Isaac Nellist speaks with Chloe DS about the encampments set up by refugees in Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal Country/Sydney to demand permanent visas and with Ben Radford about the history and wins of the Palestine solidarity movement in Latin America.聽
Safe Haven Enterprise Visa (SHEV)
Refugees and their supporters want Tony Burke, the new minister, to urgently provide people who have waited years under the misnamed 鈥淔ast Track鈥 process with permanent visas. Kerry Smith reports.
Human Rights Law Centre managing lawyer聽Sanmati Verma聽told a forum that the Fast Track process was 鈥渄esigned to see people fail鈥. Chris Slee reports.
About 100 refugees and supporters gathered outside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese鈥檚 electoral聽office in Marrickville聽to call for permanent protection for all refugees. Isaac Nellist reports.
Labor promised to end the cruel practice of imposing temporary protection visas. Alex Bainbridge argues its announcement concerning 19,000 refugees is聽welcome, but聽does not go far聽enough.聽
Refugees and their supporters converged on Parliament to demand the federal government act on its聽promise聽to give 19,000 refugees permanent visas. Kerry Smith reports.
Activists are set to protest Labor鈥檚 cruel immigration policy of keeping refugees in limbo. Kerry Smith reports.
If the Murugappan refugee family is released from Perth community detention, they are likely to join 18,000 others on insecure temporary visas. Chloe DS reports on the cruel visa system.
A newly-formed refugee and asylum seeker-led organisation 鈥 Justice for Refugees 鈥 coordinated national protests on September 14 to demand an end to the discrimination they face under Australia's onshore asylum seeker policy.