New data reveals Kurdish is the second most common language spoken in Toowoomba and support groups are calling for extra funding to help Yazidis settle into the city.

Mawali Ali came to Toowoomba as a Yazidi refugee a few years ago from Syria. "It makes me so happy (being able to play with the Roar)," he said. "It was a once in a lifetime (opportunity)." ...

Toowoomba Yazidi community: CatholicCare no closer to receiving more funding from federal government to support refugees One of Toowoomba’s most vulnerable minority groups is at risk of being ...

In the past year many Yazidi refugees have been resettled in Toowoomba, QLD. Salim Haseen arrived with his family in Toowoomba four months ago. Mr Haseen is happy to be in Australia where he feels ...

Yazidi refugees (from left) Saad Adbi and Sulaiman Iylas run a business cleaning police vehicles at the Toowoomba Police Station. Officer-in-Charge Tony Neumann said the program helped break down ...

JANKEY Joweesh and his family have set their roots in Toowoomba, and he owes part of that to the people working at the Toowoomba Multicultural Centre. The former Syrian Yazidi refugee, who has ...

One of Australia’s largest communities of Yazidi now lives in the south-east Queensland town of Toowoomba, a city known for welcoming refugees. It is a regional-resettlement success story for ...

'They don't trust the banks' Behind Brisbane, Toowoomba is Queensland's largest refugee settlement location. More than one in 10 living in the city were born overseas. The most recent cohort of ...

At a time when others were closing their doors to refugees, Canada stepped in to help, offering to resettle more than 1,000 of the Islamic State’s most vulnerable victims, particularly Yazidi ...

These are the narratives shared by Yazidi refugees who were resettled through Canada’s Survivors of Daesh Program in Calgary and three other major Canadian cities between 2017 and 2019.