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Voices For Peace: New resource promoting a socially inclusive future

Voices For Peace is a new resource from the Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma — whom the ACSQ is affiliated with through the Queensland Community Alliance and the BRASS Network — featuring community members and leaders sharing their thoughts and advice on what building a socially inclusive future entails

"Me and my family are very happy to start our journey back to my community in Bilo. Thank you to all [of you people in] Perth, thanks. Love you Perth" (Priya Nadesalingam, pictured with Angela Fredericks, Nades, Kopika and Tharnicaa: image sourced from the Bring Priya, Nades and their Girls Home to Biloela Facebook page)
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Lessons from an accidental advocate

“As welcoming celebrations continue in Biloela, and the Tamil family starts to rebuild their lives in peace after more than four years in immigration detention, it would be easy for us to return to our busy lives and miss the lessons from this inspiring story. To me there are many things we can learn from Angela Fredericks and the Bilo community,” says Peter Branjerdporn as Refugee Week approaches

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Set them free

“The immigration detention of tennis world number one Novak Djokovic leading up to the recent Australian Open brought the international spotlight onto the plight of people who have been detained for much, much longer than him,” says the Justice Unit’s Peter Branjerdporn