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Australia’s Asylum Seeker Policies Cost Taxpayers $9.6B Over Three Years

Wendy Williams, Tuesday, 13th September 2016 -  Australia’s immigration policies are “expensive, inhumane and blunt”, according to a new report that has revealed the current asylum seeker framework has cost Australian taxpayers $9.6 billion since 2013.

Australian Women Must Work an Extra 70 Days to Earn the Same as Men

Ellie Cooper, Thursday, 8th September 2016 -  The 16.2 per cent pay gap between men and women in Australia means that women had to work an extra 70 days to reach the same level of pay as men for the last financial year.

Opinion

Marriage ‘Inequality’ Is a Threat to Religious Freedom – and It Is Probably Unconstitutional

Luke Beck, Tuesday, 30th August 2016 -  Legal marriage is not telling religious groups what they can or can’t do, but blocking it will impact on religious freedom, writes Luke Beck constitutional law lecturer, in this article that first appeared in The Conversation.

World Vision Appoints Digital Leader as First Female CEO

Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 24th August 2016 -  One of the Australian finance sector’s leaders of digital transformation, Claire Rogers, will succeed long-serving CEO Tim Costello as chief executive of the country’s largest international development and humanitarian relief agency.

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Songs and Stories of Indigenous Incarceration

Ellie Cooper, Tuesday, 23rd August 2016 -  The over-representation and treatment of Indigenous Australians in the justice system is once again making headlines, but a documentary, Prison Songs, puts a human face to the experiences of inmates.

Changemaker

Making Charity Cool

Wendy Williams, Monday, 22nd August 2016 -  Stephanie Lorenzo was just 22 when she founded PROJECT FUTURES, a Sydney-based Not for Profit with a mission to end human trafficking and slavery by empowering individuals to take action in their communities. Lorenzo is this week’s Changemaker.

Australia Must Triple Its Humanitarian Intake, Oxfam Says

Ellie Cooper, Friday, 19th August 2016 -  International aid agency Oxfam said Australia must triple its “shameful” intake of asylum seekers and refugees within five years, to 42,000, to help address the global humanitarian crisis.

NFPs Call for Humane Resettlement of Manus Asylum Seekers

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 18th August 2016 -  Not for Profits are calling on the Australian Government to resettle refugees and asylum seekers in a “humane and sustainable way” in the wake of news that an agreement has been made to close the Manus Island detention centre.

NFPs Call for Royal Commission to Examine Nauru Abuse

Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 10th August 2016 -  Australia’s peak bodies for welfare and international aid have called for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to urgently examine incidents of child abuse and harm in the Australian-run immigration detention cent

Refugee Advocate Says Leaked Nauru Files ‘Appalling’

Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 10th August 2016 -  The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) says leaked incident reports from Australia’s detention camp for asylum seekers on Nauru has again laid bare the devastating trauma and abuse inflicted on children held by Australia in offshore detention.
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