In cities and regional centres all over Australia, you’re invited to Walk Together, on October 25, in recognition that if we’re all people, we’re all equal.
A Welcome to Australia annual event, Walk Together, encourages us to celebrate our diversity and to recognise that although we’ve all arrived here via different pathways, we share a common Australian journey.
Closely coinciding with the Walk Together event, Welcome to Australia’s Founder and National Director, Brad Chilcott will deliver a public lecture, exploring why Australia’s asylum seeker policy has remained the most controversial and contested political issue in our nation for over two decades.
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Chilcott will examine, where the change will come from and what it will take to create a fair and compassionate policy that gives protection to asylum seekers, but is also acceptable to voters and will prove resilient to the political temptation to use fear of ‘the other’ as a tool of electoral success.
Mariziya Mohammadi, will also discuss her volunteer work for Welcome to Australia, and how she is actively engaged in changing the conversation on refugees in Australia. Having fled her homeland at a young age, she will provide a fascinating first-hand account of her journey as a refugee in Australia.
This public lecture is co-presented by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the Global Experience Program at the University of South Australia.
FREE registration, Australia’s Asylum Seeker Policy: where will change come from and what will it look like?
23 October, 7pm
Allan Scott Auditorium, University of South Australia
