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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 social distancing rules. The car cavalcade aimed to raise the morale of the refugees and draw atten...

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. I'm 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 feels more profound to me than even the temporary welfare measures that kept me fed (before they e...

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 Mothers for Refugees, Reclaim the News, RAC, Grandmothers Against Refugees and Home to Bilo. Labor S...

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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 the release of 60 refugees from hotel prison in January. The protesters marched to the Park Hotel, dem...