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Media Releases
Current and past RAC media releases


Twenty-Second Refugee Tests Positive for COVID at Park Hotel
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 30/10/2021 TWENTY-SECOND REFUGEE TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID AT PARK HOTEL Hundreds are expected to...
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Oct 29, 2021


Third Refugee Detention Compound Locked Down in MITA
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA ALERT 27/10/2021 Refugees being held in the Broadmeadows Residential Precinct (BRP) compound of ...
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Oct 27, 2021


Covid Ground Zero Hotel Strikes Again
More than half of the 46 Medevac detainees at Park Hotel in Carlton have now tested Covid positive. Still more are displaying symptoms,...
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Oct 23, 2021


More Covid at MITA Detention Centre
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 23/10/2021 MORE COVID AT MELBOURNE’S MITA DETENTION CENTRE Another Serco guard at Melbourne’s...
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Oct 23, 2021


Covid Spreads in the Park Hotel
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 23/10/2021 PREVIOUSLY NEGATIVE REFUGEE BECOMES 16th POSITIVE CASE AS COVID SPREADS IN THE PARK...
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Oct 22, 2021


Inexplicable Testing Delays Increase Covid Risk to Refugees at Park Hotel
COVID outbreak: Healthcare not Detention Rally at Lincoln Square.
SATURDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2021 AT 13:00 UTC+10. Link: https://fb.me/e/3ZB5K045S
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Oct 21, 2021


REFUGEE HOTEL COVID OUTBREAK GROWS TO NINE
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 19/10/2021 REFUGEE HOTEL COVID OUTBREAK GROWS TO NINE Refugees at the Park Hotel in Melbourne...
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Oct 19, 2021


ONE MORE CONFIRMED CASE AT PARK HOTEL
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 19/10/2021 ONE MORE CONFIRMED CASE AT PARK HOTEL AS REFUGEES IN PARK HOTEL LOCKED DOWN One more...
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Oct 18, 2021


COVID Crisis in Park Hotel
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 18/10/2021 COVID CRISIS IN PARK HOTEL - SIX IN ISOLATION , SHOCKING DELAYS PUT MORE AT RISK Last...
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Oct 17, 2021


Melbourne Detention on Covid Alert
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 09/10/2021 IMHS staff tested all people detained in Bass 2 compound for Covid Friday night, just...
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Oct 9, 2021


Melbourne Detention Centre Locked Down After Serco Officer Tests Positive for Covid
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 08/10/2021 MELBOURNE DETENTION CENTRE LOCKED DOWN AFTER SERCO OFFICER TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID ...
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Oct 8, 2021


Government Disgracefully Deserts PNG Refugees
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 06/10/2021 GOVERNMENT DISGRACEFULLY DESERTS PNG REFUGEES; IT’S TIME TO END OFFSHORE DETENTION;...
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Oct 5, 2021


Another Serco Worker in Melbourne Detention Centre is COVID Positive
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 02/10/2021 People detained across all compounds of Melbourne’s Broadmeadows detention centre,...
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Oct 1, 2021


Comcare must hold Home Affairs to account over refugee cruelty
Home Affairs’ cruelty to refugees ‘unchecked by workplace regulator’? – advocates Media Release 28/09/2021 The Department of Home...
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Sep 27, 2021


Rally for Women of Afghanistan. Bravely Standing Against the Taliban Brutality
Stand in solidarity with the women of Afghanistan SUNDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER, 2PM KING GEORGE SQUARE, BRISBANE CITY MEDIA RELEASE 17.09.2021...
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Sep 17, 2021


Rooftop Protest at Yongah Hill Detention Centre
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 14 September 2021 A group of at least 15 immigration detainees have begun a protest on the roof...
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Sep 14, 2021


Thousands Set to Rally in Brisbane for Afghan Refugees
MEDIA RELEASE 11 Sept, 2021 Thousands of people are expected to rally in Brisbane's King George Square, on Sunday 12 September, 2pm, to...
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Sep 10, 2021


Too much risk, too much misinformation.No Covid testing in MITA after guards test positive
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 7/09/2021 Too much risk, too much misinformation. No Covid testing in MITA after guards test...
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Sep 6, 2021


