![Since 2004, a group of artists from Queenscliff Rural Australians for Refugees has created a series of exhibitions that were shown both locally and throughout regional Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne. The […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/image003-195x110.jpg "Queenscliff RAR presents a new exhibition ‘OUT OF THE DARKNESS’ October 11th-19th in Geelong")
![Welcome to our rolling coverage of the inquiry’s hearing in Canberra on Friday. The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, is due to give evidence at 9.15am AEST. Other witnesses set to […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Scott-Morrison-being-questioned-195x110.jpg "Scott Morrison questioned at children in detention inquiry")
![Across Australia in cities and regional towns Palm Sunday is being observed by Faith communities, Academics, School students and ordinary Australians who are deeply disturbed by the current treatment of […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Statement.-Archbishop-195x110.jpg "City Church Bells to Ring out for Walkers on Palm Sunday")
![Melbourne, Wednesday 8 May, — Hundreds of Australians will hold rallies across the nation on Friday to demand the release of Ranjini and her three children, as well as the […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/tamil-refugee-council-128x110.jpg "Release Ranjini – Release Them All")
![Melbourne, Tuesday – Hunger- striking refugees have refused requests by guards to abandon their protest in the grounds of the MITA detention centre in Melbourne. “The guards have asked us […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo-195x110.jpg "ASIO REFUGEE HUNGER STRIKERS REFUSE TO BUDGE")
![MEDIA RELEASE NO ADVANTAGE SCRAPPED – REFUGEE PROCESSING TO START ON NAURU The Nauru Director of the Department of Immigration has told a meeting of asylum seekers in the Nauru […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nauru1-195x110.jpg "No Advantage Scrapped – Refugee Processing to start on Nauru")
![Chilout members have been banned from visiting Manus Island. On 26th March Camapaign Manager Leila and staff from Get Up! were due to board a plane to PNG, headed to […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/chilout-195x110.jpg "Chilout")
![More than 300 asylum seekers on Nauru staged another protest Sunday (21 October) afternoon calling for refugee processing to begin immediately and for closure of the Nauru detention centre (see […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rac-sydney-logo-195x110.jpg "ANOTHER NAURU PROTEST CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE PROCESSING"){kind=logo}
![A High Court decision this morning (7 September) has dismissed an application of behalf of five asylum seekers seeking to extend judicial review to discretionary Ministerial decisions. In a similar […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rac-vic-logo-195x110.jpg "HIGH COURT DECISION OPENS POSSIBILITY OF DEPORTATIONS TO DANGER"){kind=logo}
![The Government’s unfulfilled promises to increase Australia’s humanitarian intake and give refugees safety in our region were on stark display today as those recommendations were voted down by the major […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/greensMB_logo.png "Hollow promises as Government and Abbott Coalition unite to vote down increasing humanitarian intake"){kind=logo}
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Recent Posts
- World Refugee Day – Sunday 21 June @2pm at City Square, Melbourne
- URGENT ACTION – Desperation on Manus Island – contact your MP
- What’s wrong with the Asylum Legacy Bill – Click here for more information and link to YouTube video for the interview
- Stop the War on Refugees !
