Migrating to our new Facebook Page
As many of you know, we recently migrated our mailing list and sent out the first of our regular RRAN newsletters. The last major upgrade that’s left is the move from our long standing ‘Refugee Rights’ group to the new RRAN Facebook page at http://facebook.com/rran.org.
While there are actually quite a few reasons for […]
Freedom of Information Requests Denied
by Phillip Cook
Recently the Global Mail created “Behind the Wire” (behindthewire.theglobalmail.org). This website is a graphical representation of incident reports from immigration detention centres around Australia lodged between October 2009 and May 2011. The incidents range from everyday mishaps to deaths.
Each report is only one or two sentences long, but DIAC […]
Asylum seekers are angry and upset at the death last night (Thursday) of an Afghan asylum seeker in the Villawood detention centre.
According to witnesses inside the detention centre, Serco guards left Ali on the ground for almost an hour before calling an ambulance.
He was taken from the centre around 7.30pm and died later […]
Government policies kill more at sea
By Andrew Martin of Socialist Alternative. Originally published at sa.org.au.
Australia’s callous refugee policies have led to the death of more asylum seekers at sea. It is estimated at least 55 refugees were aboard a boat that capsized off the coast of Christmas Island on 7 June. Within hours after the capsized hull of […]
Well, it’s been a good month for documentation sites and projects. In addition to the nascent Refugee Rights Watch site, today has seen the launch of two related sites — the Detention Logs site, which documents over 7,600 incidents obtained from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship under the FOI Act, and Behind […]
Refugees fear deportation
By Trevor Grant of Socialist Alternative. Originally published at sa.org.au.
For newly arrived Christmas Island asylum seekers, many of whom have endured life-threatening journeys, the fear and trepidation do not end when they reach land.
The fear of drowning on the high seas, dying of thirst or being eaten by sharks is nothing compared […]
Refugee Rights Action Network held a vigil on May 10 in support of Ranjini and the more than 50 refugees like her who are held in detention even though they have been found to “genuine” refugees. They face a lifetime in prison not because of anything they’ve done, but because ASIO considers them […]
Australia – from empty to invisible
By Tanya McConvell of Socialist Alternative. Originally published at sa.org.au.
The powers that be can still shock us. And we know already what they are capable of!
First they denied the people. They called this land terra nullius – an empty land – for more than a couple of centuries. That meant they could use the land, […]
RRAN Meetings
RRAN WA and Fremantle RRAN meet the first Monday of the month at 6.30pm at the Boorloo Activist Centre, U15/5 Aberdeen Street, Perth (just north of the McIver Train Station or online via Jitsi. For more details, send us a message via our Contact RRAN WA page, or call/text us on 0412 860 168. Contact Fremantle RRAN