How did Australia go from a place where its migrant hostels fostered some of the world’s most famous bands to one where the detentions centres it presides over are described as “hell on Earth”? Zebedee Parkes takes a look at the history of mandatory detention and the struggle against it.
Zebedee Parkes
"We’re taught in schools about the issues we have to take action for. This is what we’re doing, we’re taking action for those issues."
Tens of thousands of people join Sydney’s School Strike 4 Climate to demand a safe climate future.
Children are off Nauru, Hakeem is back in Australia and parliament has passed the medical evacuation bill. For what feels like the first time in forever, the refugee rights movement is making gains, writes Zebedee Parkes.
Just days after the latest — and largest — round of #KidsOffNauru protests, the federal government has said all children will be removed from Nauru by the end of the year.
The #KidsOffNauru campaign is gaining momentum with a range of protests organised across Australia in recent days.
Dozens of climate activists sprinted across mountains of coal, swarmed a massive coal loader, locked on to critical parts of the machine and shut down the largest coal terminal in the world, in Newcastle on September 15.
Hundreds of thousands of people joined protests around the world on September 8 calling on governments to take serious action on climate change.
Events over the last few weeks have revealed just how politicised Australia’s immigration policy has become.
The campaign for travel concessions for International students in NSW is featured along with protests for public housing, funding for mental health services in Victoria, the latest anti-racist protests and more.
Refugee rights activists rallied outside Qantas offices in Sydney and Jetstar offices in Melbourne on August 9 as part of a national campaign calling on the Qantas airline to refuse to deport asylum seekers to danger.
A number of airlines around the world are refusing to take part in deportations. However, Qantas and Virgin Australia have, so far, not joined the boycott.
Students at universities around Australia are holding protests to demand campuses free from sexual violence on August 1.
A wave of humanity that gathered in Sydney’s Town Hall swept past the NSW Labor headquarters and crashed against the Department of Immigration offices.
Thousands of voices defiantly chanted “Bring Them Here” in increasing speed and volume.
"Bring them here: — in other wards, to offer every person in Australia’s detention centres protection and safety in Australia and the ability to apply for it elsewhere, in countries such as New Zealand. We must start dismantling this cruel, inhumane system.
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