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Darwin residents are campaigning every day for the Medevac refugees to be freed.
The fight to free nine refugees who have been locked up in community detention in Darwin for more than a year is drawing wide support.
The campaign, organised by Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network (DASSAN), has now won the support of Darwin City Council which, on April 13, voiced its “strong opposition” to the refugees being indefinitely detained.
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Since January, every single day, activists gather outside a six-foot fence behind the Mercure Airport compound, and call for the immediate release of Afsaneh, Mojtaba, Behnam, Yaghoob, Malakeh, Hajar, Abbas, Asfaneh and Mojtaba. All are from Iran and all have been deemed to be refugees. They were brought to Darwin to receive medical care, which they could not receive on Nauru where they had been for seven years.
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Number of items fixed per session (held once a month): 30-60
Volunteer skill sets: At each session, we have about two to four sewers, three to four in electrical and two to three in general and mechanical (who fix items such as bikes and sharpen secateurs).
Shortest fix – the shortest fix took just three seconds. A man brought in a chainsaw and wasn’t aware that it had a safety lock on it.
Longest fix: the longest fix was a TV that took three hours. Our volunteers have incredible persistence, and this one refused to let the TV defeat him. By the end there were a few of them working on it and together they managed to fix it.
Stephen Burns is an Anglican priest. He is Professor of Liturgical and Practical Theology at Pilgrim Theological College, Melbourne. Robert Gribben is a Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church in Australia. He is Professor Emeritus of the Uniting Church’s theological faculty in Melbourne and an honorary Research Fellow of the University of Divinity.
The book is divided into Part A The Prayer Book Tradition and Part B
Liturgical Themes and Foci. The book looks at the historical tradition of common prayer, its current reality, and possible future expressions of it. You can see more of the contents via the link, I hope you enjoy and appreciate my essay, and I encourage you to purchase and reflect on the book.