Manus Island unfit for asylum families – pregnant women and sick brought to Australia
Around 20 asylum seekers, including all the families of all six pregnant women in the Manus Island camp, were transferred to the mainland on...
No advantage scrapped – Refugee processing to start on Nauru
The Nauru Director of the Department of Immigration has told a meeting of asylum seekers in the Nauru detention camp that their refugee assessments...
Two weeks: Nauru hunger strike, lip stitching protest continues
Eight Iranian asylum seekers are into their 15th day with their lips stitched. And between 20 and 30 asylum seekers (including those with stitched...
Screening-out starts again? Bangladesh asylum seekers face immediate deportation
The screening out process used by the Federal Labor government to deport hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers last year seems to have re-activated...
Morrison disappoints asylum seekers on Manus Island: toilets ignored as water shortages continue
Scott Morrison’s visit to Manus Island has left asylum seekers there unimpressed. According to reports from the detention camp, Morrison spent 10 or 15...
Water crisis on Manus Island
Asylum seekers on Manus Island report that they have had five days of acute water shortages in the detention camp, and the crisis seems...
Crisis on Nauru: attempted suicide and more protests
An Iranian asylum seeker in the detention camp on Nauru attempted to hang himself yesterday (Monday, 25 February) at around 3.30pm. He was found...
More lip-stitching as protests on Nauru escalate
Asylum seekers on Nauru are now on their fourth day of a sustained protest, according to information supplied this evening to the Refugee Action...
Nauru refugees start lip-stitching; hunger-strike resumes
Reports received this afternoon (Tuesday February 19) by the Refugee Action Coalition from inside the detention camp on Nauru indicate that fifteen refugees have...
Hazaras to protest across Australia following horrific killings in Pakistan
Hazara groups will rally in cities across Australia tomorrow in response to the horrific killing of over 80 Hazara in Pakistan on Saturday (see...
