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Bibi Rahimi Farhangdost in the Indonesian town of Ciawi in February 2024.

Bibi’s father sold everything to save his daughter. He died before he could see her live

It’s not often enough in journalism that you can follow up a heartbreaking story with a positive outcome. This is one of those times.

  • Zach Hope

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A man holds an English flag during the Epping protest.

Protests spread across UK as police admit drawing rival groups together

Anti-migrant demonstrators and refugee-advocate rivals are coming together outside asylum hotels as an explosive dispute about where to house thousands of people crossing the English Channel gathers pace.

  • David Crowe
Faqihi said

How Australia became home to a million refugees

Sidiqa Faqihi waited a decade in limbo in Indonesia before she arrived in Australia three years ago and felt reborn.

  • Brittany Busch
Survivors of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime share their stories of survival and building new lives in Australia.

Rebuilding lives in the shadow of Khmer Rouge terror

Fifty years after fleeing Cambodia, survivors of the brutal regime share their stories - and reflect on how they found a future in Australia.

  • Neary Ty
Migrants run across the beach at first light last month to board small boats that had come to collect them in Gravelines, France, for the journey across the English Channel.

Poland, Germany deepen row over asylum seekers as vigilantes patrol border

Far-right vigilantes have also begun patrolling the border to prevent asylum seekers moving between the two countries.

  • David Crowe
Principal Charles Hertzog with students Raghad Jafari and Gulsum Saiahi at River Nile School.

This Melbourne school is one of the best in the world for overcoming adversity

For most Australian children, school is a place to learn and to socialise. But for some students, attending classes is an act of defiance.

  • Nicole Precel
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Abou Sangare in The Story of Souleymane.

This French drama is one of the best films I’ve seen this year

You will care deeply about what happens to an asylum seeker preparing for a crucial interview in this very human story.

  • Karl Quinn
The program is helping to bring Roua Elbashety one step closer to her dream of being a nurse.

The Sydney program taking Roua closer to her dream of being a nurse

For many refugees living in western Sydney, feeling a lack of support is common. But an education program proposes to change that.

  • Ellie Busby
Refugees ride along borderlands

How a river saved a village when war reached its doorstep

The day the fighting neared their village, the residents of Pu Lu Palaw made for the river. Thai soldiers helped them cross. But peace was only fleeting.

  • Kate Geraghty and Zach Hope
The scene in Footscray Mall on Sunday after a man was seriously assaulted.

Former Age photographer dies after Footscray assault

Dominic O’Brien, 62, died after suffering critical injuries during an altercation in Melbourne’s inner west last Sunday.

  • Ashleigh McMillan and Hannah Hammoud

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