About 60 people filled the Bates room at Blackheath Community Hall on Sunday afternoon to hear about a book written by refugees on their experiences in off shore detention centres. They Cannot take the Sky.
A BMRSG contingent was there, Joy Connor, committee member and Villawood Visitor gave an excellent overview of the work of BMRSG and urged all to “stand up for a decent Australia.”Read more
Julian Burnside writes “On 9 May I launched OFFSHORE by Madeline Gleeson
Madeline is a Research Associate at the wonderful Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
It is a terrific book. Buy it; read it; ask yourself: “How did it come to this?”
I have never launched a book which is as compelling as Offshore”
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We acknowledge the Darug and Gundungarra people as the Traditional Custodians of the land in which we live and work and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.
BMRSG supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart
