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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

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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
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
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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
Nahji Chu in the street dubbed “Rue de Chu”. “I’m … tired of being in the background and all my people being quiet,” she says, “and that’s why I’m loud, sometimes rude and obnoxious.”

‘Real straight-shooter’: Lady Chu’s founder is famously brusque. She has her reasons

She has a reputation for being abrupt and impatient, but Nahji Chu is a survivor who’s built a flourishing Vietnamese food empire.

  • By Sue Williams
Abdinasir Abdullahi Salad died in the shooting after police said he lunged at them with a knife.

Somali refugee was shot by police in Footscray within 11 seconds, court told

Abdinasir Abdullahi Salad, a rough sleeper with mental health issues, was fatally shot last month after allegedly lunging at police with a stolen knife.

  • Melissa Cunningham

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