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Mar 1, 2021
EX-NAURU REFUGEES RELEASED IN SYDNEY AND DARWIN: NOW FREE THEM ALL
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE (02 March 2021) The government’s capricious and chaotic release of refugees continues. ...
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Mar 1, 2021
ANOTHER TWENTY-FIVE MEDEVAC REFUGEES FREED IN BRISBANE
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA ALERT (02 March 2021) ANOTHER TWENTY-FIVE MEDEVAC REFUGEES FREED IN BRISBANE Twenty-five Medevac refugees...
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Feb 28, 2021
TWENTY-FIVE MEDEVAC REFUGEES BEING FREED IN BRISBANE
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE (01 March 2021) Twenty-three Medevac refugees who have been held in the Kangaroo Point hotel for...
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Sep 1, 2020
REMEMBER OMID MASOUMALI
A VICTIM OF SYSTEMIC NEGLECT Omid was an Iranian refugee who died after setting himself on fire at the Nauru detention centre in April...
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Aug 31, 2020
Safety and compassion for people in detention
Dear Minister Tudge, I was distressed to learn of your intentions to deny the people being held in detention in the Mantra and Kangaroo...
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Aug 31, 2020
Dear Senators
Letter by Roy Hives The Biloela family support people are asking us to 'respectfully' email Senators asking them to support their call...
Gordon Melvin
Aug 30, 2020
#ShameAlanTudge - Why indefinite detention is morally repugnant.
Alan Tudge is the latest in a line of men who claim to be ethical Christians, and who, by their actions as Ministers for Immigration,...
Roy Hives
Aug 30, 2020
Political Suicide
by Roy Hives Response to report on what Labor is doing in the Senate. Sent to Penny Wong. Dear Senator, I was a Labor Party member,...
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Aug 30, 2020
@HomeSafeWithUs - Young family reunited at last
Media Release Monday 31 August 2020 At last, a young mother and her toddler are at home with the woman's husband and the little one’s...
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Aug 29, 2020
Vigil for Omid Masoumali - A victim of systemic neglect
Please come to help us remember Omid's life, and to demand freedom for all refugees and people seeking asylum. When: Wednesday 2nd &...
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Aug 28, 2020
URGENT ACTION THIS WEEKEND. Lobby your MPs and senators NOW.
The vote on the phone ban bill is listed for this Monday 31 August. Here is a call to action from the Australian Refugee Advocacy Network...
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Aug 23, 2020
Across Australia, home hosts say “beds are ready” for refugees
Offers have been made from people across Australia ready and willing to open their homes as a viable alternative to keeping refugees in...
Roy Hives
Aug 23, 2020
On the KP Picket
by Roy Hives The sign read "Biloela Politics Of Hate." "Give it up, mate. They're all pedophiles!" This from a young fella zipping up...
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Aug 23, 2020
Phones are a Lifeline: #ShameAlanTudge Calling Party
Public event hosted by Julia Stuart and Mostafa Azimitabar Moz is in detention in the Mantra in Melbourne. Moz asks all supporters to...
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Aug 23, 2020
Pickets at the KP Prison
Join Refugee Action Collective Queensland members and many other supporters of the #KP120 in Brisbane at the Kangaroo Point Prison to...
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Aug 20, 2020
Release refugees to stay @homesafelywithus
Offering a Common Sense Option to Detention There is real concern that the federal government is planning to transfer detainees to...
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Aug 16, 2020
Peaceful March Against Sending Refugees to Christmas Island
We oppose the expansion/reopening of the Christmas Island detention centre. We call for all refugees and asylum seekers to be released...
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Aug 14, 2020
Mass March for Free Movement #FreeTheKP120
Community Rally for Free Movement, to #FreeTheKP120. We will not be marching onto the Story Bridge tomorrow. The threat of police...
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Aug 10, 2020
Unions for Refugees
Calling all unionists! Unions for Refugees Solidarity Night Join Unions for Refugees for the second Union Solidarity Night at the...
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Aug 9, 2020
Death at MITA today
Detainees say a 501 man has died at MITA. Extremely concerned about the impact on suicidal Medevac detainees in the same centre. Ian...
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