July 19 will mark 4 years since Kevin Rudd’s shameful announcement that no asylum seeker arriving by boat would ever settle in Australia, and in that time government policy has slipped even further in its descent towards inhumanity and injustice.…
Talking Change – Making it Happen Inaugural National Conference in Canberra Australian Refugee Action Network 20-21 May 2017 Conference Program available at: http://bit.ly/2nNDH3S Copland Lecture Theatre and Copland Building, ANU, Canberra All venues are wheelchair accessible. Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/OZGU Ticket includes…
Come along to the RAC General Meeting for an update on the campaign and a discussion on strategy going forwards. Light refreshments will provided. 6:30pm Wednesday 26 April, Manning Clarke Centre Theatre 4 (ANU). Agenda items: 1. Political update 2.…
WELCOME REFUGEES – CLOSE THE CAMPS – 1pm / Sunday 9 April / Civic Square (ACT Assembly) Canberra welcomes refugees! Join us for the Canberra ‘Welcome Refugees: Close the Camps’ rally on Palm Sunday – just one of countless rallies occurring around the country on…
Join Canberra RAC alongside speakers Jane Caro, Fr Rod Bower and Dr Sue packer in calling on our local MPs to break their long-standing silence on the injustices of mandatory detention. We are holding a public meeting in protest on Monday 6 March, 6:30pm…
On Friday October 21st, the ANU Refugee Action Committee held a fundraiser “Amps not Camps.” Local musicians got together with refugee activists at the Polish club to raise money for ACT Migrant and Refugee Settlement Services, which works helping newly arrived migrants…
The conditions in Australia’s detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru are atrocious. Report after report continues to detail abhorrent treatment, systemic abuse, and degrading conditions, as the camps are wracked by crisis after crisis. It is simply impossible that…
A new study by Save the Children, Australia and UNICEF has shown that billions of our tax dollars are spent to maintain Australia’s cruel refugee policies. A fraction of the vast sums involved could, if directed away from the current policy of…
On Friday, Canberrans gathered outside the Immigration Department in Braddon, holding a 10 hour reading vigil of the Nauru Files, which detailed the abhorrent treatment of refugees and asylum seekers held by Australia on Nauru. Inspired by the reading vigil outside…
Some 300 Canberrans turned out at an evening peak hour snap rally organised by the Canberra Refugee Action Committee on the intersection of Northbourne Avenue and Barry Drive, on Tuesday 23 August. They were protesting about government lack of action…
