Tango’s most famed track ‘La Cumparsita’ wafts across the dance floor. While pairs of elderly move naturally with the eight beat rhythm, others watch on from their wheelchairs, toes tapping. Later on, the residents will lunch on puchero, a blood…

Australia’s largest asylum seeker organisation is leaving West Melbourne after outgrowing its premises. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/central/asylum-seeker-group-launches-campaign-for-move-to-footscray/story-fngnvlpt-1226781573531

From the dole queue to running the business of the year, Port Melbourne trader Cesar Duran has travelled a long road. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/central/port-melbourne-migrant-goes-from-dole-queue-to-mexican-food-entrepreneur/story-fngnvlpt-1226780654549

Women are grossly under-represented on Australian boards and those from non-English speaking backgrounds are almost non-existent, a new report has found. Launching the report, ‘Promoting CALD Women’s Participation on Boards and Decision-Making Positions’, at this month’s Federation of Ethnic Communities’…

Australia’s controversial skilled migrant program has been “a wonderful success” that demands changes to the nation’s migrant settlement services program, according to Migration Council of Australia chairman Peter Scanlon. Speaking at this month’s Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia…

A ‘wicked problem’ is one that is difficult or impossible to solve because any solution necessarily creates other additional problems. Refugee advocate and government advisor Paris Aristotle believes the arrival of asylum seekers to Australia by boat is a ‘wicked…

Australia’s leading asylum seeker organisation the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has secured a commercial building at Footscray in Melbourne’s inner west through Ray White Commercial. http://www.raywhitecommercial.com.au/news/articles/office-building-at-footscray-melbourne-leased/

The cost of detaining asylum seekers in Australia’s Nauru and Manus Island detention centres is set to blow out beyond almost $1 billion in this financial year. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/11/19/15/35/offshore-detention-costs-rising-hearing

The ABC’s Lateline visited a special Melbourne Cup event held by AMES at Ringwood this week. Teacher Chris Walters and several AMES English students entered into the Spring Racing spirit with food, fashion and fun. Lateline reporter Karen Percy reported on how…

Settlement agency AMES is urging all eligible migrants to take up Australian citizenship to be able to enjoy all the benefits of living in a free democratic society. This week more than 12,400 migrants and refugees who have arrived in…

More than 332,000 new Australians will vote for the first time in next week’s the federal election. These people, identified by the Australian Electoral Commission as overseas-born new enrolees since 2010, have come to Australia as migrants, refugees or asylum seekers. For…