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Twenty years since the Iraq warRALLY FOR PEACE AND REFUGEES
* Permanent Visas for ALL refugees
* Peace not war
End offshore detention
End the ban on Indonesian resettlement
No war on China
Scrap AUKUS nuclear subs
MC: Dr Peter Catt - Dean of St John's Anglican Cathedral and Chair of the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce
Speakers include:
* Peter Ong - State Secretary, Electrical Trades Union QLD NT
* SaiVashini Jayakumar - Tamil refugee
* Former Senator Claire Moore
* Former Senator Andrew Bartlett
* Mark Gillespie - Refugee Action Collective
Endorsed by:
Independent and Peaceful Australia Network
National Tertiary Education Union - Qld
Queensland Greens
The Quakers
The West End Uniting Church
Love Make A Way - Brisbane
St Mary's in Exile
Free Mojgan Campaign
Teachers for Refugees and People Seeking Asylum
Redlands fpr Refugees
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
* Permanent visas for all refugees
The Albanese Labor government has finally agreed to honour its promise to give permanent visas to 19,000 refugees on Temporary Protection Visas (TPVs) and Safe Haven Enterprise Visas (SHEVs). This means that after ten years in limbo, they will have the right to travel, family reunion and a secure future.
But there are thousands of other refugees with no promise of permanent visas:
• 10,000 people rejected under the Coalition's unfair fast track processing system, including many now threatened with deportation
• 150 refugees still stranded on Nauru and PNG
• 1,200 Medevac refugees and families from Nauru who are now in Australia but told they cannot stay in Australia. Many have already been here for five years or more and have partners, jobs and lives here.
* End the ban on Indonesia resettlement
Labor has made no commitment to resettle any of the 14,000 refugees stuck in limbo in Indonesia. It is continuing to turn back refugee boats and maintain offshore detention. We need to demand justice and permanent visas for all refugees.
* Call for Peace
The Albanese Labor government is talking up diplomacy and toning down talk of war with China, but at the same time it is spending huge sums on weapons and remains committed to spending at least $170 billion on nuclear submarines under the AUKUS pact, to fight a war with China. It plans to have a nuclear submarine base in Newcastle or Wollongong, despite powerful community opposition.
The Labor government is loyally backing the US Alliance, despite the anti-nuclear and anti-war tradition within the party and the labour movement. Our peace and anti-war movement must ensure that the Australian military is never used for aggression again, and that Australia signs the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), another Labor promise.
On this 20th anniversary of the disastrous invasion of Iraq, join us at the Palm Sunday rally calling for peace and demanding rights for refugees.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
King George Square, ,Brisbane,QLD,Australia