World Refugee Week Event:
"Are We There Yet?"
where we are in the struggle for refugee rights

6:00pm, Tuesday, 17 June 2008
BMW Edge, Federation Square

brought to you by Refugee Action Collective (Vic)
and Multicultural Arts Victoria.
featuring performances, speakers
and a chance to have your questions addressed.

Despite it's promise to scrap John Howard's 'Pacific Solution' the new government of Kevin Rudd has shown no sign of re-incorporating Christmas Island back into The Migration Zone - whatever the rest of the world might imagine a migration zone to be...

The proposed Christmas Island detention facility is in the style of the notorious Guantanamo prison and only months away from being completed.

This monstous detention camp is 1,000 kms off the Australian mainland, where no-one can hear you scream. This is the biggest challenge we have faced so far.

Please make an appointment with your local Labor member and tell them about this place; it's quite possible they don't know. Let's make sure they do know, especially Kevin Rudd. Remind them that behind the electric fences and doors is an 8 cot nursery, playground, childcare, classrooms - and a lot of broken promises.
Download a flyer for distribution - 532 Kb PDF

Pollie Watch
keeping an eye on the new mob in Canberra

8 May 2008 Asylum Seeker Resource Centre media release. Watch out, Rudd. We're going to be back on the streets soon.

7 May 2008 Back to Square One. Massive community protest has returned no change whatsoever. Surprised? Not us.

18 April 2008 The party's over! The figures are in, and the new government is not looking that good after all.

18 March 2008 Four whole months after the new government was elected, asylum seekers with no access to any kind of government support are still asking for the right to work so they can support themselves.

11 March 2008 Time to end privatisation of immigration detention centres.

1 February 2008 Who would ever think this day would come?

9 February 2008 Damaged souls caught in third wave of suffering.

26 January 2008 A little thing called citizenship.

25 January 2008 Message from Lombok, Indonesia, where the husbands and fathers have been taken away to force these families into "voluntarily" return to Afghanistan.

13 January 2008 Pamela Curr reports on another death in Villawood detention centre.

9 January 2008 HREOC release - good news, but still a lot of work to be done.

Dec 07 - Jan 08 Sri Lankans still stuck on Nauru

The tiny little island of Nauru is in economic trouble and a lot of the blame must go to Australia

John Winston Howard, former PM, some background

2007 Federal Election Finally the people may be ready for big change.

The Australian government plans to imprison children and babies in the
Christmas Island complex.
Download the plans for the nursery and school being built behind the razor wire. 180 Kb PDF