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Int'l Migrants Day: Migrant Rights Are Human Right
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 6:28 pm | Save Australia
The UN General Assembly approved the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families on December 18, 1990, and the day was officially designated International Migrants Day by the UN in 2000. More >>
Hunger Strike Refugee Supporters To Picket DIAC
Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:47 am | Save Australia
The Refugee Action Coalition will hold a picket has called a picket of DIAC’s Sydney offices, 26 Lee Street (near Railway Square) on Monday, 30 April, 12.30-1.30pm to mark the 35th day of the Villawood hunger strike by Chinese asylum seekers. More >>
Denial Of The ‘Rarotonga Treaty’ Of 1986
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 9:30 am | Save Australia
Citizens across Australia and New Zealandare up in arms about denial of the ‘Rarotonga Treaty’ of 1986. More >>
Truth Overboard on Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 2:46 pm | Save Australia
Refugee groups are calling on the Immigration minister to give an unequivocal assurance that the Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Christmas Island will not be returned to Indonesia. More >>
Police Corruption, Redfern: Rest In Peace TJ
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 4:50 pm | Save Australia
On the 2nd anniversary of the death of TJ Hickey, justice has still been denied. The Redfern community is standing strong though, determined not to be silenced, not to be screwed over by the system yet again. More >>
Aborigines plan protest march during Games
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 2:56 pm | Save Australia
AN INDIGENOUS rights march has been planned for central Melbourne on the same day as the opening ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games. More >>
Irresponsible Comments Draw the 'Religion Card'
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 2:54 pm | Save Australia
Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma today condemned the irresponsible comments made by Liberal MP Danna Vale yesterday, where she linked the debate on the abortion drug RU486 with religion and race. More >>
The PM and the Pregnant West Papuan Refugee
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 4:06 pm | Save Australia
Reports from Christmas Island of a pregnant West Papuan refugee woman aged in her mid 50's, raises questions over the PM's announcement last week that it was "appropriate" to send the boatload of 43 West Papuan Refugees to the remote Australian Territory. More >>
Aboriginal Sign Stolen On Australia Day Eve
Friday, 27 January 2006, 9:31 am | Save Australia
This sign (‘AUSTRALIA DAY Yes, let’s celebrate: MURDER, INVASION, RAPE, THEFT’) was removed yesterday within hours of its installation on the Launceston Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre premises, by people who believe there is only one Australia Day ... More >>
Rally for West Papuan Asylum Seekers
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 10:26 am | Save Australia
Papuan Asylum Seekers must be returned to the Mainland Brisbane supporters of the West Papua will rally on Wednesday 25th January at midday outside of DIMIA offices to protest the removal of the West Papuan asylum seekers from Queensland to Christmas ... More >>
Protests support West Papuan Asylum Seekers
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 10:23 am | Save Australia
Rallies in Sydney (audio), Melbourne, Darwin and Canberra have been held to support the West Papuan Asylum Seekers and protest their movement to Christmas Island for processing, and the Howard Governments impending signing of a security treaty with ... More >>
Aborigines Against Compulsory Singing of Anthem
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 10:15 am | Save Australia
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre is opposed to the NSW push for schools to force all children to sing the national anthem being extended to Tasmania, Legal Director Michael Mansell, said today. More >>
Australia Day Aboriginal Tent Embassy March
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 10:10 am | Save Australia
Australia Day Aboriginal Tent Embassy March In Canberra by Glenn Lockitch for A.T.E. More >>
Australia West Papua Association calls on Government
Tuesday, 24 January 2006, 1:56 pm | Save Australia
Australia West Papua Association (SA) An Open Letter to the Prime Minister, the Hon. John Howard and the Ministers for Immigration, Foreign Affairs and Defence. More >>
West Papuans Flee to Australia
Monday, 23 January 2006, 4:59 pm | Save Australia
Indonesian military shoots Papuan schoolchildren in what has been described as a reprisal attack for a boatload of 43 West Papuans claiming asylum in Australia for Indonesia's brutal occupation. Their arrival in Cape York posed a huge diplomatic ... More >>
ACTU Supports Rights Of West Papuan Asylum Seekers
Monday, 23 January 2006, 4:26 pm | Save Australia
The ACTU supports calls today for the Australian Government to respect the rights of the 43 newly arrived West Papuan asylum seekers to a fair process in assessing their claims to asylum. More >>
Depressed Gallop quits as West Australian premier
Friday, 20 January 2006, 2:37 pm | Save Australia
Geoff Gallop has resigned as Western Australia's premier, and from parliament, after revealing he is suffering from depression. More >>
Statement of the Villawood hunger strikers
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 11:02 am | Save Australia
We are six hunger strikers from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre (VIDC) in Sydney, Australia. In order to protest against the compulsory detention policy and mental and physical impairment caused by the long-term detention in VIDC, during ... More >>
Report of Conf on Human Rights and Mental Health
Friday, 14 October 2005, 4:14 pm | Save Australia
The Third National Conference on Human Rights and Mental Health, Federal Parliament House, Canberra, 8 & 9 September 2005 More >>
Viet boatpeople on Christmas Island get TPVs
Monday, 1 August 2005, 11:24 am | Save Australia
The Vietnamese Community in Australia welcomes the Immigration Minister's decision today to grant Temporary Protection Visas to the above people who have been held in Christmas Island since they arrived in Australia in July 2003. More >>