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‘Music for Refugees’ advocate receives Queen’s birthday honour

Michael Visontay
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Published: 18 June 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Phillip Feinstein, who founded his organisation in 2009, has been recognised with an OAM for ‘service to refugees’

Philip Feinstein founded the Music for Refugees Program in 2009. He has also worked as a volunteer music teacher at Sydney's Villawood Detention Centre and for Burundian refugees in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya, since 2009.

Feinstein has also been a longtime contributor to the Australasian Muslim Times newspaper (AMUST), for which he received an award in 2019.

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