![Thousands of Melbournians joined the #Walk4Justice on Palm Sunday 2016. Adding their voice to the calls to Close Manus and Nauru, provide permanent protection and to free refugees from mandatory […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Walk4Justice-Feature-Image-640x248.jpg "Palm Sunday 2016 #Walk4Justice: A Great day in Melbourne")
![by Tess Lawrence, Contributing Editor-at-Large, Independent Australia The endemic racism and repugnant rhetoric endorsed by some of Australia’s politicians and promulgated through both Houses of Parliament, as Hansard will forever […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PalmSunday2018Dunn-D4-54-195x110.jpg "POLITICAL DEMONISING OF MUSLIMS AND REFUGEES LINKED TO CHRISTCHURCH MASSACRE ")
![As the government tries to weazel out of providing medical care to people in offshore detention, the death and treatment of OMID shows the inhumanity and cruelty towards refugees. OMID […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Out-of-Darkness-Queenscliff-195x110.png "Inquest begins into Shocking Death on Nauru")
![Invitation to see 3 great films – and help support the Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees Come along with your friends and colleagues – share through you social […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WalkForRefugees2018-195x110.jpg "Refugee Advocacy Network (RAN) Film Fundraiser")
![Volunteers and campaigners needed! – Help us build the momentum for the Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees Register Here: https://rac-vic.typeform.com/to/LvWjsv We need your help to make this year’s […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Feb-23-108x110.png "Palm Sunday Barnstorm For Refugees, Volunteer Info Session")
![Papua New Guinea should negotiate a deadline with Australia for the removal of refugees from Manus Island, the Catholic church says. More on this article by Radio NZ – click […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/eight_col_eltc_protest-195x110.jpg "Catholic church calls for Manus detention deadline")
![For many years, Australian politicians and other public figures have debated whether or not asylum seekers reaching Australia by boat have serious claims for refugee protection or are merely “economic […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/refugee-council-of-australia-logo-195x110.jpg "Economic Migrants or Refugees? Research and Facts from RCOA"){kind=logo}
![Dear Grandmothers and Friends of Grandmothers. We are going to tell our elected representatives we will NOT stand by and allow the detention of babies, children, and their families. WE […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Grandmothers-against-detention-191x110.png "Grandmothers Against Detention: Freedom Ride to Canberra")
![Tuesday February 23 at 6.00 pm Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St More information here Speakers: *Former teacher from RPC1 school on Nauru and Paul Dingle, principal from Glenroy Secondary College […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Teachers-for-Refugees-195x110.jpg "What I saw as a teacher on Nauru- former worker and principal speak out")
![An ALHR Melbourne event not to be missed! ALHR will host Anna Burke MP (Labor) and Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young (Greens) as they discuss their parties’ refugee policies and plans. Joining […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/alhr_logo-195x110.png "REFUGEE POLICY ‘Q&A’ EVENT Legally Defensible?"){kind=logo}
![The Combined Refugee Action Group is deeply disappointed at the recent High Court judgement that will return many vulnerable people to filthy, fearful, punitive conditions in offshore detention at Nauru. […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Combined-Refugee-Action-Group-Geelong-160x110.jpg "Combined Refugee Action Group Geelong Supports Offers of Sanctuary")
![‘The Refugee Action Collective welcomes the Andrews Labor government’s written offer to Prime Minister Turnbull to resettle all children and their families at risk of being sent back to Nauru. […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rac-vic-logo-195x110.jpg "Turnbull must accept Andrews offer as a first step to closing Nauru and Manus."){kind=logo}
![Late last year Iranian asylum seeker Fazel Chegeni Nejad was found dead outside the perimeter fence of the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre. Fazel—whose claim for refugee status had been […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Fazels-Journey-195x110.jpg "Fazel Chegeni’s Australia: Why did a refugee spend his last days in detention?")
