Don’t let headlines kill the welcome
In The Australian last weekend, journalist Paige Taylor described the gradual hardening of her heart. She wrote of baby Abul flushed from a baby-carrier strapped to his mother...
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Interview with Blackwood Circle of Friends convenor: Tricia Rushton
Last week, I spoke to Tricia Rushton, the current convenor of the Blackwood Circle of Friends, a support group for refugees and asylum seekers. The Circle of Friends was...
Hosting New Migrants: on the capacity to welcome
When we first arrived in Adelaide, we stayed in a two-bedroom unit off Goodwood Road. My sister’s old school friend had arranged for us to live there while the...
Mothers and Sons
Tomorrow morning, I shall bid my seventeen-year-old son farewell as he travels to another city to begin his undergraduate studies. These past weeks, as friends have learnt of...
The Little Man Counts
Earlier this year, I stopped to read a commemorative board by a sandy footpath leading to Chapman’s Bar at Emerald Bay on Pangkor Laut. I learnt that the bar was named...
Harmony Day Celebrations
Last Sunday, at the Migration Museum in Adelaide, Anette and Zaid demonstrated how to make Injera, an Eritrean/Ethiopian flatbread. They have kindly agreed to share...
Unfinished business
“You’ll send me a copy, won’t you?” said Mr Malcolm Fraser to me as we stood at the door of his office, high above Collins Street in Melbourne. I...
The American invasion and chess
“The circumstances in our country are very difficult; this difficulty comes from the Americans invading my country because everything was destroyed after the invasion....
Delicious baby
“Delicious baby,” said my student as her child lay suckling in her arms. “Delicious milk?” I asked. “No, delicious baby.” “In English...