• close Broadmeadows detention centre •
• children out of detention •
1pm, Saturday 2 April

Despite the government's October announcement that all children would be released from detention, there are still more than 1000 children in detention.

More than 140 young asylum seekers from the ages of 13-18 are locked up in the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation at Camp Road, Broadmeadows.

Many of these young people have no family in Australia. Most of them are teenage boys whose fathers, brothers or other family members have been killed, and their families have sent them out of the country to save their lives.

Mandatory detention of any asylum seeker is inhumane, but it is especially inhumane for children and teenagers.

The artwork, "Boy in Detention" (left), was drawn by a boy in detention.

Gather @ Hungry Jack's carpark,
cnr Camp & Sydney Rds, Broadmeadows,
then march to Camp Rd entrance to detention centre for speakers and symbolic action

Organised by Refugee Action Collective (Vic)

Read our media release

Endorsements:   Victorian Council of Churches, Victorian Independent Education Union, Islamic Council of Victoria, Federation of Australian Muslim Students and Youth; The Greens; CEPU Communications – Telecommunications branch; Tamil Refugee Council, CEPU Communications – Postal branch; Father Bob McGuire Foundation; Greens North East Region; Australia West Papua Association; Father Bob Maquire Foundation; Father Peter Carrucan (Jesuit Refugee Service); Justice & International Mission of Uniting Church