Asians out! Not in this suburb. Not in this apartment

Asians out! Not in this suburb. Not in this apartment

Asians out! Not in this suburb. Not in this apartment
November 22, 2018 6.04am AEDT
A large majority of Asian Australians who make up an increasing proportion of the population, especially in big cities like Sydney, have experienced racism. ketrktt/Shutterstock


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Alanna Kamp

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Australian Cultural Geography, Western Sydney University
Ana-Maria Bliuc

Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, Western Sydney University
Kathleen Blair

PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University
Kevin Dunn

Dean of the School of Social Science and Psychology, Western Sydney University
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This is the fourth article in our series, Australian Cities in the Asian Century. These articles draw on newly published research, in a special issue of Geographical Research, into how Australian cities are being influenced by the rise of China and associated flows of people, ideas and capital between China and Australia.

When it comes to access to housing in Australia, the playing field is far from even.

Our recent research has found that “race” matters. Many Australians experience racism and discrimination based on their cultural background.

This is particularly the case for Asian Australians. They experience much higher rates of racism across a variety of everyday settings, but particularly when renting or buying a house.

Read more: A white face can be a big help in a discriminatory housing market
Asian Australians’ experiences of racism

An online national survey of 6,001 Australians measured the extent and variation of racist attitudes and experiences. We examined the impacts of where Australians are born and what language they speak at home on their experiences of racism.

Our research revealed that if you were born overseas, or if your parents were born overseas and you speak a language other than English at home, you are likely to have many more experiences of racism than other Australians. Racism is experienced in a variety of settings –workplaces, educational institutions, shopping centres, public spaces and online.

Survey participants born in Asia were twice as likely as other Australians to experience everyday racism. In fact, 84% of these Asian Australians experienced racism.

For those born in Australia to parents who were both born in an Asian country, rates of racism were just as high (86%).

If you speak an Asian language at home, your experiences of racism are also likely to be high. Speakers of South Asian and East Asian languages experience racism at alarming rates – 85% and 88% respectively. Those who speak Southwest/Central Asian and Southeast Asian languages experience rates of discrimination (79% and 78% respectively) similar to those for all participants of a non-English-speaking background (77%).
Anti-Asian housing discrimination

Published findings for New South Wales and Queensland in the 1990s revealed that 6.4% of Australians reported having experienced ethnic-based discrimination when renting or buying a house. Our recent national study has found this proportion has increased dramatically. In recent years, 24% of Australians have experienced housing discrimination.Almost six in ten Asia-born Australians reported having experienced housing discrimination.James Ross/AAP

As with the broader pattern of everyday racism, Asian Australians are feeling the brunt of housing discrimination. Almost six in ten (59%) Asia-born participants in our study experienced racism in accessing housing. This compares to only 19% of non-Asian-born participants.

Asia-born respondents were also more likely to report frequent experiences of housing discrimination. Some 13% reported these experiences occurred “often” or “very often”. This is more than three times the average exposure of non-Asian-born Australians.

In particular, participants born in Northeast and South/Central Asia are more frequently exposed to racism in housing. And 15% and 16% respectively reported housing discrimination occurred “often” or “very often”. This compares to only 9% of those born in Southeast Asia.

The survey also found that if you have two Asia-born parents you are highly likely to experience such racism (44%). Similarly, if you speak a language other than English at home (especially an Asian language), you are more likely to experience housing discrimination (45%).

South Asian language speakers (e.g. Hindi, Tamil, Sinhalese) experience housing discrimination at a much higher rate of 63%. The rate for East Asian language speakers (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean) is 55%. Only 19% of English-only speakers had the same experiences.

Why is this happening?

These findings suggest that the owning and occupying of space by Asian Australians is seen as a threat to Anglo-Australian hegemony. Alternatively, or perhaps relatedly, many real estate agents and owners assume Asians are somehow suspect, or will be a lesser quality tenant or owner. This would be an echo of colonial racist thinking in which Asians were seen as biologically inferior and a potential source of racial impurity.

The repression of Chinatowns and more recent moral panics about Indo-Chinese settlement areas in Sydney and Melbourne – such as Cabramatta and Richmond – point to these stereotypes of vice, uncleanliness and chaos. Perhaps this 20th-century troubling of the white spatial order is continuing today.

