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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

25 years since the SIEV X tragedy. Join us to remember the 353 lives lost. 🗓️ Saturday 17 October 2026 🕑 2pm 📍 SIEV X Memorial, Kurrajong Point, Weston Park

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

25 years since the SIEV X tragedy. Join us to remember the 353 lives lost. 🗓️ Saturday 17 October 2026 🕑 2pm 📍 SIEV X Memorial, Kurrajong Point, Weston Park

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Australian doctors in Gaza talk with Paul Barry www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The cover of a book titled "The Weight of Witness: The experiences of Australian & New Zealand medics in Gaza," edited and introduced by Dr. Bushra Othman. The cover features a photograph of a medical worker in blue scrubs walking down a damaged, debris-filled hallway.

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Australian doctors in Gaza talk with Paul Barry www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Doctors Without Borders @doctorswithoutborders.org · 25/09/2026

Israeli forces demolished 12 homes, as well as water tanks and animal shelters earlier this week in Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, Palestine. This was third mass demolition in Masafer Yatta just this month.

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What you need to know about the crossbench plan to stop Australia enabling genocide (that Labor and Coalition are trying to block) www.deepcutnews.com/p/what-you-n...

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What you need to know about the crossbench plan to stop Australia enabling genocide

The Red Lines Package is a sweeping suite of bills aimed at limiting Australia’s complicity in crimes against humanity.

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dr Peter Macdonald will deliver the Dr Adnan Al-Bursh Memorial Lecture followed by a panel featuring @DrRuthMitchell.bsky.social, Dr Sarah Abdo and lawyer Nick Hanna. Tickets available here: www.trybooking.com/au/event/the...

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The Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh Memorial Lecture

Join us for the inaugural Dr Adnan Al-Bursh memorial lecture, an evening with courageous voices standing up against oppression.


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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did you know Australia uses the exact same private immigration detention operator as Trumps US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Management and Training Corporation (MTC). MTC won a $2.3 billion contract to manage Australia’s onshore immigration detention network

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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The Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh Memorial Lecture

Join us for the inaugural Dr Adnan Al-Bursh memorial lecture, an evening with courageous voices standing up against oppression.


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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dr Read was a dedicated advocate for refugees, and all who are marginalised. A towering pioneer of harm reduction in Victoria. Vale to a gentle yet fierce legend.

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Doctors Without Borders @doctorswithoutborders.org · 18/09/2026

While transmission is slowing in parts of Ituri province, Ebola is spreading into new and less-prepared areas, making containment increasingly difficult. The latest: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/lates…

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Refugee Council of Australia @refugeecouncilau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today's National Press Club address by Minister for Home Affairs and Immigration Tony Burke left critical questions about the future of Australia's refugee protection policies unanswered. Read our statement on today's address: www.refugeecouncil.org.au/migration-po...

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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The more Labor concedes to one nation the more the Overton window shifts to the right

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Asylum Seekers Centre @ascsyd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Proposals to change Australia's administrative review system are on the way and it cuts the corners of important legal processes. This drastically increases the risk of dangerous outcomes for vulnerable applicants. Read our explainer on the Administrative Injustice Bill: loom.ly/QvpkGj4

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Albanese Gov is considering legislating a time limit to apply for asylum of as little as 30 days. This would in effect be a ban on seeking asylum in Australia as its an impossible deadline to meet. Help stop this by emailing your Labor MP 👉🏼action.asrc.org.au/email_alp #auspol

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Wall of Tears, listing the names of all the children killed in Gaza, will be unveiled TOMORROW on the lawns of Parliament House. Via @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social @mapwau.bsky.social

Poster for an exhibition titled "Wall of Tears" by US artist Phil Buehler. The poster describes how the exhibition displays the names of 18,457 children killed in Gaza since October 2023. It is scheduled to be on display at the Parliament Lawns in Canberra on Monday, 14 September, with speeches beginning at 9:15 AM. The event is brought to Australia by Perth Doctors Medical Aid for Palestine and is authorised by Senator Mehreen Faruqi.

