Humanitarian organisations:
Oxfam Australia
https://www.oxfam.org.au/
https://www.oxfam.org.au/explore/emergencies/refugees/
https://www.oxfam.org.au/2012/06/refugees-have-no-choice-you-do/
http://refugee.oxfam.org.au/public/index.php
Amnesty Australia
http://www.amnesty.org.au/
http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/
UNHCR Australia
http://www.unrefugees.org.au/
http://www.youtube.com/Aus4UNHCR?v=iM4JHFDh8ks&lr=1
The Australian Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org.au/
http://www.redcross.org.au/refugee-week-walk-a-mile-in-their-shoes.aspx,
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
http://www.asrc.org.au/
http://www.asrc.org.au/media/documents/offshore-processing-mythbuster-2012_.pdf
http://www.asrc.org.au/media/documents/people-smuggling-mythbuster.pdf
http://www.asrc.org.au/campaigns/current-campaign/
The Refugee Council of Australia
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/f/myth-long.php,
Political perspectives:
John Howard’s Government (Peter Reith, Philip Ruddock, etc.)
http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/2012-2013/BoatArrivals
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/asylum-seeker-stats-reveal-success-of-howards-policy/story-fn59niix-1226472149454
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_detention_in_Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution
http://www.australianpolitics.com/news/2001/01-10-28.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3WJ10xGkas
http://www.sbs.com.au/goback/about/talent/6/peter-reith,
Julia Gillard’s Government (Department of Immigration, Chris Bowen, Steven Smith)
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/gillard-backs-experts-asylum-seeker-report-20120813-24417.html
http://www.watoday.com.au/national/gillards-timor-solution-for-asylum-seekers-20100706-zy9j.html
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/gillards-timor-solution-dog-whistles-with-the-best-20100706-zydd.html
http://theconversation.edu.au/no-advantage-for-gillard-in-misguided-asylum-seeker-campaign-9377
http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/speeches/2012/
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3566923.htm,
Tony Abbott
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/tony-abbott-says-the-asylum-seeker-plan-wont-work-without-full-howard-package/story-fn9hm1gu-1226450668046
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/tony-abbott-says-coalition-may-join-talks-on-asylum-seekers-but-we-wont-change/story-fn9hm1gu-1226418893335
http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/neil-mitchell-blog/abbott-my-way-or-the-highway/20120626-20z7e.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6wK2FFO9-4
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s3097944.htm
Pauline Hanson
http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/press/020798.html
http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/policy/immig.html
http://www.freestatevoice.com.au/politics/item/701-gillard-and-refugees-must-go-paulin-hanson,
The Australia First Party
http://ausfirst.alphalink.com.au/refugeeprotest.html
http://ausfirst.alphalink.com.au/index.html
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=997
Legal Perspectives:
David Manne
http://www.smh.com.au/national/meet-the-manne-who-sank-the-malaysia-plan-20110903-1jreo.html
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3604941.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/what-we-should-do-now-on-asylumseeker-policy-20120803-23kzq.html
Julian Burnside (QC)
http://theconversation.edu.au/refugees-now-we-have-the-malaysian-solution-but-whats-the-problem-1155
http://theconversation.edu.au/if-were-serious-about-stopping-the-boats-we-must-take-more-refugees-4820
Media Perspectives:
Jenny Brockie
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/without-this-refugee-cabbie-i-would-have-been-all-at-sea/
http://www.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/transcript/493/Go-Back-to-Where-You-Came-From
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/2103758183/Insight:-Tampa?utm_source=Search&utm_term=Insight
Allan Asher
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/camps-visit-an-eye-opener-for-asher-20120827-24wxy.html
http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/3351367.htm
“Current Affairs” programs such as Today Tonight and ACA
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8248772
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M0Hykt2e1o&feature=plcp
Four Corners
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/05/31/3515475.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__mSPRbG-tg
