Brisbane: World Refugee Day Rally

WORLD REFUGEE DAY RALLY  

• 11am, Saturday 20 June,
• King George Square,
• Brisbane

Speakers include:

• Benedict Coyne: Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
• Senator Larissa Waters: Greens senator for Queensland
• George Goring: former electrician at Nauru turned whistleblower
• A speaker from the Burmese Rohingyan community

• The government’s tough deterrence policies have a human cost.
• The refusal of Tony Abbott to do anything to help the estimated 8000 Rohingya asylum seekers and others has taken Australia’s harsh anti refugee policies to a new low.
• Children and others have been sexual and physically abused on Nauru.
• Thousands of lives are being slowly destroyed by the mental torture of endless detention.
• Let them land let them stay

• Humanitarian assistance for Rohingyans now
• Settlement of refugees out of Indonesia now
• Close Nauru and Manus hellholes now
• End mandatory detention
• No TPVs
• Respect refugee rights!

W: http://www.rac-qld.org/#!campaigns/c1gbp