Refugee groups call for the immediate release of ASIO negative refugees
The Refugee Action Coalition has welcomed the decision of the High Court today that it is unlawful for the Minister to refuse a protection...
Refugee group urges government to act quickly to protect defecting Zimbabwean ambassador
The Refugee Action Coalition is urging the Coalition to act quickly to grant a protection visa to the defecting Zimbabwean ambassador to Australian, Jacqueline...
MERAK TAMILS MADE IT TO CHRISTMAS ISLAND. UNHCR PROCESSING BEGINS AT TANJUNG PINANG....
Media Release, April 21 2010
Refugee advocates today confirmed that around 50 Tamil asylum seekers from the boat at Merak made it to Christmas Island...
Bashed Manus refugees need urgent medical treatment
Two Iranian refugees, Mehdi and Mohammad, arrested and bashed by up to 10 PNG police and immigration officers last night (New Years eve) on...
Australian humanitarian visa application forms confiscated, as Merak asylum seeker “disappears” after arrest at hospital
Media Release December 28
Refugee activists in Indonesia are extremely concerned at the fate of one of the Tamil Merak asylum seekers, “Sammy”, who was...
Scott Morrison must resign; Manus Island is a crime scene and must be closed
Re-open the phones and internet
Scott Morrison’s admissions that he gave incorrect information about the attacks on asylum seekers on Manus Island is reason enough...
Nauru government is covering up rape cases and intimidating Nauru women
The Refugee Action Coalition has condemned the Nauru government’s public release of a Nauruan police brief of a rape case highlighted on the ABC’s...
PNG refugee service provider sacks eleven case workers amid rort allegations
Eleven of the PNG nationals employed by JDA under contract with Australia have been officially terminated. The sackings follow the resignation of 29 case...
End Immigration’s siege of Delta compound on Manus: water needed now
Delta Compound has gone 24 hours without drinking water, after Transfield removed the water bottles from outside the fence.
Pictures attached show Delta detainees catching...
Children and families out of detention? – not really!
The government announcement that children and families are to be released from mainland immigration detention is deceptive, selective and half-hearted according to the Refugee...
