Refugees and their supporters rallied at Town Hall, Gadigal Country/Sydney, to demand Labor stop deporting refugees and grant permanent visas to asylum seekers. Rachel Evans reports.
Fast Track process
Home affairs minister Tony Burke is again complaining that a 2023 landmark High Court ruling has limited his ability to lock up migrants and refugees. Chloe DS argues that pressure needs to continue to force Labor to keep its promises on refugees.
Refugee rights activists demanded permanent visas for all refugees on World Refugee Day. Chloe DS reports.
Refugees took their protest for permanent visas to the streets, walking 10 kilometres from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electorate office in Marrickville to immigration minister Tony Burke’s office in Punchbowl. Zebedee Parkes reports.
Refugees and supporters are continuing their campaign for permanent visas for more than 9000 people, whose refugee claims were rejected under the flawed Fast Track system. Chris Slee reports.
Hundreds marched through the CBD to show support for refugees who are demanding permanent visas. Chris Slee reports.
Elnaz, Milad Makvandi and Sowriya Vishnuvarman, refugees who have lived more than 12 years in limbo, travelled to Canberra to urge federal MPs to grant about 8500 people permanent visas. Kerry Smith reports.
Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish refugee, author and activist, will be the keynote speaker at the Rural Australians for Refugees national conference in Kyneton, Victoria, from October 11–13. Jonathan Strauss reports.
Hundreds of refugees and their supporters marched through the streets of Melbourne demanding permanent visas. Photos by Alex Bainbridge.
Labor and the Coalition have mostly agreed on harsh measures for refugees who flee here to escape war and persecution. Mano Yagolingam had been struggling in limbo for 12 years, Chloe DS writes, before setting himself alight.
Refugees and their supporters marched to Labor MP Tony Burke’s office at Punchbowl after rallying first at Dorothy Reserve in Bankstown. Marx del Rosario reports.
Refugees and their supporters want Tony Burke, the new minister, to urgently provide people who have waited years under the misnamed “Fast Track” process with permanent visas. Kerry Smith reports.
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