Â鶹´«Ã½ TV: World Refugee Day protests call to end mandatory detention

June 19, 2012
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Video: World Refugee Day 2012 around Australia by Zeb Parkes, Samantha Konicek, Imogen S & Simon Cunich. GreenLeftOnline/YouTube.

Over 2000 people marched in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide to protest twenty years of mandatory detention and to mark World Refugee Day on the weekend of June 16-17.

View the Â鶹´«Ã½ TV report above. Read Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's about the World Refugee Day rallies .

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Melbourne rally, June 17, 2012. Photo: Ali Bakhtiavandi

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