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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Turnbull government is constantly trying to whip up fear about refugees\u2014as well as finding new targets such as African migrants\u2014as it desperately seeks to recover electoral support. Refugees on both Manus Island and Nauru remain in danger. Last year, PNG immigration and police forced refugees on Manus out of the old detention centre. But they have simply been moved to other prison camps.<\/p>\n
Locals have held repeated protests and blockades against the new camps on Manus, and the level of medical care has been drastically reduced. The refugees remain vulnerable to attack. A Human Rights Watch report in October documented these frequent and brutal assaults. One man nearly lost his arm following a machete attack. An Iranian asylum seeker suffered a fractured skull after an attack with a metal rod as his phone and money were stolen.<\/p>\n
So far only 230 have been accepted under the US resettlement deal from Manus and Nauru\u2014and there are over 1500 more refugees and asylum seekers there. Iranian, Somali and Syrian refugees are now blocked from going to the US by Trump\u2019s travel ban. And Iranians are the largest single national group on Manus and Nauru.<\/p>\n
In Australia there are still thousands of asylum seekers waiting to be processed under the unfair new \u201cfast track\u201d process which removes appeal rights. The new system is designed to reject a far higher number of people. And those who receive refugee status can still only get a temporary visa, and suffer ongoing insecurity. The Australian government must take responsibility for the refugees on Manus Island and Nauru and Bring Them Here immediately. And it needs to welcome all refugees and provide fair processing and a secure future.<\/p>\n
The drums of war are beating louder, especially for a possible nuclear war over the political crisis on the Korean Peninsula. War creates millions of new refugees. Nuclear war could destroy the world as we know it.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s time to stand up for refugees, justice, peace and unity!<\/p>\n
Endorsing organisations:<\/strong><\/p>\nAmnesty International Australia
\nAsylum Seekers Centre
\nAustralian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition
\nBlue Mountains refugee support group
\nDoctors for Refugees
\nEcumenical Council
\nEdmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education
\nGetup!
\nGrandmothers against detention of refugee children
\nIndependent and Peaceful Australia Network-NSW
\nIndependent Education Union NSW
\nLabor for refugees NSW
\nLove Makes a Way
\nMaritime Union of Australia Sydney branch
\nMissionaries of the Sacred Heart Justice and Peace
\nMums for Refugees
\nNSW Greens
\nNSW Nurses and Midwives Association
\nNSW Teachers Federation
\nNational Tertiary Education Union NSW
\nPax Christi Australia (NSW)
\nRefugee Action Coalition
\nSEARCH Foundation
\nSydney Catholic Schools
\nSydney Peace & Justice Coalition
\nSynod of the Uniting Church in NSW\/ACT
\nSyria Solidarity-Australia
\nTeachers for Refugees
\nUnions NSW
\nUnions for Refugees
\nWomen’s International League for Peace and Freedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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