Australia: tentative steps towards belonging
Refugee youths leave the JRS house to start their new lives, Sydney, Australia. (JRS)
Refugee youths leave the JRS house to start their new lives, Sydney, Australia. (JRS)
‘The Devil is in the detail’ seems to be a fairly recent idiom in the history of the English language, but I much prefer the earlier version of this idiom, sometimes attributed to Gustave Flaubert: ‘Le bon Dieu est dans le detail’: The good God is in the detail.
The coming months will see the relocation of the first 40 families from the Carteret Islands onto the mainland of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
In June 2012, a boat carrying asylum seekers crashed nearly 200 km off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia.