Photos from Nauru protest 27 Feb
Video Nauru protest 270215 with chanting "Shut down offshore"
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Photos from the protest
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Refugee kids boycotting classes
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 Malacca Straits, says the Refugee Action Coalition.
“The Australian government is...
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 day.
One of those hospitalised, an Iranian refugee, has now been...
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 who overdosed on Monday night, were returned to the North...
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 the National Court of Justice in Port Moresby.
The challenge asks...
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 immediate issues of the rights of asylum seekers languishing in...
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 morning, Monday 1 March. It is understood that another two...
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 is no medical attention available for them on Nauru,” said...
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 found hanged in his room in the La Trobe compound....
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, but was only recently allowed to lodge his protection application....
