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25.01.2022 This event is postponed to Monday 2nd of November

24.01.2022 Ben Hillier is an editor of Red Flag newspaper and the author of Losing Santhia: Life and Loss in the struggle for Tamil Eelam. He was one of the first to become involved in organizing the campaign for Priya and Nades, when they were taken from their home in Biloela, and published some of the first coverage of the case. He has also worked with Tamil Refugee Council to research and publicize the situation facing Tamil refugees in camps in Tamil Nadu, India.

23.01.2022 (Maurice Blackburn) . 2011 27 2020 25 . DBE17 450 ... . (Class Action) . Maurice Blackburn : Class action hotline: 1800 930 956 Class action email: [email protected] Class action website: https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au//unlawful-detention-o/ English opt out notice: https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au//dbe17-opt-out-notice-

22.01.2022 Zoom link for the digital rally: https://monash.zoom.us/j/99803062505

22.01.2022 TAMIL REFUGEE TAKES HIS OWN LIFE IN MELBOURNE CBD The suicide of a Tamil refugee in Melbourne on 5 December is further evidence that the Australian government’s refugee policies are killing people, the Tamil Refugee Council said today. Varun was just 18 years old and had his whole life ahead of him. But the suffering he endured because of the government’s policies pushed him to the point where he believed he no longer had anything to live for.... We are aware of at least 9 Tamils who have taken their lives by suicide this year. Just a fortnight ago in Brisbane, it was a 25-year-old man on a bridging visa, said TRC spokesperson Aran Mylvaganam. Now we have the death of a young man, who like so many other young Tamils on temporary protection visas woke up every morning and wondered when he would be able to live a normal life. Varun arrived on Christmas Island by boat from India in 2012. He was held in detention for several months before being released into the community. His family is understood to have fled Sri Lanka for India after being threatened by the Sri Lankan military. Varun was granted a Safe Haven Enterprise Visa in 2018, which meant that he had an uncertain future in Australia. He and his mother and sister had to leave their friends in the community in Dandenong and relocate to a regional town without any government support. He was also well aware of the statements by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton that, eventually, the government wants to send back all Tamil asylum seekers, regardless of the legitimacy of their claims under the Refugee Convention, Mylvaganam said. Media contact: Aran Mylvaganam 0410 197 814

21.01.2022 We are excited to announce Priya will be joining tonight's digital rally live from Christmas Island to thank her supporters. Zoom Link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/99803062505

21.01.2022 Barathan sharing his experience visiting undocumented migrant workers. If you can afford it, please contribute to undocumented migrants solidarity fund organised by Undocumented Migrants Solidarity

21.01.2022 On Saturday, Victoria police used COVID laws to fine socially-distant protestors who were demanding the release of refugees from the Mantra Bell City Hotel. Just yesterday, Sri Lankan police use COVID laws to intimidate citizens who are preparing to celebrate Maaveerar Naal.

20.01.2022 Tamil Refugee Council member Barathan Vidhyapathy has been chosen by the University of Melbourne for the Community Fellows Program, starting early next year. This study will interview at least twenty Tamil refugees who have been impacted by COVID-19 and create a bilingual resource to address their needs. Out of 36 applications, only 14 were selected to continue. We look forward to this project contributing positively to our community. https://socialequity.unimelb.edu.au/community-fellows-progr

20.01.2022 BREAKING: Priya has been medically evacuated from Christmas Island to a hospital in Perth overnight, where she is awaiting a CT scan. After weeks of severe abdo...minal pain, Priya's Christmas Island doctors were adamant that she be seen by mainland healthcare professionals with access to proper testing facilities. We're glad that Priya is in Perth receiving appropriate medical care, but it means she has now been separated from her beautiful QLD-born girls and husband, Nades, who remain trapped on Christmas Island. Today, will you pick up the phone and ask your government MP and Senators to speak up for Priya and her family? To find the right phone number seconds, just tap bit.ly/CallyourMP or bit.ly/RingSenators.

19.01.2022 Thousands of undocumented migrant workers need our help and Scott Morrison (ScoMo) and Josh Frydenberg have abandoned them.

