I recently wrote an essay, ‘A home among the peach trees’ about refugee settlement in regional Australia and I wrote it for two reasons. One was because while I care and am vocal about the cruelty with which Australia treats refugees, especially those in offshore detention, I also believe not enough time is spent discussingContinue reading “Essay: ‘A home among the peach trees’”
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Not so ordinary: Jeanette Cheah
Marketer. Skilled volunteer. Playing with her food. Jeanette Cheah is a marketer for an ASX-listed company by day, and working to raise funds for refugees by night (and sometimes during the day). She is also a driving force behind the Gingerbread Demolition — which is pretty much what it sounds like. What started as a fun Christmas partyContinue reading “Not so ordinary: Jeanette Cheah”
They can’t be refugees, they have Smartphones!
Imagine you had to flee your home, and flee your country, because your country was a war zone, and you wanted safety for yourself and family. What items would you take with you? I bet if you, like more than 75 per cent of people in world, own a mobile phone, that phone would beContinue reading “They can’t be refugees, they have Smartphones!”
Fancy* diagrams and tables about refugees
There has been a lot said about refugees in Europe and Australia in the past week (well, more than usual), and rightly so. There are more refugees in the world today than ever before – in fact the UN estimates there are 59 million. I’ve been sharing a few things on Twitter in the hopeContinue reading “Fancy* diagrams and tables about refugees”
A refugee family & a journalist on #marchofhope
BBC journalist Matthew Price has been covering the story of Syrian (and other) refugees seeking asylum in Europe. Having been shut out of a train station in Budapest, Hungary, the refugees decided to walk around 170kms (105mi) to the Austrian border. Matthew walked with them. To read his story about one family – which I’ve put in an easy-to-readContinue reading “A refugee family & a journalist on #marchofhope”
