Green Left TV: World Refugee Day protests call to end mandatory detention

Daryl Davies
June 19, 2012
Issue 
926
News
Video: World Refugee Day 2012 around Australia by Zeb Parkes, Samantha Konicek, Imogen S & Simon Cunich. GreenLeftOnline/YouTube.

Over 2000 people marched in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide to protest twenty years of mandatory detention and to mark World Refugee Day on the weekend of June 16-17.

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World Refugee Day rally Melbourne, June 17 2012
World Refugee Day rally, Melbourne, June 17 2012. Photo: Ali Bakhtiavandi.
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