Join the Australia Day celebrations in Parkes shire as they welcome gardening expert Graham Ross and journalist Liz Deep-Jones. Learn about their accomplishments and involvement as ambassadors.
Join the Australia Day celebrations in Parkes shire as they welcome gardening expert Graham Ross and journalist Liz Deep-Jones. Learn about their accomplishments and involvement as ambassadors.
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Liz Deep-Jones says her family (above) have been nicknamed “the United Nations”, and have been her impetus in creating this exhibition, which includes installations, a documentary and 35 portraits, from which the following pictures have been selected. “The aim of the exhibition,
We Bleed The Same, is to create a greater understanding of our differences in order to live in a more inclusive society,” she says.
Thanush Selvarasa.
Thanush Selvarasa, 31, Sydney’s north shore
As a desperate 23-year-old Tamil, Selvarasa left his home in Sri Lanka dreaming of a safer future. He didn’t realise that his new life would result in almost eight years of detention – first on Christmas Island, then Manus Island – and be even more hellish than the one he’d left behind.