Support the 24/7 Kangaroo Point Blockade!
Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia
We have all felt the effects of the COVID-19 quarantine on our mental and physical health. This is that on steroids. The 120 men at the Kangaroo Point ̶C̶e̶n̶t̶r̶a̶l̶ ̶H̶o̶t̶e̶l̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶A̶p̶a̶r̶t̶m̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ Prison have been isolated to hotel rooms for 8 months now – and they aren’t granted the luxuries we were. No exercise. No community. No legitimate access to mental or physical health resources.
Our blockade was established spontaneously on Thursday night following the attempted forced transfer of Farhad Rahmati into high security detention. Fahrad is a popular and vocal refugee who spread awareness of their situation and his forced transfer shows the government’s intention to silence those voices – ensuring they are out of sight and out of the minds of the mainstream media and public. We are occupying Main St, Lockerbie St and Walmsley St surrounding the facility 24 hours, 7 days a week – ready to block vans leaving the compound to prevent the removal of more refugees.
We have been overwhelmed by community support from all facets of life – unions, students, political groups, mothers, teachers, working professionals, activists, local businesses, religious organisations. The support bolsters and inspires us – however we are lacking key resources that will greatly assist the campaign. We have costs here on the ground to meet to ensure our blockade is efficient and as well prepared as possible.
We aim to involve community, host BBQ’s, invite musicians, begin information workshops and skills training. These all have associated costs and, despite the huge support, we are falling short. We aim to rent toilets and shower facilities, sanitation gear, speakers, organisational software, radios, first aid equipment and other necessary infastructure and supplies. These will keep us and the community safe during the ongoing COVID-19 challenge and reduce disturbances to the local community. Your help is critical to ensuring we can stand up against the systematic human rights abuses taking place in Kangaroo Point, Meanjin/Brisbane. The Australian Government is the only one in the world that supports indefinite detention. They are in direct violation of our legal and moral obligations outlined as a signatory on the UN Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the policies outlined by the Australian Human Rights Commission: Australia’s international human rights obligations require that all refugees and people seeking asylum are treated humanely and with respect for their inherent dignity, regardless of their mode of arrival in Australia.
1. Free movement out of the complex.
2. End to involuntary transfers.
3. Full release into the community.
We understand everyone has a unique ability to contribute and any change you can send our way will be enormously helpful. These costs will be only used to support the blockade, aid the refugees, liase with community, and to provide a space which is safe and peaceful to all involved. Our activists are also facing potential legal costs – this would be used to assist there is necessary. Please give whatever you can – $50, $20, $10, $5, $2 – whatever you have the capacity to give. It is all enormously helpful. A detailed summary regarding the allocation of these funds can be found below. The other resource of which we are short – hands on the ground. If you are in the area, please do drop in. Inform yourself, meet us, spread the word, rally support where possible. The more hands on the ground the better – consider signing up for a shift. We are constantly talking, educating and collaborating. It is an absolutely inspiring place to be right now – and we would love you to be part of it.
We acknowledge that we are gathering on the stolen lands of the Jagera and Turrbal people and pay respects to their elders – past, present and emerging. Their sovereignty was never ceded.
10% of all donations will be used to help pay rent to First Nations community groups.
WHY IS THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DETAINING MEN IN A HOTEL IN KANGAROO POINT?
There are about 110 men in the Kangaroo Point hotel. They come from a range of countries such as Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Burma and more. The majority have been found to be genuine refugees and owed protection; others are asylum seekers, some of them have not even had refugee assessments after seven years. They were processed under the law of Nauru or PNG where they were formerly detained.
The men have been transferred to Australia for complex medical reasons that health services on Nauru and PNG could not handle such as; diabetes, asthma, kidney and heart conditions. Many also have severe mental health problems brought on by previous trauma and six years of detention on Nauru and PNG. What treatment they are receiving in Australia for these conditions is very rudimentary. It is impossible to treat mental health problems in detention. In 2010 one of Australia’s leading mental health experts, Professor Patrick McGorry, described Australia’s immigration detention centres as “factories for producing mental illness and mental disorder.”
The Australian government says it will not allow them to settle in Australia because they arrived by boat after 19 July 2013 and were sent offshore to Nauru or Manus Island (PNG). If found to be a refugee they are meant to find a third country to be settled in. The Australian government vows it will ‘never’ allow them to be settled in Australia. New Zealand has offered to settle 150 a year but Australia rejects this saying it will be a ‘backdoor’ into Australia. The only third country to take significant numbers is the USA. But even if the USA quota of 1250 refugees is ever filled, hundreds of refugees will be left living in limbo.
Once medical evacuees from PNG and Nauru are transferred to Australia legal action prevents them from being sent back. This is why the government has fought so hard to prevent medical transfers. In 2014 Hamid Khazaei died from septicemia after a immigration official overruled a doctor’s recommendation that he be “urgently” evacuated to Australia. Kerryn Phelps’ Medical Evacuation bill supported by the Labor Party and the Greens for a short time put the decisions about medical evacuations into the hands of doctors, but the re-elected Morrison government immediately scrapped this bill in 2019.
