ORGANISATIONS

ABORIGINAL WOMEN'S CONTACT LINE
1800 639 784
Hours Mon-Fri 9.30-12.30 and Mon-Tues, Thurs-Fri 1.30-4.30
Outreach services:
Blacktown - Women and Girls Health Centre (02) 9831 2070
Campbelltown - Wilma Women's Health Centre (02) 4627 2955
Fairfield - Immigrant Women's Health Centre (02) 9726 4044
Liverpool - Liverpool Women's Health Centre (02) 9601 3555
Penrith - Penrith Women's Health Centre (02) 4721 8749
Walgett - Women's Violence Prevention Unit (02) 6828 3143
Wyong - Rose Cottage (02) 4357 1152
Aboriginal Women's Outreach - Miller Community Health Care (02) 9607.8112
Tel (02) 9749 7700 (administration only) Fax (02) 9749 4433

AUSTRALIA CARES
http://www.australiacares.org
A web site that was set up to support the Woomera detainees' hunger strike. It includes a discussion forum, details on how to get "Say Yes to Refugees" stickers and a report from the Adelaide university lecturer arrested while taking part in a hunger strike at Woomera detention centre.

AUSTRALIANS AGAINST RACISM
http://www.australiansagainstracism.org
was set up in October. The group's web site opens with the statement:
"There comes a time and point in history when silence is betrayal. That
time is now. We want to use the mainstream media to speak up and say we do
not support what is being done to refugees, asylum seekers and detainees in
this country." The group has produced a television advertisement involving
many artists and actors.

CHILDREN OUT OF DETENTION
http://www.chilout.org
(ChilOut) is campaigning to get children, along with their primary carers or families, out of detention. ChilOut has an impressive web site with a lot of useful resources, including reports from lawyers and psychologists about the effect of detention on children, fact sheets, drawings from children in detention and a regular list of activities.

IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S SPEAKOUT
http://www.speakout.org.au
PO Box 31
Harris Park 2150
ph: 02 9635 8022
fax: 02 9635 8176

MIGRANTE AUSTRALIA
7/18 Morgan St, Botany 2019

ROYAL COMMISSION INTO THE TREATMENT OF REFUGEES
The campaign for a royal commission now has an online petition, which also allows you to make a comment.
Visit the royal commission site at http://www.refugee-royal-commission.org.
Visit http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ausrefug/petition.html to sign the petition.

RURAL AUSTRALIANS FOR REFUGEES
http://us.geocities.com/rar1953
a national network of groups in rural and regional areas. It began in NSW in October and has snowballed, with many other RAR groups forming around the country. The web site contains a thought-provoking plan for small towns to contribute to resettling refugees. Visit

SAFE COMMUNITY, WA
http://www.safecom.org

SPARE ROOMS FOR REFUGEES
http://www.spareroomsforrefugees.com
A Victorian-based project to help asylum seekers enter the community, support refugees and promote alternatives to detention. The site includes the names and addresses of refugees in detention, with an appeal for people to write letters to them. It also contains handy "barbecue facts" for use in discussions.

UNITED MUSLIM WOMEN ASSOCIATION
http://salam.muslimsonline.com/~mwa/
PO BOX 264 Lakemba NSW 2195 Australia
Tel: (02) 9750 6916 Fax: (02) 9750 9713
E-mail: hjmaha@yahoo.com.au

"WE ARE ALL BOAT PEOPLE"
http://www.boat-people.org
is the theme of a web site of "an expanding group of media activists, artists, videographers, webheads, writers and designers". Together, the site says "we have the power to challenge the border panic encouraged by the rhetoric of fear. We are making media and cultural actions to remind the government and people everywhere that all (non-indigenous) Australians are in fact `Boat People'. From the First Fleet in 1788, through two centuries of migration, to the most recent arrivals, we share a common past and a current obligation to our fellow human beings." The group launched itself with a huge banner-drop off the side of the Sydney Opera House, an image of a First Fleet ship and the words "Boat People". The group encourages a thousand small actions, and provide some tools for how to participate, including a tactical media kit.

WIRRINGA BAIYA ABORIGINAL WOMEN'S LEGAL CENTRE
Suite 102
PO Box 785
Marrickville NSW 1475
Marrickville Hospital
Cnr Marrivkville & Livingstone Streets
Marrickville
ph: 02 95693847
fax: 02 95694210
email: Aboriginal_Womens_NSW@fcl.fl.asn.au

WOMEN'S LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE
PO Box 37 Lidcombe North 2141
Telephone advice (02) 9749 5533,
1800 801 501 for rural clients,
TTY 1800 674 333
Fax (02) 9749 4433
This Centre provides free legal advice, information and referral on all aspects of the law as it affects women. It conducts legal education programs, produces written resources and works to make the law more responsive to the needs of women.

X BORDER
http://www.antimedia.net/xborder
Clearing house for refugee information

SPEAKERS AND CONTRIBUTORS

April Pham
http://www.speakout.org.au
Immigrant Women's Speakout
PO Box 31
Harris Park 2150
ph: 02 9635 8022
fax: 02 9635 8176

Mahboba Cina
International Women and Children's Support Services Inc
PO Box 6234 North Ryde NSW 2113
tel (02) 9887 1665
Fax: (02) 9889 0473

Jane Corpuz-Brock
President, Migrante Australia
7/18 Morgan St, Botany 2019

Associate Professor Wendy Bacon
Centre for Independent Journalism
University of Technology, Sydney
Email: Wendy.Bacon@uts.edu.au

Lena Nahlous
Community Cultural Development Officer
Information & Cultural Exchange

Dr Suvendrini Perera
School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry
La Trobe University
Email: S.Perera@latrobe.edu.au, mperera@hyperlink.net.au
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/english/staff/perera.html

Associate Professor Heather Goodall
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science,
University of Technology Sydney
Email: Heather.Goodall@uts.edu.au