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World Refugee Day: 4th organising meeting - All individuals and organisations wanting justice for refugees should come and help plan the World Refugee Day rally in June. Meeting 16th May. More>>

Public forum: 20 years too long. Why mandatory detention has to end. - Twenty years of mandatory detention. A sad commemoration. 19th May. More>>

Reports on Easter convergence - Reports on the Easter refugee rights convergence at Darwin will be posted here, as they come in. More>>

Darwin hospital struggling with asylum trauma - Cost of detention, from ABC News, 20th March. More>>

Refugee rights rally at the BITA - Brisbane's first detention centre protest on Saturday 17th March. A report. More>>

Media release: Australia shares responsibility for asylum seekers' deaths at sea - These deaths are indeed terrible events. But more humane, not tougher, policies are the answer. More>>

Tony Kevin on the asylum seeker boat disaster - Tony Kevin, researcher into the SIEV-X disaster, sees similarities with the latest asylum-seeker tragedy. More>>

Media release: bridging visas for boat arrivals, announced late November. - RAC's take on Labor's modest and unwilling experiment in non-punitive processing of boat arrivals. More>>

Newspaper article: Tom Keneally on detainee suicide - The inevitable result of Australia's detention regime: despair leading to destruction of human souls. More>>

Paul Syvret, The Courier-Mail, 18th October 2011 - The case against offshore processing, the Malaysian Solution and mandatory detention. More>>

Media releases: High Court decision on Malaysia Solution - RAC's take on the High Court decision that refugee rights are defended by law. More>>

The problem which is Serco - What's wrong with privatising the punishment of asylum seekers? More>>

10 Myths About Labor's Plan to Swap Refugees With Malaysia - Summary of the Labor government's descent into moral nihilism, from Melbourne's Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. More>>

Nauru: no alternative to Malaysia - The Liberals' Nauru scheme is not humane and is no alternative to Labor's Malaysian people swapping. More>>

Press release on High Court decision about detainees' rights of appeal - High Court's decision on detainees' rights: a good thing. What it means for the campaign. More>>

Still waiting for the Australian solution - Julia Gillard's solution of "sending them away" : how about an Australian Solution instead? More>>

Debunking the Myths - Debunking the myths about asylum seekers in 2010. More>>

People Sumggling - Bob Ellis provides comment and asks some pertinent questions. From ABC Unleased More>>

Christmas Island - The Indian Ocean Solution. Published in The Monthly, September 2009. Everything you ever wanted to know about our off shore detention centre. More>>
 
 

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