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The 22 were among 30 people who were booked by police on April 10 while showing solidarity with more than 60 refugees who were being detained inside the Mantra Hotel in Preston. They were each fined $1652 for allegedly violating a COVID-19 lockdown order. The refugees had been brought to Australia from Manus Island and Nauru for medical treatment under the now abandoned Medavac law. Most did not receive adequate treatment and all were placed in crowded conditions where guards regularly violated...

Pandemic activists have saved more lives than Government Independent Australia 03 Jul 2021, 08:52 GMT+10 Community groups and activists have done far more to help those in need during the pandemic than our own government, writes Tom Tanuki. IT TURNS OUT there are redeeming qualities to be found in a global disaster. Im grateful to have been witness to the way people struggle together, organise and build opportunities for community care over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. This gratitude...

Priya and Nades and their two young daughters Kopica and Tharnicaa were taken from their home in the Queensland town of Biloela in a dawn raid three years ago. After a period in a Melbourne detention centre they were sent to Christmas Island. In Perth, up to 300 people rallied outside the Children’s hospital on June 9 to show their support for Thanicaa Murugappan, who had been hospitalised 10 days prior. In Sydney, more than 200 people turned out for a candlelight vigil on June 10, called by ...

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Khan has come under pressure from Serco and Border Force for speaking out. Another Medevac refugee, Abu Bakr, who is now imprisoned in the Broadmeadows Detention Centre, expressed his thanks to supporters via phone. “We are alive because of your support and you have given us hope. We have been moving [between] so many detention centres without reason. As you know, we have been suffering in detention centres for eight years.” RAC member Lucy Honan said protests and legal action spurred on th...

By Jon Cooper | The Good Word You just don’t know where or what will bring about the next great innovation. Georgia Tech is always a pretty good guess for the “Where.” As for the “What,” that can be something as simple as wanting to avoid duplicating your work or maybe even just hating to drive. Both of those went into Jaeiza Smith’s formation of Brainstream Tutoring, a virtual tutoring company the 2019 GT graduate in civil engineering and her younger sister Jira, currently attendi...

30 wonderful wildlife holidays for 2021 From polar bears to butterflies, these wildlife holidays put animals in the spotlight Lions in Welgevonden Game Reserve, South Africa Credit: Getty From leopards, lions and wildebeest to flamingos, whale sharks and giant morpho butterflies, Brian Jackman guides you around the world in 30 species to mark World Wildlife Day.  1. Bengal tiger No other image sums up the Indian subcontinent more dramatically than Shere Khan, as Rudyard Kipling called him –...

Melbourne Magistrates Court on January 27. Photo: Zane Alcorn About 60 people gathered outside the Melbourne Magistrates Court on January 27 to support Refugee Action Collective member Chris Breen, who is on trial for “inciting” people to participate in a car cavalcade to support detained refugees. The cavalcade on April 10 went past the Mantra Hotel where 65 refugees were detained. Thirty participants were fined $1652 each, a total of nearly $50,000. Most are planning to challenge the fine...

Advertisement Twenty more refugees have been freed from hotel detention a day after the surprise release of 45 men locked up in Melbourne for more than a year. However, 14 other men remain detained at the Park Hotel in Carlton, having been denied visas, but not told why. Medevac detainees Subeshan Kanagalingam (left) and Parkeerathan Palasingam have been released from a Melbourne hotel after years in immigration detention. Credit:Rachael Dexter Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said the go...

Medevac detainees have been freed after years in Australias immigration detention system. Heres why, and what may happen next By Yara Murray-Atfield © Provided by ABC News A photo posted by Kurdish refugee Mostafa "Moz" Azimitabar, who called his release "the most beautiful moment of my life". (Twitter: Mostafa Azimitabar) Refugee advocates say 46 people have been released from detention in a Melbourne hotel after more than a year in Australia under medevac laws. They were br...