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BUDDIES Refugee Support Group presents

A Winter’s
 
Afternoon
 
 Romance

Music by Mozart , Bruch, Reineke, Minotti and Fitkin

Sunday 11th
 
July 2pm
 
Caloundra
 
Uniting Church

56 Queen St Caloundra

Featuring the

REFRACTION TRIO

Nigel Bardsley, Violin
Justin Beere, Clarinet
Stewart Kelly, Piano

Tickets $20
Pensioners $15
Students $8
Under 16 free

Afternoon tea included
For Tickets phone 5476 8910 or 5494 2240
Tickets also available at the door
Concert presented under the auspices
of the Caloundra Uniting Church

 
A crowd of over two hundred people attended our Silks and Saris event on Saturday - a truly amazing fundraiser! Well done everyone!
 
Those in attendance enjoyed a fine display of Indian fashion and dance, a great chance at winning from a wide selection of prizes and a veritable feast of delicious food. 
 
A big thank-you goes out to all Buddies who contributed in [...]

Niko Leka
Green Left Weekly
27 February, 2010
An asylum seeker accused of rioting in the Christmas Island detention centre on November 21 recently contacted a refugee advocate about living conditions inside. The refugee advocate asked Green Left Weekly to withhold both their names.
At the trial of the accused rioters on January 20, the magistrate did not issue [...]

Insights News
March 2 , 2010

The President of the Uniting Church in Australia, the Rev. Alistair Macrae, and Anglican Archbishop of Perth, the Most Rev. Roger Herft, have voiced concerns for the wellbeing of asylum seekers on Christmas Island following a recent visit. A delegation of church leaders visited Christmas Island at the end of February [...]

Our asylum seeker numbers are also in line with global trends. UNHCR has reported a 12% increase in global asylum seeker numbers worldwide from 2007 to 2008, partly due to ongoing conflicts in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Sri Lanka. 
And other developed countries have received far greater numbers of asylum seekers than Australia.  For example, in 2008 the US received [...]

Christmas Island is no place to detain children            From Amnesty International,  19 June 2009
This morning, dozens of children - under the watchful eye of the Australian Government - were escorted to school by guards. This evening the children will return to a fenced facility on a remote island and do their homework in demountable buildings, [...]

Reform of detention debt regime under threat - please write letters    From AJA (A Just Australia) June Newsletter, 2009 

Many of you will know that Australia is the only country in the world that charges asylum seekers for the cost of their detention (even if they are proven to be refugees) which is a contravention of [...]

An important and happy part of Buddies activities are the Picnics at the Beach

“For the price of a game of golf….”
Full Text :
As a reminder of what the Golf Day was about, read the following: Is it just me or does everyone think Afghanistan is no place for a child? Stick with me. I know that sentence might not seem that relevant to you, but don’t go yet….. [...]

The Golf Day Fundraising Event was a wonderful success from a number of different angles. Probably one of the most positive was the ‘exposure’ to the refugee situation of people who would otherwise not have had anything to do with the plight of refugees, let alone with refugees themselves. This happened through the generous media [...]