Barbara Brewster of Buderim Buddies writes letters to the refugees in Woomera
A growing number of Sunshine Coast residents are opening their hearts and homes to the thousands of refugees in Australian detention centres.
Buddies, based in Buderim, was founded five months ago and has since engaged in a dedicated letter-writing campaign to asylum seekers as young [...]
Barbara Brewster with a picture of the Afghan family she has come to know and love
AUSTRALIANS need to look behind the rhetoric to see the world of heartache suffered by refugees, says a Buderim group opening its hearts and homes to asylum seekers.
Author Barbara Brewster started Buddies 10 months ago after speaking to a refugee [...]
Freedom Bid
Sunshine Coast teenager Meg Foley is leading a letter writing campaign to free the longest serving detainee in Western Australia’s Port Hedland immigration detention centre.
Ms Foley, 18, a student at Australian Catholic University and a Maroochydore parishioner, is rallying support for Abdul, a 24 year-old Afghan asylum seeker who has been in detention for [...]
“For the price of a game of golf….”
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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 [...]
Meeting with Hon Robert McClelland MP Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, 3rd October 2007.
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A ‘Buddies’ member spoke to the submission and then a number of Buddies asked questions about what the Labor party would do about refugees and asylum speakers if elected to office. Although Robert was sympathetic to our concerns, he did [...]
Dear all, Our apologies for the long delay in writing. So far, we have been officially announced that 72 of us have been granted refugee status. However, we are waiting to find out which country has accepted us. Hopefully this will be decided soon. At least, we are very much relieved that we know the [...]
Dear Supporters of A Just Australia, While the Government is gearing up for an election, it appears that they are using the same old “We will decide who comes here” strategy to punish refugees as a way of proving the Government can protect our borders from vulnerable people who seek asylum in Australia. As [...]
Returning asylum seekers ’scandalous’ Cath Hart | September 27, 2007 AUSTRALIAN authorities secretly sent five Papuan asylum seekers back to Papua New Guinea after intercepting their banana boat in waters north of Cape York almost a month ago. The Government had not revealed any details of the case until questioned yesterday by The Australian.A [...]
Commission Urges Andrews to Change Mind on Sri Lankan Refugees
The Brisbane Catholic Justice and Peace commission have released a statement calling on Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews to allow the 72 Sri Lanka refugees in Nauru who have been recognized as refugees by the United Nations, to come to Australia The statement was issued on [...]