...Public walls act as a giant canvass where a growing number of people express their sense of disorientation and exile using art, images and slogans to convey their story of marginalisation.

Simon & Garfunkle sang in their 1960’s folk song “Sounds of Silence” "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence”.  Graffiti today still has that prophetic silent sound & echo if we have ears to hear…

Many community groups and agencies attempt to reach and meaningfully support those living in exile at the fringes of society.  More often than not these groups are over worked, under resourced and stretched beyond their immediate capacity to develop strategies that can facilitate life formation and transformation with those who dwell in the margins.

The brief Exiles Australia Inc has accepted is to function as a harm prevention agency to respond to the needs of people and groups that fit outside the mainstream - to network with and resource individuals and groups to achieve more than each could on their own, creating a place of the exiles, and giving them space to be...

“Our nation and its people will be judged on how it treats its most disadvantaged and vulnerable”.

                                                Sir William Deane

                                    Retired Governor General