Manus detainees call for end to forced relocation as community tensions mount
More than 500 detainees at Manus Island have written to the PNG authorities (text below, written pages here and extract of signatures here) calling...
Refugee supporters converge on Canberra tomorrow – no to TPVs; no to off-shore processing
Refugee supporters are travelling from across the country to join a protest at Canberra Parliament House, tomorrow, Monday 18 November.
The protest will coincide with...
Nauru refugees face COVID and cost of living crisis; More COVID in MITA
Three refugees, one Pakistani and two others, have been hospitalised as a serious COVID outbreak hits Nauru.
Stop the Bill, Stop Morrison’s grab for power over asylum seekers
Scott Morrison continues to use the simplistic slogan “Stop the Boats” to add new layers of cruelty and abuse to men, women and children...
Tensions growing on Nauru: locals banned from detention centre after asylum seeker attacked by...
A fight between asylum seekers and a Nauruan local last Friday, 11 October, has resulted in all local Nauruan workers being banned from Bravo...
Rooftop protest begins at Villawood detention centre
At least four immigration detainees have begun a rooftop protest in the Blaxland compound of the Villawood detention centre. (Video clip available on request....
More tragedy on Nauru: attempted suicide and self harm
At 6.00pm Nauruan time, an Iranian asylum seeker attempted to hang himself from a light pole inside the detention centre. The man jumped from...
Nauru refugee victim of knife attack
An Iranian refugee has become the latest victim of anti-refugee violence on Nauru.
Around 6am, yesterday morning (Tuesday, 31 March), the man was walking back...
More principles overboard: Labor should increase powers to protect, not remove
Labor’s rushed move to introduce the Migration Amendment (Removals and Other Measures) Bill is yet another attempt to deflect criticism from Peter Dutton rather than protect asylum seekers.
Nauru in meltdown – two women missing
There are fears that three refugees taken around 3.00am from the Brisbane Transit Accommodation by Border Force officers have been sent back to Nauru....
