Permanent Visas for all Refugees

Call for Peace

The Albanese Labor government has finally agreed to honour its promise to give permanent visas to 19,000 refugees on Temporary Protection Visas (TPVs) and Safe Haven Enterprise Visas (SHEVs). This means that after ten years in limbo, they will have the right to travel, family reunion and a secure future. But there are thousands of other refugees with no promise of permanent visas:
• 10,000 people rejected under the Coalition's unfair fast track processing system, including many now threatened with deportation
• 150 refugees still stranded on Nauru and PNG
• 1,200 Medevac refugees and families from Nauru who are now in Australia but told they cannot stay in Australia. Many have already been here for five years or more and have partners, jobs and lives here.

Pax Christi Australia [NSW] Inc. gives notice and invites members & interested people to its 2023 Annual General Meeting on Monday 3rd April 2023 at 6.00 pm via Zoom. We are happy to announce that Professor Clinton Fernandes will speak on the topic: "Neither Their War Nor Their Peace".

As we celebrate International Women's Day in 2023 and its theme ‘DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality’ it is important that we recognise not only the contribution of women but also the inordinate and unreasonable burden that women and girls the world over have borne in the face of blatant or hidden abuses of power.  While power imbalance can manifest itself in physical form – it often is through information and knowledge or a lack of it that inequality and inequity can flourish.