Refugee holding child with words Refugee or Migrant? Word choice matters

Who is a refugee? Who is an asylum seeker?

26 December 2019

Get the facts Refugees in the world

Where refugees move to

26 December 2019

Get the facts Refugees in the world

Refugees and international law

10 May 2020

Asia-Pacific

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Resources Films

Jolyon Hoff The Staging Post follows two Afghan Hazara refugees, Muzafar and Khadim. Stuck in Indonesia after Australia ‘stopped the boats’ and facing many years in limbo, they built a community and started...

27 January 2019

Submissions

Submission to the inquiry into Australian aid strategic effectiveness

15 June 2018

Submissions

We can and should do more: Intake submission 2018-19

The Refugee Council of Australia's submission into the Department of Home Affair's Discussion Paper on the Humanitarian Program 2018-2019 examines priority needs for resettlement, the need for a larger and more...

11 March 2021

Reports

A Platform for Change: Reforming Australian refugee policy

13 April 2022

Interesting publications

Labour migration as complementary pathways for refugees in the Asia-Pacific

2 February 2019

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land we work on - the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and the Wurrundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay respects to elders past and present, and acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded. We also acknowledge the unique role Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people have in welcoming refugees and people seeking asylum to this land.