Tag Archives: refugees

Note to Gillard: go back to where you came from

by on 22. Jun, 2011 in Africa, Australia, Culture, Ethnicity, Human rights, Local community, Migration, Multiculturalism, My life, Politics, Refugees

For those engaged in Australia’s asylum seeker debate, SBS Television’s 3 part reality series ‘Go back to where you came from‘ has been one of the year’s most anticipated TV events and I for one certainly wasn’t going to miss it.  Even before the series went to air, a good 40,000 people on Facebook indicated [...]

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Social business alive and kicking in Melbourne

by on 30. Mar, 2011 in Fashion, Food, Local community, Migration, Refugees, Social enterprise

Recently I have been devoting time to researching and learning about social businesses and social enterprises, which are effectively not-for-profit – or sometimes profit – businesses set up to address a social issue.   One of the pioneers of social business is Professor Muhammad Yunus, who established the Noble Peace prize winning Grameen Bank in [...]

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Looking in the mirror at the other

by on 16. Mar, 2011 in Anthropology, Culture, Migration, Multiculturalism, My life, Refugees, Travel

Welcome to my first blog post! This is both exciting and daunting for me all at once. How do I sum up all that has inspired me to ‘put pen to paper’ to discuss this strange planet we occupy and the even stranger human race that is found on it? From as early as I [...]

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