LAWYERS SHOCKED BY ASYLUM SEEKERS’ CONDITIONS AT SILVERWATER
Solicitors visiting asylum seekers now incarcerated at Silverwater prison are shocked at what they have seen. Stephen Blanks, solicitor and secretary of the NSW...
Arbitrary refugee decisions expose Manus assessment farce
Despite various threats over the years that they would be denied protection and deported, around 60 asylum seekers on Manus Island have consistently refused...
REFUGEE ADVOCATES DELEGATION GOES TO DILI TO LOBBY AGANIST EAST TIMOR PROCESSING CENTRE
In response to the most recent announcements from East Timor president Ramos Horta that an East Timor regional processing centre “remains a possibility”, refugee...
Serco breaks wrists for ‘non-compliant behaviour’, sack the Serco thugs; sack Morrison
Eye-witness accounts of the riot squad attack on peaceful protests on Christmas Island have revealed more of the brutality of the attack and disproportionate...
Threat level raised on Nauru after asylum seeker death
Canstruct, the Nauru detention management company, has declared a “threat level 3” (probable) at the RPC 1 and RPC 3 in the aftermath of...
Morrison’s phoney generosity for Iraqi and Syrian refugees: there’s no increase in intake
The Refugee Action Coalition has condemned the government’s announcement of 4,400 places for Iraqi and Syrian refugees as selective and ‘phoney generosity’.
One of the...
Sydney protests: Free Ranjini: Free all the ASIO negative refugees
Two protests in Sydney on Friday 10 May will call for the release of Ranjini (and her children) and the release of all the...
Seven refugees leave Nauru for US resettlement
Seven refugees (from Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka) will leave Nauru today (Wednesday 10 July), for resettlement in the US. This brings the...
Thirty Villawood Serco guards stood down after Casula Crossroads party link
Around 30 Serco guards at the Villawood detention centre have been stood down to self-isolate after up to fifty Serco workers attended a Villawood...
Immigration flies Abyan to Honiara, Solomon Islands; she must be returned to Australia
After seizing Abyan from Villawood this morning (Friday 16 October), the Immigration Department has flown her to Honiara, in an extraordinary and desperate effort...
