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On 28 August 2026, the wider Rohingya community came together in Lakemba to commemorate nine years since the mass displacement, persecution and violence against the Rohingya people in Myanmar.

The gathering was a time to remember those who lost their lives, those who were forced from their homes, and the families who continue to live with the impact of these events.

It was also an opportunity for the community to come together in solidarity, honour our shared history, and reflect on the resilience and strength of the Rohingya people.

Nine years on, we continue to remember, raise awareness and stand together in hope for a future built on safety, dignity, justice and equality.

Speakers included:

Mohammad Junaid
Nazimul Anawar
Mark Goudkamp
Abull Alam
Peter Boyle
Abrar Ahmed
Daniel Taylor
Ian Rintoul
Noor Khubir

ARC will also like to appreciate the collaborative work with:

Australian Rohingya Women’s Development Organisation
Refugee Action Coalition Sydney RAC
Teachers For Refugees NSW

#JusticeForRohingya #Rohingya #vivalarohingya

With Much Appreciation
Australian Rohingya Community (ARC).

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Thanks to all the organisations who have endorsed our rally in Sydney this Sunday.

Join our counter-rally as March for Australia, who organised the far right anti-immigration rallies last year, hold another racist march this weekend.

March for Australia are calling for “freedom of speech”. They want the right to spout racist anti-migrant hate speech and to reverse the ban on the Nazi National Socialist Network. Their rally also opposes immigration and multiculturalism. The group is run by fascists and white nationalists such as Bec Freedom and Hugo Lennon.

These racist policies are backed up by Pauline Hanson and One Nation. Hanson has backed the idea of “remigration” and mass deportations, mourned the end of the White Australia Policy, and sat down for an interview with British Nazi Tommy Robinson.

Pauline Hanson is backed by billionaire Gina Rinehart. She, and the far-right racists marching on the streets, want to blame migrants for the problems caused by the rich and powerful. They want to punch down on women, trans people, and the most vulnerable in our society.

We cannot allow these politics to become normalised.

We need to mobilise in big numbers to send a message that we reject the politics of One Nation and the far right.

Protesting against the march can help give confidence to all those groups who are targets of their hate to stand up and fight back, and helps our side start to build back an opposition to these rotten politics.

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Thousands of students walked out to protest Pauline Hanson’s racism and bigotry. We need to hit the streets again, join us at:

🗓️12 Sunday 30 August
📍Hyde Park north

March for Australia, who organised the far right anti-immigration rallies last year, are holding another racist march.

Everyone who opposes racism and fascism should join our counter-demonstration.

March for Australia are calling for “freedom of speech”. They want the right to spout racist anti-migrant hate speech and to reverse the ban on the Nazi National Socialist Network.

These racist policies are backed up by Pauline Hanson and One Nation. Hanson has backed the idea of “remigration” and mass deportations, mourned the end of the White Australia Policy, and sat down for an interview with British Nazi Tommy Robinson.

Pauline Hanson is backed by billionaire Gina Rinehart. She, and the far-right racists marching on the streets, want to blame migrants for the problems caused by the rich and powerful. They want to punch down on women, trans people, and the most vulnerable in our society.

We need to mobilise to send a message that we reject the politics of One Nation and the far right. Protesting against the march can help give confidence to all those groups who are targets of their hate to stand up and fight back, and helps our side start to build back an opposition to these rotten politics.

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Now more than ever, given the current rhetoric surrounding refugees and immigration, it feels important to create spaces that celebrate, uplift and centre refugee communities.

For a few of us involved in organising Refugee Cultural Day, this is deeply personal. We have lived experience of displacement and seeking refuge. We watched our own parents and grandparents arrive in this country carrying the weight of loss, uncertainty and hope, while doing everything they could to build a life for us. We saw them learn new systems, navigate barriers, work multiple jobs and slowly rebuild a sense of home while holding tightly to culture, language and community.

That is why Refugee Cultural Day means so much.

One of the things that makes this event special is that it has been created by community, for community. Too often, refugee stories are told about us rather than by us. Refugees are reduced to political talking points, statistics or funding outcomes, rather than recognised as people, neighbours, artists, parents, business owners and community leaders.

