May 16, 2013
World Refugee Day Rally 2013 Welcome Refugees – Close Manus Island, Close Nauru End mandatory detention; Stop deportations to danger; Honour the Refugee Convention Download pdf
April 19, 2013
Sunday, April 28 @ 1pm / Meet Corner Camp Rd and Hume Hwy, Broadmeadows (Hungary Jacks carpark) Close Manus, Close Nauru End Mandatory Detention- not MITA extension Justice for ASIO refugees Don’t Deport to Danger. – Over 5,000 asylum seekers are currently detained in detention centres across the country, inc hundreds of children. – Hundreds [...]
April 12, 2013
Refugees in the Broadmeadows Detention Centre, MITA (Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation) are currently on hunger strike in a desperate attempt for people to recognise their humanity and to ask the government for their immediate release. Beginning as a hunger strike of 28, some of them have been taken to hospital, fainted and have said they [...]
December 10, 2012
Read about why RAC is calling for a boycott: Australia must go in to bat for Tamils, Trevor Grant, The Age, December 11, 2012. Call to boycott Sri Lankan cricket tour, Michael Gordon, The Age, December 10, 2012 Support the boycott of the Sri Lankan cricket team This year, inspired by the spirit of Anti-Apartheid [...]
November 14, 2012
Organised by the Refugee Advocacy Network Friday, November 30 @ 7pm / City Square, corner of Swanston and Collins Streets, Melbourne The Australian government has dumped asylum seekers on Nauru in intolerable conditions, but they are the responsibility of Australia, not Nauru. Omid an Iranian man has been on hunger strike for over 30 days [...]
October 24, 2012
Tuesday 6 November, 1:00pm – 5:00pm Outside the Maribyrnong Detention Centre – 53 Hampstead Rd, Maidstone. This Melbourne Cup Day join refugee rights supporters outside the Maribyrnong detention centre for an anti-racism music concert & BBQ. Let the people inside know many of us support their attempts to live in Australia by taking a Melbourne [...]
October 14, 2012
NO OFFSHORE PROCESSING – Not Nauru, Not Manus Island, Not Malaysia Sunday 21 October - 1pm at State Library Invite your friends on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/events/446990272009744/ Speakers include: Adam Bandt – Greens deputy leader Theo Mackaay - General Secretary, Victorian Council of Churches Michele O’Neil – State Secretary, Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia Aran [...]
October 14, 2012
The Refugee Action Collective welcomes the decision of the High Court ruling invalid the regulation which has allowed the Immigration minister to deny protection visas to refugees based on ‘adverse assessments’ by ASIO. We join the chorus of refugee and human rights advocates calling on the Immigration Minister to immediately release all 54 refugees with [...]
September 24, 2012
Last Friday, on the 14th of September, the Refugee Action Collective held an action outside Thai Airways’ offices in Melbourne to bring attention to the airline’s shameful role in deporting refugee Dayan Anthony back to Sri Lanka. Following a recent ruling in the High Court, RAC is urging refugee activists to be on alert to [...]
September 24, 2012
PLEASE NOTE VENUE AND DATE CHANGE Wednesday, October 31, 8pm / Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, cnr Victoria and Lygon Streets (center via Lygon Street), Melbourne Suggested donation: $15/$10 at the door RSVP, share and invite friends via our Facebook event The Refugee Action Collective is proud to host a screening of Between the Devil [...]
