Detainees who took to the roof of Darwin immigration centre and set fires in protest at their treatment should not even be in detention.

An asylum seeker from Afghanistan died on the weekend in Curtin, one of Australia’s most notorious immigration detention centres.

Over 500 people marched through the streets of Melbourne on Friday night to cut through the right-wing consensus that has dominated the election campaign. We demanded that the refugee boats be allowed to land and that the detention centres be closed.

Although this election has been dominated by the issue of refugees, their voices are silenced.

220 people rallied in Sydney on Saturday to say no to another Tampa election, to demand an end to offshore processing and to call for the closure of all detention centres.

Inciting racism against refugees fleeing from war and persecution and migrants seeking a better life has become the blood sport of capitalist politicians the world over. They don’t do this primarily because of their own racial prejudices, but because they are driven by a more overpowering goal – profits. 

Across the country refugee-rights activists have held snap demonstrations against Labor’s new immigration policy. 

About 450 protesters took to the streets on Saturday in Sydney to demand an end to the inhumane treatment of refugees.

In a mass display of defiance, as many as 4,000 people marched in Melbourne today against the Rudd Labor government’s vile treatment of refugees.

It is important that everyone comes to the protests on World Refugee Day. Here are some reminders why.

When it comes to taking money for kicking refugees on behalf of rich Western governments, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has the market cornered.

On Wednesday headlines were dominated by the deaths of two Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. The same day, it was reported that the government was making plans to speed up the deportation of possibly hundreds of Afghan asylum seekers.

Alex McAulay spoke to former detainee Arash about his time in Melbourne's Maribyrnong detention centre.

Abbott's refugee policy announced last week would take us back to the worst days of the Howard era. But Rudd's Labor is also doing everything it can to demonise and victimise asylum seekers.