Refugees
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Legacy boat arrivals: Is a decade of policy paralysis about to be addressed?
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says the Government will shortly announce a ‘humane resolution’ to the situation of 31,000 legacy boat arrivals who…
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Children go hungry at Kenya refugee camp as malnutrition numbers soar
Malnutrition among children in one of the world’s largest refugee camps has surged over the past year as concerns grow…
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Immigration detainee not given new food because maggots ‘just on the vegetables’, report finds
An immigration detainee served a contaminated meal was not offered an alternative because the maggots were “just on the vegetables”,…
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Resettlement for People from Nauru to New Zealand Needs Urgent Fast Tracking to End Cruelty of Offshore Detention
Amnesty International understands that four more people were due to arrive in Aotearoa New Zealand today after spending years in…
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In Australia’s severe rental crisis, asylum seekers are increasingly desperate for a place to live
Asylum seekers in Australia are increasingly at risk of homelessness as the rental crisis continues to bite, with more than 70%…
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Thousands of Ukrainian refugees living in hotels as councils struggle to deal with rising homelessness
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees are being housed in hotels as councils struggle to deal with a rising number becoming homeless. Holly Bancroft…
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Spanish police arrest 43 in crackdown on migrant worker exploitation
Spanish police they have broken up a criminal group that exploited undocumented migrant workers in the agricultural sector, mainly from…
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Legal challenge to Australia’s indefinite immigration detention could determine freedom of hundreds
Advocates believe Egyptian man’s case paves way to possibly overturn 2004 decision upholding indefinite detention by Migration Act Paul Karp…
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‘I can see my family again’: More than 19,000 refugees to qualify for permanent residency
The change will mean the refugees would be able to freely leave the country and return, to access secure work…
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‘Hardly anyone is getting off’: despite Labor’s promises, refugees needing urgent medical care remain on Nauru
An Afghan refugee in offshore detention since 2013 has had two doctors’ referrals for overseas treatment, but has not been…
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Packed-out lecture hears Behrouz Boochani talk of freedom
Refugee Advice and Casework service with the University of New South Wales Centre for Ideas and the Kaldor Centre for…
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Should Australia create ‘settlement cities’ for refugees? Here’s why some say yes
Afghan refugee Hamid Arfany is living in the Victorian city of Dandenong and says he has felt welcome in the…
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Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp
I thus find myself drawn to thinking about Behrouz Boochani’s project of writing the histories of Manus Prison as being part of…
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Behrouz Boochani was told he would never set foot in Australia. He just did
Kurdish refugee and writer Behrouz Boochani has landed in Australia years after the previous government insisted he would never be…
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Finding Hope as a Teenage Refugee – Shabnam’s Story
When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last year, Shabnam Safa watched on with more trepidation than most. Georgia Free hope103.2…
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Refugee’s mission to help others find work
The Iranian refugee was aboard an overcrowded boat that sank en route from Indonesia to Christmas Island. More than 200…
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