Sinophobia in Australia is also emerging in debates about housing investment, donations to political parties, university campus politics, the purchase of agricultural land for mining, as well as general concerns about Chinese government influence, geopolitics and human rights issues in China. Public debate is appropriate, but emerging hysteria and sensationalism are shifting into animosity towards people with Chinese heritage in Australia.

Authorities need to act

Exclusion from an important urban resource like housing can generate profound levels of substantive inequality. This in turn is associated with health issues and poorer access to other elements of life chances like employment, transport and education. It can also generate society-wide issues like segregation and intergenerational inequality.

Australia has laws against racist discrimination in access to goods and services like housing. Our findings, among others, indicate that housing discrimination is more acute for some groups than others, particularly Asian Australians. So where is the coordinated response to this clear injustice?

The American civil war didn't end. And Trump is a Confederate president | Rebecca Solnit | Opinion | The Guardian

The American civil war didn't end. And Trump is a Confederate president | Rebecca Solnit | Opinion | The Guardian



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His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run


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In the 158th year of the American civil war, also known as 2018, the Confederacy continues its recent resurgence. Its victims include black people, of course, but also immigrants, Jews, Muslims, Latinos, trans people, gay people and women who want to exercise jurisdiction over their bodies. The Confederacy battles in favor of uncontrolled guns and poisons, including toxins in streams, mercury from coal plants, carbon emissions into the upper atmosphere, and oil exploitation in previously protected lands and waters.

Its premise appears to be that protection of others limits the rights of white men, and those rights should be unlimited. The Brazilian philosopher of education Paulo Freire once noted that “the oppressors are afraid of losing the ‘freedom to oppress’”. Of course, not all white men support extending that old domination, but those who do see themselves and their privileges as under threat in a society in which women are gaining powers, and demographic shift is taking us to a US in which white people will be a minority by 2045.


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If you are white, you could consider that the civil war ended in 1865. But the blowback against Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, the myriad forms of segregation and deprivation of rights and freedoms and violence against black people, kept the population subjugated and punished into the present in ways that might as well be called war. It’s worth remembering that the Ku Klux Klan also hated Jews and, back then, Catholics; that the ideal of whiteness was anti-immigrant, anti-diversity, anti-inclusion; that Confederate flags went up not in the immediate post-war period of the 1860s but in the 1960s as a riposte to the civil rights movement.

Another way to talk about the United States as a country at war is to note that the number of weapons in circulation is incompatible with peace. We have 5% of the world’s population and 35%-50% of the guns in civilian hands, more guns per capita than anywhere else – and more gun deaths, too. Is it any surprise that mass shootings – an almost entirely male and largely white phenomenon – are practically daily events? Many synagogues, Jewish community centers, black churches and public schools now engage in drills that are preparations for the gunman who might arrive, the gunman we’ve met in so many aftermath news stories, who is miserable, resentful, feels entitled to take lives and is well equipped to do so. The psychological impact of drills and fear, and the financial costs of security, are a tax on other people’s access to guns. So are the deaths.
FacebookTwitterPinterest A memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were killed. Photograph: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

We had an ardent Unionist president for eight years, and now we are 21 months into the reign of an openly Confederate president, one who has defended Confederate statues and Confederate values and Confederate goals, because Make America Great Again harks back to some antebellum fantasy of white male dominance. Last weekend might as well have been Make America Gentile Again. And then came the attack, last Tuesday, on one of the signal achievements after the end of all-out war between the states: the 14th Amendment, which extends equal right of citizenship to everyone born here or naturalized.

So much of what is at stake is the definition of “us”, “ours” and “we”. “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,” says the preamble to the constitution. It was murky about who “we” were, and who “the people” were. That document apportions each state’s representation according to “whole Number of free Persons, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons”. “All other persons” is a polite way of saying enslaved black people, who found the union pretty imperfect. “Who’s your ‘us’?” could be what we ask each other and our elected officials.

“You will not replace us,” shouted the mobs of white men marching through Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 in a rally organized in response to the planned removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee. When Dylann Roof murdered nine black people on 17 June 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina, he declared: “Y’all are raping our white women. Y’all are taking over the world.” His “us” was white people, perhaps white men, since “our women” seems to regard white women as white men’s possessions.


The US constitution was murky about who 'we the people' were, giving only some white men the vote

Taking over the world: there is a great deal of fear and rage about an increasingly non-white nation. “The US subtracts from its population a million of our babies in the form of abortion,” Representative Steve King told a far-right Austrian magazine. “We add to our population approximately 1.8 million of ‘somebody else’s babies’ who are raised in another culture before they get to us. We are replacing our American culture two to one every year.” (He ignored that, also, almost 4 million babies are born in this country annually; factual accuracy is not a pursuit of many on the far right.)

