Author: Kieran Magee

  • Public Speak Out: 12 years too long Refugees are welcome here

    Saturday 19th July, 2.00pm Bourke Street Mall

    Twelve years ago, on 19 July 2013, Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared that that asylum-seekers arriving by boat would be sent to Nauru or Manus Island, and none would ever be settled in Australia.* End mandatory detention and shut the Nauru detention centre

    Refugee ACtion Collective Vic will mark this anniversary by calling for

    * End mandatory detention and shut the Nauru detention centre
    * Permanent visas for all those caught up in this horror, including victims of the flawed Fast Track process and Medevac refugees
    * Allow refugees trapped in Indonesia to come to Australia.

    For more information, contact Tom Fiebig at 0415118496, or [email protected]