Refugees Online

Welcome. Refugees Online is a project sponsored by Brisbane City Council to assist people who have arrived in Australia as refugees to access the Internet. This site is intended as a starting point for beginners, linking to useful resources in various languages. We hope you enjoy using this site. All feedback is very welcome.

Popular Websites      Women       Internet       Communicate       Get help with English       Media   

Popular Websites

Multicultural Australia. Information for multicultural Australians in many languages.
http://www.multiculturalaustralia.com.au

The Open Road. Links to resources in many languages
http://www.openroad.vic.gov.au/

Women

If you are a woman, you may find these sites interesting.

Internet

Internet Tutorials. Learn how to use the Internet.

Learnthenet, in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html

Beginners computer tutorial, in English and Spanish
http://www.northville.lib.mi.us/tech/tutor/welcome.htm

Search Engines/Directories. Find what you want on the Internet.

Google search engine language tools.
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

Thousands of search engines, by country
http://www.twics.com/~takakuwa/search/search.html

Free Internet service providers (ISPs) in Brisbane.

http://www.tpg.com.au/products_services/dialup.html

Buy a low cost, recycled computer from Green PC. Only for low income people.

http://www.greenpc.com.au

Communicate

Free Email. Set up a free email address for yourself.

Langoo. Send email in 75 different languages. Interface available in 10 languages.
http://www.langoo.com

Internet Chat. Talk with other people around the world for free.

Chat sites in various languages
http://www.word2word.com/langchat.html

Chat sites by country
http://www.chatinternational.com/

World telephone directories.

Australian White Pages
http://www.whitepages.com.au

Australian Yellow Pages
http://www.yellowpages.com.au

Telephone directories by country
http://www.superpages.com/cgi-bin/php/global/index 
http://www.teldir.com/default.asp 

Get help with English

Tutorials. Learn more English

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
http://www.englishclub.com/
http://esl.about.com/library/courses/blcourses_beginner_grammar.htm

Online dictionaries for hundreds of languages
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html

http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
http://www.freelang.net/translation/index.html

Language guesser
http://www.yourdictionary.com/morph.html#guessers

Media

News, newspapers, magazines. News from around the world.

Online newspapers by country
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com

World News.com
http://www.wn.com/

Ethnic News Digest. Australian news in many languages
http://www.nembc.org.au/news/

Music/Radio. Listen to music and radio from around the world.

SBS Radio http://www.sbs.com.au/radio/radio_set.html
BBC World Service in 47 languages http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml
Voice of America in 52 languages http://www.voanews.com/
Radio Free Asia http://www.rfa.org/front/

Radio stations by country http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/nation

International radio stations that broadcast over the Internet
http://www.cosmosradio.com/w-bc.htm
http://www.live-radio.net/worldwide.shtml

Music
www.netscape.com/music

Country Information

Human rights and general information.

Human Rights Watch documents by country http://www.hrw.org/countries.html

Amnesty International documents by country http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/index.html

CIA Factbook by country http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

US Department of State Background Notes by country http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
http://www.state.gov/countries/

Local Information

Health Services

Free and cheap English classes around Brisbane

http://www.qcoss.org.au/refugeesonline/english_classes.htm

Brisbane public transport - buses, ferries, trains.

http://www.transinfo.qld.gov.au/TransInfoNewJourney.asp 

Tourist information about Brisbane, Queensland and Australia.

Lonely Planet http://www.lonelyplanet.es/destinations/australasia/australia/ 

Brisbane TV and radio schedules

TV  http://www.ourbrisbane.com/entertainment/tv_guide/ 
Radio 4EB http://www.4eb.org.au/progguide.htm

Free Internet access points in Brisbane.

http://www.qcoss.org.au/refugeesonline/pdfs/promengl.pdf
http://www.ourbrisbane.com/about/ourbris/accesspts.htm#free 

Street directory

http://whereis.com.au 

Employment Information

Find a job online.

Australian Job Search http://jobsearch.gov.au/
Career One http://www.careerone.com.au/
Monster http://www.monster.com.au/
Seek http://www.seek.com.au/

Fruitpicking work around Australia
http://jobsearch.gov.au/harvesttrail.asp

Government Information

DIMIA Department of Immigration Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 
http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/home.htm
http://www.immi.gov.au/search_for/multilingual.htm

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission brochures in LOTE:
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/other_languages/index.html

Centrelink
http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/languages/index.htm

New South Wales Health. General health-related publications in many languages
http://mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/health-public-affairs/mhcs/publications/langindex.html

Australian government websites providing multilingual information to the community
http://www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au/linking/internet/multiling.html#Australian