PwC,…