Hundreds still protest on Manus island after eleven days of hunger strike –...

After eleven days, the Manus Island hunger strike remains hundreds strong. Despite the Immigration Minister’s attempts to maintain a media blackout, the truth about Manus...

Abbott’s turnback mantra is risking Rohingyan asylum seekers’ lives

The Australian government must provide the urgent humanitarian assistance needed by the up to 8000 Rohingyan asylum seekers in boats, at risk, in the...

Three Medevac hunger strikers in hospital as protest enters its 11th day

Eleven Medevac refugees remain on hunger strike in MITA, with three others of the fourteen protesters in hospital as the protest enters its eleventh...

PNG opposition leader mounts legal challenge to Manus Island as another asylum seeker attempts...

On Friday, 18 January, the PNG Opposition leader, Belden Namah, launched a constitutional challenge to the Manus Island detention centre with documents lodged in...

LIPS REMAIN STITCHED IN DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE “IMR” PROTEST BY STATELESS ASYLUM SEEKERS

Three Faili Kurdish asylum seekers who stitched their lips together on Monday morning are maintaining their protest in the Darwin detention centre. The two others...

STILL WAITING FOR THE AUSTRALIAN SOLUTION: LABOR MUST ABANDON OFF-SHORE PROCESSING. GILLARD COMPROMISES INDEPENDENT...

Media Release July 7, 2010 Refugee groups have condemned Julia Gillard’s new direction for the processing of asylum seekers. Nothing in her speech addressed the...

Twenty-five Medevac refugees being freed in Brisbane

Twenty-three Medevac refugees who have been held in the Kangaroo Point hotel for up to two years are being released on bridging visas this...

Nauru pregnant women need urgent help

The report carried by some News Corp papers that pregnant women on Nauru “are refusing medical attention” is incorrect. “The truth is simply that there...

Another suicide death in Villawood detention

Tragic news from Villawood - an Iraqi asylum seeker has taken his own life. Around 6.00pm, Monday, 4 March, an Iraqi asylum seeker was...

Bangladeshi asylum seeker on bridging visa suicides in Lakemba

A 33-year-old Bangladeshi asylum seeker, Mohammad Mohsin, has committed suicide, at a mosque in Lakemba, on Sunday, 20 October. Mohammad arrived by boat in 2013,...