LIP STITCHING, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE: TENSIONS REMAIN AT DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE

The recent release of around 19 asylum seekers on community detention has done nothing to ease tensions at the Darwin detention centre. In the last two days, four people in the main detention centre have...

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, back to Pakistan. PNG authorities told the Pakistanis that neither the...

Broken processing promises fuel tensions on Manus Island

On 13 March, Immigration officers told asylum seekers on Manus Island that their refugee assessments would begin in ‘two or three weeks’. More than a month later, there is no sign of any processing. The...