1000 sign to oppose refugee policy
HOBART More than 1000 people have signed a handmade, leather-bound book in one week to demonstrate their dissent from the federal government's refugee policies.
The project was launched by Tasmanians for Refugees on August 4 at a meeting attended by 600 people.
The book will travel around the state over a period of 18 weeks, and will then be lodged with the Tasmanian state library archives.
Teachers for Refugees formed
MELBOURNE An email network, Teachers for Refugees, was recently set up to circulate information about the situation of refugees in Australia. So far, teachers at 11 schools have joined the network.
Anyone wishing to get in touch with the Teachers for Refugees email network should send a brief expression of support to <www@smartchat.net.au>.
Refugee fundraiser a hit
PERTH Nearly 100 people packed out the Fuel Bar on August 2 for a fundraiser for the Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN). The crowd was entertained by Mark Cruikshank from Red Jezebel and Tim Underwood from Rosemary Beads. $550 was raised.
Students oppose Iraq war
PERTH Fifteen University of Western Australia students attended an August 7 forum organised at UWA by Resistance on the coming war on Iraq. From the forum an initial anti-war network on UWA was set up to prepare opposition to the war. The meeting also pledged to make the proposed mobilisations against the war on November 4 as big as possible.
Preachers concerned at Iraq war
CANBERRA On August 7, 10 ACT religious leaders sent an open letter to Prime Minister John Howard expressing their "grave concerns about the possibility of a US-led attack on Iraq and Australia's involvement in such a conflict".
The letter was signed by Presbyterian Reverend Joy Bartholomew, Anglican Bishop George Browning, Catholic Archbishop Francis Carroll, NSW Ecumenical Council member Gillian Hunt, Baptist Reverend Thorwald Lorenzen, Catholic Bishop Patrick Power, the Uniting Church's Reverend Ron Reeson, the Assemblies of God's Sean Stanton, Lutheran Reverend Detlev Vosgerau and the Quakers' Stella Wilkie.
From Green Left Weekly, August 14, 2002.
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