Autumn Raffle 2022 – Prize Winners
Congratulations to our winners. Thank you to all who donated the prizes and to all who bought tickets, tickets sold to family... Read More
What the Djokovic case tells us about Australia’s dysfunctional visa cancellation regime
from The Visa Cancellations Working Group, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and the Refugee Advice & Casework Centre The cancellation of the... Read More
Ivor Houston’s walk across Australia nears end
Warrimoo man, Ivor Houston, was welcomed in Katoomba this week and again in Glenbrook on the last leg of his journey on... Read More
Sign to reunite Rohullah with his family hiding in Kabul.
PLEASE HELP URGENTLY AND SHARE. The Guardian ( Swan Hill) has launched this e-petition to help bring landscape gardener and SES volunteer... Read More
Advocates for Afghanistan face up to Susan Templeman
Wide ranging groups from the Blue Mountains and the Hawkesbury have combined to bring the plight of Afghan people seeking safety to... Read More
Blue Mountains Welcome Way – Videos for #WorldRefugeeDay
Guy Power, advocate and community visitor made this video of the members of the Glenbrook with their signs at Glenbrook.
Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group Inc AGM 2018-2019
By Joy Connor Chair BMRSG 2018 -2019 saw an increase in aggressive negative rhetoric towards our asylum seeker friends. It saw the end of... Read More
Who Are We?
First of a series of posts on some of the wide range of people who make up Blue Mountains Support Group Inc.
Our promotion says ""Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group Inc is a diverse group of ordinary Australians from all sides of politics....We are all volunteers."
Some of our most enthusiastic supporters are young people. Read two accounts of young people who are helping; the Automotive Studies students at Blaxland High School and Sam who raised over $1100 by running in the City to Surf 2018.
Home Among the Gum Trees NSW
Holidays for people seeking asylum and their families in rural and coastal towns in NSW. For relaxation, friendship and understanding in an... Read More
Bishop Long in Blackheath for Migrant and Refugee Sunday
Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen visited Sacred Heart Church Blackheath on Sunday 26 August for Migrant and Refugee Sunday.
Bishop Long fled Vietnam on a refugee boat in 1979, following two of his brothers who had already left, and reached Malaysia, where he spent 16 months in a refugee camp where he learned English. He reached in Australia in 1980.
In his homily he discussed Pope Francis' invitation to be “Welcoming, Protecting, Promoting and Integrating towards Migrants and Refugees”.