The Daily Telegraph
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/archive/national-old/welcome-asylum-seekers-chris-bowen-and-julia-gillards-ship-of-fortune/story-e6freuzr-1226273201568
Talkback radio hosts like Alan Jones and Ray Hadley
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/talkback-shock-jock-off-air-for-a-month/story-e6frg996-1226389512266
http://www.tamilsydney.com/content/view/2537/37/
http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=14601
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2859276.htm
http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=14049
The Green Left Weekly
http://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/2230
The Chaser team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yFcoAYkKME, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlq1yMF8z28,
Individual perspectives:
Captain of a newly-arrived asylum seeking boat
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2012/05/20125151118975100.html
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20100802/asylum/
Worker at detention centres such as Nauru, Christmas Island, Villawood, Baxter or Curtin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVA0nBqP84E&feature=related
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/no-paradise-on-christmas-island/story-e6frg6z6-1225715432077
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2008/s2365139.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3294035.htm
A newly-arrived refugee
http://www.ras.unimelb.edu.au/Refugees_Australian_Stories/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Yy14sX5mM
http://www.rethinkrefugees.com.au/
Indonesian Government
http://theconversation.edu.au/not-our-problem-the-indonesian-perspective-on-asylum-seekers-8053
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGfbklvWfO8&feature=related,
http://www.smh.com.au/national/indonesians-impatient-on-asylum-seeker-backlog-20120713-221jw.html
Sri Lanka
http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e4878e6.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-25/fears-asylum-returnees-will-face-persecution/4280146
Afghanistan
http://www.smh.com.au/world/27-million-flee-violence-politics-20120627-2130h.html
Other Resources:
Opinion Piece:
The Refugees are coming!, edited version originally published in Frankie, no. 43, Sept–Oct 2011 http://www.benjamin-law.com/2011/09/the-refugees-are-coming/
Newspaper:
Jones, G & Hudson, P (2012) ‘Offshore processing of asylum seekers could begin within months, PM says’, Herald Sun, News Limited Network, 15 August http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/tent-cities-for-new-refugees/story-e6frf7jo-1226449752006
Review:
Go back to where you came from, http://newmatilda.com/2012/09/03/can-one-tv-show-shift-refugee-policy
Poetry:
Godrej D (ed.) (2009) Fire in the soul: 100 poems for human rights, New Internationalist Publishing, ISBN 1906523169
http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/shapcott-thomas-w/seven-refugee-poems-0752016
Podcast:
Interview between Alison Carabine and David Manne, ABC Radio National, 29 March 2010 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/representing-refugees/3112322
Websites:
The Conversation: site featuring articles concerning refugees from the Australian media with analysis and comment provided by the university and research sector: http://theconversation.edu.au
Refugee Council of Australia, ‘Books and novels on refugees and asylum seeker issues: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/r/list-bk.php (excellent list of resources for teachers)
Welcome to Australia: for those who have come across the seas: http://www.welcometoaustralia.org.au/index.php
Videos:
‘African refugees in Australia’, Compass: http://www.sanctuaryaustraliafoundation.org.au/refugee-stories/martins-story/
Australia by boat – no advantage, advertising campaign produced by the Australian Department of Immigration as part of the No to people smuggling initiative: www.youtube/user/notopeoplesmuggling
‘Being a refugee’, 60 Minutes: https://tonylenguyen.wordpress.com/interviews/being-a-refugee/
Q & a stopping the boats, 7 July, 2011: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3260762.htm
The Leaky boat documentary, 2001: http://bleyzie.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/eye-ball-opinion-on-immigration-and-asylum-seekers-part-v-where-and-how-it-all-began/; classroom notes: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/documentaries/downloads/leakyboat_background.pdf.
