Walk With Us – Aboriginal Elders Call Out to Australian People to Walk with them in their Quest for Justice, published in August 2011, is the long awaited sequel to the highly regarded and recommended This Is What We Said – Australian Aboriginal people give their views on the Northern Territory Intervention of February 2010. [...]
Speaking to an audience of 500-600 people in Central Hall in Fitzroy on 11 October 2011, Bishop Vincent Long van Nguyen spoke movingly of his experience as a boat person among the several million people fleeing Vietnam after the communist take-over in 1975. Recently appointed a Catholic auxiliary bishop in Melbourne, he described the boat [...]
THE ECONOMY, SOCIETY, & CITIES PUSH THE LIMITS. Len Puglisi Who remembers these songs and the circumstances in which they took hold of the public’s imagination? When the lights go on again all over the world. And didn’t London and Paris, swathed in light, look great in Griff Ryhs Jones’ TV presentations (June 2010)? Oh [...]
Please click HERE for a PDF version of this newsletter. Asylum seekers: time for a fresh start by Bruce Duncan The High Court has torpedoed the Gillard Government’s attempt to swap asylum seekers with Malaysia, and may well end prospects of processing others offshore in PNG or Nauru. Yet in the heightened politicisation of the [...]
by Charles Rue Reviewed by Bill Frilay Father Charles Rue and several other Columbans have a deep and abiding concern for theenvironment and for climate change in particular, which has led him to prepare this 39-page booklet.The Foreword is by the presenter of the ABC Compass program, Geraldine Doogue. The booklet has been prepared for [...]
On Sunday, 21 August 2011, twelve members of ACRATH arrived in Canberra for our 5th annual pilgrimage to our national capital. As most have had previous experience visiting Parliament, it was not difficult to launch again into this important task. ACRATH members met with members of Federal Parliament, AusAID, the Australian Institute of Criminology, the [...]
