Join our speakout in central Melbourne on International Human Rights Day. We'll be gathering at the corner of Bourke and Swanston streets from 5.30pm on Wednesday 10 December. See you there! www.facebook.com/share/1LwDPr...

Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20. This while the Albanese Government is spending $2.5 billion to detain people on Nauru. The corruption is out of control as is the lack of transparency. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

The Refugee Council of Australia is part of a national coalition of organisations calling for urgent reform of Australia’s immigration and detention system: www.refugeecouncil.org.au/un-visit-cal...

Thanks to everyone who attended the launch of our exhibition “25 years of refugee resistance”. Great speeches from Rathy Barthlote and movement veteran Pamela Curr. The free exhibition continues until 4pm on Tuesday 2 December at Mama Chen’s, 42a Albert Street, Footscray.

Please welcome @racqld.bsky.social to The Good Place! 🦋 cc: @asrc1.bsky.social @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social @janamf.bsky.social @kaldorcentre.bsky.social @rac-vic.bsky.social @ascsyd.bsky.social @welcomingaus.bsky.social @startts.org.au @njpjustice.bsky.social @refugeecouncilau.bsky.social

"'Immediate pause' urged on 'secret' Nauru deal, after speech sparks safety concerns" www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Key fact: Migrants on average contribute far more than they receive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We’ve updated our Refugee Advocacy Starter Pack for all the best local asylum seeker champions go.bsky.app/6sqVqWo

The project helping refugees experience bushwalking in Australia for the first time www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.

Refugee advocate doctor who rewrote the book on global malaria treatment is in the running for Australian of the Year region.com.au/border-clini...

Refugee health expert Professor Rose McGready named 2026 ACT Australian of the Year for saving thousands of lives of displaced people in the border region between Thailand and Myanmar www.canberratimes.com.au/story/911360...

ABF’s largest ship captured on film leaving Broome carrying 4 fishing boats, evidence of its secretive & controversial program of purchasing old boats to give to illegal fishers & people smugglers that sail into Australian waters in unseaworthy craft. www.theage.com.au/national/wes...

Kon & whistleblower Oisin Donohoe on the corruption in offshore detention. It has to stop. Email your MP via the link in our bio or at: https://pulse.ly/xd9tlz0ug1

Stan Grant is hosting a roundtable discussion on ‘Australia’s Immigration Debate: Where Next?’ Featuring: @danghez.bsky.social, Alex Kaufman, Amy Erickson, @clivehamilton.bsky.social and Fahran Rehman. Free tickets are available to join in person or watch online. events.humanitix.com/australia-s-...

Stan Grant is hosting a roundtable discussion on ‘Australia’s Immigration Debate: Where Next?’ Featuring: @danghez.bsky.social, Alex Kaufman, Amy Erickson, @clivehamilton.bsky.social and Fahran Rehman. Free tickets are available to join in person or watch online. events.humanitix.com/australia-s-...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and Foreign Minister Penny Wong have both met the Nauruan president in Canberra this week after this masthead revealed fresh allegations of corruption inside the federal government’s offshore detention regime in the Pacific nation. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

First there was one deportation of people seeking asylum to Nauru. Then another. Now 60 Minutes has detailed serious allegations surrounding the management of offshore detention and reception centres in Nauru. We urgently call for a Parliamentary Inquiry into these allegations.

What? Why?

Allegations of rorting, graft and bikie gangs infiltrating critical border security operations are set to be referred to the national anti-corruption watchdog as more disturbing evidence emerges of Australia’s secretive offshore detention regime in Nauru. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

The use of Nauru as a Pacific dumping ground for people seeking asylum is not just a story of human rights abuses but scandal layered over scandal, as two brave whistle-blowers have told @60minutes.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hvx...

Offshore detention is a moral and financial black hole, bought to you by the Labor Party.

#60mins #60minutes #auspil #nauru #albanese

“It’s not just hardship - it’s the slow breaking of people’s spirits." So what is the SRSS program? Why has it been gutted? And how has this created a poverty crisis for people seeking asylum. 👀 All the answers in our latest blog: https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/srss-the-gutted-lifeline/

What a scandal! A former Australian soldier recruited to support a controversial Albanese government deportation plan is demanding answers after discovering a bikie gang had infiltrated the critical border security operation. www.theage.com.au/national/min...

