New workers are blooming
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
FINDING a job hadn’t exactly been a bed of roses for Sudanese-born asylum seekers Eisa and Muhummad.
That was until the pair were...
Shocked by self-harm
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
SEVERAL well-publicised suicides and self-harm incidents among Tamil asylum seekers have shocked Eelam Tamil Association Victoria into action.
President Param Paramanathan presents a...
Numbers won’t add up
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
DAVID Spitteler has been an avid collector of statistics since opening his volunteer-run Asylum Seekers Centre 16 years ago.
He says the numbers...
Burning to help
By CASEY NEILL
NOBLE Park Fire Brigade has welcomed more than 20 new members from multicultural backgrounds in recent weeks.
In a CFA first, the crew...
Melting pot of cultures
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
HOW’S this for a snapshot of Dandenong?
Take Muslim and Christian refugees from Sudan and South Sudan, Jewish volunteers, and an Indian co-ordinator,...
The need for work
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
TALK to any charity worker in Greater Dandenong - they’ll tell you that giving work rights to asylum seekers would solve many...
Refugee data plan
By NARELLE COULTER
A DATABASE to centralise and co-ordinate community assistance for refugees and asylum seekers will be one idea put forward at a special...
Legal access denied: claim
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A PROMINENT asylum-seeker lawyer has accused the Federal Government of deliberately denying legal access to asylum-seekers.
Greg Barns, asylum-seeker spokesman for Australian Lawyers...
AMES, above and beyond
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
MIGRANT settlement service AMES has gone above and beyond its portion of government funding to activate house-bound and bored asylum seekers.
Some of...
Advice from employers
YOUNG jobseekers can get advice from employers at a forum in Dandenong next month.
The South East Local Learning and Employment Network (SELLEN) will hold...
Goodbye, Mr Duff
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
IT WAS a fittingly celebratory farewell for Wallarano Primary School’s long-standing principal David Duff last month.
In a special assembly on 25 July,...
Marking a century
THE Naval Association of Australia’s Dandenong branch marked 100 years since World War I began with a ceremony in Noble Park on Sunday.
A wreath-laying...
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Special bond shared for 100th milestone
Susanna Lacko’s 100th birthday was particularly poignant, franked by a special bond.
Ms Lasko shares the same birthday as her 58-year-old grandson Edward, and they...
