ANU Refugee Action Campaign 2024

30/03/2026

ANU RAC at the Palm Sunday rally for refugee rights yesterday!
Proud to rally to demand a future of compassion, not cruelty.

01/03/2026

Just a reminder about the meet RAC picnic this Friday! Come and meet us to learn more about refugee rights :)

26/02/2026

Just a reminder that our public teach in is on this Saturday! Come along to learn the importance of activism for refugee rights, especially in our current political climate.

11/10/2025

🚨🚨This Friday!!🚨🚨

Come join us in Badger at 6pm for drinks and an end-of-year discussion - what is the current state of Australia’s refugee policy? What has ANU RAC done this year, and how do we want to shape our activism next year? We’ll be talking about all of this and more, and would love for you to be there.

📍Badger, 6pm Friday October 17th 🍻

11/03/2025

Reminder! Tomorrow, 6:30pm Wednesday 12th March, is the public meeting hosted by in the Copland Lecture Theatre.

Speakers Gillian Triggs, William Maley, and John Minns will be presenting on the topic of “Refugees: Australian Cruelty and the Alternative”.

For any questions, DM us - we’re excited to see you all there!!

17/02/2025

Come meet us at the RSSS lawn for a casual picnic (free pizza and snacks!) to meet others interested in advocating for increased human rights for refugees and an end to cruel and inhumane policies. We’ll be there from 5pm this Wednesday, and will be discussing the year ahead as well as getting to know everyone!! 🌟

12/02/2025

Market day 2025 !

09/10/2024

Come along to our AGM on Wednesday 23 October, at 4pm in the RSSS!

Room 3.70, RSSS Building, Ellery Cres., and we'll also provide a zoom link

23/09/2024

Join us 8pm TOMORROW (Tuesday 24th September) at Bruce Hall for a discussion on refugee rights.

We will be hearing from Piume Kanesan about her first-hand experiences with Australia's cruel refugee policies, and especially the implications of the government's proposed 'deportation bill'.

This is an event we're running in collaboration with Vinnies on Campus.

Come along to find out more about current issues + government policy, and how you can get involved in the campaign!

22/08/2024

Join us this Sunday (25 August), 6pm, in the RSSS Building!

Last month marked 11 years since Kevin Rudd’s shameful declaration that “From now on, any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees.”

That day set up the post 19-July 2013 offshore detention system in PNG and Nauru that led to serious abuse, medical negligence, and high levels of self-harm for refugees seeking asylum in Australia.
To mark this grim anniversary, the Refugee Action Campaign Canberra will be screening Freedom Is Beautiful (2023) with its executive producer, Professor John Minns. The documentary is the story of two extraordinary Kurdish refugees, Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa (Moz) Azimitabar who fled persecution in Iran and arrived in Australia separately by boat seeking asylum in 2013.

On Manus Island, where they spent 6 years, they met and formed a close friendship founded on art, music and a shared desire to speak out and resist. In 2019 they spent 18 months in immigration detention in Melbourne. In 2021 they finally gained their freedom.
During their years of captivity, they witnessed suffering and death, were isolated, dehumanised and assailed by a system designed to humiliate and break them. They refused to succumb.

Told in their own words, Freedom is Beautiful is an uplifting story of the power of love and our shared humanity.

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Freedom is Beautiful
Sunday 25 August, 6pm
RSSS Auditorium
ANU

10/08/2024

RAC ANU invites you to the RSSS on Sunday 25th of August to see award-winning film ‘Freedom is Beautiful’, and hear from the director himself!! This is a great opportunity to get involved and educate yourself on refugee and asylum seeker rights. Event is free and snacks will be provided, so come along for a good time and to make some friends whilst learning about our human rights✊😎