Community engagement key to refugee support
Deena Khamas Yako, director of community engagement at the Refugee Council of Australia, discussed the council’s mission, ...
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The real threat to refugees like me is politicians who give the green light to neo-Nazis
This isn’t the first time that we have been attacked by neo-Nazis on the streets of the city we consider our home.' ...
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The Soapbox: Tamils to be airlifted into the UK, heatwaves in Australia, coalition government collapse in Germany
In the UK, Sri Lankan refugees to enter after 3 years The United Kingdom will permit 64 Tamil refugees, including 16 children ...
Global community incensed by Israel's banning of Hamas-linked UNRWA aid agency should reconsider its ugly history
Even if the great grandchild of a refugee from 1948 has citizenship in another country like Jordan or indeed Australia, they ...
Tony Burke sounds alarm on Lebanon refugee ‘catastrophe’
Mr Burke said Lebanon’s growing refugee crisis was one reason why Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong announced in late ...
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Australia’s top court rules ankle monitors, curfews of ex-immigration detainees illegal
High Court ends curfews, ankle monitors for migrants in Australia, declaring restrictions on ex-detainees unlawful.
Israel has banned the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. That could be devastating for millions
Israel’s parliament has voted to ban a nearly eight-decade-old United Nations agency that provides essential services for ...
Israel's ban on UNRWA continues a pattern of politicising Palestinian refugee aid – and puts millions of lives at risk
Refugee and humanitarian aid is meant to be neutral. But funding is often used as a foreign policy tool. Israel's banning of ...
Australia ‘opposes’ Israel’s UNRWA ban: Penny Wong
Australia is among several allied countries calling on Israel to abandon legislation banning the United Nations’ (UN) main ...