AFP September 26, 20128:08PM
INDONESIAN police have arrested 119 Afghans and two Iranians moments before they were to board a rickety boat to Australia to seek asylum, having earlier fled a detention centre.
The migrants were travelling on three buses towards a beach in West Java province when they were stopped, district immigration chief Tito […]
The West AustralianUpdated September 26, 2012, 6:30 pm Australian authorities have rescued 55 people on a suspected asylum seeker boat northwest of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, off WA.
Customs vessel Hervey Bay “rendered assistance” to the passengers on board the boat last night, Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said in a statement today.
The boat […]
September 26, 2012
THE federal government has begun moving asylum seekers from Christmas Island to the Australian mainland, despite their having arrived after Labor’s deadline for its Pacific solution.
The transfer has been forced by overcrowding on Christmas Island and the move threatens to undermine government attempts to deter boatloads of irregular migrants by sending […]
By Ehssan Veiszadeh and Paul Osborne From:AAP September 25, 2012 5:19PM
ANOTHER 24 asylum seekers have been transferred to Nauru’s offshore processing detention centre, amid warnings the facility will not be adequately equipped to deal with mental health problems.
A FOURTH GROUP OF 24 ASYLUM SEEKERS HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO NAURU, THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT SAYS. AAP
The […]
September 25, 2012 Dylan Welch National Security Correspondent
Nauru’s Topside asylum seeker processing centre. Photo: Joe Armao
THE head of health services in Nauru has asked that women and children asylum seekers not be sent to the tiny Pacific island, and has revealed that Nauru would be unable to cope with any […]
The Refugee Rights Action Network and other refugee advocate groups around the country are calling for a national rally on the 14th of October against the Pacific Solution.
Sending asylum seekers to Nauru is inhumane and in contravention to our international obligations to process refugee claims.
So join us at 1 o’clock outside Wesley Church […]
It was recently announced that the government would be sending asylum seekers to Nauru by the end of the week. Pictures have emerged on twitter from ABC journalist, Kirrin McKechnie, giving us a glimpse of what conditions on the island are at present. It does not paint a pleasant picture.
Nauru has only gutters and […]
The Refugee Rights Action Network is calling for a snap action outside her office, this Friday the 7th of September at 12 o’clock.
The Refugee Rights Action Network condemns Julie Bishop and Tony Abbott’s recent comments advocating for the deportation of Tamil asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka.
Ms Bishop made these claims on the […]
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