Digital inclusion supports independence and social connectedness. Benefits include improved access to education and employment, health and wellbeing information, government and financial services, and reduced cost of services.
This toolkit has been developed to help settlement services and community organisations that support people from migrant and refugee backgrounds to settle in Australia. The toolkit is particularly aimed at smaller organisations, that might need some guidance to understand and
apply the various laws, rules and regulations that govern organisations in Australia. Some of these organisations might be receiving community capacity building support from a settlement agency.
SydWest Multicultural Services supports young refugees and migrants to engage and participate in Australian society by organising a visit to Parliament House Canberra.
In 2017 the number of refugees arriving in Australia effectively doubled the intake of previous decades. This is because most of the special one-off intake of 12,000 Syrian Conflict refugees that was announced by Prime Minister Abbott in 2015 in fact arrived in 2017. In addition, the annual intake of humanitarian entrants was increased to 16,250 in 2017-18. Most of these newly-arrived refugee families settled in NSW, Victoria and Queensland.
The Australian Baha’i Community has published a report on creating an inclusive narrative in our communities. It sought to identify what Australians understand about who...
Queensland’s newest migrants and refugees turned to TAFE Queensland for critical online support during the COVID-19 pandemic. As restrictions were introduced, TAFE QLD’s English Language and Literacy Services quickly activated plans for the remote delivery of the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP).
The National Education Roundtable – Briefing Paper provides an overview of the barriers to equitable access and engagement in primary and secondary education experienced...