Date and Time:
Thursday, September 9, 2010 -
12:45pm to 1:15pm
Location:
The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street,
Asylum seekers have no connection to population boom, unemployment, debt, terrorism or interest rates, but you wouldn’t know it watching the nightly news.
We receive so few refugees compared to the global community yet time and again we are told to be scared.
Why do so many Australians feel a sense of entitlement to turn back people fleeing for their lives? What does it mean to be Australian if we offer no just sanctuary for refugees? Why have we allowed a moral issue to become a political one?
Presenter: Kon Karapangiotidis established the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre in 2001.
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