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Community Education

Our education resources are suitable for use by community groups, schools, advocates, educators and anyone interested in learning more about asylum seekers and refugees in Australia.

These resources are also available on DVD. Contact the RCSC to obtain a copy.

Short film ‘Our need to belong’

A nine minute animated film featuring the voices of asylum seekers. Hear asylum seekers’ experiences of waiting while their applications for protection are processed in Australia, and learn how the community can help.

our need to belong on Vimeo.

n.b. You can view this video in full-screen mode by clicking the x-like icon in the vimeo player.

Download: Quicktime Windows Media

Fact sheets

Important facts, figures and information about asylum seekers and refugees in Australia.

Read now: Portable Document Format

Stories: The Scattered People website

A website of stories of refugee claimants’ experiences. The site is built around the themes of our Scattered People CD, covering the journey of refugee claimants from their home country to Australia, and through the process and experience of waiting for their cases for protection to be heard.

View the website

Scattered People photo documentary

This photo documentary tells the story of three families and their plight as refugee claimants in Australia. Brisbane photographer Cassandra Mathie photographed the families in their home environments; a space filled with memories of the past and hopes for the future. The photo documentary attempts to capture the personal and physical pain these people have faced in their past and will encounter as their struggle continues in years to come. This work is a testament to their dignity, compassion and the hope they hang on to and rely so heavily upon.

These images may not be altered or modified in any way.
Copyright Cassandra Mathie

 

Video news stories: Abebe Fekadu, Australian Paralympian and former asylum seeker

Abebe Fekadu was supported by the Refugee Claimants Support centre and the wider community for nine years. In 2008 he became an Australian citizen, and later that year represented Australia in the powerlifting competition of the Beijing paralympic games. Watch two news reports of his story.

  • Video 1

abebe 1 on Vimeo.

n.b. You can view this video in full-screen mode by clicking the x-like icon in the vimeo player. 

Download: Quicktime Windows Media 

 

  • Video 2

abebe 2 on Vimeo.

n.b. You can view this video in full-screen mode by clicking the x-like icon in the vimeo player.  

Download: Quicktime Windows Media 

PowerPoint presentations

A selection of PowerPoint presentations - with detailed speakers’ notes - for general information or for community education sessions. Slides may be translated or modified to suit local use so long as the original source is identified and the modification is noted. Pick and choose slides to suit your context.

Our community education project was funded by Multicultural Affairs Queensland and supported by:

  • Lifeline Community Care Qld
  • Queensland University of Technology
  • Queensland Academy for Creative Industries
  • Global Learning Centre
  • Southbank TAFE
  • Artist Teresa Jordan

"...a refugee claimant means somebody who has to suffer many pressures and many problems because of their status, we have nothing really and we can rest only at the moment when the government says 'Here is your visa'..."