This case study aims to make a contribution to the discussion on rural and regional settlement by providing community perspectives on how access to government services and community attitudes impact new and emerging communities’ economic participation, social integration, sense of belonging and settlement outcomes.

This guide lays out for the first time a framework for processing refugees fleeing persecution because of sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex grounds. Overview This Guide has been developed to: provide reliable information regarding what constitutes best practice in determining applications for refugee status based on sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex grounds; assist...

Explores the startling suffering of millions of refugees, from Lebanon to Kenya, the Andaman Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and calls for a radical change in the way the world deals with refugees. Summary In the past two years, the world has witnessed a growing refugee crisis. In 2013, for the first time since World...

In this chapter May Ngo discusses her background as a child of Vietnamese bakers in Sydney and how having a working-class background has influenced what she does now at university. The 'C' word appears at page 20, following the introduction to this book Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class edited...

Summarises some key human rights issues facing Australia and the world in 2015. Foreword Since our inaugural Castan Centre Human Rights Report last April, it has felt as if the number of human rights issues facing people around the world is overwhelming. The Castan Centre has found itself working on a number of fronts to...