Lovely to get some help with a bit of last minute letterboxing from our friend Behrouz Boochani

So thankful too to Tasmanian Greens members & supporters for their amazing efforts so far to #MakeHistoryinHobart next May! 💚
#politas

This week at the ASRC, a packed room heard Behrouz Boochani talk on the urgent need to bring refugees our government forced to PNG to safety, initiate a Royal Commission into immigration detention and challenge the language of dehumanisation.

Full video👇
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Writing for Crikey, former refugee Behrouz Boochani criticises Labor's handling of the released immigration detainees, arguing that polarising language and rushed laws are harming how we discuss asylum seekers.
crikey.com.au/2023/12/12/beh…

Thanks Kon Karapanagiotidis, for hosting us at ASRC yesterday. It was a great event.

آنچه در محفل نوبل اتفاق افتاد، بازتولید ابتذال جرج تاون بود. همان فیگورها، همان شخصیت ها و همان زبان لمپنیزم. از کسی به مانند تقی رحمانی که در سیاست استخوان خورد کرده بعید بود که چنین ترکیبی از مهمانان دعوت کند، البته اگر کار او باشد و نه بنیاد نوبل.

A lack of information, polarising language and hurried-through laws are all harming how we discuss refugees.
crikey.com.au/2023/12/12/beh…

crikey.com.au/2023/12/12/beh…

Statement from The Elders:

“If the world can watch this scale of brutality and suffering and not prevent it, we have lost our common humanity.
US Secretary of State Blinken’s statement that it is “imperative that Israel act in accordance with international humanitarian law and

Behrouz's latest

The Australian detention system was established to destroy us, but we refugees are still here | Behrouz Boochani dlvr.it/SzY3hJ

The Australian detention system was established to destroy us, but we refugees are still here | Behrouz Boochani theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Beyond the human rights violations, the investigation must expose the exorbitant amount of money poured into this detention industry – a sophisticated torture machine that has cost billions. Just published my latest article for The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Beyond the human rights violations, the investigation must expose the exorbitant amount of money poured into this detention industry – a sophisticated torture machine that has cost billions. Just published my latest article for The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'Arnold Zable, Alice Pung, Behrouz Boochani and André Dao each have urgent things to say about how the best Australian stories are stories of compassion' artshub.com.au/news/features/…

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The way the major parties reacted to the High Court decision shows that the major parties are always united against refugees. It’s shown that it’s important for these parties to have this competition of cruelty.
Crikey
crikey.com.au/2023/11/29/beh…

crikey.com.au/2023/11/29/beh…

We stand with Behrouz Boochani and all refugees and people seeking asylum and their families whose lives have been devastated by immigration detention. They have a right to know the truth and to be heard. They have a right to justice.