Public speak out: 12 years too long – refugees are welcome here

Speak Out

July 19, 2025
2:00 pm
Bourke Street Mall
Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000
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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]