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True Blue Doggie Morph

Written by Administrator Wednesday, 08 September 2010 11:28

Mai Long's work The playful atmosphere created by outsized toys on wheels, building blocks and pictures is soon dispelled as one is drawn into the surreal blue-blackness of Mai Nguyen-Long’s passionate engagement with life’s most important issues. Long has created a new world for her mythic mongrels. The meticulously created works of this current installation, ‘true blue doggie morph’, carry multiple layers of meaning, reflecting personal aspects of the artist’s past and present, as well as delving into universal concerns of war and identity.

Artist Mai Long's Profile

Back to the worst days of 2002, says Amnesty as 80 protestors hurried off to Curtin

Written by Administrator Monday, 06 September 2010 13:48

From Crikey.com
Sitting with asylum seekers on the side of the Stuart Highway

Pamela Curr, campaign co-ordinator at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, writes:

On Wednesday morning a large group of asylum seekers walked out of the Darwin detention centre and stood quietly by the Stuart Highway holding up bed sheets so that passing cars could read such messages as "Give us mercy." Pamela Curr, campaign co-ordinator, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, was there:

Multicultural Health an election sleeper - now becoming critical

Written by Administrator Wednesday, 01 September 2010 23:15

A new multicultural health alliance has emerged to take up critical questions ignored by major parties in the election. In the election health policy was one area that the ALP claimed as its own, only to be trumped on mental health by the Coalition commitment to a major upgrade in Federal investment. Neither of the major parties seems to be aware that the multicultural health sector is in crisis, or that their health priorities encompass but do not recognise pressing cultural diversity issues.

Message in a bottle from Darwin asylum seeker : 'Protection not detection'

Written by Devaki Monani Wednesday, 01 September 2010 17:39

A group of asylum seekers began demonstrating outside a Darwin detention centre this morning after being held for nine months without knowing the verdict of their protection visa application. The asylum seekers pushed across two electric fences (charged with 11,000Volts) to get their voices heard. Senator Evans has condemned the demonstration stating that the asylum seekers could also face criminal charges for trying to escape the centre.

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has confirmed today that Australia has detained about 4,100 asylum seekers this year.

One of the demonstrators threw a bottle at a journalist with a note pleading for 'protection not detention'.

Unity in Diversity-Marketplace of Ideas

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 31 August 2010 14:59

An exciting opportunity exists for 'grassroots' projects that aim to promote mutual understanding among peoples and cultures in the Asia-Pacific region to participate at the Melbourne Forum, October 10-12, 2010, organized by the Global Dialogue Foundation under the auspices of the UN Alliance of Civilizations.

The theme of the Forum is “Bridging Cultures, Building Peace”. Therefore, some suggested themes are as follows:

Promoting cultural diversity in society; Encouraging mutual understanding between people of religions, faiths and traditional faiths; Fostering integration of migrants in urban and rural areas; Advancing cultural understanding through education; Championing youth in furthering dialogue and cooperation among cultures; Using technology to facilitate intercultural understanding.

Global Dialogue Foundation

United Nations- Alliance of Civilizations