Ali Jenabi: smuggling refugees to freedom
Review of The People Smuggler, by Robin de Crespigny, Penguin, 2012
Mark Goudkamp, Refugee Action Coalition
IT IS December 2010. After finally being released from the Villawood detention centre, a refugee and his mother watch TV...
Rally to Bring back Abyan. Close the camps, End the war on refugee women
5-6pm this Friday 23 October, Sydney Town Hall
Last Friday, Abyan, the 23 year old Somali victim of rape on Nauru, was seized from Villawood and forced back to the island prison of Nauru. Ayban...
Message of support for teachers’ refugee t-shirt action
We would like to add our support to the Teachers for Refugees t-shirt action planned for the week of the 12th of December, where teachers will wear t-shirts with the slogans "Teachers for Refugees—Close...
US deal no solution
Over 18 months on, it's clear the US deal is no solution for most refugees on Manus and Nauru. Read more here.
Open letter: No “East Timor solution”
Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan for a regional asylum seekers’ processing centre in East Timor has caused widespread concern there, where political parties and non-government organisations – indeed the parliament – have all expressed...
Hunger strike at Villawood ends
The hunger strike at Villawood has ended on Sunday March 13--below is the text below of a letter sent by the strikers to the Immigration Department to inform them.
Villawood IDC
15 Birmingham Avenue
Villawood
13 March 2011
Deputy...
Why we still need to demand #BringThemHere
Preamble
In recent weeks, there has been discussion about using the demand “Bring Them Here” in regard to the asylum seekers and refugees on Manus and Nauru.
Partly that stems from the fact that Manus refugees...
Morrison out, end the racism—What would a Labor government deliver?
Morrison out, refugees in
For the last six years the Liberals have imposed brutal policies against refugees.
On the eve of the election they were still stirring up racism and fear. Morrison and Dutton claimed refugees...
PRESS RELEASE: Citizens Against an Australian asylum seeker processing centre in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste speaks out against Australia’s asylum plans
PRESS RELEASE
11 October 2010
For immediate release
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Tonight Ms. Dinorah Granadeiro, Director of Timor-Leste‚s NGO Forum, presented a public petition to the Australian Minister for Immigration and Citizenship at an...
Photos from Manus Island
Asylum seekers detained on Manus Island took these photos to let the Australian public know what conditions are like in the detention camp. Humidity can be over 70 per cent and temperatures often above...
