Despite widespread knowledge that Australia boasts a number of detention centres, that our waters are fiercely protected and that our government pays our poor, small neighboring island nations to detain refugees caught en route to our shores, for many Australians, what happens to refugees after their arrival in Australia is mostly a mystery.
Who is helping refugees in Australia and how?
What stories do these people have?
How have their lives been impacted?
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Spanning six states and bridging rural communities with those from the city and federal parliament, Ripples is an expansive, thorough interactive web based video and text resource which reveals what a diverse range of Australians are doing to help refugees, and why – a process which serves to enrich the audience’s undesrstanding of, and connection with, crucuial immigration issues, and the realities facing many people in this country today.
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scarab. (2006, November 16). Ripples Episode 1. Retrieved September 03, 2010, from EngageMedia Web site: http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/scarab/videos/ripplesv3.wmv.
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