Rock legend Jimmy Barnes and his wife Jane have sent a guitar to a Kurdish man who’s living in on-shore detention in Melbourne. Moz Azimi endured seven years in detention on Manus Island and Port Moresby before being transferred to Australia for urgent medical help. Although he received refugee status more than three years ago,…
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Aussie Entertainment Industry Urges PM To Get Families Off Nauru and Manus
Actors, producers, filmmakers, directors, musicians – and basically anyone you can possibly think of who’s part of the Australian entertainment industry – have written an open letter to the PM and the Opposition Leader urging them to remove asylum seekers detained on Nauru and Manus, and bring them to safety. More than 900 artists including…
Letters of Love: Words from the heart
In the weeks after Walter Mikac lost his wife Nanette, and two daughters, Alannah and Madeline, in the Port Arthur Massacre, he found some comfort in little notes written by 6-year-old Alannah. More than two decades later, those notes would be the catalyst for a book – Letters of Love: Words from the heart published by Affirm Press. The book is penned…