Fremantle Council to boycott companies locking up refugees

February 25, 2016
Issue 
Councillor Sam Wainwright.

Sam Wainwright, Socialist Alliance councillor on Fremantle Council, successfully moved the following motion at council's February 24 meeting:

1. Supports the Palm Sunday Walk for Refugees — March 20, 1pm St George's Cathedral;

2. Calls on the Malcolm Turnbull government to let the 267 refugees that it wants to deport stay;

3. Commits Fremantle to stop doing business with companies who are contracted to run the detention centres, such as Broadspectrum and Wilson Security; and

4. Calls for an end to the offshore mandatory detention regime and boat "turnbacks".

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