All posts tagged "asylum seekers"
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SCoA National Settlement Conference 2022: Building the Future Together
This conference will bring together sector innovators to highlight key achievements and develop strategies to build a positive multicultural future. Speakers will be drawn from the sector; people with lived settlement experience; academics; every tier of government; industry; and community service providers. The world has changed since the last SCoA conference in 2016. In that […]
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Outspoken, by Father Rod Bower
Internet sensation Father Rod Bower of the Gosford Anglican Church, discusses his life, social justice, and religion.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Lily and the Polar Bears, by Jion Sheibani
This picture book tells the tale of a group of stranded polar bears who are befriended by Lily at the beach, with an underlying message of acceptance, generosity and the way our community is made up by different cultures.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Children’s House, by Alice Nelson
Outside the house one day Marina encounters Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler, Gabriel. Unmoored and devastated, they quickly come to depend on her.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Book of Ordinary People, by Claire Varley
The lives of five ordinary people living in Melbourne as they ponder how they got to this point in their lives and how they struggle to improve their situation.
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742Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: The Power of Hope, by Kon Karapanagiotidis
Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre reads his own autobiography which is a story about doing what's right, protecting others, and finding hope and salvation through your own dark times.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Boat People, by Sharon Bala
A boat with five hundred Sri Lankan asylum seekers docks in Vancouver where the group are faced with allegations of terrorism and are forced to be detained and separated from their loved ones.
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1.6KLatestFringe Review: Refugee Stories, Secret Recipes and Dinner!
A Pakistani family who sought asylum in Australia share their story over a 3-course meal, providing an opportunity to ask the questions you've never had the chance to ask an asylum seeker.
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857Australia DayOur Favourite Australia Day Reads
Our book team has put together their recommendations for some of their favourite Aussie reads. Escape this Australia Day long weekend with a good book, from fiction and biographies to graphic novels and audiobooks.
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540Books & LiteratureBook Review: They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from Detention, edited by M Green, et al
Twenty first-hand accounts of life by people who are or have been in detained Australia's immigration detention, adding humanity to the debate for both sides.
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546Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Refuge Collection Vol 1, edited by Steve Dillon
The first book in a series of short story anthologies which revolve around the town of Refuge, an aptly-named haven for the unwanted and the unnecessary.
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482FamilyJoin In On ‘Walk Together 2015’
The annual Walk Together celebration of diversity will take place from 11am this coming Saturday 31 October in Adelaide and in 25 cities around Australia.
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511Film & TVGround-Breaking Simshar Screens For 2 Weeks Only
This powerful, ground-breaking Maltese film recalls the true story of a Maltese fishing family left stranded in open water when mistaken for asylum seekers.
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539LatestFringe Review: Pale Face Cold Blood
A powerful piece about treating humans as less than animals, of stripping the human rights away from the most vulnerable, and of the people who relish doing it.
