Refugee Week Reading List
Refugee Week and World Refugee Day are an opportunity to raise awareness of the plight of refugees, as well as celebrate the huge positive contributions made by refugees to Australian society.… Read the rest
They Cannot Take The Sky: Stories from Detention
Once you have heard their voices, you will never forget them… our publishing director Tom explains the importance of publishing They Cannot Take The Sky with the Behind The Wire organisation, which shares the epic life stories and heartbreaking vignettes of refugees in their own words. … Read the rest
Our Refugee Week reading list
World Refugee Day and Refugee Week are an opportunity to raise awareness of the plight of refugees, as well as celebrate the huge positive contributions made by refugees to Australian society.… Read the rest
Munjed al Muderis at TEDxSydney
We were very proud publishers recently as Munjed Al Muderis shared his story, and concept of a ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ at a packed Sydney Opera House for TEDxSydney. He explained how he was inspired by Terminator to develop pioneering surgery involving bionic limbs, but also what he went through prior to this – surviving an arduous journey to Australia then detention centres as a refugee, having fled certain death in Iraq for rejecting the orders from Saddam Hussein.… Read the rest
Sami Shah on “boat people” and refugees
Australians are obsessed with ‘boat people’. Despite being a nation built by refugees who arrived on the isolated continent on an armada of flotation devices, in recent years the national discourse has taken a decidedly unsympathetic approach to others hoping to achieve the same feat.… Read the rest
Walking Free: insight into life as an asylum seeker from Dr Munjed Al Muderis
We’ve published a number of refugee memoirs, and they’ve always provided an incredible insight into the lives of those who flee to Australia, with the individual stories and suffering of ‘boat people’ otherwise rarely reported in the media.… Read the rest