Chloe DS

While Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic is in detention, refugee rights activists have taken the听opportunity to protest the detention of refugees brought to Australia under the Medevac听law in 2019. Chloe DS reports.

A detained Serbian tennis player at the Park Hotel has unwittingly helped听shine a spotlight on the Morrison government's听cruel policies towards听refugees. Chloe DS reports.

A protest against Black deaths in custody in Sydney on December 7. Photo: Zebedee Parkes

Three more deaths in recent weeks have听taken the number of听First Nations people who have died in custody since the 1991听Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody to 485.听Chloe DS reports.

Sivaguru 'Rajan' Navanitharasa with Tamil Refugee Council member Renuga Inpakumar Photo: TRC/Facebook

Chloe DS reports that Sivaguru 鈥淩ajan鈥 Navanitharasa, who endured one of the longest periods inside Australia鈥檚 detention centres, was finally released into community detention on November 25.

Protesters continue to demand听that refugees inside听the Park Hotel prison are released into the community. Chloe DS reports.

Protesters gathered outside the Park Hotel in Carlton to demand听that the refugees be immediately released. Chloe DS reports.

A refugee imprisoned at the Park hotel prison in Carlton told听91自拍论坛听听that three refugees had tested positive for COVID-19 and that many others have symptoms. Chloe DS reports.

The Australian鈥檚 government鈥檚 surprise September 16 announcement that Australia was in a new security alliance with the United States, Britain and Australia 鈥 AUKUS 鈥 formalises its war drive against China.

The Socialist Alliance will field two long-term activists for the Victorian Senate on People and Planet before Profit platform, reports Chloe DS.

Refugees on hunger strike against听indefinite听detention in the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation听are so ill their听bodies are shutting down. Chloe DS spoke to听Arya, one of the hunger strikers.

Trains have been made accessible for wheelchair users, but trams have not.听Chloe DS and听Chris Peterson report on the听campaign to rectify this.

Chris Petersen and Chloe DS report that 14 refugees have been on hunger strike听for more than a week in protest at听their imprisonment.听