REFUGEE GROUPS REJECT GILLARD’S MORE DETENTION SOLUTION
Media Release October 18, 2010
Refugee groups are horrified with Julia Gillard’s announcement that the minority Labor government will open more detention centres. Of particular...
Sri Lankan Muslims to hold Canberra protest after Buddhist extremist pogroms kill four in...
A peaceful protest by Australian Sri Lankan Muslims is planned for Thursday, 26 June, outside the Federal Parliament House and the Sri Lankan embassy...
Security guards desert Manus detention centre
The government needs to act urgently to prevent a looming disaster on Manus Island.
Security guards have deserted their posts at Manus detention centre, leaving...
Rudd’s anti-people smuggling crusade is threatening asylum seekers lives
11 July 2009
Media Release
In the aftermath of the rescue of a 74 asylum seekers’ boat yesterday, the refugee advocate who alerted Australian border protection...
Government rattled by PNG Supreme Court action – unpopular Turnbull turns to refugee bashing
The Turnbull government’s announcement that it intends to ban for life, asylum seekers and refugees, who attempted to travel to Australia by boat after...
Serco breaks wrists for ‘non-compliant behaviour’, sack the Serco thugs; sack Morrison
Eye-witness accounts of the riot squad attack on peaceful protests on Christmas Island have revealed more of the brutality of the attack and disproportionate...
Hospital protest to stop refugee being returned to detention harm
Refugee supporters have mounted a protest vigil today (from 4pm, Thursday 10 December) at the Royal Brisbane Hospital to try to prevent a 22-year-old...
Protesters occupy Immigration: Yes to abortion rights; no to Nauru
A group of 20 refugee supporters, mostly students, have staged a sit-in at the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Sydney office on Lee...
Protests erupt on Nauru over delayed processing and deteriorating medical and camp conditions
Up to 100 Palestinian, Iraqi and Iranian asylum seekers on Nauru have been holding rowdy nightly protests over delays in the processing of their...
Noose tightens on Manus Island
Further legal action, in the PNG Supreme Court, on behalf of hundreds of detainees presently on Manus Island is scheduled for Monday 2 May.
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