More than 4000 young people and adults packed into Birrarung Marr park on October 21 for a Children鈥檚 March for Nauru, to demand聽all refugees imprisoned on the Pacific island be resettled in Australia. Chanting 鈥渘urture not torture鈥 and 鈥渒ids out, all out鈥, participants marched into the city.
Artists' Committee
The walls of the National Gallery of Victoria ran red on October 14 as activist group the Artists鈥 Committee, an informal association of artists and arts workers opposed to the detention of asylum seekers, continued its project to pressure the National Gallery of Victoria to immediately end its contract with Wilson Security.
Wilson Security provides security services to both the gallery and Australia鈥檚 offshore detention facilities on Manus Island and Nauru and is known to have committed human rights abuses against asylum seekers and refugees.