Welcoming Australia is an organisation and movement committed to working with any person, party or organisation who’ll move the dial towards welcome, inclusion and compassion. We’re committed to cultivating a culture of…
Territory puts out welcome mat
Chief Minister, Andrew Barr has announced that Canberra officially became a Welcoming City on last week’s Harmony Day (21 March). Mr Barr said the ACT’s membership of the network of welcoming cities demonstrated…
A New Year Heralds A New Name
2019 has already cast aside any doubt that we need to be ever vigilant in working towards an Australia where all people can belong, contribute and thrive. We have witnessed: Nazis and ‘white’ nationalists…
Thank you for being part of Welcome in 2018
Firstly, thank you. 2018 has been a massive year for many people. For Welcome to Australia, it’s meant thousands of refugees, people seeking asylum and recently arrived migrants have been able to find…
Lost in no man’s land
Dil is not afraid to get his hands dirty in the increasingly dry, hard, Two Wells soil. The novice farmer is banking on a decent zucchini crop to support his wife and…
Arms opened for refugees 10 years ago
On one wall of Tulshi Gu- ragai’s living room, there are certificates from La Trobe University. On the other are paintings of Hindu deities. Just as two cultures have equal pride of…
Children shouldn’t be used as a people smuggler deterrent
Founder of Welcome to Australia, Brad Chilcott, says the government should adopt Labor’s ‘compromise’ position to get children off Nauru ‘as quickly as possible.’ Watch interview – Sky News
Eight Melbourne Mayors Gathered Together to Defend the South-Sudanese Community
A group of eight Melbourne mayors gathered together in Brunswick today and take a stand against the media furore over “African gangs”. Mayors from Darebin, Hume, Moreland, Whittlesea, Yarra, Knox, Monash, and Melton took…
Melbourne mayors speak out against ‘racist African gangs headlines’
Melbourne mayors have come out in solidarity with their South Sudanese residents after months of the inflamed African gangs debate. Darebin, Hume, Whittlesea, Moreland, Yarra, Knox, Monash and Melton mayors described the commentary…