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We’re good at giving guns but not at taking in victims of war
People are fleeing wars in which Australia is deeply involved, so our responsibility to provide asylum seekers with a safe home is not an abstract one, writes Sam Brennan.
ON PALM Sunday thousands will march in solidarity with refugees and people seeking asylum, condemning the Australian Government’s abysmal treatment of the most vulnerable.
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However, the government has not only denied such people the ability to live in peace and build a life once they arrived in Australia, but has been complicit in the…
People fleeing from violence and persecution in Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, Afghanistan, the…