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High Court Entrenches Indefinite Detention In Australian Law

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2 hours ago

High Court Entrenches Indefinite Detention In Australian Law

The high court has ruled that Australia can keep people in indefinite, administrative detention. Refugee Action Coalition Media Release...

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2 days ago

Australia's Refugee Underclass

PUBLIC MEETING When: 3 pm Saturday 10 July 2021 Where: Electrical Trade Union meeting rooms, 41 Peel Street, South Brisbane. RSVP: RAC...

Two Medevac Hunger Strikers Hospitalised

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3 days ago

Two Medevac Hunger Strikers Hospitalised

Refugee Action Coalition 21/06/2021 Two of the 14 Medevac hunger strikers at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA)...

Fourteen Medevac Refugees Begin Hunger Strike Protest

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3 days ago

Fourteen Medevac Refugees Begin Hunger Strike Protest

Refugee Action Coalition 20/06/2021 Fourteen refugees brought from Manus and Nauru under the Medevac legislation in 2019 have begun a...

Brisbane: Let’s get Tharni and family home to Biloela

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7 days ago

Brisbane: Let’s get Tharni and family home to Biloela

QLD-born Tharnicaa won the nation’s heart when she was evacuated from a Christmas Island detention centre to a Perth Hospital with sepsis...

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7 days ago

World Refugee Day Welcoming Event

Brisbane says welcome! To coincide with World Refugee Day, at 2 o'clock this Sunday 20th June at St John’s Cathedral, local people of...

Statement Regarding Migration Amendment (Clarifying International Obligations for Removal) Bill 2021

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Jun 14

Statement Regarding Migration Amendment (Clarifying International Obligations for Removal) Bill 2021

Statement from Refugee Action Collective Queensland We strongly oppose the Migration Amendment (Clarifying International Obligations for...

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Jun 10

Vigil for Tharnicaa

Bring Tharni and her family home to Biloela now! When: TODAY Friday, 11 June 2021 at 5:30 pm local time Where: King George Square, 100...

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Jun 1

End Temporary Visas

Refugees and people who came seeking asylum are taking their movement to the streets to share their stories and to get people thinking...

Destructive military conflicts create more refugees

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May 25

Destructive military conflicts create more refugees

A message from the Shut Down Land Forces Expo campaign group. Peter Dutton as minister for immigration spent many years of his political...

Disrupt Land Forces Festival of Resistance

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May 21

Disrupt Land Forces Festival of Resistance

The Disrupt Land Forces FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE is on from May 28 - June 3 in Meanjin. Did you know that the Australian army is hosting an...

Migration Act nobbled by selfish politicians

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May 14

Migration Act nobbled by selfish politicians

The Migration Amendment (Clarifying International Obligations for Removal) Bill 2021 was voted into law with Labor support on Thursday...

REFUGEE RIGHTS PROTEST AT PINKENBA DETENTION CENTRE

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May 14

REFUGEE RIGHTS PROTEST AT PINKENBA DETENTION CENTRE

Media Release 14/05/2021 FREE ALL THE MEDEVAC REFUGEES Refugee rights advocates will protest outside the Brisbane Immigration Transit...

ESCAPE TUNNEL FOUND IN YONGAH HILL DETENTION CENTRE

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May 10

ESCAPE TUNNEL FOUND IN YONGAH HILL DETENTION CENTRE

Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 11/05/21 An elaborate escape tunnel has been uncovered in the Falcon compound of Yongah Hill...

MEDEVAC REFUGEES PETITION HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER FOR RELEASE

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May 4

MEDEVAC REFUGEES PETITION HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER FOR RELEASE

Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE More than 60 refugees and asylum seekers transferred to Australia from Manus and Nauru under the...

Free the Medevac refugees rally at Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation

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May 2

Free the Medevac refugees rally at Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation

When: Saturday, 15 May 2021 at 11:00 am local time Where: Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA) 100 Sugarmill Rd, Brisbane,...

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Apr 28

Join our solidarity protest

Free ALL the Medevac refugees - permanency not poverty for those released When: Friday, 30 April 2021 @4:30 pm Where: Brisbane Convention...

Government Faces Criminal Charges Over Villawood Suicide

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Apr 25

Government Faces Criminal Charges Over Villawood Suicide

Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 26 April 2021 Refugee supporters will hold a protest outside the Downing Street Centre (Sydney),...

Raskol Gang Attack Terrorises Asylum Seekers in Port Moresby

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Apr 22

Raskol Gang Attack Terrorises Asylum Seekers in Port Moresby

Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE On Tuesday, 20 April, an early morning attack on a Port Moresby apartment accommodation by an...

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Apr 21

Support the Biloela Family

A message from Biloela. Did you see Shadow Home Affairs Minister Kristina Keneally's interview on Sunrise this morning? Senator Keneally...

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