Five families face transfer to toxic Christmas Island
The Refugee Action Coalition is calling on the Immigration Minister to immediately halt the imminent transfer of five families from Inverbrackie to Christmas Island.
Five...
First immigration detention transfers from Yongah Hill to Christmas Island
The Refugee Action Coalition understands that the first group of people being transferred from Yongah Hill immigration detention centre in Western Australia to detention...
World War II bomb uncovered in Nauru family camp
The family camp on Nauru, RPC 3, was evacuated late this afternoon around 5pm, after an unexploded World War II ‘bomb’ was uncovered in...
Immigration negligence puts Nauru mother and baby at risk
The Refugee Action Coalition is calling for the heavily pregnant, 34 year-old, Kurdish asylum seeker, Hatami (see photo), to be urgently brought to Australia...
REFUGEE GROUPS OPPOSE GILLARD’S OFFSHORE ‘SOLUTIONS’ IN MALAYSIA, AND PNG
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Julia Gillard’s announcement of a deal to send asylum seekers attempting to arrive in Australia...
Manus Island claims another victim as asylum seeker declared brain dead. Manus detainees accuse...
A 24 year-old Iranian asylum seeker, Hamid Kehazaei, who was urgently medivacced from Manus Island to Brisbane on Wednesday, 27 August has been declared...
Community anger at asylum seekers abrupt shift from Villawood
Up to 82 asylum seekers at Villawood detention centre in Sydney have been told they are to be shifted from to Curtin and other...
Armed Raskols terrorise asylum seekers in Port Moresby
On Tuesday, 20 April, an early morning attack on a Port Moresby apartment accommodation by an armed rascal gang in Port Moresby has left...
Manus refugees again brutally attacked, two injured
Three attacks in twelve hours on refugees on Manus Island shows how unsafe the Manus community is for refugees and exactly why refugees are...
Hunger strike starts over immigration detention visits restrictions
Over two hundred detainees at two detention centres, Villawood in Sydney and Maribyrnong in Melbourne, have declared a hunger strike in protest at visiting...