This Refugee Week, don't just support the well-funded events. Seek out and support grassroots, community-led spaces where people with lived experience are shaping the conversations, sharing their cultures and creating opportunities for connection and belonging.

When you attend a grassroots event, your support goes directly back into community. You are supporting refugee-led businesses, artists, makers and organisers, while helping create spaces where stories are honoured, cultures are celebrated and people are seen as more than statistics.

On 20 June, join us at Addi Road, Marrickville unceded lands of the Gadigal and Wangal people and come and meet the incredible people behind the stalls, support their work and celebrate the many ways refugee communities continue to enrich and strengthen our society.

Because our communities deserve more than representation. They deserve more than being spoken about or spoken for. They deserve to be at the centre of the conversation, the decision-making, the storytelling and the celebration.

#refugeeweek2026

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What started as conversations with newly arrived refugee families, mostly women rebuilding their lives far from home~has now grown into Refugee Cultural Day.

In 2024, we hosted the first market centred (on the Lands of the Gadigal people) around Palestinian-led small businesses, with many stallholders newly arrived from Gaza. It was the first event of its kind on the lands of the Gadigal people, and it sparked something powerful within the community. What began as a small act of solidarity grew into a space of connection, support and community.

Refugee communities bring creativity, strength, culture and knowledge, yet barriers such as market fees, promotion and access to spaces can make it difficult for small businesses to grow and be seen.

That is why this year, for World Refugee Day, we knew we had to do something bigger.

Refugee Cultural Day is about bringing communities together through food, music, art, dance and storytelling while creating space for refugee-led businesses, artists, services and communities to share their cultures, skills and work.

We hope you can join us in supporting and amplifying these incredible small businesses, artists and communities.

🗓 June 20th
📍Addison Rd Community Centre
Gumbramorra Hall
🕕 10am
* venue is wheelchair accessible

Thank you @glue_gunnin_mama
For the most beautiful tiles ✨️

#WorldRefugeeDay #RefugeeCulturalDay #RefugeesWelcome #innerwest #supportlocalbusiness

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We are calling on everyone, including individuals, organisations, and groups, to sign and share this open letter that the Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) has launched in response to the apathy that the University of Sydney Union (USU) has consistently shown towards the Palestinian cause.❗️LINK IN BIO OR SCAN QR CODE❗️

The USU has maintained its relationship with companies complicit in the ‘israeli’ genocide of Palestinians, namely those that are on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) list, as well as businesses which show little regard for human rights standards, such as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Nestle. Thus, the USU are willing enablers of colonial violence, supporting businesses that materially assist the illegal occupation of Palestine by the Zionist entity. We call on the USU to drop all sponsorships/partnerships and refuse future working opportunities with BDS targets, and become an Apartheid-Free Zone immediately!

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About 500 people joined the Palm Sunday march for peace in Gadigal Country/Sydney on March 29.

Protesters condemned the genocide in Gaza and the US-Israeli war on Iran, calling on Labor to withdraw from the dangerous AUKUS military alliance and US war machine.

It also drew attention to the plight of refugees still stuck on temporary visas, chanting “refugees are welcome here!”.

Protesters heard from speakers at Belmore Park before marching down to Victoria Park.

Photos by @zebedeeparkes

#palmsunday #refugeerights #freepalestine #scrapAUKUS #greenleft

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Eid Mubarak! We've compiled some great anti-racist events happening in the next two weeks that you should attend!