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Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia
We have all felt the effects of the COVID-19 quarantine on our mental and physical health. This is that on steroids. The 120 men at the Kangaroo Point ̶C̶e̶n̶t̶r̶a̶l̶ ̶H̶o̶t̶e̶l̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶A̶p̶a̶r̶t̶m̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ Prison have been isolated to hotel rooms for 8 months now – and they aren’t granted the luxuries we were. No exercise. No community. No legitimate access to mental or physical health resources.
Our blockade was established spontaneously on Thursday night following the attempted forced transfer of Farhad Rahmati into high security detention. Fahrad is a popular and vocal refugee who spread awareness of their situation and his forced transfer shows the government’s intention to silence those voices – ensuring they are out of sight and out of the minds of the mainstream media and public. We are occupying Main St, Lockerbie St and Walmsley St surrounding the facility 24 hours, 7 days a week – ready to block vans leaving the compound to prevent the removal of more refugees.
We have been overwhelmed by community support from all facets of life – unions, students, political groups, mothers, teachers, working professionals, activists, local businesses, religious organisations. The support bolsters and inspires us – however we are lacking key resources that will greatly assist the campaign. We have costs here on the ground to meet to ensure our blockade is efficient and as well prepared as possible.
We aim to involve community, host BBQ’s, invite musicians, begin information workshops and skills training. These all have associated costs and, despite the huge support, we are falling short. We aim to rent toilets and shower facilities, sanitation gear, speakers, organisational software, radios, first aid equipment and other necessary infastructure and supplies. These will keep us and the community safe during the ongoing COVID-19 challenge and reduce disturbances to the local community. Your help is critical to ensuring we can stand up against the systematic human rights abuses taking place in Kangaroo Point, Meanjin/Brisbane. The Australian Government is the only one in the world that supports indefinite detention. They are in direct violation of our legal and moral obligations outlined as a signatory on the UN Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the policies outlined by the Australian Human Rights Commission: Australia’s international human rights obligations require that all refugees and people seeking asylum are treated humanely and with respect for their inherent dignity, regardless of their mode of arrival in Australia.
1. Free movement out of the complex.
2. End to involuntary transfers.
3. Full release into the community.
We understand everyone has a unique ability to contribute and any change you can send our way will be enormously helpful. These costs will be only used to support the blockade, aid the refugees, liase with community, and to provide a space which is safe and peaceful to all involved. Our activists are also facing potential legal costs – this would be used to assist there is necessary. Please give whatever you can – $50, $20, $10, $5, $2 – whatever you have the capacity to give. It is all enormously helpful. A detailed summary regarding the allocation of these funds can be found below. The other resource of which we are short – hands on the ground. If you are in the area, please do drop in. Inform yourself, meet us, spread the word, rally support where possible. The more hands on the ground the better – consider signing up for a shift. We are constantly talking, educating and collaborating. It is an absolutely inspiring place to be right now – and we would love you to be part of it.
We acknowledge that we are gathering on the stolen lands of the Jagera and Turrbal people and pay respects to their elders – past, present and emerging. Their sovereignty was never ceded.
10% of all donations will be used to help pay rent to First Nations community groups.
WHY IS THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DETAINING MEN IN A HOTEL IN KANGAROO POINT?
There are about 110 men in the Kangaroo Point hotel. They come from a range of countries such as Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Burma and more. The majority have been found to be genuine refugees and owed protection; others are asylum seekers, some of them have not even had refugee assessments after seven years. They were processed under the law of Nauru or PNG where they were formerly detained.
The men have been transferred to Australia for complex medical reasons that health services on Nauru and PNG could not handle such as; diabetes, asthma, kidney and heart conditions. Many also have severe mental health problems brought on by previous trauma and six years of detention on Nauru and PNG. What treatment they are receiving in Australia for these conditions is very rudimentary. It is impossible to treat mental health problems in detention. In 2010 one of Australia’s leading mental health experts, Professor Patrick McGorry, described Australia’s immigration detention centres as “factories for producing mental illness and mental disorder.”
The Australian government says it will not allow them to settle in Australia because they arrived by boat after 19 July 2013 and were sent offshore to Nauru or Manus Island (PNG). If found to be a refugee they are meant to find a third country to be settled in. The Australian government vows it will ‘never’ allow them to be settled in Australia. New Zealand has offered to settle 150 a year but Australia rejects this saying it will be a ‘backdoor’ into Australia. The only third country to take significant numbers is the USA. But even if the USA quota of 1250 refugees is ever filled, hundreds of refugees will be left living in limbo.
Once medical evacuees from PNG and Nauru are transferred to Australia legal action prevents them from being sent back. This is why the government has fought so hard to prevent medical transfers. In 2014 Hamid Khazaei died from septicemia after a immigration official overruled a doctor’s recommendation that he be “urgently” evacuated to Australia. Kerryn Phelps’ Medical Evacuation bill supported by the Labor Party and the Greens for a short time put the decisions about medical evacuations into the hands of doctors, but the re-elected Morrison government immediately scrapped this bill in 2019.
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