Not just TPVs: Morrison moves to boost Maritime Powers Act; Enshrine screening out, Restrict...
The government’s “Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014” introduced Thursday 25 September goes much further than establishing...
Refugee groups condemn reopening Baxter and Curtin detention centre–the worst of the worst
Media Release, April 18 2010
Refugee groups today condemned the Immigration Minster’s decision to re-open Curtin detention centre to house detainees whose visa applications have...
Six months since the election, Canberra rally demands action on permanent visas
More than a thousand refugees and their supporters rallied outside Parliament House in Canberra, on 29 November to demand permanent visas for refugees.
Asylum seekers escape from Nauru detention centre
Five Iranian asylum seekers escaped from the Nauru detention centre in the early hours of this morning, in another sign of the spiral of...
AUSTRALIA SHARES RESPONSIBILITY FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS’ DEATHS AT SEA
Australia cannot evade its share of the responsibility for yesterday’s tragic sinking of another asylum boat off Java, according to advocates from the Refugee...
Two Medevac hunger strikers hospitalised
Two of the 14 Medevac hunger strikers at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention centre have been hospitalised after ambulances were called at...
PNG supreme court to rule on Manus closure
A hearing of the PNG Supreme Court in Port Moresby on Monday 25 July, will rule on five test cases of refugees on Manus...
Villawood Immigration staff attempt forcible transfer of 83 year–old Iraqi woman
Serco and Immigration staff at Villawood detention centre are desperately trying to force an 83 year-old Iraqi asylum seeker, Fatima, into a wheel chair...
Behrouz Boochani arrested by Manus Immigration to force transfer
Behrouz Boochani, the Iranian asylum seeker who staged the tree protest yesterday in Foxtrot compound has been arrested at a meeting with Immigration and...
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...
