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...
Concerns for welfare of ASIO negative hunger strikers
After two days of their dry hunger strike protest, most of the 28 refugees staging their protest on the soccer field at the Melbourne...
After 50 days on hunger strike: Omid flown to Australia
Omid, the 35 year-old Faili Kurd hunger striker on Nauru has been put aboard a Careflight plane to be flown from Nauru to Australia.
Omid,...
Peter Dutton’s misleading statements on Abyan
Everyone remembers when Scott Morrison declared that Reza Barati was killed ‘outside the wire’ at the Manus Island detention centre.
It was a low point...
Fears held for screened out Vietnamese asylum seekers
Refugee supporters are horrified at the removal of up to 23 Vietnamese asylum seekers in the early hours of Wednesday morning (23 October).
Nineteen asylum...
Kabul demonstration says no to TPVs and deportation of Afghan asylum seekers
On Saturday 9 November, a protest outside the national Afghan Parliament called for an end to the deportation of Afghan asylum seekers from Europe...
REFUGEE ADVOCATES CONDEMN FURTHER CRIMINALISATION OF REFUGEES
Refugee advocates have condemned Chris Bowen’s proposed toughening of the character test for asylum seekers.
Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul described the announcement as...
Tamil asylum seeker to be deported: Last minute court action fails
Last minute legal action in the Federal Magistrates Court in Sydney has failed to prevent the deportation of a Tamil asylum seeker. Federal Magistrate...
Refugees leave for the US, as Nauru grieves
A bitter sweet moment on Nauru as 21 refugees leave Nauru for the United States today Sunday 17 June (photos attached), only two days...
REFUGEE GROUP WELCOMES INCREASED GOVERNMENT REFUGEE INTAKE: BUT DEVIL IN THE DETAIL
The Refugee Action Coalition has welcomed the government’s announcement to immediately increase Australia’s refugee intake to 20,000. But the government could and should have...
