For the past 24 years, through BASP, Brigid has offered housing, food, legal help and community to refugees and asylum seekers, as well as advocating for systemic change to address injustices and improve conditions for people seeking asylum. In nominating her for...
For the Coalition, it was about stopping so-called “illegals”. For Labor, it was framed as “saving lives at sea”. For both, it was about keeping people seeking asylum out of contact with the Australian community, demonised and dehumanised, called by numbers, not...
The following is a musing, albeit limited, on some elements of an additional critique coming from a Christian background. Ever since the British colonisation of Australia, governments have concentrated on the security of our borders. This has often been done...
The government is targeting refugees and migrants whom it had previously been forced to release from its onshore immigration detention system following a landmark 2023 high court ruling. The court ruled that Australia’s use of indefinite immigration detention was...
It’s estimated that more than 122,000 people are homeless in this country. Many of them are Australians failed by society, slipping through the cracks of social, unemployment and mental health support structures. They may be huddled under blankets on the street, or...
I was born in Tigray, a province in northern Ethiopia. I am a mathematician and have studied and worked in many universities. I completed my Bachelor’s degree at one university in southern Ethiopia and was then employed at another one, south of the capital (Addis...
