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About 80 people from BMRSG, Grandmothers for Refugees, Rural Australians for Refugees (RAR) and various Blue Mountains Churches came together at Lawson on Palm Sunday 10 April 2022 to hear inspiring speakers, show support for...

Understanding the Strengthening the Character Test Bill

22 Feb 2022

Pat Rayner

Advocacy

Trying to understand the Strengthening the Character Test Bill 2021, passed by the House of Representatives this week? Dr Sangeetha Pillai has a handy thread on Twitter Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Law...

What the Djokovic case tells us about Australia’s dysfunctional visa cancellation regime

20 Jan 2022

Pat Rayner

Advocacy

from The Visa Cancellations Working Group, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and the Refugee Advice & Casework Centre The cancellation of the visa held by Novak Djokovic, and his subsequent transfer to immigration detention at...

Ivor Houston’s walk across Australia nears end

26 Nov 2021

Pat Rayner

Advocacy

Warrimoo man, Ivor Houston, was welcomed in Katoomba this week and again in Glenbrook on the last leg of his journey on foot from Perth to Bondi Beach. The 22 year-old left Perth in May,...

Christmas Shoebox Project 2021

17 Nov 2021

Pat Rayner

Children

CAN YOU HELP ?! Amazingly it’s the seventh year of the Youth Shoebox Project. With schools under pressure and an increased demand for our new Afghan arrivals, we need more help than usual from our already generous...

Sign to reunite Rohullah with his family hiding in Kabul.

26 Oct 2021

Pat Rayner

Advocacy

PLEASE HELP URGENTLY AND SHARE. The Guardian ( Swan Hill) has launched this e-petition to help bring landscape gardener and SES volunteer Rohullah‘s young wife and baby daughter to safety in Australia. It is hoped...

Justice & Freedom for Refugees Rally at Lawson

Understanding the Strengthening the Character Test Bill

What the Djokovic case tells us about Australia’s dysfunctional visa cancellation regime

Ivor Houston’s walk across Australia nears end

Christmas Shoebox Project 2021

Sign to reunite Rohullah with his family hiding in Kabul.

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