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\nThe Coalition government have made asylum seekers and refugees their first target. During their first sitting of parliament, refugee supporters from Sydney will join a convergence of activists outside to show them it won’t be tolerated. Be one of them!<\/p>\n
Day includes:
\n11am encirclement of Parliament
\n1pm rally at Parliament<\/p>\n
You can travel independently, or get on the bus with us.<\/p>\n
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW<\/strong> We suggest you bring food, water, sunscreen and a message for Tony Abbott and his friends.<\/p>\n Cost:<\/strong> YOU MUST\u00a0PRE-BOOK YOUR BUS TICKET AT THIS LINK<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>http:\/\/bit.ly\/GYvu4J<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/a>Contact Amy on 0430 554 263 or refugeeactionsyd@gmail.com for more info<\/p>\n Print out a poster or leaflet to help advertise the event<\/strong><\/p>\n Poster\u00a0black and white<\/a>\u00a0Poster\u00a0in colour<\/a>\u00a0(with authorisation)<\/p>\n A5 leaflet\u00a0black and white<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0leaflet in colour<\/a>\u00a0(with authorisation)<\/p>\n WHY PROTEST?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tony Abbott, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and the rest of the Coalition want to use their time in parliament to attack refugee rights. It can’t be tolerated.<\/p>\n They began their attacks on day one. On his first day as PM Abbott re-introduced Temporary Protection Visas, meaning that refugees have the prospect of being sent back when their visa expires after three years. TPV holders will not have access to even basic settlement supports such as English language lessons and will be denied the right to travel or to bring family members to Australia. Under the Howard government this policy was shown to exacerbate post traumatic stress and mental illness in huge numbers of refugees who ultimately ended up settling in Australia.<\/p>\n This will apply not only to those who arrive after the recent election, but to the 30,000 asylum seekers that arrived under Labor\u2019s \u201cno advantage\u201d rule.<\/p>\n The government will also cut off legal assistance for asylum seekers and hopes to restrict court appeals.<\/p>\n Abbott has appointed three-star General Angus Campbell to run his \u201cOperation Sovereign Borders\u201d with a promise to turn back asylum boats, despite the fact that neither the Indonesian government nor the Australian navy want to implement such a policy.<\/p>\n Morrison has announced plans to imprison an extra 2000 asylum seekers on Nauru and a further 1230 on Manus Island.<\/p>\n But their “solutions” are already in trouble. As well as Indonesia’s opposition to turning back the boats, the huge expansion of offshore processing will be almost impossible to implement. The Nauru and Manus detention centres are in crisis, with constant protests, riots, and an epidemic of self-harm. Papua New Guinea has no plans to resettle asylum seekers.<\/p>\n The new governments\u2019 attempts to \u201chide the boats\u201d by restricting information about boat arrivals shows they are not confident in their own policies. If we mobilise against them and their anti-refugee lies down from underneath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Join refugee groups from around Australia to travel to Canberra on Monday 18 November to protest during the first sitting period of the new Abbott government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311091,"featured_media":2889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-past-actions"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/311091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Buses leave\u00a0Sydney\u00a0from the corner of Eddy Avenue and Pitt St, Sydney, near Central station at 7:30am sharp on Monday the 18th of November
\n– Buses will\u00a0depart\u00a0from parliament house in Canberra at 4:15pm, returning to Eddy Avenue at approximately 7:15pm<\/p>\n
\n$20 return
\n$35 return + donation
\n(Donations will\u00a0be a great help for us.\u00a0This way we can provide free tickets for asylum seekers, cover the cost if we have empty seats on the bus, and
\nkeep our campaign work going)<\/p>\n