Refugee attempts suicide at Kangaroo Point hotel-prison
A Somali refugee who attempted suicide in the early hours of Saturday, 24 October, was taken to the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA)...
Manus refugees again brutally attacked, two injured
Three attacks in twelve hours on refugees on Manus Island shows how unsafe the Manus community is for refugees and exactly why refugees are...
Nauru refugee assessments a shambles – asylum seekers brought to Australia
Sixty asylum seekers, 23 Tamils and 37 Afghans and Pakistanis, were brought from Nauru to Curtin detention centre on Saturday 19 October.
The sixty brings...
AUSTRALIAN ROHINGYAN REFUGEE FEAR FOR FAMILIES MISSING IN BURMA VIOLENCE
The anti-Rohingyan violence in Arakan province is directly affecting Rohingyan refugees in Australia.
The family of a Rohingyan refugee, Habibrahman, presently in detention in Darwin...
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. Â
Seven month standoff ends as Merak asylum seekers forced off boat. Resettlement ball now...
Media Release, April 19, 2010
Indonesian police and navy personnel this afternoon Jakarta time have acted to force almost 200 Tamil asylum seekers off their...
Villawood refugee children being searched before and after school
Children attending school from the Villawood residential housing section of the detention centre are being subjected to extensive searches of their bags, including their...
Villawood protest: Free Ranjini and her baby Paari; free all ASIO-negative refugees
A protest to support ASIO-negative refugees and welcome Paari, the latest baby born to an ASIO negative refugee, will be held at 11am Sunday,...
Immigration manager dismisses hunger strikers
A meeting between the fifteen Darwin hunger strikers and the Northern Regional Manager, Robin Gray, yesterday (Thursday) afternoon ended in dismay.
A meeting with the...
Fourteen refugees fly from Nauru to US today
Fourteen more refugees, mostly single men – Rohingyan, Afghans, and Pakistanis – left Nauru this afternoon, Sunday 29 July, to be resettled in the...
