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A Reflection on Australia Day 2019
by Andy Hamilton SJ Australia Day is a good time to think of our beginning and current time as a nation. It all began with the relationship between the English colonists and the Indigenous people. It continues with the relationship between Australian citizens and people who come to Australia…
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Panel Discussion: Advocacy and Service for People Seeking Asylum
This event will bring together a panel to discuss what the broader situation for people seeking asylum and refugees is in Australia, and how Catholic services in Adelaide are practically trying to support their needs.The panel will also address the Catholic community’s imperative to be involved in this…
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Christmas and People Seeking Protection from Persecution Go Together
by Andy Hamilton SJ Christmas and people seeking protection from persecution go together. In Matthew’s Gospel Jesus, with a price on his head, went to Egypt with his parents as a refugee. He found shelter there – there were no detention centres and children were not detained. If he…
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We want a Christmas without detention
By Andrew Hamilton SJ.In Australia Christmas is all about children. We encourage them to feel special and to wonder at the world that for a day has become their present. The first Christmas was also a children’s day, when God loved the world so much as to enter…
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Hold a Class/Assembly Outside
No roof over our headMany in our community are advocating on behalf of people seeking asylum who are getting their basic supports cut around the hash tag: #roofovermyhead.The reality is that many of those who lose this support will become homeless. The Catholic community and the broader charity…
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30 Days’ Notice Reflection Activity
Reflection Activity: ’30 Days Notice’It is hard to imagine the consequences of losing one’s sole source of income, as well as case management support. This is the reality being faced by families who will be hit by the SRSS cuts recently put into place. SRSS support is not…
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The Thai Boys’ Rescue: a Lesson in Compassion
By Andrew Hamilton SJ. A version of this article was originally published by Eureka Street, 11 July 2018. Most of us were surely moved by the plight and rescue of the boys marooned in the North Thailand cave. Those of us who have been similarly touched by the lives of…
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Organise a 15 minute lunchtime ‘Circle of Silence’ on Thursday July 19th
Five years ago, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that all asylum seekers who arrived in Australia by boat after the 19th of July 2013 would be processed offshore and not be resettled in Australia.Since then anyone seeking asylum and protection arriving by boat have been placed in…
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