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Launch of "The Pacific Solution" by Susan Metcalfe (in Melbourne) 17 August 2010, 6.45pm The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne (in State Library Building). Including a discussion on off-shore processing and our responses to people seeking asylum.
When we engage with the stories of the people held under the Pacific Solution policy and acknowledge our shared humanity, can we justify what we have done?
Order Form (available here during August/September 2010. 1MB pdf download)
The Pacific Solution Susan Metcalfe • ISBN 978 1 921509 94 0 • PB • $24.95
AUSTRALIAN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
P.O. Box 299 Kew, Vic 3101 • www.scholarly.info
7 Lt Lothian St North, North Melbourne 3051 aspic@ozemail.com.au • p 03 93296963 • f 03 93295452
"The publication of Human Rights Overboard draws together hundreds of oral testimonies and written submissions to the People's Inquiry into Detention."
An article in The Australian about "Human Rights Overboard"
http://tinyurl.com/58f4l9
"But if you build a prison, you treat those inside, even children, as criminals. Especially if the prisons are out of sight."…
http://tinyurl.com/69zbfb A book from Chris Cleave exploring the tragi-comic way Britain deals with asylum seekers.
"There's just a general lethargy about the way these asylum-seekers are treated. Which means no one gets exercised that they're put in handcuffs, taken on to planes and deported back to places where they're going to die…
The ludicrous nature of two worlds colliding is tangible in the book.…
Cleave is adamant that optimism and laughter are the necessary binding agents for humanity to overcome catastrophe."
"Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media",
published by Chatto & Windus (£17.99) on 7 February 2008
Read how some media demonise asylum seekers in the UK. (is it any different in Australia?)
an abridged extract is in http://www.newstatesman.com/200801240030
http://www.newstatesman.com/200801240030
Launched on Tampa Day (Aug 26th),
the book "Rainbow Bird" by 14 year old Adelaide teenager
Czenya Cavouras, came from conversations with her grandfather
about his trips to
the Baxter Detention Centre in Port Augusta.
Available in bookshops or Download order form (128kbs)
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From Under a Leaky Roof
Afghan refugees in Australia by Phil Sparrow (2005) "He ran out from under a leaky roof and found himself in the rain" — An Afghan proverb. |
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Order from Project SafeCom; read part there, or in New Matilda.
http://www.newmatilda.com/home/ articledetailmagazine.asp?ArticleID=1315 |
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Mary Crock's new book "Seeking Asylum Alone" is about unaccompanied child refugees. She says: "Children face obvious disadvantage in both articulating their story and in being heard." This is an important contribution to the debate. |
Witnessing History
from Allen and Unwin
Witnessing History: One woman's fight for freedom and Falun Gong
Jennifer Zeng, translated by Sue Wiles
One woman's harrowing story of imprisonment and survival in the face of the Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong.;
Following Them Home:
Stories of the Asylum Seekers Australia Sent Back
By David Corlett
$24.95
ISBN 097 507 6965 - Black Inc. Agenda - July 2005
more details
Robert Manne's introduction says it best:
"At a time of great national self-satisfaction and self-congratulation,
[this book] quietly tells the story of the human lives we have so carelessly allowed to be destroyed."
another new book:
Walk in My Shoes,
by Alwyn Evans,
published by Penguin
rrp $18.95
Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories
by young writers aged 11-20
Tampering with Asylum:
A Universal Humanitarian Problem
by Father Frank Brennan SJ
DESERT SORROW
Asylum seekers at Woomera
by Tom Mann
From Nothing to Zero
Letters from Refugees in Australia's Detention Centres
All profits to refugee orgs
- more details
Tony Kevin's book on SIEV X
Winner of 2005 ACT Book of the Year!
Order from Project Safecom
"We hear the voice of conscience through your mouths"
— a poem written by a Villawood detainee
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
Desmond Tutu quoting
Martin Luther King
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner
"Some refugees bring more than their suitcases"
Albert Einstein
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