Press releases

Around ten refugees in the Park hotel, Melbourne, are still waiting for results of Covid test done last Sunday (17 October). The inexplicable delay is adding to the risk of spreading the virus to...

One more refugee has been confirmed with Covid at lunchtime today (Tuesday 19 October) as most refugees in the Park hotel in Melbourne are still waiting for the results of Covid tests done on...

IHMS staff tested all people detained in Bass 2 compound for Covid Friday night, just hours after Border Force declared that they were considered to be close contacts of a Serco officer who has...

The whole of Bass 2 compound of Melbourne detention centre (MITA) has been lockdown this afternoon, Friday 8 October. People detained in Bass 2 were told they were all deemed to be close contacts of...

The announcement that Australia is moving to dump the refugees in PNG cannot cover up its on-going responsibility for the refugees and asylum seekers they unlawfully sent there in 2013. (See PNG Immigration's statement...

People detained across all compounds of Melbourne’s Broadmeadows detention centre, MITA, were informed yesterday (Friday 1 October) that a Serco employee had tested positive for Covid. But in defiance of normal protocols, there was no...

Refugee advocates have accused Covid commander Jeroen Weimar, and the Australian Border Force, of being less than forthcoming with the truth about Covid in MITA, Melbourne's immigration detention centre. Commander Jeroen Weimar’s quoted public statements...

Two MMS security guards at Melbourne's Broadmeadows detention centre (MITA), have tested positive for Covid. Refugees and immigration detainees in two compounds have been exposed to the infected guards. Covid vaccination at MITA only...

Support is growing for the last remaining refugee family in Darwin's Mercure Hotel prison to be released from detention. The Maghames family (parents Malakeh and Yaghob, and their adult children Hajar and Abbas) have been...