Detainees who took to the roof of Darwin immigration centre and set fires in protest at their treatment should not even be in detention.

Over 500 people marched through the streets of Melbourne on Friday night to cut through the right-wing consensus that has dominated the election campaign. We demanded that the refugee boats be allowed to land and that the detention centres be closed.

220 people rallied in Sydney on Saturday to say no to another Tampa election, to demand an end to offshore processing and to call for the closure of all detention centres.

Across the country refugee-rights activists have held snap demonstrations against Labor’s new immigration policy. 

The refugee policy unveiled by Labor this week is John Howard’s Pacific Solution mark II. Yet some refugee advocates and organisations have actually responded to the announcement of the policy with praise.

About 450 protesters took to the streets on Saturday in Sydney to demand an end to the inhumane treatment of refugees.

In a mass display of defiance, as many as 4,000 people marched in Melbourne today against the Rudd Labor government’s vile treatment of refugees.

It is important that everyone comes to the protests on World Refugee Day. Here are some reminders why.

Abbott's refugee policy announced last week would take us back to the worst days of the Howard era. But Rudd's Labor is also doing everything it can to demonise and victimise asylum seekers.

A broad coalition of individuals and groups have joined together to organise a major rally in Melbourne on World Refugee Day, Sunday 20 June.