Refugees and Racism in Australia

Contact Phone: 
0431 311 520
Date and Time: 
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Contact Name: 
Chris Peterson
Website: 
www.resistance.org.au
Location: 
Student Union Meeting Room, Building 8 RMIT

Speakers:

Madhuni Kumarakulasing

Member of

the Tamil Community and Asylum seeker support worker

Julius Kogoya

West

Papuan activist

12.30pm,

Wednesday, August 18

The new Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, has shown her support

for the racist, Howard-era style method of “ disposing” of the refugee problem by constructing a

detention camp in one of the most impoverished countries of South-East Asia -

East Timor.

This forum will address the problem of asylum seekers in Australia and present some of the

more viable alternative solutions to Labor and Liberal.

Geography: