Stand-off in Wickham Point detention centre to prevent Nauru transfer
Around 70 asylum seekers are blockading Sun compound in the Wickham Point detention centre to try to prevent mostly asylum seeker families from being...
Wednesday: protest against Scott Morrison: Minister for abuse and cover-up to address school fundraiser
Following an outpouring of opposition to former Immigration Minister being invited to speak at a Sydney Boys High School fundraising event, the Refugee Action...
Nauruan refugee shot with air gun pellet and then beaten by locals
A 16 year-old Lebanese refugee has been treated in hospital after being attacked yesterday (Tuesday 14 April), first by a local Nauruan armed with...
Nauru refugees defy savage new anti-protest law
Hundreds of refugees on Nauru have staged a protest (see photo) against offshore processing in defiance of a new law (see pdf here) that...
Tragedy avoided but minister must release Saeed and all those indefinitely detained
The Refugee Action Coalition has welcomed the news that Iranian hunger striker, Saeed Hansonloo, has ended his hunger strike.
Now the Minister must release Saeed,...
Grave fears for life of Iranian asylum seeker: shocking callous Facebook comment reveals Serco...
Grave fears are held for the life on Iranian asylum seeker, Saeed Hassan Loo, who is believed to have been refusing fluids for the...
Nauru refugee victim of knife attack
An Iranian refugee has become the latest victim of anti-refugee violence on Nauru.
Around 6am, yesterday morning (Tuesday, 31 March), the man was walking back...
New questions about medical facilities on Nauru: dogs attack Nauruan refugee; and a week-long...
On Thursday, 26 March, Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton compared medical facilities on Nauru to hospitals in regional Australia or a field hospital in Afghanistan.
Neither...
Manus island PNG constitutional challenge wins lawyers’ access to detention centre
In a major breakthrough in the legal challenge to the Manus Island detention centre, the PNG government has agreed to provide access to lawyers...
Two still on roof-top protest at Yongah Hill detention centre
Almost 24 hours after the protest began, two asylum seekers remain on the roof of the Yongah Hill detention centre.
From around 3.00pm (Perth time)...
