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...
The world has been enthralled with the loss, and then remarkable rescue, of the young Thai footballers and their coach in the Thai caves. So many lessons have been learned and above all we have seen how much can be achieved with team work and what obstacles can be...
Saturday, 21 July at 2pm State Library of Victoria This July will mark 5 years since the “PNG solution” was announced. 5 years of limbo in offshore detention. Over one and a half years since ‘US refugee deal’ announced. 2 years since Manus was declared illegal. 11...
The following article has to make any decent minded Australian wonder at the price our leaders are prepared to pay to remain in power and the extent to which a majority of us are prepared to condone what is being done in our name. “The bare facts make Akam’s case...
