Ten refugee medical transfers from Nauru suddenly granted community detention
Remarkably, the ten refugees and asylum seekers who had been held in isolation in the Meriton Apartments in Brisbane for the past four days have been suddenly released and placed in community detention in...
Manus hospital can’t cope with refugee self-harm cases
The local Lorengau hospital is turning away refugee cases of self-harm and attempted suicide as the numbers being brought to the hospital continue to rise.
Local nurses are saying that the hospital cannot cope and...
Urgent action needed for Darwin hunger strikers as ‘Martin’ nears death
Fifteen Iranian asylum seekers are on their 19th day of hunger strike in Darwin’s Wickham Point detention centre. Meanwhile Martin, who has been on hunger strike since November last year is very weak and...
Special Refugee Action Coalition forum
FORTRESS USA, FORTRESS EUROPE, FORTRESS AUSTRALIA:
How the West excludes refugees & the poor
SPEAKERS:
Shaun Harkin (Chicago immigrants’ rights movement)
Speaker from European 'no borders' movement
Monday April 18, 6pm NSW Teachers Federation, 23 Mary St...
Forum: Eyewitnesses from inside Australia’s remote detention camps
6pm Monday, May 9, NSW Teachers’ Federation Building,
23–33 Mary St Surry Hills, walking distance from Central Station
This public forum will hear reports from recent visitors to Australia’s remote detention network. On the Easter...
RALLY TO MARK 150 DAYS AT MERAK FOR TAMILÂ REFUGEES
Welcome refugees
No Indonesian solution
Let the boats land in Australia
12.30pm Wednesday March 10
Kevin Rudd's Sydney office, 70 Phillip st City
Two hundred and fifty Tamil refugees remain defiantly camped on their boat at the Indonesian port...
Refugee activists confront Chris Bowen
Refugee rights activists converged on Immigration Minister Chris Bowen's office on Saturday to protest the government's efforts to push new legislation to revive its Malaysia refugee deal and expand offshore processing. About 50 people...
RALLY TOÂ WELCOMEÂ REFUGEES
SAY NO TO ANOTHER TAMPA ELECTION
NO VISA FREEZE
CLOSE THE DETENTION CENTRES
Rally 1pm Saturday June 26, Sydney Town Hall
Speakers include:
Andrew Bartlett (The Greens)
Shiko Zaher (Afghan refugee)
Fashid Kheirollapour (former Curtin detainee)
John Dowd (President, International...
Fifteen Iranian asylum seekers in Darwin hunger strike
While the mass hunger strike at Manus Island has drawn the main media attention, 15 Iranian asylum seekers have entered their sixth day of hunger strike in the Wickham Point detention centre near Darwin.
The...
Palm Sunday rally success
About 3000 people turned out in appalling weather in Sydney to demand an end to the horror the Abbott government is inflicting on asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island, and call for an...
