Refugee Rights Action Network

  • RRAN Lecture Series 1: Australia's punitive responses to people seeking asylum

    • Online

    ON-LINE EVENT, STARTS 6:30PM WA TIME (9:30PM AEDST) https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85094854208 Australian policies imposed on people seeking asylum who arrive by boat are punitive. This includes mandatory and indefinite detention in Australia and/or offshore, for anyone who arrives by boat. For those recognised as a refugee in Australia, it also includes being granted a temporary…

  • Eight Years is Enough: Permanent Safety Now!

    • Boorloo / Perth

    19 July this year marks the eighth anniversary of the announcement by then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, that “any asylum-seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will...have no prospect of being resettled in Australia...and will never permanently live in Australia".

  • Block The Bill #NoPhonesNoLife

    • Boorloo / Perth

    The Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton is again trying to gain powers to remove mobile phones from people held in immigration detention centres which would obstruct asylum seekers from being able to contact lawyers, family and social supports as well as reporting on abuse within the centres. “They are going to confiscate our phones and that will disconnect us from our family…