Maribynong IDC

A glimpse into the despair of detention

HELEN STAGOLL When I visited a Melbourne asylum seeker detention centre recently, I was not allowed to take in a bunch of flowers for my friend’s birthday. No reason given except ‘it’s policy’.

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the embarrassed colonialist

Historic truth

Review by Suzanne Yanko Book | The embarrassed colonialist | Sean Dorney Sean Dorney is an Australian journalist who has probably been the most trusted voice on Papua New Guinea affairs since he arrived in Moresby as a

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ron blackwood

Family ministry

Rev Ronald Alister Blackwood 23 August 1919 – 12 June 2017 Ron Blackwood was born in Dimboola, Victoria on 23 August 1919.

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Stranger In The Woods

Stranger than fiction

Review by Nick Mattiske Book | The Stranger in the Woods | Michael Finkel One day in the 1980s a young man fed up with the modern world abandons his car by the side of the road and disappears into the woods of the northe

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letters

Letters to the editor – July 2017

Responding to terror Hear, hear! to the views expressed by the editor in regard to using the awful terrorist attacks in Manchester as a means to vilify those seeking to escape bombings and war to find refuge in a safer p

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stuart mcmillan

With courage let us all combine

UCA Assembly President Stuart McMillan said the federal government’s decision to award $70 million in compensation to asylum seekers kept in offshore detention once again showed what a moral failure the policy has been.

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OpShopcrop II

Op shop rises from the ashes

The Bridgewater Gagebrook Uniting Church has re-opened its op shop doors again after the building was severely damaged by a deliberately lit fire on 6 April.

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