Refugee Action Coalition Sydney

  • Activists call for Iranians' release

    Twenty-five-year-old Iranian asylum seeker Saeed Hanssanloo was reportedly improving with medical assistance after ending his hunger strike on April 7. Hanssanloo began refusing food more than 40 days previously when he learnt his asylum claim had been rejected.

  • Gov. to blame for refugee deaths

    At least 30 people are reported dead in the terrible tragedy of the refugee boat that sunk near Christmas Island on December 15. The media are reporting that those on the boats appear to be mainly from Iran and Iraq.

  • Rally against Labor's deportation and entry ban bill

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    The Labor government wants to impose draconian new laws that attack refugee and migrant communities in an effort to show it is as ruthless as the Coalition. Labor wants to pass legislation aimed at forcing the deportation of asylum seekers and refugees, in an effort to defy a High Court case that could see more refugees released from detention. It would apply not just to those…

  • Rally to support 24-7 refugee protest outside immigration ministerTony Burke's office

    • Western Sydney

    After Albanese's cabinet reshuffle, Tony Burke is both Minister of Immigration and of Home Affairs. From 10am next Tuesday 6 August, refugees will commence a 24-7 protest outside his office in Punchbowl, Sydney. This follows weeks of protest outside the office of former Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil in Melbourne. In solidarity, RAC is holding a protest the same day…

  • Webinar on refugees and deportations under Trump

    • Online
    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Join us for this important forum, either in person at the NSWTF or via this Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89379749557... Trump's mass deportations, often in defiance of the US Supreme Court, has created a wave of horror across the US and the world. Less known is his government's cruel freeze on refugee resettlement, which he imposed on his first day on office (although he…

  • Unite against racism!

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Far right racists believe they are on the rise, encouraged by the re-election of Trump, high opinion poll results for Nigel Farage's Reform in the UK, the AfD in Germany, and elsewhere across Europe. What unites them is their scapegoating of migrants and refugees for people's economic and social ills. In Australia, Aboriginal people are an additional target of their explicit…

  • Pull Labor's cruel deportation and entry ban bill

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Labor's draconian new laws that attack refugee and migrant communities may have stalled, but Albanese is determined to get them through the Senate with the Coalition's bipartisan support when parliament again sits in the week starting Monday 24 June. Despite 'winning' a High Court case in early May, Labor is persisting with its bill that would even allow for the deportation…

  • RALLY: Human Rights Day rally at Federal Education Minister Jason Clare's office

    • Western Sydney

    Action called by Canterbury Bankstown Teachers Association (NSWTF). Teachers & School Staff for Palestine will join the Human Rights Day rally at Federal Education Minister Jason Clare's office. The rally is protesting the lack of federal school funding and the situation faced by refugees from Palestine in Australia. Event by Teachers and School Staff for Palestine…

  • Refugees are welcome, no deportations Permanent visas for all refugees

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    On the 12th anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s ‘PNG Solution’ of 19 July 2013, when Tony Burke was Immigration Minister, we protest to say ‘refugees are welcome’. We demand an end to more than two decades of cruel policies. The defeat of Peter Dutton and all he stands for provides an opportunity for Labor to end the downward spiral in refugee policy that we’ve witnessed since mandatory…