By Akech M Manyiel

 Melbourne - Sudanese youths have moved to counter racist attacks by holding a national Sudanese basketball tournament.

By Jake Corcoran 

 MELBOURNE - Cricket Victoria has given a whole new meaning to multiculturalism this summer with its Harmony Shield competition.

By Nosrat Hosseini

 Melbourne - Australia may be sporting mad, but one group of Australians is not getting selected for the team.

Migrants and refugees are not given the opportunity to fully participate in sporting activity in this country and the nation could be missing out as a result.  The notion of fair play is not confined to the playing fields of exclusive Anglo Saxon private schools.  Other cultures also hero worship true sportsmen, who demonstrate that winning is not always the object of the game.

By Aimee Vinci 

 Melbourne - 'Kick Start' is an innovate program developed by the Flemington Community Centre to help young people who fall victim to physical assault and other abusive behaviour.

By Natasha Cooper

 MELBOURNE - They call their soccer team Lil’ Brazil, they dream of one day making it to Rio to meet their football idols but for now its Melbourne.

The girls of Lil’ Brazil come from Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Lebanon and even further across the globe, Malaya. But they proudly wear the green and gold colours of the Brazilian team strip in their matches around Melbournes’s northern suburbs.

The team is the brainchild of Hala Abdelnour of the Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre (SMRC) in Preston and Coordinator of a leadership group called the Ethnic Youth Council (EYC).

By Natasha Cooper

 MELBOURNE - The mixed bunch of soccer players, wearing equally assorted footy shirts and boots, gathered under an overcast sky for a mid-week training session on a ground in the shadow of a housing estate in suburban Fitzroy.

By Samantha Asbury

 SYDNEY - It’s been a great year for Australia’s latest swimming sensation, Matt (Matija) Jaukovic.

The 23-year-old Jaukovic, who was born in Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia, became an Australian citizen in January then burst onto the international swimming scene for his new country at the 2008 FINA Arena Swimming World Cup.