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In Australia, refugees continue to be treated in the most deplorable way. Often fleeing persecution and poverty they are locked in detention, isolated from outside contact and treated like criminals.

This section provides updates, reports and other material related to the campaign against racist immigration policies. More articles can be found in our Racism & Refugees section.


RAC Public Meeting in Melbourne
Written by Corey Oakley   
01 February 2010

The "Indonesian Solution" is No Solution

A Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) Public Meeting
6.30pm, Tuesday, 16 February
Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne (opposite Vic Market)
 
Speakers:
• Jessie Taylor, lawyer and refugee advocate who has visited Indonesia's detention centres
• Saradha Nathan, Sydney Tamil community activist

 

 
Nothing new about Labor's anti-refugee racism
Written by Katie Wood   
26 January 2010
The inhumanity with which the government is treating asylum seekers is sickening. Yet Rudd is merely continuing a long tradition of ALP racism.
 
Let the refugees into Australia
Written by Liam Ward   
16 November 2009

Anyone who heard Brindha, the 9-year-old Tamil asylum seeker, pleading recently to be allowed into Australia should have been disgusted with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s response.