Up to 1,600 cases of asylum seekers who were deemed to have entered Australia via Ashmore Reef and therefore made subject to offshore processing may need to be revisited. Photograph: Royal Australian Navy/PR IMAGE The various attacks on the law being made by the...
Australian expat Tom Burmester and former Manus Island detainee Pyae Sone Aung watch a World Cup game in Portland. Nearly all the stories we hear about the asylum seekers being held in detention on Nauru and Manus Islands are grim. Occasionally there are ‘good news’...
Photograph – SBS World News As Ben Doherty reports in The Guardian, Australian Edition, Karthika Gnaneswaran says she and her 10 month-old daughter have been devastated by Thileepan’s removal....
During Refugee Week Port Phillip Council wrote to the Federal Government calling on it to reverse income support cuts to thousands of asylum seekers. One would hope that the Government would take notice of this request and this action also gives moral support to...
