Quote of the Week: "It is unbelievable that there is a country on this earth that the whole nation including PM, oppositions, TVs, Newspapers, people, and civil society busy with a debate about keeping innocent children in prison camps." Behrouz Boochani
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As we bring you this update we're busy (among other things) planning towards our Refugee Week in the City event which will be held on Monday 21 June from 12pm at Wesley Uniting Church, Perth. The theme for this year’s Refugee Week is Unity.
This is a collaborative event with other organisations committed to creating welcoming communities and celebrating the broad diversity and rich contributions to our state of people from refugee backgrounds.
Come along at 12 noon to purchase lunch from the CARAD Fare Go Food Truck, and engage with the various stalls which will be positioned around the Wesley corner before the formal event at 12.30pm. If you're free on the 21st we'd love to see you there! Find out more about Refugee Week here.
As we look toward Refugee Week, you may also like to check out our newest letter writing action, calling for permanency for refugees - creating pathways to permanency for refugees on temporary visas, and enabling family reunion. Take Action Here.
In other news, the Raise the Age WA Launch is on next week, 15 June with a special screening of the film 'In My Blood it Runs' and Q&A on youth justice. Australia has one of the lowest minimum ages of criminal responsibility and is out of step with the international community. Learn more about this campaign at Social Reinvestment WA. and look for the event link below to buy tickets.
Permanency for Refugees - Letter Writing Action
Take Action - a letter writing guide asking the government to create pathways to permanency for refugees on temporary visas, and enabling family reunion.
The Uniting Church Synod of Western Australia acknowledges the Wadjuk people of the Noongar nation, on whose land our Synod office stands. We acknowledge their elders past and present, and their people.
At its 7th Assembly the Uniting Church formally entered into a relationship of Covenant with its Indigenous members, recognising and repenting for the Church’s complicity in the injustices perpetrated on Australia’s Indigenous community, and pledging to move forward with a shared future. Congress’ generous response to this statement, among other messages, called upon the broader Church to take up the mission of reconciliation.
The ongoing and continually renewing nature of the Covenant calls the Uniting Church to continually act to remove the systems and structures of discrimination and oppression in Australia.The Uniting Church works for just, inclusive and equal relationships, recognising the place of First Peoples in Australia.
