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Along with most people involved with child welfare issues in Australia, the
maltreatment of children and parents in detention centres has been a major pre-occupation
of our work in the last two years. All of our seminar revenue since early
2002 has been directed to refugee charities including .. Rural
Australians for Refugees Sanctuary Refugee Support Group Chilout
Children out of Detention Oxfam/Community Aid Abroad
and
many others. Currently a large project has been initiated by Steve and
Rev. Rod Horsfield assisted by Beth Gibbings and Beth Horsfield. The SievX National Memorial Project is a nationwide young people's
art collaboration, inviting secondary school art classes to submit designs for
a national memorial to the 353 children, women and men who drowned in the refugee
boat disaster of the same name, in October 2001.
The aim is to design and
build a memorial site on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, and by
doing this to develop Australia's conscience and awareness of the needs of people
fleeing terror beyond our shores.
More information is available
on www.sievxmemorial.com.
If you are unaware of the SievX tragedy and its story, www.sievx.com
is an excellent archival website of all media material and parliamentary proceedings
relating to the event. |