Events 2024

FCA Briefing – Australia’s Refugee and Detention Policies

Words – Marie Geissler

Join us for an important event featuring two insightful speakers: Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition and Behrouz Boochani, a former refugee from Iran. They will discuss the significant implications of the proposed bill by MP Kylea Tink, which aims to limit the detention of people seeking asylum to 90 days and prohibit the detention of children.

Kylea Tink: “Australia’s immigration regime is uniquely cruel. While we expect our government to protect our borders, we should never accept this requires placing people seeking our protection into an environment where their basic human rights are completely obliterated. The billions spent on maintaining offshore detention is not only wasteful, but fundamentally at odds with our national values. It’s time for the government to put an end to offshore detention.”
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Who:
Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition and Behrouz Boochani, a former refugee from Iran.
When:
Tuesday,November 5, at 11am (AEST) via Zoom

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SPEAKERS

Ian Rintoul:
Ian Rintoul is an Australian political activist and Sydney resident, best known in Australia as a refugee advocate, and as spokesman for the (not to be confused with its Melbourne-based counterpart, the Refugee Action Collective (Victoria)). He was a longtime member of the International Socialist Organisation, but was one of a large portion of the membership who left in 2003 around the issue of that group’s involvement in the Socialist Alliance. He went on to be a founding member of the organisation in Sydney, which merged with two other groups in 2008 to form a new organisation also named Solidarity.

Behrouz Bahaani:
Behrouz Boochani is an award-winning Kurdish writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate and filmmaker. His memoir No Friend But the Mountains (Pan Macmillan 2018, trans. Omid Tofighian) was written during his seven years of incarceration by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island prison. His new book, Freedom, Only Freedom, was published by Bloomsbury in November 2022.



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