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Wall of Tears, listing the names of all the children killed in Gaza, will be unveiled TOMORROW on the lawns of Parliament House. Via @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social @mapwau.bsky.social

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Albanese Gov is considering ending the Refugee Convention by legislating a world first 30 day time limit for families to apply for asylum. If this becomes law it’s the end of the Refugee Convention here. Help us stop this by emailing your Labor MP 👉🏼action.asrc.org.au/email_alp

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is an absolutely SCORCHING piece of writing cheekmedia.substack.com/p/more-than-...

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More than 20,000 Palestinian children killed, and yet Australia still looks away

By Bernadette Clarke

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 10/09/2026

The journey across the central Mediterranean Sea has been one of the deadliest migration routes in the world for more than a decade. Saving lives at sea should not be controversial — it is a legal and moral obligation.

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Europe is failing its legal and moral obligation to save lives at sea | MSF

MSF's search and rescue vessel rescued 18 people in distress on the central Mediterranean Sea on 18 August.

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Doctors Without Borders @doctorswithoutborders.org · 10/09/2026

Across southern Lebanon, Israeli forces are continuing to damage and destroy water infrastructure. Access to water is a basic right that Israel must respect. People must be allowed to return to their homes and rebuild their lives, livelihoods, and dignity. More: bit.ly/4hhs3c5

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

DAY OF PEACE RALLY Thursday, 17 September at 12:30pm, Parliament House Lawns. End Australia's support for USA and Israeli wars, stop genocide, uphold international law. With @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social, @fatima-payman.bsky.social, @mapwau.bsky.social and @ipanaustralia.bsky.social.

Poster for the UN International Day of Peace Rally. The event is scheduled for Thursday, 17 September at 12:30pm on the Parliament House Lawns. The poster features a white dove carrying an olive branch over a background of destroyed buildings. It calls to "End Australia's support for USA and Israeli wars" and lists several demands, including "Stop war, stop genocide" and "Uphold international law." The bottom of the poster displays photos of six speakers and logos for various supporting organizations.

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Asylum Seekers Centre @ascsyd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🚨 HEADS UP: Big proposals to Australia’s administrative review system are on the way—and basic legal fairness is on the chopping block. Read the explainer from our advocacy team: loom.ly/QvpkGj4

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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our taxes at work 🤑. How’s a for-profit company going to make a profit off this kind of human misery *without* pocketing the government money instead of spending it meeting the needs of the humans it’s being paid to contain? It’s not like the government is paying for anything in excess of basics.

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A scathing new Ombudsman report has found that conditions inside Villawood and Miowera detention facilities are putting people, including children, at serious risk of harm. 📄 Full report and 15 recommendations available here: pulse.ly/n16gxqvrro

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Crucial reading from @behrouzboochani.bsky.social Western countries acknowledge Australia as the model for their most ghastly asylum seeker abuse. Not just passive model. Our (Atlas Network-interlinked) #Auspol Downer & Abbott evangelised our torture. behrouzboochani.substack.com/p/australia-...

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Australia as a model of violence

In June 2024, I attended a conference titled ‘Camps, Carceral Imaginaries and Critical Interventions’ at Graz University in Austria alongside a variety of scholars and thinkers from across the world.

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

More than 500 Australian health professionals, including a Nobel laureate, have signed an open letter calling on the federal government to act on Gaza. Open letter can be read 👇️ www.deepcutnews.com/p/500-health...

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500+ health professionals defy AHPRA in open letter on Gaza

Nobel laureate among signatories who declare that silence on the slaughter of Palestinian children is a "failure of our ethical obligations”

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I do not care what Minister Wong’s personal feelings are about Israel’s latest atrocity, I don't care about her outrage, I care about actions. The Government must impose the sanctions and material responses needed. Until they do their words are distractions.

