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02 | THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA. www.kalatas.com.au | Ang Kalatas Australia | Vol. 3 No. 12 | September 2013 EDITORIAL Op-Edd by Edd Aragon The MESSAGE. Bringing into focus Filipino presence in Australia Circulating 3,500 copies in Sydney’s West, South, Southwest, North Shore, Northern Beaches, and Eastern suburbs MILLIE MARCIAL-PHILLIPS Publisher/Managing Editor TITUS FILIO Copy Editor Arts and Entertainment Section Editor Community News Correspondent VIOLI CALVERT MARILIE BOMEDIANO EDD ARAGON Cartoonist ATTY. JESSIE ICAO MAJOR TOM BAENA Legal Advisers Distribution Manager KEN PHILLIPS MARIA NILDA CARPO GERRI MUSA ERWIN CABUCOS BENITO CHAN Contributors: MITCHELL BADELLES Account Executive DARRYL O’BRIEN JADE CADELIÑA Freelance Photographers: Columnists: • ATTY. IMELDA ARGEL • MITCHELL BADELLES • JERONE BALAGTAS • JANE CRAME • JESS DIAZ • OLIVER GADISTA • ATTY. JESSIE ICAO • HANK JONGEN • MENCHIE MANEZE • DOM MELLA • JIM PAREDES • BLESS SALONGA • JACQUI VALENCIA • FE WATMORE ‘THOUGHTS THIS MONTH’ Street inverviews by Marilie Bomediano Nemat Sokhadan (Ash?eld) I think changing the policy overnight is not good, but at the same time, I think that the Australian Government has unfair policies towards many immigrants. Maqsood Nagi (Yagoona) Under the UN Convention, Australia has to take refugees, I feel that the boat refugees are jumping the queue and violating the legal processes. Jun Relunia (Penrith) Australia is a signatory to International Refugees Convention. As long as there are genuine refugees then I have no objection in settling them here. “What is your view with regards to asylum seekers who try to settle in Australia without proper visas?” Fay Laserna (Claremont Meadows) I think that asylum seekers should not be allowed in Australia without proper visa, because allowing them entry without visas is discriminatory. against people from third world countries of this opportunity. Joana Vavasis (Petersham) Everybody wants to have a good life and have a go. I wouldn’t mind it as long as they asylum seekers have proper documentation. Bernie David (Castle Hill) If they are genuine refugees, with or without visas; if they are being persecuted in their homeland - why not? Australia has an obligation to give them asylum. For editorial: Do you have a story, letter to the editor and/or suggestions? Write to us at [email protected]. Do you know anyone we can feature in our special section “Kababayan Ko, Ipinagmamalaki ko”? Email [email protected]. Mail your letter to PO Box 18, Quakers Hill 2763 NSW. It must include your name, mailing address and contact numbers. All contributions are subject to the paper’s editorial standards. For advertising, e-mail advertising@kalatas. com.au. Ang Kalatas is published every last Saturday of the month circulated in various parts of NSW and Perth, WA. News articles, opinions, syndication and columnists do not necessarily re?ect the views and opinion of the publisher and editors of Ang Kalatas and are solely theirs. All editorial and advertising materials submitted by the advertisers are subject to the paper’s advertising and editorial standards and discretion. The publisher reserves the right to reject any materials that, in its sole discretion, do not conform to reasonable standards of good taste, such as, but not limited to: being false, misleading, fraudulent or deceptive. Advertising contents do not necessarily re?ect the view of the publisher. All rights reserved. Editorial: [email protected] Advertising: [email protected] PO Box 18, Quakers Hill 2763 Phone: [phone] Mobile: [phone] Printed by: mpd – printing the news everyday, Unit E1, 46-62 Maddox Street, Alexandria NSW 2015. 2010