Melbourne

Refugee protest disrupts Immigration Department in Melbourne

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 22/08/2011 - 7:55pm

A group of refugee protesters shut down the Melbourne immigration office today, in protest against deporting asylum seekers to Malaysia. The 40 refugee supporters loudly chanted “Refugees are welcome here” and “Not Malaysia, Not Nauru, Gillard we’re talking to you”. Four demonstrators staged a protest inside the immigration department where they gave speeches for 20 minutes before being escorted out of the building.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
asylum seeker protest
Australia's Mandatory Detention
Malaysian Solution

Melbourne book launch of "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 22/08/2011 - 3:39pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 30/08/2011 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
The Executive Lounge, First Floor, Alan Gilbert Building, Corner of Grattan and Berkerley Streets, Carlton.
Contact Name: 
Michele Harris
Contact Email: 
harrisme@bigpond.com
Website: 
http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/

"Walk With Us"
Aboriginal Elders Call Out to Australian People to Walk with them in their Quest for Justice

http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/media/WWU_Order_Form.pdf

"A sequel to the highly regarded "This Is What We Said" (February 2010), “Walk with Us” (August 2011).

Geography: 
Melbourne

WGAR News: Equality Rights Alliance Report: Women's experience of Income Management in the NT

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 21/08/2011 - 9:35am

Newsletter date: 21 August 2011

Contents:
* Report: Women's experience of Income Management in the NT
* Homelands: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks's call to government
* Amnesty Online Petition: 'Don’t abandon Aboriginal homelands'
* Anti-Intervention campaigners back call for Homelands funding
* Online Petition: Save Ballerrt Mooroop College
* Federal Court dismisses Yindjibarndi appeal
* Submission: Children of the Intervention
* More on Kimberley gas plant
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Western Australia
Keywords: 
NT intervention
indigenous
aboriginal
Northern Territory Intervention
Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
Online Petition: Save Ballerrt Mooroop College
Federal Court dismisses Yindjibarndi appeal
Submission: Children of the Intervention
More on Kimberley gas plant
Aboriginal homelands: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks's call to government
Amnesty Online Petition: 'Don’t abandon Aboriginal homelands'
Anti-Intervention campaigners back Amnesty call for Homelands funding - raise concerns about leaked cabinet report

Emergency Protest! Stop the Malaysian Deal!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 20/08/2011 - 11:23am
Date and Time: 
Mon, 22/08/2011 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Outside Department of Immigration (Casselden Place, corner Lonsdale &Spring Streets, Melbourne CBD)

Since the public outcry over the cruelty of the live animal export trade, many Australians have expressed dismay that the Australian government is prepared to act swiftly to stop cruelty to animals but is preparing to carry out what amounts to the live trade of human beings with its Malaysia refugee swap deal.

People who are concerned about the human rights of refugees will bring two cows to a protest outside the Immigration office on August 22 to highlight the double standards of the government.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Activists to take cows to Immigration department to protest live trade of refugees to Malaysia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 20/08/2011 - 11:19am

Refugee Action Collective Media Release 20th August Since the public outcry over the cruelty of the live animal export trade, many Australians have expressed dismay that the Australian government is prepared to act swiftly to stop cruelty to animals but is preparing to carry out what amounts to the live trade of human beings with its Malaysia refugee swap deal.

People who are concerned about the human rights of refugees will bring two cows to a protest outside the Immigration office on August 22 to highlight the double standards of the government.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
Australia's Mandatory Detention
Malaysian Solution
Refugee Action Collective

RALLY - Say No to genocide against Nuba Nation in Sudan

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/08/2011 - 11:17pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 20/08/2011 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
State Library, corner Swanston St and Latrobe St, city

Melbourne’s Sudanese community will protest Saturday August 20 against a little-known massacre of people from the Nuba Mountains region of southern Kordofan in Sudan. Nuba community leader and Shepparton resident Haroun Kafi said today that “the conflict in the Nuba Mountains hasn’t been in the mainstream media because the government of Sudan has prevented journalists and UN staff had been prevented from accessing the Nuba Mountains.”

Geography: 
Melbourne

Melbourne’s Sudanese community to protest Sudan government’s genocide against Nuba Nation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/08/2011 - 11:15pm

Melbourne’s Sudanese community will protest Saturday August 20 against a little-known massacre of people from the Nuba Mountains region of southern Kordofan in Sudan. Nuba community leader and Shepparton resident Haroun Kafi said today that “the conflict in the Nuba Mountains hasn’t been in the mainstream media because the government of Sudan has prevented journalists and UN staff had been prevented from accessing the Nuba Mountains.”

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
Nuba Nuba
Sudan

Reportback from the 'Emergency Solidarity Meeting for Chilean Students in Struggle'

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/08/2011 - 10:43pm

As a show of solidarity with the Chilean students in struggle, a handful of people (18-20) gathered today outside the Chilean Consulate in St Kilda Road, Melbourne. We delivered a letter to the Consulate, signed by various groups and individuals from across Australia, outlining our support for the students’ demands and concerns about the repressive actions of the Chilean State.

Geography: 
Melbourne

Launch of community owned solar farm cooperative in Upwey

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/08/2011 - 8:12pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 23/08/2011 -
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Burrunja, 351 Glenfern Rd, Upwey
Contact Email: 
pcook@wildcoast.net

Laucnh of the Ranges Energy solar co-operative. Learn about how the cooperative plans to install a large solar installation in the Dandenong Ranges by early next year.

Guest speakers at the launch will talk about similar projects in Europe and there will be a speaker from Hepburn Wind Cooperative.

Geography: 
Melbourne

The right to a roof over our heads — A feminist take on the public housing crisis

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 19/08/2011 - 7:56pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 25/08/2011 -
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road Brunswick
Contact Name: 
Debbie Brennan
Contact Phone: 
0
Contact Email: 
radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au
Website: 
www.RadicalWomen.org

Thursday, 25 August, 7.00 pm

The right to a roof over our heads —
A feminist take on the public housing crisis

Public housing is being dismantled and privatised, mostly by stealth. And it is happening at breathtaking speed. Ever-growing numbers of people are in desperate straits and the rights of tenants stripped back.

Come hear guest speakers Fiona Ross, facilitator of the Princes Hill Public Housing Association, and Jeremy Dixon, public tenant representative on the Northwest Regional Tenants Council.

Geography: 
Melbourne