"We had a really busy time on Friday with our street stall in Bellingen, notwithstanding the showery weather. More than 140 people signed our open letter to the Prime Minister; we sold all of Marlene’s now-famous gift cards, which raised $155 and we collected $146 in donations . That’s another $301 for the asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown.
People who
visited the stall were very supportive of our efforts, and mostly
expressed varying degrees of anger and despair with the Coalition
government. Whilst very happy to learn about the agreement to resettle
450 refugees in New Zealand over three years, there was great anger
that this offer has been on the table since 2013, and is being taken up
now purely in an attempt to improve the Coalition’s electoral prospects." Mike
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