Important Dates for R4R

 

R4R Christmas Picnic

 

October Meeting of R4R

 

Stats & Facts

How do the major parties stack up?

Find out more

With the 2025 Federal Election approaching, you may be wondering how best to make your vote count. At the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA), we believe that the best way to do that is to be informed. But how do you cut through the noise and find the policies and positions of the political parties running for Parliament that matter to you? 

RCOA does not endorse any party or candidate but provides this information to enable voters to make their own evaluation of each party’s position. 

This non-partisan resource is designed to inform and empower our community—ensuring that those most affected by political decisions on refugee policies are represented and heard. 

This election is a critical opportunity to stand up for policies that value dignity, safety, and justice for refugees and people seeking asylum. 

Get informed. Ask questions. Make your vote count. 

Accommodation Needed

 

Refugee and Immigration Legal Service (RAILS) has a client who is from PNG and is escaping a life time of domestic violence. She has recently had to leave her accommodation as her landlord was pressing her to give more and more money. She is currently homeless and living out of her car. She has asked for assistance from Romero, Red Cross, Mica Projects and Salvos, but they have been unable to assist her. She is looking for immediate accommodation while she looks for another place to stay.

If you can assist, please email admin@rails.org.au

First meeting for 2025

      We are trialing daytime meetings this year. 

Our first meeting for 2025 will be held on 

Thursday 13 February

Trinity Uniting Church

47-49 Marlborough Road

Wellington Point

Meeting will commence at 10am 

Everyone is welcome!

R4R Christmas Picnic

 

The human tragedy of our asylum system

Watch the video here:  Mana Yogalingan

Join us for a multicultural meal!

 

World Refugee Week Picnic

 

Welcome Walk 16 June 2024

 

First meeting for 2024

 

R4R End of Year Picnic

 

Poem

 

Free Community Screening of Watandar

 

Can you help?

 

Luminous Lantern Parade

 

Palm Sunday Rally - King George Square

This Sunday 2 April at 1pm, can you join me and other ASRC supporters at the Palm Sunday Rally for Refugees in King George Square?

Yes, I'll come

Last month, we welcomed the Albanese Government’s announcement of permanence for 19,000 refugees living with temporary visas.

But thousands of people failed by the former government’s so-called “fast track” refugee assessment process were left out of the announcement.

A decade after they came for safety, all people subjected to the unfair “fast track” process urgently need a pathway to permanence to truly rebuild their lives as part of our community.

Too many people seeking asylum are still being denied the right to work, study or access mainstream social safety nets that exist to get us back on our feet in tough times.

And a decade after our government forced them to brutal overseas detention centres, around 150 refugees are still trapped in PNG and Nauru.

Yes, I'll come

Since the 1980s, people of many different faith and non-faith backgrounds have joined together on Palm Sunday to march for peace.

Today, Palm Sunday rallies are also a way for people to come together and speak up for the human rights of refugees and people seeking asylum.

This Sunday 2 April, please join me and other ASRC supporters as we demand freedom, fairness and safety for all refugees and people seeking asylum.

In solidarity,

Shivani Kanodia
QLD Community Organiser

PS We’ll be meeting at King George Square at 1pm - look out for the ASRC banner!