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After nearly 150 years, Newcastle's Mission to Seafarers needs help to stay afloat

For almost a century and a half, the Mission to Seafarers has helped visiting sailors in Newcastle, but now, after lean COVID years, the centre itself is hoping for assistance to stay afloat, with calls for a welfare levy on the millions of tonnes of cargo passing through the port.

Newcastle Herald · Jun 7, 2022

Push for international seafarers to access COVID-19 vaccines and be allowed to come ashore

Inside Victoria's Port of Portland are the international seamen who work aboard cargo ships importing and exporting goods. During the pandemic, they haven't been allowed off their ships any further than a long, empty gangway.

ABC News · Feb 14, 2022