Reports from Experiences of Australia's Refugee Determination Process
This book documents the complex, drawn out and harsh legal procedures and historically racist and toxic immigration culture that await people arriving by plane and subsequently seeking refugee status in Australia. This story has hitherto been sidelined because of the more notorious offshore detention policies of successive Australian.
One Friday morning, the quiet suburban life of Khalid’s family is turned upside down when an unwelcome visitor appears at the door. What follows is a hilarious—and poignant—intercultural encounter that explores love, socioeconomics, and religion and uncovers our common humanity even in the midst of difference.
An anthology of essays bringing together renowned Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian thinkers, scientists, activists and artists responding to the Black Summer of 2019-20. Their diverse voices confront the experience and ‘aftermath of our bushfires’ apocalypse with hope and vision.
Frank Hannaford, a young Australian from a sheltered Catholic background, is searching for a deeper version of himself in 1930s Germany. At the university and in an organisation of young Catholic men he finds friendship and a new confidence in his own resources. A German identity begins to form, surprising and delighting him.
Declarations through Images and Words for a Just and Ecologically Sustainabile Peace
A collection of essays, artworks and poetry by a range of First Nations and religiously inspired peace and environmental activists. It represents a call to recognise the deep implication of cultures of war and climate crisis.
Rethinking Dementia is an important and original addition to the contemporary literature on dementia. Chapman draws on his research talking with people who have been diagnosed as having dementia and their family and/or professional carers.
The book comprises fifty poems which recount the authors experiences of flight from war torn Afghanistan to Iran as a child of the oppressed Hazara ethnic group, and later boat travel to Indonesia where he remained as a stateless refugee without his family for almost a decade until being accepted in 2023 to live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
An expose of the Australian charities sector, its history, current size, makeup, with case studies revealing the different charitable organisation types, ways of being or becoming fraudulent, and the regulatory approaches.
