Refugees & migrants

  • "Jin Jiyan Azadi" From Rojava To Rojhelat In Conversation with Behrouz Boochani

    • Naarm/Melbourne

    The Kurdish Democratic Community Centre, alongside the Patriotic Association of Kurdistan, will be hosting Behrouz Boochani for a night of conversation and Q&A. With the ongoing revolution in Iran and Rojhelat, the situation of both Kurds and Iranian's in the Middle East remains volatile, and with that, spaces are openning for an influx of radical ideas to form a new future for these groups.

  • Stand with refugees: bring them here!

    • Garramilla/Darwin

    Though the Coalition government’s tenure has ended, some of the destructive refugee and asylum seeker policies that have dominated the past decade of border politics, endure. There are still 200 refugees stranded on Nauru and PNG. Those in PNG are still not eligible to gain resettlement at all under the NZ deal announced in March. We ask you (Darwin based folk and visitors who…

  • Permanent Protection Now! Action for Refugees

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    We will be gathering outside Steve Irons' office to send a message to the voting public - we want safety and justice for refugees and people seeking asylum

  • 8 Years On - Justice for Reza Barati Vigil

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    It is eight years since Reza Barati was brutally murdered while detained by the Australian government on Manus Island, PNG. At the time, then Immigration Minister and now Prime Minister, Scott Morrison attempted to blame Reza Barati for his own death. Since Reza was murdered, 11 other men have died on Manus and Nauru under Australia's lethal "offshore processing regime". Each…

  • Escape From Manus - Book Event with Jaivet Ealom

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    We invite you to attend this event promoting Jaivet Ealom's 'Escape From Manus'. We will have the privilege of hearing from Jaivet and sharing some excerpts from the book. "Born and raised in Burma as a Rohingya Muslim, Jaivet Ealom was a minority. The Rohingya were not recognised by Myanmar as Indigenous citizens: their access to education was blocked; they weren’t permitted…

  • No detention, no deportation: Permanent protection for the Murugappan family

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    The Murugappan family’s temporary visas are set to expire on September 22, 2021. They are currently living in limbo, with the threat of deportation hanging over them. They are not alone - with over 30,000 refugees at risk of deportation in Australia. Join us to demand permanent protection for the Murugappan family and an end to all deportations to danger.

  • End Life in Limbo Refugee Rights Rally

    • Nipaluna/Hobart

    On the 25th of July from 12pm join us on Parliament lawns to show your solidarity for refugees and asylum seekers who have been kept in Limbo on Temporary Visas for far too long. As we should all know, the Australian Government has much to be ashamed of in their treatment and processing of refugees. Australia refuses to provide permanent visas to refugees who arrived by boat.…

  • 8 Years of Harm

    • Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide

    ** Indefinite Detention Is Torture – 8 Years of Harm ** 8 long and destructive years will soon have passed, since when on 19th July 2013, Kevin Rudd announced that all asylum seekers coming by boat would be sent offshore, and never be settled in Australia. Over 3500 were subsequently taken offshore by force.   Many of these people continue to this day to be detained,…

  • Eight Years is Enough: Permanent Safety Now!

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    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".

  • World Refugee Week Vigil - Freo

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    To mark World Refugee Week, we invite our supporters to join the weekly 'Refugee Justice Vigil - Fremantle WA' on the corner of Parry Street & South Terrace.