Villawood mums, http://thestoriesproject.com.au/archives/villawood-mums/
Multimodal texts:
Asylum exit: http://www.sbs.com.au/asylumexitaustralia/
Programming resources:
Programming ideas that could be adapted for older students: http://www.globalwords.edu.au/units/Refugees_UPY6_html/index.html
Resource pack based on Go back to where you came from (2012): http://www.sbs.com.au/goback/schools/resources/series/1
Oxfam Australia
https://www.oxfam.org.au/
https://www.oxfam.org.au/explore/emergencies/refugees/
https://www.oxfam.org.au/2012/06/refugees-have-no-choice-you-do/
http://refugee.oxfam.org.au/public/index.php
Amnesty Australia
http://www.amnesty.org.au/
http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/
UNHCR Australia
http://www.unrefugees.org.au/
http://www.youtube.com/Aus4UNHCR?v=iM4JHFDh8ks&lr=1
The Australian Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org.au/
http://www.redcross.org.au/refugee-week-walk-a-mile-in-their-shoes.aspx,
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
http://www.asrc.org.au/
http://www.asrc.org.au/media/documents/offshore-processing-mythbuster-2012_.pdf
http://www.asrc.org.au/media/documents/people-smuggling-mythbuster.pdf
http://www.asrc.org.au/campaigns/current-campaign/
The Refugee Council of Australia
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/f/myth-long.php,
Political perspectives:
John Howard’s Government (Peter Reith, Philip Ruddock, etc.)
http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/2012-2013/BoatArrivals
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/asylum-seeker-stats-reveal-success-of-howards-policy/story-fn59niix-1226472149454
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_detention_in_Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution
http://www.australianpolitics.com/news/2001/01-10-28.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3WJ10xGkas
http://www.sbs.com.au/goback/about/talent/6/peter-reith,
Julia Gillard’s Government (Department of Immigration, Chris Bowen, Steven Smith)
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/gillard-backs-experts-asylum-seeker-report-20120813-24417.html
http://www.watoday.com.au/national/gillards-timor-solution-for-asylum-seekers-20100706-zy9j.html
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/gillards-timor-solution-dog-whistles-with-the-best-20100706-zydd.html
http://theconversation.edu.au/no-advantage-for-gillard-in-misguided-asylum-seeker-campaign-9377
http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/speeches/2012/
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3566923.htm,
Tony Abbott
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/tony-abbott-says-the-asylum-seeker-plan-wont-work-without-full-howard-package/story-fn9hm1gu-1226450668046
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/tony-abbott-says-coalition-may-join-talks-on-asylum-seekers-but-we-wont-change/story-fn9hm1gu-1226418893335
http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/neil-mitchell-blog/abbott-my-way-or-the-highway/20120626-20z7e.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6wK2FFO9-4
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s3097944.htm
Pauline Hanson
http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/press/020798.html
http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/policy/immig.html
http://www.freestatevoice.com.au/politics/item/701-gillard-and-refugees-must-go-paulin-hanson,
The Australia First Party
http://ausfirst.alphalink.com.au/refugeeprotest.html
http://ausfirst.alphalink.com.au/index.html
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=997
Legal Perspectives:
David Manne
http://www.smh.com.au/national/meet-the-manne-who-sank-the-malaysia-plan-20110903-1jreo.html
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3604941.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/what-we-should-do-now-on-asylumseeker-policy-20120803-23kzq.html
Julian Burnside (QC)
http://theconversation.edu.au/refugees-now-we-have-the-malaysian-solution-but-whats-the-problem-1155
http://theconversation.edu.au/if-were-serious-about-stopping-the-boats-we-must-take-more-refugees-4820
Media Perspectives:
Jenny Brockie
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/without-this-refugee-cabbie-i-would-have-been-all-at-sea/
http://www.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/transcript/493/Go-Back-to-Where-You-Came-From
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/2103758183/Insight:-Tampa?utm_source=Search&utm_term=Insight
Allan Asher
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/camps-visit-an-eye-opener-for-asher-20120827-24wxy.html
http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/3351367.htm
“Current Affairs” programs such as Today Tonight and ACA
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8248772
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M0Hykt2e1o&feature=plcp
Four Corners
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/05/31/3515475.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__mSPRbG-tg