The current president has harped on for almost three years with the idea that immigrants and refugees are criminals who pose a danger to the rest of us. He has preached the gospel of a monumentally restrictive “we”. A Florida Trump enthusiast sent bombs to leading figures of the Democratic party and to prominent liberals, some of them Jewish, the other week. In Kentucky, two elderly black people were shot by a white supremacist who had earlier tried to enter a black church. After the attacks, the president ranted about “globalists”, an antisemitic code word for Jews, and when part of his cultic crowd shouted George Soros’s name – after Soros had been among the bombers’ targets – and then “lock him up”, the president repeated the phrase appreciatively. Then came last Saturday’s synagogue massacre.

The man who allegedly killed 11 people in the Tree of Life synagogue last Saturday morning was focused on what the far right – president, Fox News and the like – pushed him to focus on – the Central American refugees in southern Mexico: the “caravan”. He bought into it as a threat and blamed that threat on Jews in general and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in particular. “All Jews must die,” he reportedly shouted as he allegedly shot elderly worshippers with the high-velocity bullets of his AR-15. He had posted just before: “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered” – “my people” meaning that restrictive “us” the white nationalists urge people such as him to identify with. (The alleged killer also posted photographs of “my Glock family” on social media.)
Depicted as a menacing horde … a caravan of Central Americans in Mexico, bound for the US. Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images

Rightwing media and the president himself have depicted the refugees as a menacing horde. “Trump’s suggestion that Middle Easterners had joined the group came shortly after a guest on the Fox & Friends news talkshow raised the specter of Isis fighters embedding themselves in the group,” reported the Hill. The vice-president, Mike Pence, justified the baseless speculation with his own luridly counterfactual speculation. “It’s inconceivable that there are not people of Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people advancing toward our border,” he said. Latin Americans, who are also Muslims, who are also the fault of Jews. Refugees who Fox News, reviving an ugly old tradition, warn might infect us with deadly diseases (including smallpox, which is functionally extinct, and leprosy, which is perhaps the least contagious of all contagious diseases). Refugees who are aggressors. A distant “them” to rally a fearful idea of “us” against.



We never cleaned up after the civil war, never made it anathema, as the Germans have since the second world war, to support the losing side. We never had a truth and reconciliation process like South Africa did. We’ve allowed statues to go up across the country glorifying the traitors and losers, treated the pro-slavery flag as sentimental, fun, Dukes of Hazzard, white identity politics. A retired general, Stanley McChrystal, just wrote a piece about throwing out his portrait of Robert E Lee that he’d had for 40 years, and why a US soldier should celebrate the leader of a war against that country says everything about the distortion of meaning and memory here.

The Washington Post reported the other week that a senior Veterans Affairs official finally removed his portrait of a Confederate general who was also the first grand wizard of the KKK after employees, many of them black, protested at having the image in their workplace. There were death threats against the contractors hired to take down Confederate statues in New Orleans, and an epic battle over the sale of Confederate flags at county fairs in New York state. The Confederacy, which should have died a century and a half ago, is with us still, and the recent attack on the 14th amendment is an attempt to return us to its vision of radical inequality of rights and protections.


So much of what makes this country miserable is imagined poverty, the sense that there is not enough for all of us

Even before the United States was founded, great conflicts arose between the Puritans and other Christians who wanted to live in a segregated, homogeneous society, and the pluralists, between narrow and broad “us”. In what is now New Mexico, crypto-Jews –J ews who had survived the Spanish Inquisition by hiding their faith – found refuge in the mid-17th century. In 1657, locals in what is now Flushing, in Queens, New York, issued the Flushing Remonstrance, a manifesto in favor of religious tolerance (including towards Jews, Turks and Egyptians as well as Christians who were Presbyterian, Independent, Baptist or Quaker), countering the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam’s attempt to punish Quakers for their divergence from the Dutch Reformed church.

That pluralistic, inclusive impulse never vanished. It’s in a recent Muslim fundraiser for the victims of the massacre at the synagogue and Muslim work to guard Jewish cemeteries in recent years; in the work of relatives of Japanese-American survivors of internment to stand up for targeted Muslimsin the wake of 9/11. It’s in all the work of inclusion and liberation and solidarity made since, in abolition and human rights work, including by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Mark Hetfield, head of the society, tweeted the other weekend: “We used to say we welcomed refugees because they were Jewish. Now we say we welcome refugees because *we* are Jewish. We know what persecution and terror is. We are a refugee people.”

