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Our Facebook - Keep in contact with RAC and help spread the word by connecting with us through Facebook. More>>

Visiting detainees in Brisbane's detention centre - Brisbane has a small detention centre. RAC regularly visits there. You can join us. More>>

Reading recommendations and books for sale - We have books for sale. Tony Kevin and Robin de Crespigny. Both highly recommended. More>>

Mulivaikal Remembrance Day, 19th May - Commemoration of the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, and its suffering and death. More>>

World Refugee Day rally: 4th planning meeting, 22nd May. - All refugee supporters welcome to help plan World Refugee Day rally. More>>

PRESS STATEMENT, PNG Opposition Leader - Statement by PNG Opposition Leader on 20th January about challenge to Manus Island detention centre. More>>

RAC response to PNG challenge - RAC response to PNG legal challenge to Manus Island detention centre. More>>

Detention deja vu as victimising begins anew - Chris Rau, sister of Cornelia, on the new offshore processing nightmare. 15th August. More>>

Richard Ackland on deaths at sea, Sydney Morning Herald - Is it really the people smugglers to blame? 7th September. More>>

Natalie O'Brien's articles on deaths at sea - The reality of deaths at sea, avoided by media and politicians. Sunday Age, 3rd June. More>>

Ian Rintoul on the offshore processing 'debate' - Shameless: parliament's offshore processing 'debate'. July 2012. More>>

Truth about asylum seeker deaths at sea - What is the message we should get from the disastrous asylum seeker deaths at sea? More>>

Australia's blame in asylum seeker deaths - 4 Corners people smuggler story and Australia's blame in asylum seeker deaths. More>>

Story in The Age: "Wife, Mother...Security Threat". - Ranjini, refugee whose life has been ruined by ASIO assessment. Story from The Age, 18th May. More>>

ACTU Congress: New policy on refugees & asylum seekers - Good news. ACTU adopts refugee friendly policies. 16th May. More>>

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