There are some wonderful offerings at the German Film Festival screening at Brisbane’s Palace Cinemas this month, and two documentaries are standouts. Merkel Merkel, directed by award-winning London-based German film-maker Eva Weber (Searching for Sugar Man), is a beautifully made and insightful documentary about one of Europe’s most surprising and influential leaders. Weber opens the…
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Release of refugees welcomed, but lack of ongoing Federal Government support “verges on cruelty”.
On Monday 1 March, the Federal Government released 22 people from Kangaroo Point Hotel and three people from Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA) into the community. A total of 115 refugees have been released from Melbourne and Brisbane detention centres since 20 January. The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) said in a statement that while…