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What has happened to the 11,990 Syrian refugees?

John Menadue.  Republished from his blog, Pearls and Irritations. After telling us for months that Australia would not take additional Syrian refugees, Tony Abbott...

by Social Policy Connections 08.02.201608.02.2016
Asylum seekers Feature Recent articles by SPC friends

Australia’s moral crisis: shipping babies & families off to Nauru.

Bruce Duncan. How has it come to this, that the Australian government is poised to send back 37 babies, 54 children, and their families...

by Social Policy Connections 08.02.201608.02.2016
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Resettling Syrian & Iraqi refugees: a program for government-community action. 

Arja Keski-Nummi & Libby Lloyd. Reprinted from John Menadue’s blog, Pearls and Irritations. Australia has one of the best refugee resettlement systems in the world....

by Social Policy Connections 30.09.201530.09.2015
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Time for inspired leadership.

Peter Whiting.  Millions of people have been mesmerised by Pope Francis speaking to the joint sitting of US Congress and the United Nations General...

by Social Policy Connections 30.09.201530.09.2015
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Church calls for humane treatment of asylum seekers.

Michael Walter.  Australia’s Catholic bishops call for an increase in our intake of refugees, immediate closure of offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru,...

by Social Policy Connections 30.09.201530.09.2015
Asylum seekers Politics

Labor’s pragmatism and turning back the boats.

Brendan E Byrne. The recent decision by the ALP National Conference to back Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s push to adopt the ‘turn back the...

by Social Policy Connections 06.08.2015
Asylum seekers Politics

Magna Carta after 800 years: relevance for our legislation on refugees, terrorists, secrecy, and other issues.

John Hassett.  The most significant legacy of Magna Carta is its symbolism. We respect it today as a cornerstone of our freedom. This year...

by Social Policy Connections 29.06.201506.08.2015
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Close Nauru & Manus Island: Australia’s disintegrating moral standards.

Bruce Duncan.  Against the advice from Save the Children, which is under contract to provide welfare services on Nauru, a baby girl of five...

by Social Policy Connections 16.06.201519.06.2015
Asylum seekers Feature Recent articles by SPC friends

Treating asylum seekers humanely is a core Gospel demand.

Australia treats murderers better than we treat asylum seekers. Despite repeated appeals and protests from churches and other Australians, our government persists in detaining...

by Social Policy Connections 30.03.201520.06.2016
Asylum seekers Feature Politics Recent articles by SPC friends

Ending the politics harming children in detention.

Caz Coleman. If only there were an opportunity to cut through the politics to name what Australia needs to do to address the harm to...

by Social Policy Connections 12.03.201530.03.2015
Asylum seekers Feature Recent articles by SPC friends

The moral dimension behind The Forgotten Children.

Brian Johnstone. Professor Gillian Triggs, president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, has found that, by reason of its policy of the continued retention...

by Social Policy Connections 03.03.201530.03.2015
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Social Policy Connections draws on the rich resources of the Christian social traditions, and works to bring them into creative engagement with contemporary challenges to human wellbeing.

SPC offers a forum in which to help develop a renewed vision of a just Australia, and to invite into the public arena voices informed by Christian social values. An independent organisation, SPC can often advance its views on contested issues more freely and directly than can church leaders themselves.

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