- Queenscliff RAR presents a new exhibition ‘OUT OF THE DARKNESS’ October 11th-19th in Geelong
Archives by Category
Links to Relevant Organisations
- A.S.P.I.R.E. Australian Society for Palestinian Iraqi Refugees Emergency
- A.S.P.I.R.E. Australian Western Sahara Association
- Act for Peace – National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA)
- Amnesty International
- Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
- Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office
- Australian Catholic Social Justice
- Australian Greens Victoria
- Australian Hazara Federation
- Australian Jewish Democratic Society
- Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
- Australian Tamil Congress
- Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project
- Catholic Religious Victoria
- Centre Against Sexual Assault
- Edmund Rice Asylum Seeker Project
- Eritrean Australians for Justice and Peace
- Fitzroy Learning Network
- Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand
- Hotham Mission
- Humanitarian Crisis Hub
- Justice and International Mission Unit, Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania
- Labor 4 Refugees
- Melbourne Catholic Migrant & Refugee Office
- Refugee Action Collective
- Refugee Council of Australia
- RISE – Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees
- Rural Australians for Refugees
- Save the Children
- Spectrum Migrant Recourse Centre
- Uniting Church in Australia
- Victorian Council of Churches
- Victorian Immigrant and Refugees Women’s Coalition
- Victorian Trades Hall Council
![On Sunday 21 June in the Melbourne CBD there will be a series of Pop-Up Protests and a Finale program protesting Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. Join us to […]](http://web.archive.org./web/20151022042150im_/http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/World-Refugee-Day-poster-640x300.png "World Refugee Day – Sunday 21 June @2pm at City Square, Melbourne")
World Refugee Day – Sunday 21 June @2pm at City Square, Melbourne
On Sunday 21 June in the Melbourne CBD there will be a series of Pop-Up Protests and a Finale program protesting Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. Join us to […]
Latest News, Events & Petitions
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Queenscliff RAR presents a new exhibition ‘OUT OF THE DARKNESS’ October 11th-19th in Geelong
Since 2004, a group of artists from Queenscliff Rural Australians for Refugees has created a series of exhibitions that were shown both locally and throughout regional Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne. The […]
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Scott Morrison questioned at children in detention inquiry
Welcome to our rolling coverage of the inquiry’s hearing in Canberra on Friday. The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, is due to give evidence at 9.15am AEST. Other witnesses set to […]
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Not in Our Name – statement published in The Age, 1 March 2014
Press Releases
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City Church Bells to Ring out for Walkers on Palm Sunday
Across Australia in cities and regional towns Palm Sunday is being observed by Faith communities, Academics, School students and ordinary Australians who are deeply disturbed by the current treatment of […]
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Release Ranjini – Release Them All
Melbourne, Wednesday 8 May, — Hundreds of Australians will hold rallies across the nation on Friday to demand the release of Ranjini and her three children, as well as the […]
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ASIO REFUGEE HUNGER STRIKERS REFUSE TO BUDGE
Melbourne, Tuesday – Hunger- striking refugees have refused requests by guards to abandon their protest in the grounds of the MITA detention centre in Melbourne. “The guards have asked us […]
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No Advantage Scrapped – Refugee Processing to start on Nauru
MEDIA RELEASE NO ADVANTAGE SCRAPPED – REFUGEE PROCESSING TO START ON NAURU The Nauru Director of the Department of Immigration has told a meeting of asylum seekers in the Nauru […]
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Chilout
Chilout members have been banned from visiting Manus Island. On 26th March Camapaign Manager Leila and staff from Get Up! were due to board a plane to PNG, headed to […]
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ANOTHER NAURU PROTEST CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE PROCESSING
More than 300 asylum seekers on Nauru staged another protest Sunday (21 October) afternoon calling for refugee processing to begin immediately and for closure of the Nauru detention centre (see […]
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HIGH COURT DECISION OPENS POSSIBILITY OF DEPORTATIONS TO DANGER
A High Court decision this morning (7 September) has dismissed an application of behalf of five asylum seekers seeking to extend judicial review to discretionary Ministerial decisions. In a similar […]
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NAURU AND MANUS ISLAND NOW FULL – PACIFIC SOLUTION 2.0 IN TATTERS.
GOVERNMENT DISCRIMINATION OVER NAURU TRANSFERS With the arrival of three more asylum boats in the last 24 hours, the total number of asylum seekers reaching Australia since 13 August is […]
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Hollow promises as Government and Abbott Coalition unite to vote down increasing humanitarian intake
The Government’s unfulfilled promises to increase Australia’s humanitarian intake and give refugees safety in our region were on stark display today as those recommendations were voted down by the major […]