What might humanity mean in Australia today?: Listening with a hermeneutic of hope to voices from the edge

This article's central figure is Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish Iranian asylum seeker. Having almost drowned on his first attempt to reach Australia by sea, he was rescued from the waves by a warship after the second people-smuggler boat on which he had been travelling from Indonesia also broke do...

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Main Author: Canning, Raymond (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Informit 2024
In: The Australasian Catholic record
Year: 2024, Volume: 101, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-44
Further subjects:B Humanities; Societies
B Refugees; Social life and customs
B etc
B Humanities; Societies, etc
B Human beings; Social aspects
B Life; Religious aspects; Christianity
B Australia
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