Refugees on Air

03/03/2022

Adnan and Mehdi are now free.

These two cousins were some of the first people to walk out onto those balconies at 721 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, and drop banners over the railing.

Their actions triggered the resistance inside the concentration camp and inspired the fierce resistance on the streets outside.

Adnan and Mehdi came as boys, and grew into adults inside various concentration camps run by Australia.

They were only fifteen. Now they're 24, finally free.

But as Mehdi said, "I cannot be happy yet. How could I be happy when my friends are sleeping with tears and sighs, and wake up with tears and sighs?"

Australia stole nine years of their young lives and is stealing the lives of many others as you read this.

Tonight we honour their grief.

But soon, in the streets, we must honour their rage.

25/01/2022

16/01/2022

31/12/2021

Australia's offshore processing agreement with Papua New Guinea ends today but asylum seekers and advocates feel they've been left with "more questions than answers" about what will happen next.

28/12/2021

Your Government cruelty and negligence has no limits Scott Morrison (ScoMo)

Photo of the mould riddled bread given for breakfast to refugee men at Park Motel in Melbourne.

28/12/2021

22/12/2021

***Update***We are so close to reaching our target of giving the guys their second payment! Thank you to everyone who has donated so far.

09/12/2021

Thousands of Hazara refugees in Indonesia have sunk into desperation after waiting up to 10 years to be resettled in other countries. Now, they are camping outside UN offices demanding to be heard.

14/11/2021

After years of detention in offshore detention centres and immigration facilities in Melbourne, four asylum seekers have been granted bridging visas.

09/11/2021

30/10/2021

CW: death.

Omid Masoumali passed away in Nauru after desperation drove him to set himself on fire. He was only 23.

The inquest findings are being released and we will have a peaceful gathering in solidarity with this man's life and death and for all the suffering off-shore and indefinite detention has caused.

A media conference about the release of inquest findings is on at UTS Alumni Green (Jones St, Broadway, Sydney City) at 12.45 on Monday 1st November, 2021.

Please bring banners and posters.

FREEDOM NOT DETENTION
JUSTICE FOR REFUGEES

22/10/2021

Court hears claims an ambulance was turned away from the Park hotel without being allowed to assess a ‘distressed’ patient

20/10/2021

14 men have now tested positive to COVID-19 in Park Hotel.

Australian doctors say they have serious concerns for the health of asylum seekers as a COVID-19 outbreak at a Melbourne detention hotel grows.

12/10/2021

The soaring demand for humanitarian visas to come to Australia highlights the “absolute horror” of the situation in Afghanistan, refugee advocates say.

19/09/2021

Please consider donating!

Hello, my name is Dominic and I am fundraising to help an Afghan family in Woodridge fund the legal fees for their application to get their family stuck in Afghanistan to Australia. Being apart of the

13/09/2021

Applications close Saturday 18 September. Participants will receive a package in advance including:

- a disposable camera
- a backdrop and instruction booklet + a voucher for developing and scanning the photographs.

To apply: https://www.roadtorefuge.com/storytelling-workshop