Asylum Seekers
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Why a proposed law to use secret evidence to deport migrants has rights groups concerned
There are widespread fears a proposed law allowing visas to be cancelled based on secret evidence could deny migrants their…
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Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the…
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‘Over the moon’: 10 Afghan orphans start new life in Australia but fear for others still trying to flee
As the Taliban tightened its grip on power in Afghanistan – casting girls from schools, ordering women home from work, and…
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Asylum seeker processing in Nauru cemented by new agreement
Asylum seekers who try to enter Australia by boat will continue to be turned away and sent to Nauru for…
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Men on horses chasing Black asylum seekers? Sadly, America has seen it before
That’s beyond cynical Moustafa Bayoumi The Guardian You’ve probably seen a photograph haunting the internet this week: a white-presenting man…
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The cruel sea
First there’s only darkness as we pound across black water. Suddenly, the boat appears, illuminated in the moonlight. Eric Campbell…
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Twenty years since Tampa, can we turn the tide on empathy?
Tampa was the moment that has determined our asylum seeker policies ever since, especially our brutal practice of indefinite, offshore…
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How an Afghan refugee crisis at sea transformed Australia policy
Melbourne, Australia – In August 2001, an Indonesian fishing boat carrying 433 asylum seekers was en route to Australia’s Christmas Island,…
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The Tampa affair shocked the world. Twenty years on, those involved tell their stories
When Christian Maltau, the chief officer on the Norwegian shipping container ship MV Tampa, helped to rescue more than 400 asylum seekers…
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‘They Seem To Be Afraid’: Refugee Advocates Say Biden Must Do More
Refugee advocates are running out of patience with President Joe Biden’s administration, as their high hopes for progress after four…
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‘We had to speak up for our friends’: the little town that roared for a desperate family
Then the rural Queensland community learnt to crowdfund, hashtag and take to the world stage – all in the name…
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No permanent settlement for Afghans who did not come ‘the right way’: Morrison
These people had not come “the right way”, Morrison told a news conference on Wednesday. Michelle Grattan The Conversation “I…
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Advocates call on Biden admin to halt deportation of Haitian asylum-seekers following earthquake
They said at least two deportation flights expelled migrants to Haiti in the days preceding the earthquake. Gabe Ortiz Daily…
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Afghan refugees can no longer wait — Australia must offer permanent protection now
The scenes at Kabul airport yesterday were far from orderly, though US forces are now reportedly working to secure the airport…
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Cruel, costly and ineffective: Australia’s offshore processing asylum seeker policy turns 9
Nine long years of a cruel, costly and ineffective policy sustained by successive governments of both major parties, despite consistently…
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EU officials play down prospects of Afghan deportations as war rages
A senior EU official on Tuesday pushed back against a plea from several EU countries to continue deportations of rejected…
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