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How can AMES help you?

I want to learn English or get training

Learning English can help you meet other people, connect with your community and learn more about living in Australia. Learning English can also help you get ready for a job or training.

 

I want a job

Working together, we’ll find you the right job. We are Australia’s largest specialist provider working with people from all multicultural backgrounds.

 

I am an employer seeking skilled workers

We can provide new staff for your business. If you would like to list a job vacancy or you need additional staff with specific skills, we can help.

 

I want to volunteer

We make volunteering easy so that you can help newly arrived refugees and migrants make the most of their new life in Victoria.


 

Welcome to AMES

AMES is Australia’s largest provider of humanitarian settlement, education, training and employment services for refugees and newly arrived migrants. We link our services together to create better outcomes for our clients, which helps us achieve our mission of “Full participation for all in a cohesive and diverse society.”

  • 21-05-2013

    Sunshine Coast Daily

    Report delves into issue of refugee detention and suicide

    DELAYS in processing asylum-seeker claims and infrastructure struggling to keep up with the rising tide of boat arrivals were key factors in suicide and self-harm in Australia's immigration detention network, the Commonwealth Ombudsman has found.

  • 21-05-2013

    Hume Weekly

    Courting law: open day at Broadmeadows Magistrates Court

    LAW Week in Hume showcased the inner workings of Victoria's justice system at an open day at Broadmeadows Magistrates Court last week. Victoria's deputy chief magistrate, Robert Kumar, greeted representatives of various community groups and agencies, including Arabic Welfare and the Australian Migr

  • 20-05-2013

    Town & Country Magazine

    Overwhelming majority of boat arrivals deemed to be refugees By Bianca Hall May 20, 2013, 3 a.m.

    More than 90 per cent of asylum seekers who arrived by boat were found to be genuine refugees in the March quarter, figures to be released on Monday show.

  • 16-05-2013

    SBS Radio

    More calls for asylum seeker work rights

    Thousands of asylum-seekers are set to be released into the community this year without the right to work.

  • 15-05-2013

    Geelong Advertiser

    Boost to refugee services

    A large group of Sri Lankan Tamils was expected next week. She said changes to the bridging visas were behind the influx. Melbourne refugee services were "bursting at the seams", meaning regional areas were increasingly attractive as settlement areas.

  • 14-05-2013

    WA Today

    Lifesaver comes from a life saved

    When Kasim Mosawi arrived in Australia from Afghanistan last year, he was keen to give something back to the country that had given him a new chance at life.

  • 11-05-2013

    Brisbane Times

    Welcome to Victoria, the progressive state

    Politically, socially and culturally, Victorians are a breed apart from other Australians. Parochialism aside, Melbourne isn't some backwater; it's Australia's fastest growing city and, by some accounts, will be its largest in a little over a decade.

  • 09-05-2013

    Herald Sun - News

    Another blowout expected in boat budget

    THE federal government is likely to reveal another big blowout in managing asylum seekers in next Tuesday's budget.

  • 09-05-2013

    The Australian - National Affairs

    Asylum-seekers left in limbo with loophole to leave thousands with no money, work

    THOUSANDS of asylum-seekers, including women and children, face being left without any financial support from the government and without any right to work, when Labor begins processing

  • 08-05-2013

    Town & Country Magazine

    Asylum seeker families eligible for release on bridging visas By Bianca Hall May 7, 2013, 12:31 p.m.

    Asylum seeker families will be released into the community with no work rights and just minimal financial support, under changes announced by Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor.

  • 06/05/2013

    AMES is seeking more professional mentors

    AMES mentor program matches skilled professional migrants with mentors from professions – but our recent growth means we need more volunteer mentors.

  • 03/05/2013

    Melbourne Multicultural Hub gets a revamp

    As AMES enters in to its second five year contract to manage the Melbourne Multicultural Hub, the facility has been upgraded with new signage.

  • 24/04/2013

    AMES sponsors national FECCA conference

    AMES recently came on board as a diamond sponsor for the national Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) 2013 Conference in Queensland in November.

  • 24/04/2013

    AMES Youth are bowling along…

    AMES Youth from St Albans and Footscray recently took part in a lawn bowls gala at Sunshine City Lawn Bowls Club.

  • 24/04/2013

    AMES releases 2012 Annual Report

    Approximately 38,000 people accessed AMES programs in 2012 - read more about our clients and our programs in our 2012 AMES Annual Report.

Did you know?

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