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Detention uprising

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 19/03/2011 - 11:06am

Ramesh Fernandez a former immigration detainee gives his view of the Detention Centre protests via the R.I.S.E. website
On Thursday 11 March, after waiting many months for a decision regarding their visas, several asylum seekers received rejection letters from DIAC. In the early hours of the next day, between 50 and 150 asylum seekers broke through iron gates and escaped the Christmas Island detention centre. Though the SERCO guards immediately tried to catch the escaped detainees, they were largely unsuccessful.

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Three Villawood detainees on hunger strike

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 10:35pm

RISE media release 09/03/2011Three refugees in Villawood immigration detention centre are on day 8 of their hunger strike. The men have been accepted as refugees by the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (“DIAC”) but have been given adverse security assessments by ASIO.

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Villawood Detention Centre

racism

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 11:00am

Racism, xenophobia, hostility towards refugees, migrants, Asians, Jews, Muslims or Aborigines as with the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, or any other expression derived from a perception of the superiority of one group over another, is entirely the product of an imbalance of power between women and men, the primary constituents of community.

If women and men achieve equality all demographics comprised of women and men achieve equality.

A republic governed by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees eliminates racism.

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Message from hunger strikers in Curtin Detention Centre

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 20/01/2011 - 2:37pm

Thursday, 20 January 2011, 3:11 pm Press Release: Project SafeCom
"The continuous spin lines trotted out by the Department of Immigration to media representatives about the Curtin Detention Centre hunger strike, claiming that between 20 and 30 people are participating in the strike, amount to craven lies and callous misrepresentations, and they are eroding the Department's own ethical slogan that "people are our business" to the core," WA Human Rights group Project SafeCom said this morning.

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Project Safe

Curtin Detention Centre

No Christmas on Christmas Island vigil in Melbourne

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 20/12/2010 - 11:02am

The Refugee Action Collective held a vigil outside Myer Christmas windows to raise awareness of the plight of asylum seekers and refugees locked up as part of the Australian government's inhumane policy of mandatory detention.

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Melbourne

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Christmas Island

Screaming for FREEDOM

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 18/11/2010 - 10:24pm

10 weeks ago... 100 people break out of Darwin Detention Centre screaming a message of desperation, hope and freedom that the media does everything to silence.

2 months ago... Josefa Rauluni dies in Villawood detention centre on the day he is expecting to be deported. He feared death and torture upon return to Fiji.

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End mandatory detention - rally and march 7 November 2010

Submitted by peter on Wed, 10/11/2010 - 10:58pm

Several hundred people took part in a rally and march organised by the Refugee Advocacy Network (http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org)to demand an end to the policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers arriving by boat.

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Emergency Convocation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 02/11/2010 - 7:44am

It is imperative that you should sign the petition to the government of The Hellenic Republic for the granting of asylum to the Iranian hunger strikers.

You may sign at the following address:

http://www.gopetition.com/petition/40043/sign.html

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human rights

refugees

asylum seekers

BD News: Australian PM seeks support from Asian leaders for asylum centre in Timor-Leste

Submitted by Back Door e-new... on Sun, 31/10/2010 - 12:08pm

Update on Australian PM's proposal for Asylum-seeker Processing in Timor-Leste (31 Oct 10)

BACK DOOR Newsletter on Timor-Leste:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/Index.htm

Australian PM's proposal for Asylum-seeker Processing in Timor-Leste:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/asylum.html

Sentru Prosesamentu ba Refujiadu iha Timor-Leste ka lae?:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/tetunasylum.html

Um Centro de Processamento de Refugiados em Timor-Leste?:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/portasylum.html

31 October 2010

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BD News: Update on Australian PM's proposal for asylum-seeker processing in Timor-Leste (23 Oct 10)

Submitted by Back Door e-new... on Sat, 23/10/2010 - 6:35pm

BACK DOOR Newsletter on Timor-Leste:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/Index.htm

Australian PM's proposal for Asylum-seeker Processing in Timor-Leste:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/asylum.html

Sentru Prosesamentu ba Refujiadu iha Timor-Leste ka lae?:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/tetunasylum.html

Um Centro de Processamento de Refugiados em Timor-Leste?:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/portasylum.html

23 October 2010

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