Ten refugees being flown from Nauru to Australia

A group of ten refugees and people seeking asylum are being transferred from Nauru to Australia, this morning, Friday 4 September. The RAAF plane...

Two asylum seekers attempt suicide in Melbourne

In a tragic day for the Melbourne Immigration Transit  Accommodation (MITA) detention centre, there were two attempted suicides within hours of each other, this...

Seventeen Manus refugees leave PNG to be resettled in the US

Seventeen refugees, held on Manus Island for almost five years, flew from Port Moresby today, Tuesday 25 September, to be resettled in the US. ...

REFUGEE SYSTEM IS FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED: LABOR MUST END OFFSHORE PROCESSING, CLOSE CHRISTMAS ISLAND

Media Release November 11, 2010 Refugee groups have welcomed the unanimous High Court decision declaring the present offshore processing invalid. “The court’s decision has confirmed...

One more confirmed COVID case at Park hotel as refugees locked down

One more refugee has been confirmed with Covid at lunchtime today (Tuesday 19 October) as most refugees in the Park hotel in Melbourne are...

Nauru asylum seeker gives birth in Brisbane. Scott Morrison’s deception exposed

The Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has been caught in his own web of deceptive half-truths and policy of media blackout. At a media briefing on...

Manus Island opens – More refugee shame on Labor; more scapegoats for a failed...

The Refugee Action Coalition has condemned the government’s announcement of the transfer of asylum seeker families to Manus Island. “It is a pointless and vindictive...

AUSTRALIA’S SHAME: DARWIN ASYLUM KIDS SHOULDN’T BE IN DETENTION

Refugee groups have condemned the detention of the 10 Chinese asylum seekers in Darwin. The ten, including a family group of two parents and...

Two attempted suicides on Manus Island follow PNG lawyer’s comments

Two Iranian asylum seekers in their mid-20s have attempted suicide on Manus Island, after reading comments by the PNG government lawyer, Ian Molloy. Molloy was...

Tamil refugee seriously injured after vicious hit and run on Nauru

A 36-year-old Tamil refugee is expected to be transferred by air ambulance from Nauru to Australia later today (Thursday 11 February) after being deliberately...