News & Events

RAR PRESS HITS

• A Country viewpoint Radio National's Bush telegraph program, Wed 30th June
• Refugees prepare to plant roots Shepparton News, June 25 2004 by Liselotte Johnsson
• All Saints bell tolls for children in detention The Transcontinental Port Augusta - June 16, 2004
• Toowoomba joins child detention protest ABC Southern Qld - June 11, 2004; RAR's Mark Copland
• A Better Way Bombala Times - 9th June 2004 by Peter Llewellyn
• Detention centre shame Sunday Tasmanian - 6th Jun 2004 by Margaret Pos
• Here to stay: Muradi finally gets his visa The Dubbo Daily Liberal May 28, 2004 by Steve Hodder
• Refugee treatment angers Depta group Wimmera News -25 May 2004 by Cathy Pedler
• The Road to Tooleybuc RAR's Ian Skiller featured on Australian Story - May 10
• Refugees find their niche in Australia BBC World Television - 3 May 2004, by Phil Mercer
• Letter to the editor The Age - Felicia Di Stefano, member South Gippsland RAR
• South Gippsland RAR Protest Leongatha Star
• Afghan asylum bid still on hold Dubbo Daily Liberal - 2 April 2004 by Steve Hodder
• Family or death: Sayed's grave choice The Murray Valley Standard - April 2,2004 by Melanie Leane
• Any atrocity in name of trade Border Mail Mrs Chris Sobey - Albury, 29 March 2004
• The Plight Of Refugees: Australia Talks Back - 24/03/2004, Guest Anne Coombes, journalist and writer and one of the founders of Rural Australians for Refugees
• Meeting eases refugee deportation concerns ABC Riverina NSW, Friday, 5 March 2004
• 'Right Side of Compassion' - The Weekend Australian, Edition 1 - All-round Country Sat 21 Feb 2004, Page 029; by Mike Steketee
• RAR sets campaign course for 2004 - Green Left Weekly, February 18 2004; by Sarah Stephen & Andrew Hall
• Visa concerns: Shepparton News; 17 February 2004; by Liselotte Johnsson
• RAR National Conference ABC National Rural News Friday, 6 Feb 2004

• Rural Australians for Refugees ABC Bush Telegraph Friday 6 Feb 2004

• National MP calls for refugee amnesty - The Age: 6 February 2004; by Michelle Grattan
• Murray Bridge Refugee Friendly Town ABC Bush Telegraph SummaryWednesday 28 Jan 2004
• New plan to attract migrants to regional Aust ABC PM Monday, 12 January , 2004
• Tamworth RAR forms ABC New England North West, The Morning Show with Jodie Gunders, 11 December 2003
• 'Where Strangers Are Now Welcome' - SMH News And Features - News Review, 10.1.04; by Mike Seccombe. Changing attitudes of MPs and rural communities to TPV holders and asylum seekers.
• Asylum seekers in limbo' - Courier Mail 7.1.04;. by Mark Phillips. Opinion piece on uncertainties facing asylum seekers whose TPVs are about to expire.
• Rural Refugees Rally in Canberra ABC Bush Telegraph, Rural Reporter Julie Doyle Thursday 27 Nov 2003
• Group seeks to highlight plight of refugees in rural Australia ABC VIC Country Hour Friday 28 Nov 2003. This story also aired SA Country Hour Summary Tuesday 25 Nov 2003; Country Breakfast Saturday, 6 Dec 2003; NT Country Hour Tuesday 25 Nov 2003; NSW Country Hour Tuesday 25 Nov 2003; WA Country Hour Summary Tuesday 25 Nov 2003.
• Rural refugee group says make room for Iraqis ABC Rural News Tuesday, 18 March 2003
  
  

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