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November
2018
OCTOBER
2018 |
AK NewsMagazine, Vol 9 No 1 2
SPECIAL MESSAGE
from
RAY WILLIAMS
NSW Minister for Multiculturalism
NSW Minister for Disability Services
FOR the many members of our
community who celebrate Christmas,
there is nothing more exciting than the
anticipation of the festive season.
Pasko is a joyous time which is
observed according to diverse traditions
and customs in the Philippines.
In NSW every member of our
community can enjoy the full range
of Filipino Pasko customs, traditions,
artistry, culture and culinary delights
during the many Pasko events held in our
State.
NSW is now home to over 180,000
EDITOR'S DESK
people with Filipino ancestry with some
55 societies under the umbrella of the
Philippine Community Council of NSW.
The Filipino Australian community
is a strong and vibrant component of
our multicultural society as Minister
for Multiculturalism, I am proud that
this festive occasion has become an
important celebration in our cultural
calendar.
Maligayang Pasko to all! And I thank
the Filipino community of New South
Wales for enriching our State, and wish
everyone a festive Pasko season.
Jaime k Pimentel
Good work didn't matter
THE deportation this month of Australian nun Sister
Patricia Fox was an indictment on not only the
Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte, his Government
and the Catholic Church hierarchy but also on the
Australian Government’s own department of immigration
authorities.
How grotesquely incredible it is that President Duterte
would pick a fight on one frail nun who had been living
in poverty looking after the welfare of communities and
among some of the most deprived Filipinos far from the
country’s prosperous sections of society for 27 years
but would cower under a foreign power that has been
caught land-grabbing from Filipino fishermen in the West
Philippine Sea.
Sister Pat had been only one voice from a sea of
Duterte Government’s critics.
How grotesquely obcene it is that a foreign power
can use its cashed-up government to influence and
interfere in Philippine politics quite openly without one
pip from President Duterte, in fact, with his express
consent.
The Philippines’ Catholic Bishops Conference, a
powerful block that had been critical of the Duterte
Government in the same way that Sister Pat had
advocated for her flock, may not have pushed strong
enough to have her stay to continue doing what the
Governmenthad been elected to do for all Filipinos in
the first place.
And yes, the Australian Government has also lacked
the will and courage to take up the good Sister Pat’s
cause – even simply to show the rest of the world
that Australians can put diplomacy to one side and be
humane.
So sorry about that, Sister Pat.
TOM BAENA, Solicitor and former NSW Police officer
Political fancy or reality
FILING of certificates of candidacy for the
2019 Philippine elections have closed.
We have seen siblings rally politically against
siblings, grandchildren against grandparents,
nephews and nieces against uncles and
aunties, television celebrities against TRAPOs
(traditional politicians).
This is the fun aspect of the political
landscape in the Philippines.
Filipino Australians, however, have become
disappointed in our local, State and Federal
elections here in Australia because they are
not as exciting as those in the Philippines.
Thus, a number of Filipino Australians have
gone back to the Philippines at this time of the
year in order to participate in the elections over
there.
In the past, we had a few personalities from
Sydney who went back to the Philippines and took
part in the elections with disappointing results.
The thing that we hope is that the Filipino voters
become 'educated voters' and stop being lured by
vote buying or celebrity-struck voters.
Filipino Australians, on the other hand, have
tended to focus a lot on Philippine politics but
complacent about the Australian political system.
What they seem to overlook is that Australia
is where they have settled and call home, the
place where their grandchildren and great-grand
children see their future.
Filipino-Australians should be attuned to and
pay more attention to how Australians engage
in politics so that, perhaps, we could influence
Filipinos into turning towards the way more
modern First World countries' employ political
practices.
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