Asylum Seekers
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Kurdish refugee sues federal government after spending 14 months in hotel detention
A refugee who claims he was unlawfully detained in two Melbourne hotels is suing the Australian government. SBS News If…
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For eight years, Australia has been taking refugees as hostages. It’s time to ask: who has benefited?
Eight years have passed since the Australian government mandated offshore detention for all asylum seekers who arrive by boat, which…
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Behrouz Boochani: ‘Human beings don’t have a place to go but to other human beings.’
You’ve described yourself as a child of war. Benjamin Law Good Weekend Magazine in The Age What did your childhood…
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Three countries, eight years: one refugee’s nightmare odyssey through Australia’s detention system
Loghman Sawari was a child when they sent him to what he calls the “prison island”. Ben Doherty The Guardian…
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UK offshore asylum plan is just another way of imposing forced movement on vulnerable people
This is part of the UK government’s proposed UK Nationality and Borders Bill. Leonie Ansems de Vries The Conversation Though…
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Today marks the day in Britain that millions of neighbours become foreigners
“We asked for workers, we got human beings instead,” was how the Swiss author Max Frisch summed up the “guest…
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Refugees have fled to Australia seeking a better life, but many are in limbo
But instead, she says she’s been constantly treated like a number, not a person. Shamsiya Hussainpoor ABC News “I’ve been…
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Doubts rise over Australia’s offshore handling of refugees
European conservatives’ go-to model for ending illegal immigration doesn’t look so solid anymore. Keely Sullivan Politico For the first time…
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7 Facts You Need To Know For World Refugee Day
Since 2001, the United Nations and more than 100 countries have observed World Refugee Day annually on June 20th. Global Giving The…
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Resettling refugees in other countries is not reliable, nor is it fair.
The federal government has scrambled in recent days to minimise the political fallout from its treatment of the Tamil family…
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Detaining Refugees Indefinitely: The Executive v The Judiciary
Recently, a Federal Court Judge ordered the immediate release of a young man from immigration detention. The man had been…
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Kamala Harris criticised over ‘disappointing’ remarks on America’s migration crisis and border policy
Back from her debut international mission as US vice president, Kamala Harris caught flak from Republican critics accusing her of…
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View from The Hill: the Morrison government has escape hatch in Tamil family case – if it wants to use it
These were sending the family to New Zealand or to the United States. Michelle Grattan The Conversation It’s now said…
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New law allows Australian government to indefinitely detain refugees
Human rights groups – and parliament’s own human rights committee – say a new law pushed through parliament gives the…
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Former PM Turnbull backflips on detained Biloela family
Mr Turnbull was prime minister when Priya, Nades and their two young daughters were taken from Biloela in central Queensland…
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Kristina Keneally to make own way to Christmas Island after Peter Dutton blocks use of RAAF jet
Labor senator Kristina Keneally will make her own way to Christmas Island to visit a Tamil family who have been…
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