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“I met many Christians leaving the Middle East, hoping to come to Australia feeling they would leave behind a society where they were inferiors in their native lands and they are disturbed about the rise of more separate radical Islam in Australia, not necessarily the main stream but there is a voice.”

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Mark Durie is an individual born in 1958, whose profession and category are unknown. His life experience and contributions are limited by available information. more

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