Two MITA Detention Security Guards Test Covid Positive
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 4 Sept 2021 Two MMS security guards at Melbourne's Broadmeadows detention centre (MITA), have...
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Sep 4, 2021


Australian government must grant permanent visas and increase refugee intake
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 16/08/2021 The Refugee Action Coalition has rejected Prime Minister Morrison’s statement that...
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Aug 16, 2021


Darwin Refugee Family Fights For Freedom
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 13/08/2021 Support is growing for the last remaining refugee family in Darwin's Mercure Hotel...
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Aug 12, 2021


Concerns Grow for Medevac Refugee
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 29/07/2021 Concerns are growing for the welfare of 10 Medevac refugees in the Melbourne...
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Jul 28, 2021


Two Medevac Hunger Strikers Hospitalised
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 22 July, 2021 Two Medevac refugees in the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA)...
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Jul 22, 2021


MEDEVAC Refugees Re-Start Hunger Strike Protest
Refugee Action Coalition Media Release 17 July 2021 A group of medevac refugees at MITA (Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation)...
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Jul 16, 2021


Three Medevac hunger strikers in hospital as protest begins eleventh day
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 28/06/2021 Eleven Medevac refugees remain on hunger strike in MITA, with three others of the...
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Jun 27, 2021


Another Refugee Hospitalised After Ambulance Called to MITA
Refugee Action Coalition Media Update 24/06/2021 Another Medevac refugee has been taken to hospital this afternoon, after an ambulance...
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Jun 24, 2021


More Medevac Hunger Strikers Hospitalised
Refugee Action Coalition Media Release 24/06/2021 Thirteen Medevac refugees remain on hunger strike in MITA as the protest enters its...
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Jun 23, 2021


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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Jun 23, 2021


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)...
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Jun 20, 2021


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...
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Jun 20, 2021


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...
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May 13, 2021


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...
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May 10, 2021


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...
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May 3, 2021


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),...
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Apr 25, 2021


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, 2021


KANGAROO POINT REFUGEES NOW BEING MOVED TO MELBOURNE
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE Video shows some of the chaos of Friday’s move out of Kangaroo Point. Seventeen Medevac refugees -...
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Apr 18, 2021


KANGAROO POINT MEDEVAC REFUGEES BEING MOVED TO BITA BY FORCE
MEDIA RELEASE This afternoon, police and Serco officers are forcibly moving the remaining Medevac refugees from Kangaroo Point hotel to...
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Apr 16, 2021


THOUSANDS WILL RALLY FOR JUSTICE FOR REFUGEES, PALM SUNDAY 28 MARCH
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE Thousands of people will rally this Sunday, 28 March, Palm Sunday to call for justice for refugees...
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Mar 26, 2021


REFUGEE ADVOCATES CALL FOR PORTER'S SACKING OVER MEDEVAC LIES
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE The revelation that Freedom of Information documents show that Attorney-General, Christian Porter,...
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Mar 22, 2021


PNG COVID CRISIS WORSENS: ADVOCATES CALL TO BRING REFUGEES HERE
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE AS PNG COVID CRISIS WORSENS ADVOCATES CALL FOR REFUGEES TO BE BROUGHT TO AUSTRALIA As the spread...
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Mar 16, 2021


SUICIDE ATTEMPT AND BASHING REVEALS MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN BRISBANE DETENTION CENTRES
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 05 March 2021 The release of Medevac refugees from the Kangaroo Point hotel earlier this week...
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Mar 4, 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 2, 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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Mar 1, 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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Feb 28, 2021


@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 30, 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...
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Aug 23, 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 20, 2020


Release refugees to stay @homesafelywithus
Joint MEDIA RELEASE: Sunday 9 August 2020 A coalition of refugee support groups today offered to open their homes to asylum seekers and...
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Aug 8, 2020


Experts Slam Safety of Christmas Island Immigration Detention Plans
Christmas Island Detention Plan Simply Dangerous Say Experts. Media Release 7 August 2020 Jane Salmon Human rights lawyer Adjunct...
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Aug 7, 2020


Medevac Detainee Responds to Rumours of Shuffle Onshore and to Christmas Island
4 August 2020 There is news that asylum seekers held in Victoria may be shuffled to Yongah Hill in WA. This rumour is accompanied by...
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Aug 4, 2020
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