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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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CALL TO ACTION: Removal of support payments for people seeking asylum
“Every stranger who knocks at our door is an opportunity for an encounter with Jesus Christ, who identifies with the welcomed and rejected strangers of every age (Matthew 25:35-43)” – Pope Francis, Message for the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2018 [I]The problemThe Australian Government is currently…
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Palm Sunday – reflection by Andy Hamilton SJ
ANDY HAMILTON SJ writes that nationwide Palm Sunday rallies offer a much needed opportunity to demonstrate the compassion and humanity that is often absent in Australia’s treatment of refugees. In its original setting Palm Sunday was a day of transitory celebration at the beginning of a week that…
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Stand Up for Human Rights
Sunday 10 December marked the 69th anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. As the declaration enters its 70th year, the United Nations has started a year long campaign to remind the global community of the need to #StandUp4HumanRights. The…
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With remembrance goes compassion: Manus
By Andrew Hamilton SJ. Article originally published on Eureka Street, 25 November 2017. In ‘Epic’, Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh mused on the relative importance of world and local contemporaneous events — Chamberlain’s meeting with Hitler in Munich and a bitter local dispute about a patch of land.‘I have lived…
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Shifting the conversation: equipping students with skills to talk to peers
The CAPSA training day was a great learning experience. Samuel engaged with the groups and provided useful ideas, arguments and techniques in facilitating a conversation and awareness on the issue of people seeking asylum. I personally definitely took a lot out of the experience in terms of new…
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