Sayed Kasim’s story
Sayed, who has recently been released from Villawood detention centre after being forced to flee first Burma, then Malaysia, asked us to post this...
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...
No turn-backs; no offshore processing: An appeal to delegates of the national conference of...
Refugee activist groups around the country have produced this statement to distribute to delegates to this weekend's Labor Party national conference
A humanitarian refugee policy...
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...
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...
It’s not refugees destroying jobs, Peter Dutton
RAC's James Supple writes an op-ed for SBS online, arguing Dutton's foul comments were a calculated effort to turn refugees into scapegoats.
Help make sure this is the end of offshore processing
Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen are pushing ahead with new legislative amendments designed to get around the High Court and allow the Malaysia solution...
Organise a Bring Them Here action
Download materials to organise a "Bring Them Here" photo action at your workplace, school or community group
Resources
Download an A4 "Bring Them Here" sign...
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.
A letter from Manus Island by Behrouz Boochani
After four years of detention on Manus Island, the author writes a poet’s manifesto for the refugee resistance in which he has found himself...
