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Graham Thom

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Newly appointed Advocacy Coordinator at the Refugee Council of Australia views are my own, as well as refugee issues will tweet about bands I see live

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Amnesty International Australia 🕯 (@amnestyoz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you senators David Pocock and David Shoebridge for joining us on the lawns of Parliament House today to speak out against the Entry Ban and Deportation Bill. Labor needs to bin this cruel and flawed bill for good.

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Excited to come across the #Windrush Monument dedicated to the contribution of the Windrush generation to the UK, in Waterloo station, London

Excited to come across the #Windrush Monument dedicated to the contribution of the Windrush generation to the UK, in Waterloo station, London
Refugee Council of Australia (@ozrefugeecounc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The average amount of time that people seeking our protection spend in immigration detention in Australia is 565 days, almost 12 times longer than in the US and almost 19 times longer than in Canada.

Media Watch (@abcmediawatch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“It’s surely the media’s job to bring us these first-hand accounts of people who fled the war especially when all are now being labelled a threat.” #MediaWatch

Craig Foster (@craig_foster) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Rohingya are one of the most persecuted people in the world Already a million displaced people in Cox’s Bazar refugee camp, Bangladesh, the largest in the world, with more forced to flee every day. Like other conflicts, the world is impotent. bbc.com/news/articles/…

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Excited to start my first day as the Advocacy Coordinator at the Refugee Council of Australia Refugee Council of Australia an honor to be working for such an amazing organization and looking forward to continuing working with refugee communities in Australia

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Former Deputy Secretary of Immigration Peter Hughes highlights why Australia has the capacity to bring #Palestinians to safety just like any other people suffering in a conflict zone johnmenadue.com/australia-has-…

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To put this into context, Canada has set up a dedicated Humanitarian visa for Palestinians with 5,000 places. It’s what OZ should have done.

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Fantastic night last night celebrating #Mandaean New Year and their tremendous contribution to Australia with Federal, State and local MPs including Minister ⁦Chris Bowen⁩ and the ⁦Refugee Council of Australia

Fantastic night last night celebrating #Mandaean New Year and their tremendous contribution to Australia with Federal, State and local MPs including Minister ⁦<a href="/Bowenchris/">Chris Bowen</a>⁩ and the ⁦<a href="/OzRefugeeCounc/">Refugee Council of Australia</a>⁩
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The #Palestinian refugees arriving from #Gaza are ordinary people trying to get on with their lives, thank you for your courage and to all those organisations supporting them SSI Refugee Council of Australia theguardian.com/australia-news…

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A big thank you to Human Rights Watch for hosting the Refugee Council of Australia and Amnesty International Australia 🕯 for a meeting today with the visiting Danish Immigration Minister and Danish Ambassador Ingrid Dahl-Madsen to discuss why others should not copy Australia’s damaging asylum policies