You don’t have to be oppressed or come from a history of oppression to stand with the oppressed; you just have to have a definition of “we” that includes people of various points of origin and language and religious belief and sexual orientation and gender identity. A lot of us do: many large US cities are places of thriving everyday coexistence across difference. A lot of Americans have married across racial and religious lines, some have devoted themselves to the work of solidarity, and a lot subscribe to a grand inclusive “we, the people”. Those who don’t are not a majority but they have an outsized impact, more now than in a very long time. The Confederacy didn’t win in the 1860s and it is not going to win in the long run, but inflicting as much damage as possible seems to be how they want to go down.

In the short term, it is immensely worth trying to win as much as possible in this week’s elections. Some politicians support gun control; some belong to the NRA. Some want to take away reproductive rights; some are ardent defenders of those rights so essential to women being free and equal members of society. Some oppose taking refugee children from their refugee parents and putting them in baby gulags; some are enthusiasts for this child abuse. The differences are clearcut.

And in the long run we need to end the war with a decisive victory for an idea of a pluralistic, e pluribus unum union, with an affirmation of inclusive values and universal human rights, and of equality across all categories. Pittsburgh’s Jewish leaders wrote: “President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you cease your assault on immigrants and refugees. The Torah teaches that every human being is made b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God. This means all of us.”

Long after Trump is gone, we will have these delusional soldiers of the Confederacy and their weapons, and ending the war means ending their allegiance to the narrow “us” and the entitlement to attack. As Michelle Alexander reminded us recently: “The whole of American history can be described as a struggle between those who truly embraced the revolutionary idea of freedom, equality and justice for all, and those who resisted.” She argues that we are not the resistance; we are the river that they are trying to dam; they are the resistance, the minority, the people trying to stop the flow of history.

Perhaps peace means creating so compelling a story of abundance and possibility and wellbeing that it encourages people to wander out of their bunkers and put down their weapons and come over. It means issuing invitations, not just rebukes, and that’s a long, slow complex job. All week I’ve had the title line from Johnny Cash’s song Like a Soldier in my head. How does a soldier get over the war? I don’t know, but it helps if the war is over.

I do know that so much of what makes this country miserable is imagined poverty, the sense that there is not enough for all of us, that we need to become grabbers and hoarders and slammers of doors and ad hoc border patrols. Wars are fought over resources, and this is a fight over redistribution of resources and who decides about that distribution. We are a vast land, a country of unequaled affluence – albeit with obscene problems of distribution – a country that has always been diverse, and one that has periodically affirmed ideas of equality and universal rights that we could actually someday live up to fully. That seems to be the only real alternative to endless civil war, for all of us.

• This article was amended on 7 November 2018 to clarify that it was not Quakers, but local residents, who issued the Flushing Remonstrance in 1657.


Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Men Explain Things to Me and The Mother of All Questions


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Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country - Reconciliation SA

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What is Welcome to Country and how is it applied?
caption: Dr. Alita Rigney conducts "Welcome to Country" at Apology 2015 Recognising the Survivors Breakfast.
A Welcome to Country is where a Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander traditional owner, custodian or Elder welcomes people to their land. Protocols for welcoming visitors to Country have been part of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures for thousands of years.

Welcome to Country always occurs at the opening of an event and is usually the first item on the program. The local Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander custodian or traditional owner conducts the ceremony and this may be done through a speech, song, ceremony or a combination of these things. It is important for the traditional owners to be comfortable with the arrangements. Organisers need to spend time talking with local Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to identify the traditional owners and explaining to them the type of public event which is being organised and how best to prepare for this. Organisers are advised to also seek advice on who should perform the Welcome to Country, according to cultural protocols and advice from local Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people from that Country.

Welcome to Kaurna Country
Ninna Marni (A Kaurna word for "hello, how are you?")
for use in Adelaide Metro area, South Australia

Statement of Acknowledgement:
We would like to Acknowledge that the land we meet on today is the traditional lands for the Kaurna people and that we respect their spiritual relationship with their Country. We also acknowledge the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.
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The Statement of Acknowledgement is to be read out at the commencement of gatherings held within the Adelaide region.

source: Government of South Australia
Click here to download this statement, if you wish to use it.

