Author: Scott Higgins
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ISBN: 9780992425722
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Languages : en
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Author: Higgins J Scott
Publisher: Just Cause
ISBN: 9780992425784
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Australia is a swirling mass of contradiction, fear and hope when it comes to refugees. The country's status as an island nation far removed from the world's conflict hotspots means that Australia has very few refugees showing up on its borders seeking protection, yet Australians have imagined a crisis into being and enacted harsh measures to assert control over our fictional crisis. Public discourse is characterised by half-truths, misconceptions and outright falsehoods. Australians have learned to fear asylum seekers and refugees. Yet there is widespread admiration for those refugees who have settled here. Meanwhile, there is a real refugee crisis going on in the world. More than 20 million people have fled their homes and their country because it is no longer safe for them to live there. They cast themselves upon an international community that accepts responsibility to care and protect, but simply fails to deliver. This short book is intended to help you navigate a path through the lies, distortions and half-truths to gain a sense of what is happening in the world, how it might be framed biblically, and how we might respond. It begins with the experiences of refugees, listening to their stories. From there the argument moves to the global picture, exploring the shape of the refugee crisis and why the international protection system is failing to deliver. This provides the necessary framework to understand Australia's place in the crisis, which is explored in chapter 3, tracing the evolution of Australia's response to asylum seekers that arrive by boat from a stance of protecting refugees from those they are fleeing to a position of Australians protecting themselves from the refugees who are arriving. Having outlined the current situation and the challenges, chapter 4 explores biblical themes that should inform our response. Chapter 5 outlines what a better way forward might look like for the world and for Australia, while the final chapter provides practical suggestions as to what a local church can do to bring about change. A four-part small group discussion guide can be found at the back of the book.

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This first report highlights a range of experiences of asylum seekers in their journey to detention and the detention experience. It has been presented for public information and consideration and will also form part of the final report.

Author: Australian Teachers of Media
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ISBN: 9781742957975
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Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Author: Keiron Costello
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646966366
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
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Author: Linda Briskman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646468334
Category : Alien detention centers
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Website for the Inquiry. Includes information on the administration of the Inquiry and reports.

Author: Paul van Reyk
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144078
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewardship of the land, to a present where the production and consumption of food is fraught with anxieties and competing priorities. It describes how food production in Australia is subject to the constraints of climate, water, and soil, leading to centuries of unsustainable agricultural practices post-colonization. Australian food history is also the story of its xenophobia and the immigration policies pursued, which continue to undermine the image of Australia as a model multicultural society. This history of Australian food ends on a positive note, however, as Indigenous peoples take increasing control of how their food is interpreted and marketed.

Author: Dean Lusher
Publisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862876569
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free ..." How has Australia risen to Emma Lazarus' great challenge? This overview of the historical, social and political contexts that have shaped Australia's recent treatment of asylum seekers offers a clear-eyed view of the many dimensions of the asylum seeker predicament, including its psychological and humanitarian consequences, and lays out an agenda for change in policy. Sir Gustav Nossal, the Rt Hon. Malcolm Fraser, Senator Lyn Allison, Phillip Adams, Professor Stuart MacIntyre, and Lindsay Tanner MP introduce the six sections. Julian Burnside QC, Dr Carmen Lawrence, Peter Mares, Pamela Curr, Michael Clyne, Linda Briskman, Derrick Silove, Michael Gordon, Arnold Zable and David Manne are among the contributors to the 20 chapters. Yearning to Breathe Free is a passionate but informed work that is multi-faceted, thought-provoking, and ultimately hopeful. All royalties for this book go to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Author: Suzanne Little
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100082344X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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This book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection. Using performance as both an object and a lens, this volume explores the politics and aesthetics of migration control, border security and refugee resistance. The first half of the book, titled On Stage, examines performance objects such as verbatim and documentary plays, children’s theatre, immersive performance, slam poetry, video art and feature films. Specifically, it considers how refugees, and their artistic collaborators, assert their individuality, agency and authority as well as their resistance to cruel policies like offshore processing through performance. The second half of the book, titled Off Stage, employs performance as a lens to analyse the wider field of refugee politics, including the relationship between forced migrants and the forced displacement of First Nations peoples that underpins the settler-colonial state, philosophies of cosmopolitanism, the role of the canon in art history and the spectacle of bordering practices. In doing so, it illuminates the strategic performativity—and nonperformativity—of the law, philosophy, the state and the academy more broadly in the exclusion and control of refugees. Taken together, the chapters in this volume draw on, and contribute to, a wide range of disciplines including theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, border studies and forced migration studies, and will be of great interest to students and scholars in all four fields.

Author: Frank Brennan
Publisher: ATF Press
ISBN: 1925232107
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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Frank Brennan has been a long time advocate for human rights and social justice in Australia. This collection of essays brings together some of his major addresses and writings on justice in the Catholic Church and in Australian society. Placing the individual's formed and informed conscience as the centre piece in any work for justice, he surveys recent developments in the Catholic Church including the handling of child sexual abuse claims and the uplifting effect of the papacy of Francis, the first Jesuit pope. He then applies Catholic social teaching and the jurisprudence of human rights to contested issues like the separation of powers and the right of religious freedom, and to the claims of diverse groups including Aborigines, asylum seekers, the dying, and same sex couples. At every step, he is there in the public square amplifying that still, small voice of conscience, especially the voice of those who are marginalised.