Monday 12 October, 3pm
Lobby Group meeting, 40 Patrick King Drive, Nambour
Lindel Greggery 0429 696 606
Sunday 25 October, 11am
Buddies meeting, 24 King St, Buderim
Guest speakers: Linda Dennis and Shine Jang – Nambour Community Centre
Sunday 25 – Friday 30 October
Learn English Holiday Kayla Szumer 5476 8910
Sunday 22 November, 11am
Buddies meeting, 24 King St, Buderim
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Rally: Stand up for refugees
Sunday 11 October, 1pm
Brisbane Square, top of Queen St Mall, CBD, Brisbane
National day of action
Speakers include: Mark Isaacs: Nauru whistler-blower and author of ‘Undesirables: Inside Nauru’. Rima Filhan: Syrian human rights activist. Jessica Walker and Milad Jafari: Free Mojgan campaign
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Concert: Voices in Unity
Sunday 11 October, 2pm, Montville Village Hall
Nightinguys will be joining Sweet Chilli for "Voices In Unity".
$15/$10 concession at the door, under 12s free.
Homemade afternoon tea available by donation.
Proceeds to go to Buddies.
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Buddies film night fundraiser: Tangerines
Nambour Arthouse Cinema, Wednesday 21 October, 7pm.
Fingerfood and drinks will be available from 6pm. Please email Marnie Greer and let her know the food you intend to bring.
Please forward the film night invitation throughout your networks and print out the poster to distribute. (see Bulletin Extra, Monday 28 September).
This will be a fantastic night out! Make sure you book your tickets and spread the word far and wide!
Kendall Snowden 5472 7209
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Multicultural Awards: Nights on Ocean
Friday 13 November, 5pm. Ocean St Maroochydore
Nominations now open for this year’s Multicultural Awards.
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Wanted: Winter jackets
If you have any good quality men’s and women’s jackets for a range of ages that could be brought to the next meeting, for Quinn, it would be greatly appreciated. Quinn will be personally adding these to her collection to be donated to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Winter Appeal for next year, joining her collection of handmade scarves (200+ and growing). Quinn Kerr 0450 607 944
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Email to send: No business in abuse
GetUp!
It’s working! Transfield are deleting all critical comments from the public on their Facebook page! They’re clearly spooked – email them right now so they know we’re watching them.
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Petition to sign: Close Nauru detention centre
Just Act
The Uniting Church in Australia is renewing its call for the immediate closure of the Nauru detention centre after another damning report into the centre’s operations.
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PHONE THE PM campaign: “Give them a Home”
Malcolm Turnbull has already conceded on ABC radio that he shares the public’s concern about offshore processing. We urge all Buddies members to phone his office and let his staff know that there is strong support around the country for a more compassionate response. Ring Peter Dutton’s office (02) 6277 7786 and Julie Bishop’s too (02) 6277 7500.
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Families open homes to refugees
The Green (pages 11 and 18), 30 September 2015
Kendall Snowden and Joachim (Yokki) Rother have lived in Yandina for the past fifteen years. Their first love is singing with the Sunshine Coast Oriana Choir and they volunteer for four organizations as well as Buddies. Kendall said, "(It) provides us with a great network of friends, enjoyment and satisfaction – keeping our old bodies and brains involved!”
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Transfield Services to be renamed ‘Broadspectrum’
The Guardian, 25 September 2015
Transfield Services will ask its shareholders to approve a change in name and logo, after the company’s founding family withdrew its permission to use their Transfield brand. Transfield Holdings is seeking to distance itself because of controversy over detention centre contracts.
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Turnbull urged to fix ‘weeping sore’ of Manus and Nauru
Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 2015
Malcolm Turnbull is under pressure from key figures within the Coalition and crossbench senators to heal the “weeping sore” of Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru. Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs is also seeking a meeting with the Prime Minister..
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More than 20,000 asylum seekers receive work rights
Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 2015
Like thousands of others who came by boat after August 2012, Hamid Ali has been under visa conditions that stopped him from getting a job and restricted him to a fraction of the dole, $31 a day.
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Refugee repatriated to save family begs for resettlement
The Guardian, 26 September 2015
Twenty-nine-year-old Eyad* nominated to be voluntarily returned to Syria from Manus last month so he could help his wife and meet his baby daughter, born while he was in detention.
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Turnbull urged to let detention centre staff speak to UN
The Guardian, 29 September 2015
More than 60 academics have penned an open letter to new PM Malcolm Turnbull, urging his government to allow detention centre workers to speak freely and without fear of prosecution.
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Raped refugees must be brought to Australia
RAC Sydney, 29 September 2015
There have been increased threats against refugees on Nauru following ABC’s 7.30 program last week, highlighting recent alleged incidents of rape on the island. One Somali refugee was approached and threatened by two local men who told her, “We will kill you – do not make stories.”
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Julian Burnside: What sort of country are we?
The Conversation, 28 September 2015
2015 Hamer Oration, September 28
"It was with some surprise that I found myself engaged in such a hotly political issue as refugee policy. I had never been involved in politics, nor interested in it. My best explanation of how this happened lies in a story I heard a long time ago..."
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Thank you to Val Ross, Diana Woolley, Margaret Norman and Lou Walsh for their contributions to this edition.
DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 5pm Wednesday
Please send contributions for the newsletter and/or the website to the editor.
EDITOR: Bronwyn Bell
SUB-EDITOR / DESIGN / WEBSITE: Wendy Oakley
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Please send photos or articles to Lindel Greggery
YOUNG BUDDIES
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