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Kids in detention: good first step

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:10:50 +0000

While asylum seeker advocates are celebrating the announcement that some children and their families will be released from detention, they warn that there is still much to do. Dianne Jensen reports. The Uniting Church in Australia has welcomed an announcement by the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Scott Morrison that some children in detention ...

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Church questions Cambodia “solution”

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:28:54 +0000

Ahead of Refugee Week, Sue Hutchinson and Rohan Salmond examine the federal government’s pursuit of a regional solution in asylum seeker policy. The federal government renewed its commitment to offshore processing of asylum seekers in the 2014 Budget with the closure of six onshore detention centres. The government is also in talks with Cambodia to ...

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Uniting Church takes drastic action in response to child detention

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 06:03:37 +0000

The Uniting Church has received information that children without parents being detained on Christmas Island have been scheduled for imminent deportation to offshore facilities on Nauru. In response, the Uniting Church in Australia has taken the bold step of writing to the Australian Government to offer sanctuary for all children without parents currently held on Christmas ...

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