Green Left TV: World Refugee Day protests call to end mandatory detention

June 19, 2012
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Video: World Refugee Day 2012 around Australia by Zeb Parkes, Samantha Konicek, Imogen S & Simon Cunich. GreenLeftOnline/YouTube.

Over 2000 people marched in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide to protest twenty years of mandatory detention and to mark World Refugee Day on the weekend of June 16-17.

View the Green Left TV report above. Read Green Left Weekly's report with pictures about the World Refugee Day rallies here.

More articles about refugee rights. More videos from Green Left TV.


Melbourne rally, June 17, 2012. Photo: Ali Bakhtiavandi

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