Saturday, 21 July at 2pm State Library of Victoria This July will mark 5 years since the “PNG solution” was announced. 5 years of limbo in offshore detention. Over one and a half years since ‘US refugee deal’ announced. 2 years since Manus was declared illegal. 11...
The following article has to make any decent minded Australian wonder at the price our leaders are prepared to pay to remain in power and the extent to which a majority of us are prepared to condone what is being done in our name. “The bare facts make Akam’s case...
The following article by Spencer Zifcak gives an informative analysis of the proposed deprivation of the SRSS allowance already introduced to certain categories of single refugees. June 18 is the proposed date for further categories of refugees to have their income...
The June 4 date, when a large group of asylum seekers will lose their meagre SRSS allowance, is fast approaching. The impact this will have on the lives of these people is to place them into destitution. Our Government needs to know that we do not all condone this...
Sister Patty Fawkner, newly-elected Congregational Leader of the Good Samaritan Sisters, has joined with the voices of many who are urgently calling on the Australian Government and all Federal Parliamentarians to find a humane and just solution to the current...
With the untimely death of journalist, Michael Gordon, we have lost a great champion of our efforts on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees. Michael wrote with great insight and understanding of the plight of asylum seekers and refugees and, what is more rare these...