The first person from the NZYQ cohort has been deported to Nauru under the new anti-fairness laws. The Asylum Seekers Centre stands against this unjust policy. Our response must be to protect fairness and justice in Australia - for refugees, people seeking asylum, and on behalf of all.

what total depravity from the perpetrators of the abuse right up to Netanyahu who blames the “reputational damage” on the woman who leaked the video

“Australia’s definitely-not-secret deal with Nauru has begun”. Important reporting from Denham Sadler about the $2.5 billion deal to send detainees to Nauru. The process has officially started, with at least one person already deported. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7...

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation @anmffederal.bsky.social has started a petition asking the Government to step up and really protect healthcare workers in war zones, where they’re facing more attacks than ever before www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pr...

Australian progressives are completely distracted by everything Trump and ICE, meanwhile we have our own ICE at home. Via @asrc1.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Adnan thought he’d served his time. But one night border force raided his home to deport him to Nauru. The Albanese Government have been accused of copying the ‘worst tactics of ICE’ in their treatment of the NZYQ cohort www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@raccanberra.bsky.social have you seen this?

Powerful start to the Canberra Writers Festival. Peter Greste, Cheng Lei, Karen Middleton and John Lyons. Themes of hope, and protecting democratic institutions. Strong condemnation over Labor and Liberal attacks on freedom of information applications.

“If they are doing this to pastors who are praying [...] then it makes me shudder to imagine what they might be doing to our neighbors behind closed doors," says Rev. David Black. sojo.net/articles/int...

Dr. Mohammed Obeid has been detained for nearly a year, and has had no contact with his family. MSF calls for the immediate release of our detained colleague in Israel: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-c...

Canberra! Tonight!

Join @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Prof Alan Gamlen from ANU Migration, and Prof John Minns as they tackle myths, misinformation, and scare campaigns against migrants, refugees, and multiculturalism. Wednesday, 15 October, 6:30pm, Copland Theatre, ANU. refugeeaction.org/20250910/deb...

‪🚨 #CANBERRA 🚨‬ TOMORROW

Come and have a chat, listen to experts and help us tackle some dangerous misinformation that’s causing real harm x

Join @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Prof Alan Gamlen from ANU Migration, and Prof John Minns as they tackle myths, misinformation, and scare campaigns against migrants, refugees, and multiculturalism. Wednesday, 15 October, 6:30pm, Copland Theatre, ANU. refugeeaction.org/20250910/deb...

We’re proud to be part of the Canberra rally for this nationwide event. Keep an eye out for the RAC banner, and join us on October 12th at 12 noon in Civic Square.

This is the danger of rushing laws through Parliament with no scrutiny, transparency or expert consultation. Parliamentary committee warns international human rights obligations could be breached under new regime. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Join @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Prof Alan Gamlen (ANU Migration), and our very own Prof John Minns to discuss immigration myths and misinformation, and the current scare campaigns trying to divide us against migrants, refugees, & multiculturalism. Wednesday, 15 October, 6:30pm, Copland Theatre, ANU.

BREAKING: Labor is actively hiding the truth of Australia’s genocidal supply of F35 fighter parts to Israel. My office uncovered via FOI the Defence Department quietly deleted its webpage celebrating Australian companies pumping weapons parts to Israel to keep F35 jets flying.

We’re proud to be part of the Canberra rally for this nationwide event. Keep an eye out for the RAC banner, and join us on October 12th at 12 noon in Civic Square.

“While the Albanese govt recklessly spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in secret, with zero accountability or transparency, people seeking asylum sent to Nauru are going hungry because their allowance is too small to buy enough food,” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Thank you @fionakatauskas.bsky.social: “What are people saying about our new Nauru detention deal?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Join @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Prof Alan Gamlen (ANU Migration), and our very own Prof John Minns to discuss immigration myths and misinformation, and the current scare campaigns trying to divide us against migrants, refugees, & multiculturalism. Wednesday, 15 October, 6:30pm, Copland Theatre, ANU.

Appalling. US private prisons operator to be paid $790m by the Albanese Government to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract. A sixteenfold increase in the original contract without public notification raises allegations of ‘gross mismanagement’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

We hope you can join us on Thursday, October 16th at the Wheeler Centre for a conversation bringing together Palestinian, Jewish and Syrian voices. We'll explore themes of justice, liberation and what revolution means for people fighting for freedom. Tickets at: events.humanitix.com/on-revolutio...