Sick and hungry: Manus contractor cuts asylum seeker rations
While the auditor-general announces an investigation into the billions of dollars of Australian government off-shore detention contracts, the cuts to food rations by one Manus Island contractor is leaving asylum seekers hungry.
NKW Holdings, the...
Stabbing incident in Yongah Hill detention
A Turkish man, around 32 years old, has died after being stabbed at the Yongah Hill detention centre.
Australian government must grant permanent visas and increase refugee intake from Afghanistan
The Refugee Action Coalition has rejected Prime Minister Morrison’s statement that Australia’s humanitarian refugee intake will be left at 13,750, even if increased numbers of Afghan refugees are accepted.
The humanitarian intake is at a...
Thirty Villawood Serco guards stood down after Casula Crossroads party link
Around 30 Serco guards at the Villawood detention centre have been stood down to self-isolate after up to fifty Serco workers attended a Villawood manager’s party at the Casula Crossroads Hotel, the site of...
COVID outbreak in Melbourne detention centre; Ardern must push for release of New Zealanders
There are at least eight positive COVID cases in the Bass 2 compound of Melbourne's MITA detention centre in Broadmeadows.Â
Immigration detainees take over two compounds in Melbourne detention centre
A major protest has broken out in two compounds of MITA North (Ford and Glenelg), of Melbourne's immigration detention centre in Broadmeadows.
All Serco guards, including the emergency response team, have withdrawn from...
Mobile video footage reveals abuse by Villawood guards
Refugee advocates are calling for a full inquiry into an incident recorded on mobile phone footage inside Villawood detention centre revealing nine male guards using unnecessary force arresting a single female detainee.
Towards the end...
Organiser arrested as police intercept refugee car convoy
Victorian police have intercepted a car and bike convoy of refugee supporters in Preston today, as it made its way to the Mantra Hotel in Preston that is holding around 60 refugees, in a...
Fears grow for hunger striking Syrian asylum seekers on Manus Island
Asylum seekers and refugee advocates have growing concerns for the welfare of two Syrian asylum seekers who have been on hunger strike for around 60 days.
“It is an international scandal that that the Australian...
Another asylum seeker dies on Nauru
In tragic news from Nauru, a 26-year-old Iranian asylum seekers has been found dead, believed to have suicided, this morning.
He was found dead in his family's tent in the RPC 3 compound around...
