First Meeting for 2020
Can you help to free the refugees on Nauru and in PNG?
Articles about Sri Lanka’s civil war and about Lebanese migration to Australia – interesting reading
Judith Betts, 2019, ‘Malcolm Fraser’s real mistake’, Inside Story, 12 April 2019. https://insidestory.org.au/malcolm-frasers-real-mistake/
Judith Betts and Mehal Krayem, 2019. ‘Strategic Othering: Framing Lebanese Migration and Fraser’s ‘mistake”, Australian Journal of Politics and History: Volume 65, Number 1, 2019, pp.100–114. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ajph.12538
Judith Betts and Claire Higgins, ‘The Sri Lankan Civil War and Australia’s Migration Policy Response: a historical case study with contemporary implications’ (2017) 4(2) Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 272,
December 2019 meeting
Can you help Shakti?
Shakti is a great organisation which assists migrant and refugee women.
Shakti Australia Ltd (Shakti NSW Facebook )
Shakti provides culturally competent support services for women and families from Asian, African and Middle Eastern communities across Australia, and especially those who are asylum seekers and refugees.
Shakti Australia has operated in Victoria since 2011 and in NSW since 2014 providing support and services to asylum seeker and refugee families and new migrants based on need. It provides advocacy, social outreach work, support for safe refuge/housing, interpretation, awareness-raising on domestic violence affecting immigrant families, women’s support group activities, and activities relating to physical and mental health. Shakti works with government agencies, and partners with health, education, and legal agencies to promote women’s and children’s rights, safety and well-being in Australia.
Want to know more about Shakti?…..go to the Shakti International web page for more information and advice on how to make a donation to this very worthy cause. Donations are very welcome and are tax deductible.
Contact: Dr Sabrin Farooqui
National Coordinator
Shakti Australia Ltd
PROJECT WORKS OF SHAKTI
English class for Rohingya women
Job readiness program
Shakti’s workshop on International Women’s Day 2019
English class for disadvantaged women
Sewing class for Disadvantaged women
Safe Journeys and Sound Policy
Safe Journeys and Sound Policy: Expanding Protected Entry for Refugees
New Kaldor Centre Policy Brief. Well worth reading.
AGM 2019
L4R NSW held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday evening. We had a wonderful guest speaker in Dr Daniel Ghezelbash who heads Macquarie University’s new Social Justice Clinic. He teaches courses in administrative law, human rights, refugee law and social justice advocacy and operates a pro bono refugee law practice and is a Special Counsel at the National Justice Project. Dan is also a member of the management committee of Refugee Advice and Casework Services, the only dedicated free refugee legal centre in NSW. He has written a book Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World, which examines the spread of mandatory detention, maritime interdiction and offshore processing policies from the United States to Australia and beyond. Dan spoke about Australia’s current hard-line asylum policies which could trigger a race to the bottom, with the potential to completely unravel the international refugee protection system.
At our AGM we held our election. Two new positions of Junior Vice-Presidents were added to the NSW Executive. The following members were elected as Office Bearers.
Co-Convenors (2): Jenny Haines & Shane Prince
Vice President: Mairi Petersen
Jnr Vice Presidents (2): Sabrin Farooqui & Shannen Potter
Treasurer & Social Media: Jenny Haines
Secretary: Nizza Siano
Assistant Secretary & Webmaster: Cath Crittenden
National Co-ordinating Committee Members (3): Nizza Siano, Jenny Haines, Shane Prince
Returning Officer: Chris Haviland.