Refugee advocates rally at Labor meeting REFUGEE advocates will rally outside a meeting of federal Labor MPs in Sydney to protest against the government's new Papua New Guinea solution for asylum seekers who arrive by boat. The MPs are meeting in the inner west suburb of Balmain on Monday to sign off on changes to how the party elects leaders and to discuss Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's new hardline asylum seeker policy. Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said refugee supporters would be outside the Balmain Town Hall from 9.30am (AEST) to express outrage at "Rudd's shocking policy." "We want to encourage those MPs that disagree with the policy to take a stand inside, and especially outside, the caucus," he said in a statement late on Sunday. Mr Rintoul said Labor leaders should think again if they thought the party could "slide back into office over the broken lives and the bodies of asylum seekers." We will also have a special message for Tony Burke. The fate of scores of refugees is sitting on his desk waiting for his signature," he said. PNG needed aid not a detention centre, Mr Rintoul said.