How is the COVID-19 pandemic impacting the social fabric of societies across the world? COVID-19 has been a very important event globally, indeed many argue the single most significant event since ...

THE effects of racism experienced by students of Arab and Muslim background have been underestimated, according to a five-year study of almost 300 year 9 and 10 students. Research by Deakin University ...

Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation director, Fethi Mansouri, said issues of extremism should be dealt with through the legal system, not by linking it to the concept of ...

French police have raided Islamic associations and foreigners suspected of holding extremist beliefs, following the beheading of a history teacher who showed his class caricatures of the Prophet ...

A large number of people watching fireworks at Dockland Marvel Stadium Melbourne on the eve of New Year 2023. (Photo by Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/Sipa USA) Credit: Pacific Press/Sipa USA The ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced Australia will ‘open its arms’ to Hong Kong nationals fleeing political prosecution and offered extend visas for 10,000 Hong Kong citizens residing in the ...

The recent government announcement that temporary protection visa (TPV) holders may be permitted to apply for permanent residency offers hope to some of the 9500 temporary refugees residing in ...

ADOPTED by world leaders in 2000, the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide benchmarks for halving extreme poverty around the globe by 2015. If the eight goals — from halting the ...