The Daily Telegraph
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/archive/national-old/welcome-asylum-seekers-chris-bowen-and-julia-gillards-ship-of-fortune/story-e6freuzr-1226273201568
Talkback radio hosts like Alan Jones and Ray Hadley
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/talkback-shock-jock-off-air-for-a-month/story-e6frg996-1226389512266
http://www.tamilsydney.com/content/view/2537/37/
http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=14601
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2859276.htm
http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=14049
The Green Left Weekly
http://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/2230
The Chaser team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yFcoAYkKME, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlq1yMF8z28,
Individual perspectives:
Captain of a newly-arrived asylum seeking boat
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2012/05/20125151118975100.html
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20100802/asylum/
Worker at detention centres such as Nauru, Christmas Island, Villawood, Baxter or Curtin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVA0nBqP84E&feature=related
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/no-paradise-on-christmas-island/story-e6frg6z6-1225715432077
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2008/s2365139.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3294035.htm
A newly-arrived refugee
http://www.ras.unimelb.edu.au/Refugees_Australian_Stories/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Yy14sX5mM
http://www.rethinkrefugees.com.au/
Indonesian Government
http://theconversation.edu.au/not-our-problem-the-indonesian-perspective-on-asylum-seekers-8053
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGfbklvWfO8&feature=related,
http://www.smh.com.au/national/indonesians-impatient-on-asylum-seeker-backlog-20120713-221jw.html
Sri Lanka
http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e4878e6.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-25/fears-asylum-returnees-will-face-persecution/4280146
Afghanistan
http://www.smh.com.au/world/27-million-flee-violence-politics-20120627-2130h.html
Other Resources:
Opinion Piece:
The Refugees are coming!, edited version originally published in Frankie, no. 43, Sept–Oct 2011 http://www.benjamin-law.com/2011/09/the-refugees-are-coming/
Newspaper:
Jones, G & Hudson, P (2012) ‘Offshore processing of asylum seekers could begin within months, PM says’, Herald Sun, News Limited Network, 15 August http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/tent-cities-for-new-refugees/story-e6frf7jo-1226449752006
Review:
Go back to where you came from, http://newmatilda.com/2012/09/03/can-one-tv-show-shift-refugee-policy
Poetry:
Godrej D (ed.) (2009) Fire in the soul: 100 poems for human rights, New Internationalist Publishing, ISBN 1906523169
http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/shapcott-thomas-w/seven-refugee-poems-0752016
Podcast:
Interview between Alison Carabine and David Manne, ABC Radio National, 29 March 2010 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/representing-refugees/3112322
Websites:
The Conversation: site featuring articles concerning refugees from the Australian media with analysis and comment provided by the university and research sector: http://theconversation.edu.au
Refugee Council of Australia, ‘Books and novels on refugees and asylum seeker issues: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/r/list-bk.php (excellent list of resources for teachers)
Welcome to Australia: for those who have come across the seas: http://www.welcometoaustralia.org.au/index.php
Videos:
‘African refugees in Australia’, Compass: http://www.sanctuaryaustraliafoundation.org.au/refugee-stories/martins-story/
Australia by boat – no advantage, advertising campaign produced by the Australian Department of Immigration as part of the No to people smuggling initiative: www.youtube/user/notopeoplesmuggling
‘Being a refugee’, 60 Minutes: https://tonylenguyen.wordpress.com/interviews/being-a-refugee/
Q & a stopping the boats, 7 July, 2011: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3260762.htm
The Leaky boat documentary, 2001: http://bleyzie.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/eye-ball-opinion-on-immigration-and-asylum-seekers-part-v-where-and-how-it-all-began/; classroom notes: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/documentaries/downloads/leakyboat_background.pdf.
Villawood mums, http://thestoriesproject.com.au/archives/villawood-mums/
Multimodal texts:
Asylum exit: http://www.sbs.com.au/asylumexitaustralia/
Programming resources:
Programming ideas that could be adapted for older students: http://www.globalwords.edu.au/units/Refugees_UPY6_html/index.html
Resource pack based on Go back to where you came from (2012): http://www.sbs.com.au/goback/schools/resources/series/1