Welcome to Country
(for use outside of Kaurna Country, SA)
We acknowledge and respect the traditional custodians whose ancestral lands we are meeting upon here today. We acknowledge the deep feelings of attachment and relationship of Aboriginal peoples to Country. We also pay respects to the cultural authority of Aboriginal peoples visiting / attending from other areas of South Australia / Australia present here.

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The above Welcome to Country wording is provided for use / adaptation as appropriate for events and gatherings that take place outside the metropolitan area. This statement does not preclude direct naming and acknowledgement of traditional owners where this is specifically known.

source: Government of South Australia
Click here to download this statement, if you wish to use it.

What is "Acknowledgement of Country?"

An Acknowledgement of Country is a way of showing respect and awareness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owners of the land on which a meeting or event is being held, and of recognising the continuing connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to their Country. It is a demonstration of respect dedicated to the traditional custodians of the land or sea where the gathering of participants is being conducted. Government agencies and community organisations are adopting the practice of acknowledging the traditional custodians of country at events, ceremonies, meetings and functions.

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Additional Resources and References:Government of Western Australia: Protocols for Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Traditional Ownership

Circular on Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Country, Catholic Education, South Australia

Frequently Asked Questions | Pyongyang Travel

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We know that upon pondering about travelling to North Korea, you might have a lot of questions or concerns. This FAQ page hopefully contributes to answer the most urgent ones. Some possible questions that we could think of are displayed below. However, what seems almost routine for us already, is for our customers a once-in-a-lifetime experience. So, please feel free to write us more emails with your questions and we will answer them quickly.


Is it allowed to travel to North Korea?

Yes and we can get you there. As a tourist, you are very welcome to travel to the DPRK. Getting a tourist visa is quite easy, so it is not true that the country is closed for western tourists. The North Korean Government actively promotes tourism. However, journalists and professional photographers are not allowed to travel to the DPRK as tourists. Moreover, the South Korean govermnent forbids its own people to travel to North Korea. All other nationals, even Americans, can travel to North Korea.
How are the guides like?

Our North Korean guides are friendly, highly professional, respectful and very nice people who have excellent foreign language skills. They are human beings with families, a personal life, various types of humor and different tastes from each other. The guides know that foreigners have other cultural backgrounds and that their political views may differ from their own beliefs. They will not try to convince you of anything or indoctrinate you. What they will be pleased to experience from the guests to their country is a certain amount of respect for their life, beliefs and customs. If you do so, you will most likely find it it not difficult to talk to the guides on a personal level, make friends with them, toast with them and laugh with them.


What are the rules about photography in North Korea? Can I take photos of all that I want?

Contrary to what is often being said in media reports, the photo rules on the tours are not absolutely strict. There are some no-goes, such as military equipment, soldiers, military stuff in general. Concerning everything else, you have almost unlimited opportunities to take pictures. The very pleasant and experienced KITC tour guides will tell you shortly after arrival about what is not allowed to be photographed. Usually, if you by mistake make a photo of a soldier or a military vehicle, nobody will be very angry at you. You might be asked to delete the picture, though. What can be problematic are people who absolutely do not want to follow this rule. Usually, this will lead to disadvantages for the whole group, which means less to see, less communication with the guides, less to gain out of your trip.


Who exactly counts as a journalist and cannot visit the DPRK as a tourist?

Definitely people who work for major media companies. If you want to visit the DPRK and you think you could fall under this category, please say so. Journalist are occasionally allowed to travel to the DPRK, but never as tourists. We might help and assist you in getting an appropriate visa. However, journalists on our tourist tours are a no-go and we may have no choice but to hold liable any journalist who circumvents this rule and makes false declarations upon application for the tours.


What happens if my visa gets rejected?

This won’t happen, unless you are a journalist or professional photographer and make false declarations during visa and tour applicaion. In the absolutely unlikely case that North Korea won’t let you in because of political tensions (even during the recent tensions in April 2013 it wasn’t a problem at all to Travel to North Korea), we will of course give you a full refund of the tour fee. We can however not refund your expenses in China such as your flight to Beijing or accomodation, since this is not part of the tour that we offer. We suggest that you have a travel insurance that would compensate if you have to cancel your flights between Beijing and your home country.
Can I post the photos and experiences of my trip on facebook?

Of course you can share your photos and experiences with your friends on facebook or other social media.


Can I write an online blog or travelogue about my trip?

