ROOF TOP PROTESTS DISRUPT CHRISTMAS ISLAND AND DARWIN DETENTION CENTRES

Both Christmas Island and Darwin detention centres have been hit by roof top protests. Christmas Island detention centre has been locked down today (Monday 18...

Detention shifts to Port Moresby as last refugees transferred off Manus

Thirty-five refugees are being transferred from Manus to Port Moresby today, Thursday 5 September. The transfer of the last 35 refugees and asylum seekers from...

Mentally ill Manus asylum seeker needs urgent help

Refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island have raised serious concerns about the mental health of a 28-year-old Iranian man they say has become...

COVID outbreak creates crisis in Villawood detention centre

Five people in immigration detention in Sydney's Villawood detention centre (two people in Mackenzie and three in Mitchell compound) have tested positive for Covid,...

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...

Nauruan refugee girls attacked at school

Three refugee high school girls were confronted by around 15 teenage Nauruan boys around 11.00am, last Friday (5 December) at their class room at...

People power wins community detention for Asha: Now free all the 267

The Refugee Action Coalition welcomes the agreement to place baby Asha in community detention as a victory for people power and the “Let Them Stay” campaign...

Refugee advocates condemn Cambodia deal

The Refugee Action Coalition has condemned the refugee resettlement arrangement about to be signed by Australia and Cambodia. “Today’s deal is the latest installment in...

Another COVID scare at Melbourne’s MITA detention centre

Another Serco guard at Melbourne’s MITA detention has tested positive sparking another Covid scare inside the detention centre. Border Force officers began notifying people identified...

Critical refugee mother and baby medivacced from Nauru

A 22 year-old Somali refugee mother, Naima, and her premature baby boy, have been airlifted, in separate planes, from Nauru in emergency circumstances last...