Critical medical care decisions are now back in the hands of bureaucrats. Those suffering on Manus Island and Nauru will not be surprised.
Charter company Skytraders has turned a healthy profit by tapping into lucrative asylum seeker deportation contracts with Home Affairs. But is it worth the reputational cost?
Nineteen-month-old Isabella has spent her entire life in an Australian detention centre. Now there are fears she may be separated from her mother.
Award-winning journalist Behrouz Boochani has been given a reprieve, albeit perhaps briefly, in New Zealand. It's a move that will strain trans-Tasman relations.
Almost $27 million has been spent on the facility this year, and the Biloela family are the only people housed there. So why are the conditions so bad?
A secret review into refugee employment reportedly urges the prime minister to adopt a new narrative.
From charter flights to court fees to the massive cost of holding someone in detention, the government has spent upward of $2 million trying to deport a family of asylum seekers.
Lawyers for Biloela's young Tamil family are trying to find a legal loophole that will allow them to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
Traditional media has been out of step with its audience on this issue since Tampa — and the government knows it.
Crikey unpacks the ugly history behind the phrase "anchor babies", and how it relates to where Australia and the US are now.