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“If this happened at Sydney Children's Hospital…it would be considered malpractice.” Neurosurgeon @drruthmitchell.bsky.social and UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti have delivered a breathtaking presentation on the harm being inflicted upon the children of Gaza www.theillawarraflame.com.au/mps-respond-...

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MPs respond after Gaza lecture reveals children's plight

Federal leaders Alison Byrnes and Carol Berry attended Thursday's public lecture about the Gaza war's toll on children. On Friday, the Illawarra MPs responded to a call for Australia to meet internati...

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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MPs respond after Gaza lecture reveals children's plight

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Absolute perfection from @cathywilcox.bsky.social #Auspol

Baffled at how a racist grifter who's been flogging her schtick for 3o years with minimal success has suddenly Shot to prominence?
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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 04/09/2026

“Water is life. It is survival itself.” Mila Tirikai, our colleague in Kiribati, tells us about his work ensuring communities have safe water ⬇️

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Water security and public health in a changing climate | MSF

In Abaiang, Kiribati, MSF works with communities to protect water sources and strengthen climate-resilient health systems.

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UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law @kaldorcentre.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#Climate change is already displacing millions of people, most within their own countries. Elizabeth Ferris reflects on a decade of progress on internal displacement, and why today's funding crisis threatens hard-won gains: climatemobility.unsw.edu.au/internal-dis...

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Doug @dougincanberra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the Tampa affair got me involved in refugee & asylum seekers issues - the ABC program Tampa The Turning Point reminded me again why I did it & why I don't regret that decision -the lack of humanity & insufferable smugness of Alexander Downer in the program is sickening

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Mark Johnson @markjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Even at 20,000, Australia resettles fewer refugees now than it did when Malcolm Fraser’s government was in power. In 1980-81, Australia accepted 22,545 refugees for resettlement. The population of this country then was less than 15 million." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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In this hour of need, contemplating a cut to Australia’s refugee intake is cruel populism

Confusion and politics aside, Australia can’t pretend to be removed from the world – and the millions of people in need of sanctuary

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Climate change is one of the biggest drivers of displacement. Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra just had their hottest winters EVER in over a CENTURY of records. The Oz and News dot com dot au only mention of it? A major ski resort lost half its market value.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ben Doherty is too polite. It's not just crude, unthinking populism. It's blatant racism and scapegoating by One Nation and the LNP. And even worse from Labor, it's caving in to that #FarRight populism, with no leadership to explain how the humanitarian program benefits us all. #refugees #auspol

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Join Gillian Triggs & an amazing panel for FREE event on Wednesday 9 Sept in Melb, for launch of Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a new podcast produced by ASRC & Camilla Hannan, exploring the ongoing impacts of Australia's offshore detention system. Book free tix: action.asrc.org.au/asrc_podcast...

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Everywhere. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Four frames. 1. “Three Israeli hostages waving white flags were shot and killed by the IDF. They said, “We thought they were Hamas.””Image of three dead, with flags. 2. “The IDF shot and killed 14 Palestinian paramedics and a UN worker then buried them in a mass grave. They thought Hamas were among them.” Image of bulldozer and rows of body bags. 3. “Present and former Israeli politicians have claimed there are no innocents in Gaza and that even children and babies are the enemy.” Image of a child sitting, a dead adult behind, a sniper drone buzzing nearby. 4. “So when they say the IDF killed Zomi Frankcom and her colleagues because they thought they contained Hamas operatives. It’s understandable, as they see Hamas everywhere.” Image of photo of Zomi with bouquet of flowers beside.

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Refugee Council of Australia @refugeecouncilau.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There has been media speculation about a possible cut to Australia's Refugee and Humanitarian program next financial year. If the Albanese Government goes ahead with this plan, it would betray its own party values. www.refugeecouncil.org.au/proposed-ref...

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Proposed Refugee Program cut would betray Labor Party values, Refugee Council says

The Albanese Government would be betraying values held dear by Australian Labor Party (ALP) members and supporters if it went ahead with plans to cut

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