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New roots, new life for refugees in regional Australia

Salam and his family

Source: SBS

It's been almost three years since around 700 Yazidi refugees from Northern Iraq and Syria began resettling in Australia. Many of them were fleeing trauma after persecution by I-S. One of the resettlement areas was the northern New South Wales regional city of Armidale, where the community has embraced its new migrants.



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