PNG police forced removal of refugees from Port Moresby to Manus reveals resettlement farce
In the early hours of Tuesday, 20 February, police arrested up to 13 refugees who had been living Aku Lodge.
They were being forcibly...
Villawood protest on Anzac Day – demanding a fair go for refugees
Wayne Swan is wrong to criticize Monday’s planned refugee rights protest at Villawood detention centre, refugee supporters say.
Following this week’s unrest at Villawood, refugee...
Broken promises: after one year, forgotten asylum seekers hunger strike in Darwin
Sixteen, out of a group of 27, asylum seekers brought from Nauru a year ago to be released, have begun a hunger strike in...
Immigration Minister plays to the Liberals’ refugee policies
Refugee groups have accused the Immigration Minister, Tony Burke, of playing politics with asylum seeker policy.
“Tony Burke is singing the same misleading song as...
Nauru asylum seeker medivacced after bashing
An Iranian asylum seeker, brutally bashed by Nauruan locals on Tuesday, was medivacced to Australia yesterday, Wednesday, 23 January.
Refugees who saw him said...
HIGH COURT ACTION TO CHALLENGE MALAYSIA DEAL
The Refugee Action Coalition has welcomed the action in the High Court to challenge the lawfulness of the detention of the asylum seekers being...
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 advocates say no to the ‘lifetime ban’ bill, No conditions on New Zealand...
The Refugee Action Coalition is calling on all Labor, Green and Independent politicians to completely reject the Liberals’ lifetime ban bill that would ban...
Another Villawood suicide attempt
A 27 year-old Afghan asylum seeker has been taken to hospital following his attempt to hang himself in the high security Blaxland compound of...
One week deadline to repatriate Manus refugee body
PNG Immigration have given refugees on Manus Island one week to make arrangements to send the body of 33 year-old Pakistan refugee Kamil Hussain,...
