The Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) has produced a short report outlining the opportunities and challenges of refugee and migrant settlement in rural and regional Australia. Drawing on the case studies of Karen refugee settlement in Nhill, the settlemen

This case study contributes 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 sett

This report is the product of a collaboration between AMES and Deloitte Access Economics. Since early 2010, approximately 160 Karen refugees have resettled in Nhill, a small town in north western Victoria. The report provides new and important insights into the economic and social val

Steven the donkey – the story of Sunday Garang (Reproduced with the kind permission of Sharon Sandy, Student Wellbeing Coordinator, Latrobe English Language Centre, Traralgon.) I was born in a refugee camp named Kakuma, in Kenya.  In the camp, our life was difficult.  We had no

Purpose of this document This table was developed by the Victorian Refugee Health Network in conjunction with refugee health service providers in order to identify current practice to identify current gaps in refugee and asylum seeker health service delivery. The table is intended for

The Victorian Government released the Victorian Health Priorities Framework 2012–2022 in May 2011, articulating the key outcomes, principles and priorities for coordinated care in the Victorian health system. The framework provides the foundation for the Rural and Regional Health Plan

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCoA) produced this bibliography of Australian-based research and data on refugee settlement in rural and regional areas in October 2011. It outlines current trends and a great deal of the research is Victoria-based.

A simple equation is sometimes presented, that regional areas need population and workers and that refugees need jobs and therefore the refugees should go to regional areas. Our research suggests the equation is not necessarily simple. Both the Australian Government and the Victorian

“VicHealth, the Refugee Health Research Centre, the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture and the McCaughey Centre  worked together to identify and synthesise national and international research on the impacts of (rural and regional humanitarian settlement). This work in

These notes are from a roundtable discussion in March 2012 between rural health and settlement service providers, state and federal government.  The roundtable consisted of a mixture of presentations and workshops.  The notes contain a summary of the presentation and notes from the wo