No Offshore Processing Rally

Date and Time: 
Sunday, August 12, 2012 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/421024894614339/
Location: 
Sydney Town Hall 483 George St, Sydney, Australia 2000

As parliament meets to debate offshore processing
Rally to welcome refugees

Tell Gillard and Abbot:
Full inquiry into boat sinkings
End mandatory detention & free the refugees

Following the latest asylum seeker boat tragedies, there is a clamour for a solution to deaths at sea. But both political parties insist on proposing offshore processing to “stop the boats”. Labor simply prefers its Malaysia Agreement while the Coalition prefers re-opening Nauru.

Gillard has so far failed to get Tony Abbott to agree to vote for new legislation to revive offshore processing. But she wants to try again when parliament resumes on August 14, and has set up an "expert committee" to propose a "solution".

This rally will be held just before parliament resumes. We need to raise our voices to say that any form of offshore processing is no solution, and that violating asylum seekers' rights is not the way forward.

www.refugeeaction.org.au

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