Welcome to Australia

Think creatively about what your welcome party could look like. How could your home, street, community group, business office or sporting group throw a party to share with your friends?

Invite your family and friends - and people you'd like to become your family and friends! Seek out new relationships and welcome people of all backgrounds, cultures and nations into your home, workplace, place of worship or club.

Share a meal together, dance, converse. Show the short film you can download from this website and hand out the information sheet. Give one simple message 'Welcome! We are glad you're here and thank you for all you add to our nation!'

We'd like to help you say a big 'Welcome to Australia' to asylum seekers, refugees, new arrivals and other migrants. One way you can do this is to host a 'Welcome Party' in your home, street, office, sporting club or other community group to very publicly celebrate the beauty and depth that diversity adds to our nation. There's also many other ways you can personally get involved in offering practical acts of welcome to new Australians. See the 'ENGAGE' page to find a way you can be a part of cultivating a culture of welcome in this nation we all share as our common home.

Welcome to My Place

Welcome to My Place is an opportunity for community groups across Australia to register as 'Welcome to My Place' communities and encourage their members to practically model welcome as an alternative to mandatory detention. Welcome to My Place w...

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One Million Welcomers

Add your name and image to the growing gallery of Australians who want to let asylum seekers, refugees and other new arrivals know that they are welcome in our nation. As you submit your photo please also share it on your social networks, and even ma...

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Sounds Like Welcome

Sounds Like Welcome a national initiative designed to provide asylum seekers and new arrivals with the gift of music. We're looking for donations of instruments and finance to purchase instruments which we'll match to specific requests from people in...

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Amity Dry

'If my family were in danger I would do anything to keep them safe and I would hope if we travelled to a peaceful country to seek a better life we would find exactly that. We are so fortunate to live in such a country, with enough room and good fo...

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Blue Mountains TAFE College Harmony Day BBQ

Blue Mountains TAFE College will host a BBQ for college staff and students to celebrate Harmony Day and to say 'welcome' to new arrivals. This will also include a display in the college library....

George FOMBA

My family and I waited for a resettlement opportunity in a refugee camp in Guinea for 12 years; my thoughts were plagued with the fear of an unknown future. Our lives were in limbo. We didn't know what was going to happen. It was there I promised...