One more confirmed COVID case at Park hotel as refugees locked down

One more refugee has been confirmed with Covid at lunchtime today (Tuesday 19 October) as most refugees in the Park hotel in Melbourne are...

Melbourne detention on COVID alert

IHMS staff tested all people detained in Bass 2 compound for Covid Friday night, just hours after Border Force declared that they were considered...

Melbourne detention centre locked down after another SERCO officer tests positive for COVID

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...

Government disgracefully deserts PNG refugees; it’s time to end offshore detention, free the Medevac...

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...

Another SERCO workers in Melbourne detention centre is COVID positive

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...

Still no COVID testing in MITA after guards test positive

Refugee advocates have accused Covid commander Jeroen Weimar, and the Australian Border Force, of being less than forthcoming with the truth about Covid in...

Two MITA detention security guards test COVID positive

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...

Australian government must grant permanent visas and increase refugee intake from Afghanistan

The Refugee Action Coalition has rejected Prime Minister Morrison’s statement that Australia’s humanitarian refugee intake will be left at 13,750, even if increased numbers...

Darwin refugee family fights for freedom

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...

Three refugees in hospital after fourteen days on hunger strike

Concerns are growing for the welfare of 10 Medevac refugees in the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) who have been on hunger strike protest...