Refugee groups have welcomed the announcement that the government plans to release Seena, the nine year-old orphaned Iranian boy (and the family that is caring for him on Christmas Island), and two other orphaned survivors from Christmas Island detention. But the Refugee Action Coalition is questioning why the Minister is not releasing the four or […]
Media Release, 17 February, 2011 Refugee supporters and relatives of the survivors’ relatives again gathered at the Miowera Road gates of Villawood detention centre at 8.30am Thursday, 17 February to call on the Minister of Immigration not to return the Christmas Island disaster survivors to the island. It is expected that the survivors will be […]
Media Release February 15, 2011 Refugee supporters will hold a protest outside Villawood detention centre (on Miowera Road) on Wednesday 16 February starting at 4.30pm, to show support for the survivors and to press the demand that the Minister for Immigration not return the survivors to Christmas Island. Christmas Island survivors are being held overnight […]
Media Release February 14, 2011 Refugee groups today condemned the callous handling of the victims and the survivors of the Christmas Island disaster. “Instead of a show of compassion to the families of the victims of the disaster, the immigration department has created a fiasco,” said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition (RAC). […]
Media Release February 9, 2011 At least one Tamil detainee has been seriously injured on Christmas Island as overcrowding in the detention centre has seen a series of fights erupt over the past three days. It is understood that the Tamil man has spent at least 24 hours in the medical centre after some of […]
Media release, February 2 2011 Refugee groups have called on the Gillard Labor government to scrap its proposal to build a Regional Processing Centre in East Timor. “The regional processing centre proposal was always about Australia avoiding its obligations to asylum seekers under the Refugee Convention. Now the leaked ‘Regional Assessment Centre’ document has revealed […]
Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s plan for a regional asylum seekers’ processing centre in East Timor has caused widespread concern there, where political parties and non-government organisations – indeed the parliament – have all expressed their opposition. The Refugee Action Coalition believes it is an attempt to replicate the Pacific Solution of the Howard government. The […]
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