Permanent visas welcome but Labor must end limbo for all refugees
The long-awaited announcement that Labor will grant permanent visas to 19,000 refugees surviving on temporary visas is a welcome step to fulfilling their election promises. But much more is needed.
Asylum seekers escape from Nauru detention centre
Five Iranian asylum seekers escaped from the Nauru detention centre in the early hours of this morning, in another sign of the spiral of...
Closure threats stepped up on Manus Island
PNG Immigration has announced its intention to close Foxtrot Compound inside the Manus detention centre as of today, 26 July. The notice (at right)...
Sydney protests: Free Ranjini: Free all the ASIO negative refugees
Two protests in Sydney on Friday 10 May will call for the release of Ranjini (and her children) and the release of all the...
GOVERNMENT POLICY TO BLAME FOR CHRISTMAS ISLAND TRAGEDY
Dozens of asylum seekers have died this morning after their boat crashed into cliffs on Christmas Island
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/15/3093766.htm
RAC Media release December 15, 2010
“Government anti-refugee policy...
PNG removes appeal rights for asylum seekers: more threatened with deportation
In what seems to be a knee-jerk response to the Supreme Court constitutional challenge to Manus Island, the Papua New Guinea Immigration department has...
Manus detainees call for end to forced relocation as community tensions mount
More than 500 detainees at Manus Island have written to the PNG authorities (text below, written pages here and extract of signatures here) calling...
Protest to stop deportations – Villawood Chinese asylum seeker faces Friday deadline; Iranian asylum...
The Refugee Action Coalition will hold, a protest Thursday 18 December, 12.30pm at Sydney Immigration office, Lee Street (near Railway Square) to protest against...
Asylum seekers deaths on the government’s hands. Government policy is costing lives. Now we...
After all the politicians’ crocodile tears about the deaths of asylum seekers at sea, the West Australian coroner has declared that Australia’s own rescue...
Minister delays protection application decision for Sayed Abdellatif
Sayed Abdellatif, the Egyptian asylum seeker who was at the centre of a political storm last year after being wrongly accused of murder, is...
