Two Medevac hunger strikers hospitalised
Two of the 14 Medevac hunger strikers at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention centre have been hospitalised after ambulances were called at...
Darwin refugee family fights for freedom
Support is growing for the last remaining refugee family in Darwin's Mercure Hotel prison to be released from detention.
The Maghames family (parents Malakeh and...
Djokovic detention lifts the lid on hypocrisy and arbitrary immigration detention
“Rules are rules,” says Scott Morrison. But the detention of Novak Djokovic has shown that the only rules Morrison cares about are the ones...
Kurdish refugee dead on Christmas Island: another victim of long term detention
It is believed that an Iranian Kurdish refugee, Fazel Chegeni, has died on Christmas Island.
The man, in his early 30s, escaped from the North...
First immigration detention transfers from Yongah Hill to Christmas Island
The Refugee Action Coalition understands that the first group of people being transferred from Yongah Hill immigration detention centre in Western Australia to detention...
More inhumanity on Manus as Immigration empties drinking water
The Manus siege was tightened another notch this afternoon, (Friday 10 November) when PNG police and immigration officers entered Oscar and Delta compounds of...
Manus asylum seekers expel ex-Wilson guards from Hillside camp
Asylum seekers at the Hillside Camp, Manus Island have expelled all ex-Wilson Security guards from their camp area.
Former Wilson’s guards, who used to work...
Pre-election pro-refugee rally to march on Deputy Prime Minister’s office in Marrickville
A “Welcome Refugee” rally calling for an end to the “PNG Solution” will march on the Marrickville electoral office of Deputy Prime Minister Anthony...
Urgent: Immigration attempting to return raped Somali refugee to Nauru
The Immigration Department has grabbed Abyan from her room at Villawood this morning (Friday, 16 October) to return her to Nauru.
She is presently being...
Australian detention centre in Port Moresby is worse than Manus; worse than prison
Refugee advocates have growing concerns regarding the conditions at the high security detention centre annexed to the Bomana prison.
Information about the newly opened Bomana...
