Sydney Palm rally for peace and refugee rights 2022

Radicalized is a short film looking at the time I started getting involved in social justice filmmaking in the refugee rights movement.

Refugee rights protests were held in Sydney on July 19, as part of a national day of action, to mark seven years since the then-Kevin Rudd Labor government sent the first refugees to offshore detention on Manus Island and Nauru. The Rudd government was also the first to implement a policy that no one who arrives via boat to seek asylum would be resettled in Australia.

During the hardest lockdown in Sydney over April and May I created a series of videos for Green Left discussing different aspects of the lockdown measures and how COVID-19 and the government’s response relates to capitalism and the ecological crisis.

Permanent protection now! End TPV and SHEV visas. Refugees rally outside Sydney department of immigration in one of the more powerful rallies I’ve been to.

Refugee rights activists rallied in Sydney on July 20 calling on the government to close the camps and evacuate Manus Island and Nauru. July 19 marked six years of torture for many people in offshore detention.

Hundreds of people rallied in Perth at the Palm Sunday Justice for Refugees march on April 14. There was a strong contingent of medical students under the banner "detention harms health" and the names of people who have died as a result of the detention system since 2012 were read out.