http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/pamela-curr/ Pamela Curr is the campaign coordinator at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which provides services to asylum seekers and refugees while fighting for their human rights. Pamela works with the refugee advocacy movement to end mandatory detention as well as assisting men, women and children to adjust to a new life outside detention. She helped in the release of detainee Cornelia Rau by working with a trusted journalist to find Cornelia’s family when all other avenues failed. Pamela was admitted to the Victorian Women’s Honour Roll in 2009 and is listed in the Who’s Who of Australian women in 2010. She was born in Brisbane and trained as a nurse at the Mater Hospital before completing midwifery at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. Later she completed Welfare Studies and a degree in Community Development at Victoria University. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/