The Housing and Other Service Needs of Recently Arrived Immigrants is the final report of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The research found that recent immigrants made considerable use of government and other services, varying considerably by tenure, with home owners and home purchasers having the least recourse to assistance, and public and...

Independent rural MP, Peter Andren, stood his ground on asylum seekers and became more popular than ever. In this article, Peter Browne reports on new findings about why the voters supported their local member.

There is a better way of dealing with the needs of refugees arriving in Australia – whether with or without a visa, by boat or by plane. This 2002 document has been added to APO as it outlines how the process could be done with little need for detention.

Nicholas Procter argues that the mental health of refugee populations is influenced by global catastrophic events, by emotional connections with former homelands, and by local conditions and events. Health and human service workers who work with refugees must therefore take local and global contexts into account, and should recognise the importance of promoting tolerance locally.

This controversial report from 1987 identified major problems with the Commonwealth Government's provision of services to immigrants. The report had been commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Community Services, but was disowned by it. This is the first time a digitised version of this report has been made publicly available.