Australia is accepting an additional 4000 refugees from Malaysia. This is to be applauded.
Yesterday three asylum seekers at Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) in Broadmeadows sewed their lips together and posted the photos on Facebook, writes freelance journalist Greg Foyster.
Men held at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre are concerned about the length of time taken for decisions and the arbitrary nature of the refugee process, writes Pamela Curr, campaign co-ordinator at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
A member of a Tasmanian community choir was refused entry to the United Kingdom on Tuesday and deported because she was deemed to be trying to enter under false pretences, writes Margaretta Pos in Hobart.
Atop the roof of Darwin’s Northern Immigration Detention Centre (NIDC), Habib Habiburahman sits in protest. He has entered day five of a hunger strike in an attempt to raise awareness of his situation after 18 months in indefinite detention as an asylum seeker, writes Nigel O’Connor.
Pulitzer Prize journalist Jose Antonio Vargas reveals that he is an undocumented migrant in the US, arriving on a fake passport as a child and never receiving legal status despite decades of living in the States.
A new report released today has heaped further criticism on the conditions faced by children at the Christmas Island detention centre, with the group behind the research calling for a time limit on the detention of children.
The "race to the bottom" in our treatment of asylum seekers is littered with misinformation and untruth, writes John Menadue, a director of the Centre for Policy Development.
New SBS reality TV show/doco on refugees, Go Back to Where You Came From, is already getting international coverage. Matt Siegel explains that not all the participants had their mind changed by the experience.
Latest figures from the UN high commission for refugees says that 43.7 million people were displaced by war or natural disasters during 2010, with most refugees fleeing to the developing nations of Pakistan, Iran and Syria.
