When I was a very young woman, impressionable, pregnant with my first child, I watched a film about Oscar Romero, in which a young woman was dragged out of her bed in the dark of the night by the army of her country. She refused to be silenced by these young men she had grown… ...
Press release: Looking to the future - Extending the hand of welcome Looking to the future: Extending the hand of welcome as Afghani asylum seekers released from quarantine 10 September 2021 South Australian refugee advocates welcome the imminent release of newly arrived Afghani asylum seekers from 14 days of quarantine detention in Adelaide. After their traumatic… ...
(posted September 2021) Key dates August 25 - 20 year anniversary of the Tampa affair (Afghan refugees) August 31 - deadline for US troops to withdraw from Afghanistan September 8 - end of quarantine period for Afghan refugees who flew into Adelaide on 25th August. September 11 - 20 year anniversary of the terror attacks in… ...
Nearly six years into the revival of its offshore detention policy, Australia’s government is facing a story of corporate and administrative intrigue that highlights the utter unsustainability of our current approach to people seeking our protection. The details of Australia’s contract with a little-known security provider called Paladin, as first reported in the Australian Financial Review, were… ...
Expect to hear more noise from the crossbench when Parliament resumes, as pressure ramps up on the Federal Government to resettle refugees currently on Manus Island and Nauru. Just over 530 people have already been sent to the United States under the resettlement deal, but Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said the US would not be… ...
The federal government will set a new course for the nation's refugee program by putting a higher priority on migrants from South America amid a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Immigration officials have been told to open the door to more refugees from South America in a formal directive that is likely to change the make-up… ...
One of the asylum seekers the Norwegian cargo ship Tampa rescued in 2001 has won a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to undertake postgraduate studies in the US. Abbas Nazari was seven years old when his family boarded a fishing boat from Indonesia to Australia. He was one of more than 430 people, predominantly of the ethnic… ...
Australia should immediately release a legally blind and mentally ill Tamil refugee who has languished in immigration detention for nearly a decade, a key United Nations body has said. In a scathing assessment of the detention regime, the UN working group found Australia had contravened international law by detaining the man for more than nine years. It… ...
A refugee and torture survivor who has been incarcerated in “hellish” conditions by the Australian authorities since 2013 has appealed to be allowed to join his sister in the UK. In the first case of its kind, Thiraviyarajah Subramaniyam, 37, a Tamil from Sri Lanka, appealed in the UK immigration tribunal on Tuesday against a Home… ...
Majority of people brought from Manus Island and Nauru through the government’s own referral system, which previously ignored cases for up to five years. More than 40 people have been transferred to Australia for urgent medical treatment from Manus Island and Nauru since the passing of the medevac laws. The majority were brought to the mainland… ...