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- 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
- Australian Western Sahara Association
- Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project
- Catholic Religious Victoria
- Centre Against Sexual Assault
- Edmund Rice Asylum Seeker Project
- Eritrean Australians for Justice and Peace
- Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria (ECCV)
- Fitzroy Learning Network
- Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand
- Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children
- Hotham Mission
- Humanitarian Crisis Hub
- Justice and International Mission Unit, UCA Synod of Victoria & Tasmania
- Labor 4 Refugees
- Lentara Uniting Care Asylum Seeker Project
- 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 Resource Centre
- Uniting Church in Australia
- Victorian Council of Churches
- Victorian Immigrant and Refugees Women’s Coalition
- Victorian Trades Hall Council
![JOIN THE PALM SUNDAY Walk for Justice for Refugees on Sunday 14 April 2019 at the State Library Melbourne (Corner Swanston & La Trobe Streets) at 2.00pm. – For a […]](http://www.refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WalkForRefugees2018-640x300.jpg "Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees 2019")
Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees 2019
JOIN THE PALM SUNDAY Walk for Justice for Refugees on Sunday 14 April 2019 at the State Library Melbourne (Corner Swanston & La Trobe Streets) at 2.00pm. – For a […]
Latest News, Events & Petitions
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Photos of Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees 2019
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Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees 2019
Here are some of the wonderful speeches from the Melbourne Walk for Justice for Refugees Interfaith Panel Welcome Behrouz Bouchani’s Recorded Message from Manus Richard Flanagan calls for a Royal […]
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POLITICAL DEMONISING OF MUSLIMS AND REFUGEES LINKED TO CHRISTCHURCH MASSACRE
by Tess Lawrence, Contributing Editor-at-Large, Independent Australia The endemic racism and repugnant rhetoric endorsed by some of Australia’s politicians and promulgated through both Houses of Parliament, as Hansard will forever […]
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Inquest begins into Shocking Death on Nauru
As the government tries to weazel out of providing medical care to people in offshore detention, the death and treatment of OMID shows the inhumanity and cruelty towards refugees. OMID […]
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Refugee Advocacy Network (RAN) Film Fundraiser
Invitation to see 3 great films – and help support the Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees Come along with your friends and colleagues – share through you social […]
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Palm Sunday Barnstorm For Refugees, Volunteer Info Session
Volunteers and campaigners needed! – Help us build the momentum for the Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees Register Here: https://rac-vic.typeform.com/to/LvWjsv We need your help to make this year’s […]
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DASSAN petition to ask the govt to get all off Manus and Nauru is online now
If you haven’t already signed, please sign, and send to all your contacts. Urge them to click, sign, share, and ask them to urge more people to click, sign, share too – keep the numbers […]
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Catholic church calls for Manus detention deadline
Papua New Guinea should negotiate a deadline with Australia for the removal of refugees from Manus Island, the Catholic church says. More on this article by Radio NZ – click […]
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Behrouz Boochani: detained asylum seeker wins Australia’s richest literary prize
Guardian writer on Manus Island wins $125,000 after sweeping non-fiction prize and Victorian prize for literature at Victorian premier’s literary awards 2019 You can read more details here.
Media Releases
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Economic Migrants or Refugees? Research and Facts from RCOA
For many years, Australian politicians and other public figures have debated whether or not asylum seekers reaching Australia by boat have serious claims for refugee protection or are merely “economic […]
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Grandmothers Against Detention: Freedom Ride to Canberra
Dear Grandmothers and Friends of Grandmothers. We are going to tell our elected representatives we will NOT stand by and allow the detention of babies, children, and their families. WE […]
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What I saw as a teacher on Nauru- former worker and principal speak out
Tuesday February 23 at 6.00 pm Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St More information here Speakers: *Former teacher from RPC1 school on Nauru and Paul Dingle, principal from Glenroy Secondary College […]
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REFUGEE POLICY ‘Q&A’ EVENT Legally Defensible?
An ALHR Melbourne event not to be missed! ALHR will host Anna Burke MP (Labor) and Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young (Greens) as they discuss their parties’ refugee policies and plans. Joining […]
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Combined Refugee Action Group Geelong Supports Offers of Sanctuary
The Combined Refugee Action Group is deeply disappointed at the recent High Court judgement that will return many vulnerable people to filthy, fearful, punitive conditions in offshore detention at Nauru. […]
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Turnbull must accept Andrews offer as a first step to closing Nauru and Manus.
‘The Refugee Action Collective welcomes the Andrews Labor government’s written offer to Prime Minister Turnbull to resettle all children and their families at risk of being sent back to Nauru. […]
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Fazel Chegeni’s Australia: Why did a refugee spend his last days in detention?
Late last year Iranian asylum seeker Fazel Chegeni Nejad was found dead outside the perimeter fence of the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre. Fazel—whose claim for refugee status had been […]
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Out of the Darkness. Amazing Exhibition Returns to Queenscliff, 6th Feb.
You are invited to experience an amazing exhibition, ‘Out of the Darkness’, at the Queenscliff Uniting Church Hall, corner of Hesse & Stokes Streets, Queenscliff, from Saturday 6th February to […]