REFUGEE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AT MELBOURNE DETENTION CENTRE
A medical team is attending a Tamil refugee at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre in Broadmeadows this (Thursday) afternoon.
The Tamil refugee, who has...
Refugee group condemns transfer of asylum seekers to Manus Island
The Refugee Action Coalition condemns the Immigration Department’s new announced transfer of 25 single male asylum seekers to Manus Island.
“The government doesn’t even have...
Female Villawood detainees stage protest hunger strike
Around 40 female detainees in Villawood are staging a protest hunger strike from 11.00am today, Thursday, 12 July.
The protest follows abrupt changes announced on...
DARWIN DETENTION ONE WEEK AFTER FOUR CORNERS – ADVOCATES CONDEMN GOVERNMENT INACTION
* More suicide attempts * Burmese roof top protest enters eighth day * Five graves dug in North One compound
Refugee advocates have condemned government...
Coalition’s shameful attack on asylum seekers
The Coalition’s announcement that they will introduce temporary protection visas, remove appeal rights and fast-track deportations is the just the latest round of the...
Refugee groups call for Sri Lanka cricket boycott and an end to deportations
Refugee supporters will join Tamil groups to protest outside tomorrow’s SCG cricket match to call for a sporting boycott of the Sri Lankan cricket...
House fire in Nauru family camp
A fire has broken out in one of the units inside the family camp, RPC 3, on Nauru.
It is understood that the Iranian woman...
Manus witch hunt for protest leaders. Stop the 22 January transfers
In an attempt to break up the hunger strike protest, Transfield officers have begun rounding up asylum seekers’ compound leaders.
At least four leaders of...
Two attempted suicides on Manus Island follow PNG lawyer’s comments
Two Iranian asylum seekers in their mid-20s have attempted suicide on Manus Island, after reading comments by the PNG government lawyer, Ian Molloy.
Molloy was...
All asylum seekers deserve the Fawad Ahmed treatment: ‘Relocation’ argument must be dropped
The revelations surrounding the Ministerial intervention and hasty changes to the citizenship laws in regard to asylum seeker and spin bowler, Fawad Ahmed, have...
