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Canberra refugee protest outside parliament

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 28/09/2010 - 8:27pm

Refugee advocates protested today on the lawns outside Parliament House, Canberra, to call on the new federal parliament to introduce humane refugee policies and stop using refugees as political footballs.

About 150 people from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra, carrying endorsements from over 48 groups across Australia, gathered at the opening of Parliament on Tuesday 28 September.

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We support the Darwin breakout!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/09/2010 - 12:27pm

Yesterday people gathered at Central Station Tunnel to show solidarity with the courageous protest of 92 detainees who broke out of Darwin Detention Centre on Wednesday. The snap-action response in Sydney, called by the Anti-Deportation Alliance (ADA) focused on encouraging people to take actions to force the Federal Government to close the detention centres, and inviting people to join the Refugee Action Coalition protest today, Friday 3rd of September.

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Afghan asylum seekers break out of Darwin detention centre

Submitted by Flowerpower on Wed, 01/09/2010 - 5:52pm

The second protest by inmates at the Darwin Detention Centre in a week saw 92 rejected Afghani asylum seekers break out and hold a peaceful protest along the Sturt Highway before being arrested by police after seven hours. A solidarity protest was later held Sydney. In a punitive move, the Afghan protestors have now been moved to the remote Curtin Detention Centre.

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Darwin Detention Centre

Detainee dies at Curtin detention centre

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 31/08/2010 - 6:46pm

The World Socialist Web has written a good analysis of how the racist mandatory detention policies of the Rudd/Gillard government contributed to the death of an Afghan detainee on August 22nd at the recently re-opened Curtin Detention Centre in remote WA. read the article at the WSWS or the text below

Australia: Detained refugee dies in Perth hospital
By Leticia Marshall
31 August 2010

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Protest at Darwin detention centre

Submitted by Flowerpower on Sun, 29/08/2010 - 1:30pm

In scenes familiar from the Howard years, victims of the Rudd/Gillard's government asylum seeker policies protested today in Darwin by burning property and climbing to the roof of the immigration prison. The protesters were apparently Indonesian crew of asylum seeker boats unhappy about how long there cases were taking to get to court. Under Australian law they face a mandatory minimum five year jail term. Many of the crews of these boats are poor Indonesian fisherman who are just another group of people victimised by our racist hysterical policies on asylum seekers.

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