Yes, you can write an online blog about the excitement of your trip as long as you are not a professional journalist. However, we require that you inform us in advance about what you want to write about. We may give you some tips as well. Due to the country’s isolation, people in the DPRK are very worried about how their country is seen by the outside world, so we kindly ask you to keep this in mind. If you are writing a blog about North Korea and the political situation already, although not for a major media company, this may be regarded as journalism by the DPRK authorities. If you do, please be honest and say so, as we may check together with the embassy and clarify your status.


Can I travel to North Korea with a South Korean stamp in my passport?

This is not a problem at all (neither vice versa). Although you may have been to South Korea before, you are very welcome to visit the DPRK. If you have a North Korean stamp in your passport and travel to South Korea, the immigration officer might look at you in a strange way, but that’s all.


Will there be bugs in my hotel room?

Of course we don’t know for sure, although it is highly unlikely that an ordinary tourist is of such interest to the North Koreans, that it would actually make sense surveiling him/her. We can only speak from our own experience in North Korea. Although it is certainly true that tourist cannot move around as freely as in other countries, we never had the feeling of being surveiled. We don’t know a 100%, but hey, that’s part of the excitement and mystery of such a journey as well!
Can I take my laptop, tablet, mobile phone, music player into the country?

Yes, no need to surrender mobile phones anymore. Laptops, tablets and music playes can be taken in as well. You can even buy a simcard to call your friends and family abroad during your trip. Even 3G-Internet-Access is possible. However, such luxuries are not cheap. Please contact us if you want to know about the exact prices.


Will the food be okay?

You will be surprised, the food in the hotels is generally of very high quality compared to other parts of Asia. The only problem might be that the food could turn out as a bit too spicy for some peoples’ stomaches. Just as a precaution, we adivise our customers with sensitive stomachs to cary with them a first aid travel kit providing medication against diarrhoea.


I’m a vegetarian or vegan. Do I have to eat meat?

No! Just tell us your special food requests upon the time of booking and we will pass it on to our Korean partners from KITC who will ensure you get the food you want and that you don’t have to compromise on that issue.


What if I get sick?

In the highly unlikely case that you get seriously sick or have an accident during the tour, there is a dedicated hospital for foreigners and diplomats in Pyongyang, where you can get good medical treatment. However, to avoid that you don’t have to pay for the cost of such treatment, make sure that you have an appropriate medical insurance in place when coming to the DPRK. This insurance should also cover a worst case scenario, such as the transport to your home country if you have to terminate your tour early due to health issues.

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Colebrook Home site at Eden Hills

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29 Oct

Dear Friends (particularly those closer to Adelaide),

Sunday 4th November; 1pm lunch; 2pm guided tour.

For several months the ALM M&O committee has been attempting to set up a Friends’ visit to the Colebrook Home site at Eden Hills, and I am pleased to tell you that this has now been achieved. The Chairman of Blackwood Reconciliation Group will be there to be our guide. He is the son of one of the stolen generation. Also as a guide will be Di Grigg who is a member of BRG, and Milli Stein is a member of this group.

We have been encouraged lately to involve ourselves more in Aboriginal matters, and we hope Friends will take advantage of this opportunity.    

The plan is for us to arrive at about 1pm for a picnic lunch, so please take your own food and cold drinks. Tea and coffee will be available, and there is a barbecue which we may use. 

Our guided tour will start at 2pm.

The Colebrook Home site is on Shepherds Hill Rd about 2 kms down from the Blackwood roundabout, heading west. It is on the left hand, or southern side of Shepherds Hill Rd, past Wittunga and schools. Look for a soccer field on the left then turn left at the next opportunity into a small car park just after the soccer field. This is the car park for the Colebrook site, and the signs for Colebrook are a little further down Shepherds Hill Rd. You may also park on Shepherds Hill Rd on either side, and there is a median strip with occasional breaks if you need to make a U turn.

If you are approaching from the South Road end of Shepherds Hill Road, the site is opposite Tiparra Street.

The closest railway station is Eden Hills; walk up Willunga St and then turn right on to Barunga Street, cross over Shepherds Hill Rd, and turn right. It is a 10 to 15 minute walk from the station, mostly up-hill. Please check a map first. Trains run every ½ hour.

There are some rock seats and wooden seats at the site, and art works include sculptures and a mural painting. A walking trail is nearby for those who would like to walk in this part of the Adelaide hills face zone.

I hope to see you there

Ann Rees