After becoming a teacher, and then principal of a number of secondary schools in Melbourne’s Western suburbs Sr Brigid Arthur started up the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project where she has worked for the past twenty years. Listen to ABC radio program here (13...
Sr Brigid addresses “Walk for Justice & fair go for Refugees” rally on Palm Sunday, 28 March 2021 outside the State Library Victoria: I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we stand – the peoples of the Kulin nation and I...
Just a few months ago, Mizamu Mahari could not have imagined he would be living on a farm two hours from Melbourne, gingerly stepping into a saddle on a horse. “To be honest, it’s not like the city,” he said. The 28 year-old electrical specialist...
I am writing to make people aware of the difficult situation refugees have to endure. Mardin Arvin in immigration detention in Melbourne: ‘On 17 December I was forcibly transferred to another prison – from incarceration in the Mantra Bell City hotel to the Park Hotel...
A young woman known to BASP since she arrived in Melbourne has just completed a degree in Biomedical Science. She has academically excelled. She arrived in Australia seeking asylum when she was 15 years old and is now looking for work in a science/medical related...
Australia declared in 2013 that asylum seekers who arrive by boat would never settle here. Hundreds of people’s lives are still on hold to prove that point. Read more