19.01.2022 It's time to free this family

19.01.2022 Recording of tonight's Digital Rally in support of Priya Nades and their girls #HometoBilo

18.01.2022 Just 1 day to go... Oscar Sterner from Refugee Action Collective will speak at the rally to free Priya Nades and their girls

17.01.2022 Fight will continue till all refugees in the community are granted citizenship!

16.01.2022 Speaker Announcement: Lidia Thorpe Lidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, former Greens MP, and the first Aboriginal woman elected to Victorian Parliament. She's highly active fighting for justice for refugees and against the deportation of Priya, Nades and their Children. She is also highly active in the fight against the oppression of indigenous people and for climate justice. Join the Digital Rally to Free Priya, Nades and their girls at 6pm Saturday 2nd May. It'll be live streamed via the event page.

16.01.2022 Tonight supporters of Priya and Nades family came together to demand their freedom. #HometoBilo

15.01.2022 Free Priya and her family

15.01.2022 On Saturday June 13 at 2pm there are two important protests organised by the RAC Vic in Melbourne demanding an end to detention and the release of all refugees imprisoned by the Australian government. These protests will be held simultaneously - one at MITA detention centre (150 Camp Rd, Broadmeadows) and the other at Mantra Hotel (gather Hotham St Preston) and will follow social distancing requirements. Aran Mylvaganam of the Tamil Refugee Council will speak at the protest..., as will Kokilapathmapriya Nadesalingam (Priya) via phone from Christmas Island. Please register for the protest online.

14.01.2022 SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT DESTROYS TAMIL GENOCIDE MEMORIAL In the late hours of 8 January, Sri Lankan government authorities entered Jaffna University in the north of the island and bulldozed a monument dedicated to the tens of thousands of Tamils killed by the military in 2009. The destruction of the monument is part of the Sri Lankan state’s ongoing attempt to erase symbols of mass killings that it carried out more than a decade ago. The memorial paid homage to the Tamils murd...ered in the Mullivaikkal massacre and was a reminder of the direct responsibility of current Sri Lankan President - Gotabhaya Rajapaksa - in the killings. The memorial was also a reminder of the ongoing struggle for Tamil self-determination. These acts of destruction are further evidence that genocidal process against the Tamil people, who continue to live under military occupation in the north and east of Sri Lanka, is far from over. After the desecration, Tamil protesters gathered outside the university, where at least two were arrested by the army. The Tamil Refugee Council calls on the Australian government to recognise the ongoing persecution of Tamils in Sri Lanka and end its practice of deporting Tamil asylum seekers including Priya Nades from Biloela and to give permanent protection visas to all asylum seekers from Sri Lanka.

14.01.2022 Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/214902389807630/

13.01.2022 Bring your signs of support for Priya and Nades family. Join via zoom tonight at 6pm. Zoom link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/99803062505

12.01.2022 Author of the book KEENIE MEENIE: How The UK Got Away With War Crimes is trying to get censored files from the UK Government. about a mercenary groups role in war crimes in Sri Lanka. If we win, the full file will be made public, allowing you to read the real story about the relationship between Thatcher's government and British mercenaries, said Miller. https://www.tamilguardian.com//journalist-launches-fundrai

12.01.2022 The man who murdered over 70,000 Tamils is back in power

11.01.2022 We call on Polytrade Recycling to give Ranjan his job back.

11.01.2022 Jera, journalist and editor of "" " will discuss the book at the online launch event this Sunday 31st May 2020, 7pm (AEST) https://www.facebook.com/events/1132338097115935/

09.01.2022 Yesterday, QLD-born Kopika spent her 5th birthday detained on Christmas Island, 5000km from her Biloela home. Today is her 800th day in detention. Kopika's litt...le sister Tharunicaa turns 3 on June 12. Please, can you make your own beautiful card for Kopika and Tharunicaa and share a photo in the comments below? Well put the photos of all of your your cards on an iPad a wonderful supporter is giving to our beautiful Biloela girls. Instead of posting your card to Christmas Island, please post it directly to Acting Immigration Minister Tudge, who has the power to bring Priya, Nades and the girls home to Biloela with a simple stroke of his pen: The Hon Alan Tudge MP Suite 4, Level 1, 420 Burwood Highway Wantirna South VIC 3152 Remember to include your full name and address, along with a (polite) note asking Minister Tudge to pick up his pen and bring Priya, Nades, Kopika and Tharunicaa home to Biloela, where they belong. * This photo of Angela and Kopika was taken when Angela visited Priya, Nades, Kopika and Tharunicaa on Christmas Island in February.

