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...
Darwin Detention Hazara statement
This statement was released by Hazara asylum seekers inside Darwin detention centre to explain the aims of their protest:
We the Hazara Afghan Asylum seekers held a peaceful protest in Darwin detention centre with number...
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 thank you letter to his supporters, along with photos below...
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 to proceed. Tony Abbott has announced that the Liberals will...
Malaysia solution sunk: What the High Court decision means
Below is an assessment by RAC of what the decision in the High Court over the Malaysia solution means. We will discuss the ramifications at RAC's next organising meeting this Monday night, to which...
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...
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...
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...
