Curtin is situated inside an Australian Airforce Base, around 30 minutes drive from Derby, and can only be accessed by prior arrangement with Serco. Crikey paid a visit.
Returning failed asylum seekers is a necessary part of implementing the 1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the subsequent 1967 protocol, writes Caz Coleman, a member of the Council for Immigration Services and Status Resolution
Republican presidential nominees discussed an electric fence being built on the Mexican border. But unemployment, border security and drug cartels along the border have seen a huge drop in numbers of locals leaving Mexico.
There is a Tamil man from the north of Sri Lanka, sitting in an Immigration detention facility in Victoria. He has been assessed as a refugee but is not allowed to be released.
Serco is the company that runs detention centres in Australia. New Matilda uncovers for the official contract between Serco and the Department of Immigration, outlining the experience required of Serco staff and how it deals with issues of detainee depression.
Twenty-seven people are feared dead after an boat packed with asylum seekers bound for Australia sank off the coast of Indonesia last week.
Crikey media wrap: The latest government criticisms come from the prime minister herself, with Julia Gillard publicly reprimimanding her colleagues for breaching cabinet confidentiality last week on a debate about asylum seekers.
Crikey media wrap: Australia will now process all asylum seekers onshore, despite both the government and Opposition supporting offshore processing for those that come by boat.
The Labor Party appears to be stringing out debate on a number of relatively non-consequential bills in the House of Representatives this morning to avoid a vote on its controversial Malaysia refugee swap legislation.
Regardless of the Malaysia Solution, there is a significant argument for engaging with transit countries in our region that bear the burden of hosting far more asylum seekers than Australia does, writes immigration adviser Caz Coleman.
