TOMORROW

The Government is trying to ram through Liberal-like laws to drastically increase their powers to imprison and deport asylum seekers.

On Wednesday night join David Pocock, RACS and Refugee Action Campaign CBR as we hold an urgent protest meeting calling for Labor to #BinTheBill .

“Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised his government would not leave anyone behind. But more than one million people in Australia relying on JobSeeker and related payments are barely surviving on deeply inadequate income support.'' ACOSS
acoss.org.au/media_release/…

Disheartening to see the Rwanda offshore detention law pass in the UK.

Over the past decades, Australia’s failed policy of offshore detention provides a recent, real life case study in the human and financial cost.
ASRC

A thread 🧵 👇🏽

It was wonderful to meet with the Victorian Minister for Multicultural Affairs Ingrid Stitt MP today. We are so grateful for their tireless advocacy and support of people seeking asylum and refugees and the ASRC and their leadership.

.Thanush selvarasa says he will ‘never forget’ what he had to endure on a daily basis while on Manus Island.

‘We just didn’t know how long we were going to be there for,’ he recalls. ‘The circumstances made us feel like we were going crazy.

metro.co.uk/2024/04/23/iso…

Rishi Sunak This is the reality of life in offshore detention: 'They were treating us like animals. When we arrived, the authorities didn’t call us by our names. They gave us all a number, I was GRL078.'
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metro.co.uk/2024/04/23/iso…

What is the Rwanda plan?
Simply put, it's copying Australia's failed policy of offshore detention. Exiling people who seek safety to another country. Aust experience has been a moral and financial failure - billions of dollars, deaths, families separated

cbsnews.com/news/rwanda-bi…

The contentious program was voted through after the U.K.'s Supreme Court ruled it to be unlawful, and it has been condemned by human rights groups and the UN refugee agency.

Not to mention recent evidence from Australia as to the human and financial cost.
cbsnews.com/news/rwanda-bi…

''It seems to me that the Coalition and Labor have been competing with each other to see who can impose more cruelty on a cohort of people who happen to have sought asylum or refuge in this country and have fled from situations''.

abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

Still waiting to see the Australian media coverage of this momentous ⚽️occasion 🤔

#ForzaInter 🖤💙

'I think what they're doing stinks,' abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…