Welcome
Bellingen Market Stall - Sat 21st Jan
Roadside demonstration - Big Banana, Thurs 9th Feb
USA refugee resettlement
Assisting asylum seekers
Welcome back!
We hope that you have all enjoyed the break from normal routines in recent weeks and we wish you all a happy new year. Let us hope that 2017 turns out to be a better one for our asylum seekers and refugees in offshore detention centres and on the mainland. We plan to keep up the fight for a just, humane and compassionate resolution to the torment that our government has been inflicting on refugees in recent years. Perhaps you have made a resolution to become more involved in our activities this year. If so, we very much look forward to meeting you at one of our 16 markets planned for the year or at one of our many roadside demonstrations. We, and the asylum seekers and refugees languishing in detention, need all the help that we can muster in order to keep this terrible situation in the public eye.
Our next market stall: Bellingen market, Saturday 21st January
Our first market of 2017 will be in Bellingen on Saturday 21st January. Please consider helping out on the stall for a while between 9.00 am and 1.30 pm, or just drop in to say hello and to sign our petition. If you can help out, please let Mike know by emailing him at :mandm.griffin2@bigpond.com. As usual, we’ll be selling our merchandise, handing out leaflets, talking to lots of people and collecting donations for the Asylum Seekers Centre.
Our next roadside demonstration : Big Banana, Coffs Harbour, Thursday 9th February.
We have to delay the start of our roadside demos owing to the intervention of Australia day and another unavoidable commitment. We’ll have a new banner to unfurl, so it would be great to have two new pairs of hands for it’s first outing. We’ll be located by the Pacific Highway adjacent to the Big Banana from 3.00 pm until 4.30 pm on Thursday 9th February. Please come and join us and help us spread the message that Australians do care about the refugees and asylum seekers still trapped on Nauru and Manus after all this time.
Will the USA refugee resettlement survive the Trump presidency?
There has been a great deal of speculation about whether or not the deal between Obama and Turnbull will survive under a Trump presidency. Leaving aside the basic sordidness of the proposals, we are reading reports from the USA this week that the arrangements are by no means secure. Texan Republican Brian Babin is adamant that the deal will not go ahead. He has told Fairfax Media: “ I am confident President-elect Trump will do everything in his power to put an immediate stop to this secret Australian-US deal that should have simply never happened in the first place.”
There has only ever been one moral and lawful solution to the issue. The refugees and asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru should be brought to Australia and should, if found to be genuine refugees, be resettled here.
Assisting asylum seekers in Nauru and Manus
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