Refugees, often fleeing war, poverty or government repression, risk
their lives getting to Australia. They are then locked up in detention
centres for months, sometimes years, in totally inhumane conditions. Australia
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More than 650 young people have joined the socialist youth group Resistance since January, 465 of them students who joined from stalls at campus orientation weeks. Resistance's national coordinator, Simon Butler, told Green Left
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Shayan Bedraie made the perilous journey from Iran to Australia by boat with his Kurdish family, fleeing from government repression. He was only four years old, but the Australian immigration system placed him in mandatory detention,
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"A boy my age inside tried to hang himself with his bed sheet last night", 16-year-old Resistance member Jess Melvin told protesters holding a vigil outside western Melbourne's Maribyrnong detention centre on January 24. "I can go to