09.01.2022 Speaker Announcement: Vashini Jeyakumar Vashini Jeyakumar was born in Tamil Eelam, the traditional homelands of the Tamil-speaking people in the north and east of Sri Lanka. She fled Sri Lankas genocidal oppression and came to Australia by boat as a teenager in 2012. Vashini is a friend of Priya when she lived in Biloela. Over the last 26 months she has bravely spoken up for the family to be brought back to Biloela. In February this year she travelled all the way to Christmas Island to visit Priyas family. Join the Digital Rally to Free Priya, Nades and their Girls at 6pm Saturday 2nd May.

09.01.2022 Never forget Scott Morrison's past before he became Prime Minister.

08.01.2022 Happy birthday Rajan. He has been detained in Australias detention centres since December 2009. Thats almost 11 years. Last year Rajan was diagnosed with leukaemia. His health has deteriorated in the recent months but the Government continues to detain him. #FreeRajan This photo was taken at MITA detention centre in Broadmeadows when Australian student Renuga Inpakumar visited him.

07.01.2022 Jude Lal Fernando from the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, former national coordinator of the All-Ceylon Fisherfolk Trade Union, and a member of the Hiru Group, co-coordinator of the two sessions of the Peoples Tribunal on Sri Lanka, in January 2010 and December 2013 will be a speaker at the online event this Sunday 31st May 2020, 7pm (AEST) https://www.facebook.com/events/1132338097115935/

06.01.2022 Amazing to see our comrade Nigethan featured on the Guardian for his incredible skills as a chef and his story enduring the Australian government's inhumane treatment of refugees.

05.01.2022 Solidarity with people living in public housing

05.01.2022 TRC founder Aran Mylvaganam giving a speech about the refugee crisis and the case for socialism at Lincoln Square, across the street from the Park Hotel where dozens of refugees are fighting the inhumane treatment of the Victorian and Australian governments.

03.01.2022 Join the discussion on Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZEvf-2rrDwuHdbgdL2eL_OVjU54tDxh8

03.01.2022 Over the last five days TRC volunteers have been visiting houses of undocumented migrant workers to deliver food. On Saturday we had to deliver formula milk for a one year old child in Geelong. Scott Morrison (ScoMo) and Dan Andrews can end their desperation by announcing financial support for undocumented migrant workers #wagesubsidyforall #noworkerleftbehind

03.01.2022 We've put together a list of *free* food and material aid resources available to undocumented and temporary migrants living in Victoria - here --> https://www.f...acebook.com/notes/undocumented-migrants-solidarity/material-aid-food-resources/121476946178323/ Also in shareable format here --> ~ PLS SHARE AND SPREAD THE WORD ~ NOBODY LEFT BEHIND ~ NOT NOW, NOT EVER

02.01.2022 On this day we stand in solidarity with our indigenous brothers and sisters for whom it's the day a genocidal process started which has been ongoing to date. This is also a day we draw inspiration from those who led the resistance and resolve to keep the fight going till we achieve equality. #AbolishAustraliaDay #invasionday #invasion

01.01.2022 PRESS RELEASE: Permanent protection, not bonded labour 23 September 2020 The Tamil Refugee Council is concerned by media reporting that MPs are considering a proposal to make a path to residency for refugees dependent on them labouring in the agricultural... industrya sector that in recent years has been plagued by reports of abuse and underpayment. Put forward by the Refugee Council of Australia in August, the proposal is that 17,000 temporary protection visa holders be used to fill areas of critical labour shortages while international borders remain closed, in exchange for a concrete path to permanent protection and residency. The Tamil Refugee Council maintains that a refugees right to protection is just thata right. It is not something to be earned or bought. It is independent of a persons capacity to fill a labour shortage. It is difficult to see how the proposal amounts to anything other than a bonded labour scheme attached to the promise of future freedom for people who have already been judged deserving of protection. The Tamil Refugee Council recognises that the Safe Haven Enterprise Visa scheme is already characterised by systematic failures, which the proposal seeks to address. But we maintain that supporters of refugee rights should focus on abolishing temporary protection visas, rather than helping to streamline the processes through which they can be used to sort deserving from undeserving refugees though making individuals economic contribution a determinant of their claim for asylum.

01.01.2022 May 18 - Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day

01.01.2022 $200,000 !