This year thousands of churches around Australia will celebrate the contribution refugees
and migrants make to Australia on Refugee and Migrant Sunday (28 August 2005).
Help Celebrate!

Organise a Movie Night to show Punished Not Protected, a brilliant new film!

Screen one of four 15 min segments of the film after your church service !

Use the film to inspire your student entries in the Media Competition !

Use the education kit to give a talk or hold a discussion !

Arrange a refugee speaker for the day !

Order ‘Reach Out’ flyers to hand out on the day !
Everything you need is now on the web!
Want to download a kit, get extra resources or find out about the Media Competition, what’s
happening in your state, or the film Punished Not Protected, go to: www.ncca.org.au/cws/rdp/rms
Spice up your newsletter or get images for your flyer for the day! See our website!
Each year, the National Council of Churches produces Parish & School Education Kits to help its 15
member churches celebrate the day, raise awareness and take further action. The kit has a poster to
advertise the day, education sheets, a liturgy to mark the day and parish and school resources.
The kits focus on the war in Sudan, peace efforts, refugees solutions, life in a refugee camp and
refugees being resettled in Australia. It highlights the Sudanese churches’ people to people peace
process and how Australian parishes help resettle Sudanese refugees. The kits also highlights the
plight of asylum seekers living in the community, who seek dignity not charity, but are denied income
support, work rights and Medicare and are forced to depend on churches and charities.
Each year we also run a School Media Competition with three categories (poster, poem and multimedia).
The school kit has all the details on how to inspire your students and enter the comp.
Order kits, arrange a speaker or find out more! Call your ecumenical council:
NSW/ACT: (02) 92992215 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
VIC: (03) 9650 6811 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SA: (08) 8221 6633 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
QLD: (07) 3369 6792 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
TAS: (03) 6234 2543 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
WA: (08) 9385 5477 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
NT: (08) 8945 3371 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For media comment contact: James Thomson 02 92992215 ; 0402 675 544 or
John Ball 03 9650 6811 ; 0412 528 514