Almost exactly five years ago, then Immigration Minister Peter Dutton tried, and failed, to deport the Tamil family from Biloela to Sri Lanka.
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Refugees
Despite persistent harassment from local councils and police, after more than 80 days the refugee encampments demanding permanent visas are still standing strong in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.
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Refugees have begun a series of continuous 24-hour protests for permanent visas, with encampments in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane as well as protests in Adelaide.
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Refugees have dramatically stepped up their campaign for permanent visas, with encampments in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
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I spent yesterday evening watching Agnieszka Holland’s remarkable film “Green Border” which has just been released to streaming in the UK after spending about 30 seconds in cinemas. The episode that provides the film’s context is the 2021 decision of Alexander Lukashenko, dictator of Belarus and Putin’s puppet, to make use of refugees as a […]
Eleven years ago, on 19 July 2013, the then Labor Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, announced that the government had struck a deal to transfer all asylum-seekers who arrived by boat to Manus Island in PNG.
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On 7 June, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles caved in yet again to the Coalition’s relentless racist campaigning against immigration detainees.
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Opposition leader (as of publishing), Peter Dutton, has released his terrifying vision for the country, should he take the throne from current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. With the alternative Government planning to put a nuclear reactor in every backyard, have... Read More ›
The new Bill is Labor’s latest shocking, and desperate, measure to trash refugee rights.
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When 39 asylum-seekers were discovered at Beagle Bay, 150 kilometres north of Broome on 19 February, Opposition leader and former offshore detention jailer, Peter Dutton, thought he was on a winner for the Dunkley by-election just a couple of weeks away on 2 March.
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