NATIONAL MEETING OF REFUGEE GROUPS REJECT LABOR CONFERENCE RESOLUTION, PLANS CAMPAIGN
A national meeting of refugee groups from around Australia, yesterday afternoon rejected amendments to the Labor Party platform that will re-open the door to...
BOWEN’S TALK OF RAISING HUMANITARIAN INTAKE NO MORE THAN CYNICAL POLITICKING AHEAD OF ALP...
The Refugee Action Coalition (RAC) has dismissed Chris Bowen’s call for an increase in Australia’s humanitarian intake as nothing more than a shabby political...
STATELESS ASYLUM LIP STITCH PROTESTERS DECLARE HUNGER STRIKE
The three Faili Kurd asylum seekers who have had their lips stitched together since last Monday are continuing their protest and have now declared...
GOVERNMENT’S BRIDGING VISA ANNOUNCEMENT IS A PIECEMEAL, FIRST STEP BUT MUCH MORE NEEDS TO...
The Immigration Minister’s announcement that asylum seekers are being released from detention on bridging visas has been welcomed as a very modest first step...
LIPS REMAIN STITCHED IN DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE “IMR” PROTEST BY STATELESS ASYLUM SEEKERS
Three Faili Kurdish asylum seekers who stitched their lips together on Monday morning are maintaining their protest in the Darwin detention centre.
The two others...
STATELESS ASYLUM SEEKERS HOSPITALISED AS KURDISH “IMR VICTIMS” OVERDOSE AND STITCH LIPS
Another desperate protest has hit the Darwin detention centre. Five stateless Fali Kurd asylum seekers, calling themselves “IMR victims” have staged protests and self...
SYDNEY REFUGEE PROTEST: DON’T DEPORT TO DANGER. NO FORCED DEPORTATIONS TO AFGHANISTAN OR SRI...
The Refugee Action Coalition has called a protest outside the Sydney offices of the Department of Immigration, 26 Lee Street, 12.30pm, Friday, 18 November.
“The...
URGENT COURT HEARING TO PREVENT AFGHAN DEPORTATION
There will be an urgent Federal Magistrates Court hearing this (Wednesday) afternoon at 3pm in court 6C John Maddison Towers, 88 Goulburn Street to...
GOVERNMENT MOVES TO FORCE DEPORTATIONS TO AFGHANISTAN
Refugee advocates have condemned government moves to deport a 27 year-old Hazara Afghan asylum seeker, Ismail Mirza Jan, from Villawood to Kabul, Afghanistan.
Ismail received...
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE A CLOSE CALL AT DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE
A suicide attempt at the Darwin detention centre by a Rohingyan asylum seeker was only narrowly averted overnight.
The man was already hanging when found...
