"Constance on the Edge" Documentary Film by Belinda Mason

Few of us know what it is like to be a refugee, to flee in the middle of the night, as your home or village is invaded and live in the constant fear of being captured, tortured or killed. Actually that statement is wrong, because Griffith is a community that is made up of refugees from wars and hostilities around the world for much of the last century. 

Boat People - One man's journey to safety.

Thank you Ruby Blumer for this link to the Area News. Politicians, (or their spin doctors) create and build campaigns based on suspects fears of a population, or create bogeyman so the focus shifts from the real Job politicians are there for.

It has been very easy to demonise refugees as Boat People, because its far removed from the real lives of most people. Most of us have never been exposed to what these people have had to survive through, day in and day out for much of their lives and indeed for some its generational. We don't know what it is like to flee the place you love and grew up in, to leave family, friends and everything familiar and just run. We don't know what its like to languish in a "refugee camps" for years on end, no job, no education, nothing nothing nothing util even the hope in your eyes dies and fades.