21 March:
- End the 'US' Blockade of Cuba rally, at 'Sydney' Town Hall, 10:30am (check out @red_spark_org for more info)
- March against racism for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, at Hyde Park, 12pm (see @paul_silva_dunghutti_man for more info)

26 March: The 'Sydney' premiere of the documentary Nagana Yarrbayn / The Water Protectors, on the fight of the Wangan and Jagalingou to protect their ancestral waters from destruction. The screening will be at Macquarie University, at T1 (Theatre 1) 10HA, starting at 7pm, followed by a talk from Senior Cultural Custodian Adrian Burragubba. (see @civic.mqu for more info)

29 March: Palm Sunday rally; Yes to Peace - No to Trump agenda - Welcome Migrants and Refugees. At Belmore Park, 2pm. (see @rac_sydney and @palmsundayrally for more info)

30 March: Public panel - 'Australia's' Hate Laws and Civil Liberties: Community Preparedness in a Shifting Legal Landscape. Online at 6pm. (see @democracyincolour and @arabinstitute.au for more info)

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📢Rally on Palm Sunday 29 March
📍2pm at Belmore Park (near Central station)

Yes to Peace – No to Trump agenda – Welcome Migrants and Refugees

It has been inspiring to see people across the US challenge Donald Trump’s racist anti-migrant agenda as hundreds of thousands defend their communities against ICE.

While not on the same scale, the Albanese government now has Trump-like draconian deportation laws and continues to violate human rights using Nauru as an offshore detention centre. Australia is paying MTC, a US private prison company, $157 million a year to detain around 100 asylum seekers on Nauru. Labor is spending a further $2.5 billion dollars for Nauru to indefinitely detain refugees deported from Australia. Around 700 refugees brought to Australia from PNG and Nauru are being denied permanent visas.

The rise of One Nation and the recent anti-immigrant March for Australia rallies are warning signs. Migrants are not the cause of the housing crisis.

Billions of dollars that should be spent on welfare, education, health and housing is being wasted on detention centres, nuclear submarines and preparation for war with China.

The Trump administration has smashed the framework of international law and the UN by its total support for Israel’s war in Gaza and repression of Palestinian rights in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Trump has attacked Venezuela, threatened to invade Greenland, and endorsed Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Below the radar, Trump is continuing a massive build up of military might against China. The US military is ready to fight a war with China in 2027, a war of choice, not of defence, and we have little time left to stop it.

The US can attack China from Australia using B-52 strategic bombers at RAAF Tindal in the Northern Territory; with over 2,500 US Marines in Darwin; and with US and British nuclear-powered attack submarines based at HMAS Stirling, south of Perth. A US war with China will be catastrophic for the entire Asia-Pacific region and the world.

We must convince the Albanese government to refuse to take part and to launch a major diplomatic effort to demilitarise the South China Sea.

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Join @nsw.yg and the @nswgreens at 6:00pm out Sydney Town Hall to call for an end to the Anti-Protest Laws and for an end to our complicity in Genocide ✊

Chris Minns (Labor Premier of Genocide) wants to invite - his best friend - the monster calling for a second and greater Nakba to visit our shores - a war criminal, quoted by the International Court of Justice in proving Israel’s ongoing Genocide in Palestine 😡

War Criminals aren’t welcome here - let’s fight for our freedom of speech and our right to protest, 6:00pm January 16th, Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Country 💚

#freedomofspeech #protectprotest #auspol #nswpol #sydney

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Greetings all, soon to be “Seasons Greetings” nearly 1/2 way thru December and we have some return Filmmakers this week.

Big thanx to Connor Price & Gerard Wilkie for their film “The Greatest Battle Lies Within”

We also have Tyrone Bruinsma with his 3rd film “Vincent” debuting on OOTC.

Finally we have the super talented Mark Adams doing what he does best Writing, Acting & Directing, in his film “You & I”

Of Course there will be Wombat & Goose Banter along with a look and review of what we have seen in the mainstream over the last week or so in “Goose & Bat Movie Chat”.

So why not Tune in at 9pm this Sunday acst on Channel 44
Or Monday night at 10pm aest on C31 Melbourne and Geelong
Both screenings are simulcast via CTV Plus on your devices world wide <3 check out the links below:

https://ctvplus.org.au/stream/adelaide/

https://ctvplus.org.au/stream/melbourne/

Don’t forget, if you have a film that would like an audience, you too can be “As Seen On TV” by simply messaging us & it’s Free!!!

@followers topfans

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Join our forum 20 years since the Cronulla riots: Lessons for fighting racism today at 6pm on Monday 9 December. Register at link in our bio

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