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Melbourne Protests - Part 1*

Archive only - some links may no longer work

This site is intended to complement MDC Watch and the website of the Refugee Action Collective of Victoria by presenting additional material relating to pro-refugee and other protest actions in Melbourne. It is not intended to replace either site, and makes no claim to be all-inclusive.(September 2007 - a few gaps are scheduled to be filled as time permits, and the continuation from October 2005 to the present is on the pipeline ...)

* Part 1 covers the period mid-2001 to October 2004; Part 2, covering 12 October 2004 to 12 October 2005, can be found here, and Part 3, 22 October 2005 to 26 August 2006, can be found here.

[Easter 2005: The RAC-Vic website has undergone several revisions over the past three years, and much of the early material is no longer accessible. For those who might be interested in reviewing the first year of RAC-Vic, an archive up to November 2001 is now available here. CAUTION: because this is an archive some links and other references may now be out of date. Please check against the current site. The MDC-Watch site is no longer being updated; an archive of the site as of November 2004 is available here.]

For Palm Sunday 13 April 03, click here. The Rally for Peace, 14 February 2003, click here. Other anti-war protests here.
More events ...

Latest Feature [at October 2004]

Justice for Refugees rally 1 Oct and End the Lies rally 3 Oct 2004

In the run up to the Australian Federal election on 9 October refugee supporters and anti-war activists both held rallies in Melbourne and elsewhere - Melbourne actually saw three separate protests on Friday 1 October alone. The rally and march organised by the Refugee Action Collective for the evening of 1 October, and the Victorian Peace Network's End the Lies - Troops out Now protest on the following Sunday afternoon were the largest, but there were also protests during a visit by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer - during which peace activists breached security to effect a citizen's arrest - and at the office of DIMIA at Casselden Place, where the Mothers and Children Refugee Action Group focused on the continuing abuse of detainees, including children. The election resulted in the return of the Coalition with an increased majority and effective control of the Upper House, suggesting that this site will still have much to do ...

Here are some of the photos posted to Indymedia at the time: