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Refugee
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Queensland
RAC QLD works to inform and mobilise people in Brisbane and beyond to challenge Australian government policy and legislation that violates the human rights of refugees and people seeking asylum
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Aug 12, 2021
Darwin Refugee Family Fights For Freedom
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 13/08/2021 Support is growing for the last remaining refugee family in Darwin's Mercure Hotel...
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Jul 28, 2021
Concerns Grow for Medevac Refugee
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 29/07/2021 Concerns are growing for the welfare of 10 Medevac refugees in the Melbourne...
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Jul 22, 2021
Two Medevac Hunger Strikers Hospitalised
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 22 July, 2021 Two Medevac refugees in the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA)...
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Jul 16, 2021
MEDEVAC Refugees Re-Start Hunger Strike Protest
Refugee Action Coalition Media Release 17 July 2021 A group of medevac refugees at MITA (Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation)...
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Jun 27, 2021
Three Medevac hunger strikers in hospital as protest begins eleventh day
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 28/06/2021 Eleven Medevac refugees remain on hunger strike in MITA, with three others of the...
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Jun 24, 2021
Another Refugee Hospitalised After Ambulance Called to MITA
Refugee Action Coalition Media Update 24/06/2021 Another Medevac refugee has been taken to hospital this afternoon, after an ambulance...
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Jun 23, 2021
More Medevac Hunger Strikers Hospitalised
Refugee Action Coalition Media Release 24/06/2021 Thirteen Medevac refugees remain on hunger strike in MITA as the protest enters its...
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Jun 23, 2021
High Court Entrenches Indefinite Detention In Australian Law
The high court has ruled that Australia can keep people in indefinite, administrative detention. Refugee Action Coalition Media Release...
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Jun 20, 2021
Two Medevac Hunger Strikers Hospitalised
Refugee Action Coalition 21/06/2021 Two of the 14 Medevac hunger strikers at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA)...
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Jun 20, 2021
Fourteen Medevac Refugees Begin Hunger Strike Protest
Refugee Action Coalition 20/06/2021 Fourteen refugees brought from Manus and Nauru under the Medevac legislation in 2019 have begun a...
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May 13, 2021
REFUGEE RIGHTS PROTEST AT PINKENBA DETENTION CENTRE
Media Release 14/05/2021 FREE ALL THE MEDEVAC REFUGEES Refugee rights advocates will protest outside the Brisbane Immigration Transit...
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May 10, 2021
ESCAPE TUNNEL FOUND IN YONGAH HILL DETENTION CENTRE
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 11/05/21 An elaborate escape tunnel has been uncovered in the Falcon compound of Yongah Hill...
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May 3, 2021
MEDEVAC REFUGEES PETITION HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER FOR RELEASE
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE More than 60 refugees and asylum seekers transferred to Australia from Manus and Nauru under the...
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Apr 25, 2021
Government Faces Criminal Charges Over Villawood Suicide
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE 26 April 2021 Refugee supporters will hold a protest outside the Downing Street Centre (Sydney),...
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Apr 21, 2021
Raskol Gang Attack Terrorises Asylum Seekers in Port Moresby
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE On Tuesday, 20 April, an early morning attack on a Port Moresby apartment accommodation by an...
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Apr 18, 2021
KANGAROO POINT REFUGEES NOW BEING MOVED TO MELBOURNE
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE Video shows some of the chaos of Friday’s move out of Kangaroo Point. Seventeen Medevac refugees -...
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Apr 16, 2021
KANGAROO POINT MEDEVAC REFUGEES BEING MOVED TO BITA BY FORCE
MEDIA RELEASE This afternoon, police and Serco officers are forcibly moving the remaining Medevac refugees from Kangaroo Point hotel to...
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Mar 26, 2021
THOUSANDS WILL RALLY FOR JUSTICE FOR REFUGEES, PALM SUNDAY 28 MARCH
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE Thousands of people will rally this Sunday, 28 March, Palm Sunday to call for justice for refugees...
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Mar 22, 2021
REFUGEE ADVOCATES CALL FOR PORTER'S SACKING OVER MEDEVAC LIES
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE The revelation that Freedom of Information documents show that Attorney-General, Christian Porter,...
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Mar 15, 2021
PNG COVID CRISIS WORSENS: ADVOCATES CALL TO BRING REFUGEES HERE
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE AS PNG COVID CRISIS WORSENS ADVOCATES CALL FOR REFUGEES TO BE BROUGHT TO AUSTRALIA As the spread...
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