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CAPSA Newsletter: October 2024
Dear CAPSA Community,October 10 is World Mental Health Day.Our mental health, as individuals and communities, is impacted by our context – including our experiences and relationships. As we hear news of conflict, displacement and grief across the world, let us be mindful that for people experiencing bombardment, fear, trauma,…
Read MoreNational Week of Prayer and Action 2024
Dear CAPSA Community,CAPSA’s National Week of Prayer and Action 16-20 September is coming up.‘Journeying together with Refugees and People Seeking Asylum’The journey for people seeking asylum and refugees in Australia continues to be extremely challenging, disempowering and traumatic. In recent weeks, ongoing protests across the country continue to urge the Government…
Read MoreCAPSA Newsletter: August 2024
Dear CAPSA Community,Thank you as always for your continued support. Over the past weeks many of you may have been watching the Olympics in Paris – an event enabling the coming together of many nations, talented athletes, and their supporters. Amongst many stories of achievement and personal bests,…
Read MoreCAPSA Newsletter: April 2024
No images? Click here Dear CAPSA Community,Thank you as always for your continued support. On 24th March, CAPSA and other advocacy organisations and individuals attended the National Day of Action on Palm Sunday, to show support and solidarity alongside refugees and people seeking asylum. We also recently saw the deportation…
Read MoreCAPSA Newsletter: November 2023
Dear CAPSA Community,Thank you as always for your continued support. In recent news, the Australian government has confirmed that there are 11 people who have been transferred and detained in Nauru. Also, the men who remain in PNG will likely be transferred from there in the coming weeks,…
Read MoreCAPSA Newsletter: October 2023
Dear CAPSA Community,Thank you as always for your continued support. Recently, CAPSA ran this year’s National Week of Prayer and Action and celebrated the 109th World Day of Migrant and Refugee Sunday 24th September. We welcomed the news that Neil Para has been given permanent protection. Neil completed his…
Read MoreCAPSA Newsletter April 2022
Dear CAPSA community,We hope you had a safe and happy April. CAPSA welcomed the release of the estimated 44 refugees from onshore immigration detention centres around Australia, including Melbourne’s infamous Park Hotel, over the 2nd, 7th and 8th April. You can read our media release about this here. In the shadow of this…
Read MoreCAPSA Newsletter March 2022
Dear CAPSA community,We begin this newsletter with positive news. Firstly, the Morrison Government has announced that 16,500 additional places will be provided to refugees fleeing the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan under the 2022-23 Federal Budget. We would like to acknowledge the tireless efforts of diaspora leaders through the…
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