Despite being offered a scholarship, Ms Kashani says she is unable to study law because a condition of her bridging visa is that she cannot study at university.
"You're meant to have the right to study. You're meant to have the right to education," she said.
"That's been deprived of me."
"The difference between Australia and Canada is that you are imprisoned in Australia, and now you're free in Canada," he said.
"They (the Australian government) took our freedom, made us sick, punished us every single minute and separated us from our families."
While in Canada, Myo has used his experience as an application writer to help medically evacuate refugees and asylum seekers from Nauru.
Refugee sent away by Australia savours life in Canada. By Abdul Hekmat, The Canberra Times
Delegates passed amendments to grant asylum seekers study and work rights while their protection claims are processed.
The party’s policy platform was also changed to back the appointment of a special envoy for refugee and asylum seeker issues and to initiate a parliamentary inquiry into immigration detention.
Nicola Gordon-Smith is a former Australian diplomat. She served as ambassador to Afghanistan from 2018-2019 and head of the taskforce for Australia’s Afghanistan assisted departure team.
While Australia managed to get many locally employed Afghans and their immediate family out, many family members remain behind. And that is very hard for those people, who are experiencing fear and anxiety being separated from family members, loved ones. The issue of refugees requires regional approaches, and global. It is not simple, there are many aspects of domestic and international policy involved. It’s about people – it matters and it’s very difficult.
For the first time, migrants will be able to use their native language to take part in a major review of the government's multicultural policies.
Submissions for the federal government's Multicultural Framework Review have opened and, in a landmark move, the Home Affairs Department will accept input in all languages.
Submissions will close on 29 September, with the review expected to be handed down early next year.
Hopes landmark move will expose 'invisible' barriers migrants face. By Finn McHugh, SBS News
A review of 27 studies on migrant women's experiences of maternity care in Australia published by the University of Melbourne in 2022 showed many struggled to access interpreters, experienced hostile treatment and did not feel able to give informed consent.
“While there is nothing that will bring our Reza back or lessen the pain of his loss, we are glad that this case is over. We are satisfied that we fought for justice for Reza and are relieved now that we can try to move on with our lives.”
Kindness keeps Ali* fed each night.
His upstairs neighbour cooks dinner for the 33-year-old, who fled the so-called Islamic State more than a decade ago. Without it, he would not eat.
Asylum seekers left living in poverty as government payments dry up. By Maryanne Taouk, ABC
The BCA chief executive, Jennifer Westacott, said “two-thirds of Australians believe that properly planned and well-managed migration is beneficial to the nation”.
“However, there is a current misconception that our migration figures are higher than normal,” she said.
“It is important to recognise migration numbers currently recorded simply reflect a rebalancing after the pandemic border closures in 2020 and 2021.
“Our population is actually expected to be smaller than previously forecast irrespective of the current catch-up period of migration.”
Australia is raising its annual humanitarian program intake from 17,875 to 20,000 people.
"With more people displaced worldwide than ever before, the Albanese Labor government is stepping up to play its part in the global resettlement effort in a responsible way," Immigration Minister Andrew Giles said.
Mr Singh says that a shared collective experience between Australian migrants helps communicate the significance of the referendum.
"Most migrants have seen the struggle themselves — they've landed here with a suitcase and understand that it's a time to appreciate our First Nations people, whose land we are on," he says.
Australian company Canstruct was paid more than $300 million by the federal government to care for refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru last financial year, even as the number of people on the island dwindled to a few dozen and a diminishing number of services were being delivered to them.
The $1.82 billion paid to Canstruct over five years for the Nauru contract added significantly to the wealth of Queensland’s Murphy family, who were also Liberal National Party donors. Their family-owned company, Canstruct International, posted profits of $127 million after tax in 2021-22 bringing total profits to more than $442 million up to the contract’s conclusion in late 2022.
As Australia's immigration policies have been criticised — in 2019, then-United Nations commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet described the debate Down Under as "weaponised by misinformation" — countries like the UK are using them as a blueprint.
Aid agencies are expecting more than 5,000 refugees and asylum seekers to be left with nothing in the coming months, as a result of a years-long "chipping away" of the federal government's Status Resolution Support Services (SRSS) payment.
Asylum seekers left living in poverty as government payments dry up. By Maryanne Taouk, ABC News
"I attended a meeting organised by the district to discuss the police's communication with multicultural communities in Hume," Mr Ponsot says.
In that session, he says the region's police chiefs presented their accomplishments in working with communities, but they also spoke about some of the difficulties the police face. In particular, recruiting young Arabic people to the force, he says.
After listening to the police concerns, Mr Ponsot says he presented a potential strategy as to how the police could cut through the difficulties of working with multicultural communities.
The Greens will push for all people with disabilities to gain an Australian visa and prevent deportation in Federal Parliament. Currently the Migration Act limits people with disabilities from getting a visa as they do not meet health requirements.
Two years of ever-intensifying repression since the Taliban seized power in August 2021 have not dimmed the resilience of girls and women in Afghanistan, who continue to risk their lives fighting for their right to an education and employment.
Asylum seekers are being housed on barges, under the UK's newest plan to cut refugee costs in the country.
Australian travel firm Corporate Travel Management (CTM) have been put in charge of this arrangement using a barge as UK’s first offshore accommodation for asylum seekers.
UK begins housing asylum seekers on barge in Dorset. ABC News video 2:14 mins
But the entire time the Australian Federal Police were pursuing him for the phosphate crimes, Bhojani was doing lucrative business with a separate part of the Home Affairs department – offshore processing.
She wants to become a doctor, to help ease the urgent demand for more health workers in her regional area. But Juliet says she can't afford uni because she will face international student fees, despite calling Australia home for the past eight years.
She's one of the more than 12,000 "permanently temporary" migrants in the country.
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