MELBOURNE — On June 17, 35 people rallied outside the Maribyrnong detention centre to demand the closure of the facility. The protest, part of a series of actions to mark World Refugee Day, was initiated by Resistance high-school activists.

Jazzmine Loughran from Preshil High School told the rally, “We can’t just soften mandatory detention, we have to end it once and for all. It is up to us to shut down all the detention centres and free the refugees.”

Brianna Pike

From Green Left Weekly, June 22, 2005.
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