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Rural Australians for Refugees - www.ruralaustraliansforrefugees.com
- (national website)
Rural Australians for Refugees (RAR) began in the Southern Highlands of NSW,
in October 2001.
"We are an informal group of concerned citizens, prepared to work hard to
turn this country away from an inhumane and bizarre policy. Our members
range from National Party to Greens - we never ask about each other's
political allegiances."
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Justice For Refugees - www.justiceforrefugees.asn.au
- Justice for Refugees SA aims to advocate, lobby and build community
support for the just and humane treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
by the Australian government as stipulated by international human rights
mandates. Justice for Refugees also aims to work towards creating a society
which is well informed about this issue and committed to actively supporting
and welcoming refugees and asylum seekers to Australia.
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A Just Australia - www.ajustaustralia.com
- We propose twelve fundamental principles for good policy and practice
towards asylum seekers, for consideration and endorsement by our fellow
Australians.
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Parliament for Refugees - List of Federal Members of Parliament
- I trust this will update as time slowly moves towards the 2007! election. Members will have links to statements they
have made about the Howard government's treatment of asylum seekers and refugees prior to or during the 2004 campaign..
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Project SafeCom Inc - www.safecom.org.au/refugees.htm
- A WA based organization advocating for refugees. Substantial information and resources with lots of suggestions and avenues for action. A must see site.
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Activists Rights - Legal Information and Resources
- Vital legal information is now readily available for Australian activist
networks, movements and individuals on the internet thanks to 'Activist
Rights'. The new website was launched by the Fitzroy Legal Service at
the SKA TV Activist Awards on Wednesday 6 October 2004.
Publications
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Another Country,
writers in detention
- eds Tom Keneally and Rosie Scott Sydney PEN & Halstead Press (2005)
Writes Arnold Zable: "Welcome to 'Another Country', a
land out of sight, and mind, for many of us who inhabit the larger
country that surrounds it. Its outposts are urban detention centres such
as Melbourne's Maribyrnong, and Sydney's Villawood."
"The heart of this country, however, is located far from the
cities, in state-of-the-art Baxter detention centre, remote Port Hedland
on the north west coast, in distant Christmas Island, or quarantined in
Nauru, out of bounds for independent eye witnesses."
"There is, however, a short cut to this 'country', a collection of
writing penned within its razor-wire borders."
"Listening to these voices is like looking into a mirror. They come not
from strangers but from men and women who are already fellow citizens, close and clearly
recognisable, of the same world we live in." - David Malouf, novelist and Sydney
PEN member.
"These are journalists, playwrights, fiction writers, poets and cartoonists
whose escape from tyranny in their own countries has made them strong enough to speak
out eloquently against injustice here." See Sydney Pen: Writers in Detention
Full details, including SafeCom online
ordering form:
http://www.safecom.org.au/another-country.htm
- Following them Home: The fate of the returned asylum seekers
- by David Corlett Black Books (2005)
"One of the things that I found that was almost universal
was that the implications of Australia’s detention policies continued to
affect people’s lives as they had been returned. People spoke of ongoing
sleep difficulties, continuing nightmares, headaches that were
persistent. They spoke of, as a result of Australia’s asylum seeker
policies, of losing their dignity, of having lost their humanity, and
they also spoke of being institutionalised in Australia’s detention
regime."
"There were a couple of instances in Iran of people who had been sent
back with documents that put them at risk, and they were interrogated as
a result of those documents. So there were different experiences of
returnees, depending on where they came from, where they were returned
to." (author David Corlett on ABC's 'The Law Report')
http://www.safecom.org.au/following-them-home.htm
- A Certain Maritime Incident - The sinking of SIEV X
- by Tony Kevin. Scribe Publications, Melbourne. (2004)
The story of the sinking of the asylum seeker boat known as SIEV X and
a few courageous individuals determined to get at the truth
of how 353 people, mostly women and children, died while seeking to reunite
their families and rebuild their lives in Australia.
- DARK DREAMS: AUSTRALIAN REFUGEE STORIES
- written by young people 11-20 years of age.
From the Australia IS Refugees! School Competition 2002, a nationwide
writing project run by Australians Against Racism.
"To read this collection has been an experience both painful and
rewarding. The accounts which communicate the traumatic events sear us
with their authenticity and their humanity. From Holocaust survivors,
Vietnamese boat people on to contemporary refugees fleeing oppression
in Afghanistan or Iraq, Sri Lanka or Africa, these are accounts
we must heed, and learn from." - Tom Shapcott
"We have not been allowed to know the (recent) refugees as human beings . . .
These stories change all that and force a personal response from the reader."
- Phillip Adams
- Desert Sorrow - Asylum Seekers at Woomera.
- by Tom Mann. Wakefield Press. (2003)
Desert Sorrow gives an extraordinary and important insightt into the secret
daily life behind the wire of detention.
- Refugees, Morality and Public Policy.
- The Jesuit Lenten Seminars 2002 and 2000 David Lovell Publishing (2002)
- Asylum - Voices behind the Razor Wire
- by Heather Tyler Lothian Press (2003)
Asylum ocuments the impact that Government policy is having on the physical and emotional
well-being of men, women and children, an exposes the role the media has played.
- From Nothing to Zero - Letters from Refugees in Australia's Detention Centres
Prefaced by Julian Burnside QC. Lonely Planet (2003)
- Tampering with Asylum - A Universal Humanitarian Problem
- Frank Brennan UQP (2003)
Governments around the world are understandably anxious to maintain orderly migration programs
in hte face of unscrupulous people-smuggling operations. Brennan compares Australia's
response with that of the US and Europe and provides a practicle blueprint for countries
to humanely protect asylum seekers.
- Dark Victory
- David Marr and Marion Wilkinson. Allen and Unwin (2003)
Dark Victory is the secret history of John Howard's campaign against boat people that
began with the Tampa.
- Borderline: Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
- By Peter Mares, University of NSW Press.
- Fire Snow and Honey
- Edited by Gina Lennox
- Future Seekers: Refugees and the law in Australia
- By Mary Crock and Ben Saul, Federation Press
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