refugees
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Digging the Aussie life
The remarkable journeys of two Brimbank men have become intertwined on the Metro Tunnel. Fares Haddad and Meseret Bogale are from refugee/asylum seeker backgrounds and…
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Doctor’s plea to find work
Iraqi refugee Aseel Yako has worked in some of the most confronting, pressure-filled conditions a doctor can face, but he can’t find employment in Australia.…
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A little ray of Sunshine
Two South Sudanese refugees are hoping their positive story will go a long way to smashing negative stereotypes. Kastro Chol-Mengistu and his boyhood friend Stephen…
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Small step to make big difference
A Sunshine charity is determined to raise $18,000 so it can bolster its work in helping children. The Refugee Migrant Children Centre has been working…
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Support group calls for help
A St Albans-based learning support organisation that helps students from migrant or refugee backgrounds is in need of aid. Edmund Rice Community & Refugee Services,…
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Program to help newly arrived refugees navigate health system
Newly arrived refugees will get a better understanding of Australia’s health system and the services they can access thanks to a new program starting soon…
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African lawyer slams Dutton’s refugee comments
A Sunshine lawyer from South Sudan has described Federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s comments about illiterate refugees taking Australian jobs as “racially based and xenophobic”…
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Musical gift for refugee children
An upcoming music recital will raise money to help teach Braybrook refugee children piano. The Piano Project, which sponsors piano lessons for refugee children and…
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Council should help rehouse Syrians: Kairouz
Brimbank council, local health and social welfare agencies and community groups should start thinking about how they can help refugees escaping Syria, Kororoit MP Marlene…
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AFL crosses cultures
More than 200 new arrivals to Australia pitted their skills against some of AFL football’s best last week to get a hang of our sport…
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Students and migrants not lost in translation
A new guide to help schools engage with students and parents from migrant and refugee backgrounds was launched last week. The desktop guide was a…
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Refugees slip through mental-health cracks
Refugees and asylum seekers are slipping through mental health cracks despite reporting higher than average mental health issues, according to HealthWest. The Integrated Mental Health…
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Vietnamese refugees welcome, 40 years on
Energetic, innovative and contributing enormously to the cultural growth of this nation was how then-prime minister Malcolm Fraser described Australia’s Vietnamese community. Forty years since…
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