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Spring Newsletter
In Austcare's Spring newsletter, features articles on our agricultural program with farmers in Indonesia, our work to restore peace through Neighbourhood Corners in Timor-Leste, and our efforts to restore sight to hundreds of people through the Vietnam Vision project. We also provide an update from our research team working with Griffith University and the Australian National University on the A Place to Call Home research project and a report on the situation of Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan.Read our Spring Newsletter
Austcare in the media
East Timor beats civil unrestQueensland Country Life
AUSTRALIA’s efforts at improving agriculture in East Timor (Timor-Leste) have been ongoing, despite disruption caused by civil strife and political upheaval.
The Crawford Fund’s NT program coordinator, Dick Slack-Smith, said Australia had a range of programs to improve food security in East Timor so that families no longer suffered from a third ‘hungry’ season, on top of the equatorial wet and dry. Read more
Resources
Presentations, reports and papers prepared and presented by Austcare staff are available for download.These resources cover topics such as disaster relief, protracted refugee and IDP situations, civil-military cooperation, peace-building and humanitarian mine action.
Media Releases
You can stay up to date with Austcare's activities by reading our press releases.Recent examples are:
Olympians Race to Clear Martin Place of ‘Landmines’
3rd April 2007
Support Landmine Action Week to rid the world of Landmines
28th March 2007
Austcare welcomes Australia's position on the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention
5th January 2007

