Refugees

“The detention policy has failed as a deterrant and succeeded only as a punishment. How much longer will children and their families be punished for seeking safety from persecution?” This question was asked by...

Why is there sympathy for those fleeing Syria but contempt for refugees on Nauru? The plight of refugees fleeing deadly conflict in the Middle East has generated huge sympathy across the world. In many countries...

The scapegoating of refugees by political elites has plunged to new lows as life continues to worsen for refugees in onshore and offshore detention. Disturbing reports of violence against refugees released into the community...

In a tragic start to 2014, up to 700 imprisoned asylum seekers on Manus Island went on a hunger strike. The refugees were desperately protesting against the decision to resettle some of them in...

Community pickets were set up at the Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney's west in early April. The aim was to physically block the transfer of 83 imprisoned asylum seekers to a remote facility in...

Last month refugee rights advocates celebrated a small victory when Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, CEO of Transfield Holdings, was successfully pressured into resigning as chairman of the Biennale of Sydney. His departure, and Transfield’s defunding of...

The first two months of 2014 have seen the Government further escalate its brutal policies of refugee ‘deterrence’ and demonisation. The violent treatment of refugees by the Navy and the private companies overseeing the...

Since Tony Abbott’s election late last year we have seen the situation facing those seeking asylum in Australia go from bad to worse. In recent months doctors working in refugee detention centres have written...