“Political hostages” is an apt term to describe the situation of the several hundred men on Manus Island, Greens Senator Nick McKim told a forum hosted by the Refugee Action Coalition in Sydney on April 29.
McKim gave an insight into the siege on Manus Island detention centre in October and November last year. Aziz, one of the refugee leaders on Manus Island, spoke via video, detailing the desperate situation the men are living in today.
Renowned filmmaker David Bradbury (twice Academy Award nominated) is in Parramatta for his latest documentary, America & Me, which chronicles his time in the US during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
“We have a system of detention for people arriving by boat which is deliberately designed to cause harm,” psychiatrist Dr Peter Young told a rally of hundreds of medical students in Sydney on April 7.
Medical students took to the streets on April 7 in Sydney under the slogan "Detention Harms Health". Organised by the Australian Medical Students Association they called on the Australian government to close the detention centres and bring them here.
This episode covers the protests outside Channel 7's Sunrise studio in response to the show running a segment that advocated for the removal of Aboriginal children from Aboriginal families. It looks at the segment, the silencing of the protest by Channel 7, the pressure Sunrise is under and whats happening in the campaign. Then it features the voices Sunrise does not want you to hear.
Thousands of people from across NSW marched through the streets of Sydney at the #Time2Choose rally to demand a sustainable future — without coal and gas.
Thousands of people rallied at Sydney's Palm Sunday justice for refugees march to demand the goverment close the detention centres and #BringThemHere.
There is a global refugee crisis. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported last year that there are at least 22.5 million people seeking asylum across state borders and tens of millions more have been internally displaced.
The numbers are growing as more people become displaced due to conflict and environmental disasters.
In response, from New York to Berlin to Sydney, leading political parties are building walls, figuratively and literally, instead of coming up with humane solutions.
In this episode we cover five reasons to come to the Palm Sunday refugee rights rallies on March 25 and three things you can do to help build the rallies.
A list of all the Palm Sunday rallies across the country:
At Sydney's IWD march, protesters rallied for paid domestic violence leave, migrant workers' rights, sex workers' rights, an end to sexual harassment on campus and elsewhere, abortion rights, equal pay and for Turkey to end its war on Afrin in Northern Syria.
Thousands of people attended the Sydney's 40th annual Mardi Gras parade. A number of community and activist floats marched in the parade including Positive Life, No Pride in Detention, Amnesty International and Stop Adani among others.
