Nauru’s Refugee Stain: Australia’s Continued Offshore Processing Regime
The last refugee, for now, has left the small, guano-producing state of Nauru. For a decade, the Pacific Island state served as one of Australia’s […]
Social Justice
Australia’s Humanitarian Visa System is Inhumane: An Open Letter to Immigration Minister Andrew Giles
By Loz Lawrey Dear Minister Giles, Since my previous emails to you of 14 and 25 April and 5 May 2023 have received no answer […]
Desperate PNG refugee attempts self-immolation after years of neglect
Refugee Action Coalition Media Release A 46-year-old Iranian refugee doused himself, and an office, in petrol yesterday morning (Wednesday 10 May) threatening to set himself […]
Trashing Asylum: The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill
He was standing before a lectern at Downing Street. The words on the support looked eerily similar to those used by the politicians of another […]
High Court fight for safe housing in remote Indigenous communities has far-reaching implications for renters nationwide
Grata Fund: Media Release On Thursday 16 March from 9.45am, the High Court of Australia will consider whether compensation is available for distress or disappointment […]
Neo-Nazi sentenced to jail for attack on anti-racist’s house
Media Release Desmond Liddington, a neo-Nazi extremist who pleaded guilty to his part in the attack on the home of Black Lives Matter activist Padraic ‘Paddy’ Gibson, in 2021, […]
Home Affairs Escalation Required
By Jane Salmon As Sent to Andrew Giles, Clare O’Neil, Anthony Albanese, Tony Burke, Chris Bowen, Richard Marles, Penny Wong, Bill Shorten, Ged Kearney. Happy […]
Our very own Marie Antoinette moment
It is a sign of the times that, within the worst cost-of-living crisis in Australia for nearly a century, we are even contemplating the return […]
Farhad Bandesh gets the letter
By Jane Salmon This sadistic letter (see letter at the bottom of this article) is doing the rounds of Medevac survivors on Bridging Visas. It […]
When does neglect under “Sovereign Borders” become a war crime?
By Jane Salmon Afghans living overseas are certainly refugees since the fall of Kabul and US withdrawal a year ago. Therefore, the Hazara minority, who […]
Refugees and Changing Political Narratives
By Andrew Klein The challenges of the Global Refugee Crisis often appear unmet or lost in the narrative of political leaders attempting to use the […]
The transphobia “moral” panic
People contributing to anti trans rhetoric are playing a much more dangerous game than they realise. The current wave of anti-trans sentiment will lead to […]
Beyond Bilo
Advocates look to RESET Australia’s Refugee Policy After #HometoBiloela Media Release 12 June 2022 “This is a weekend of rejoicing for thousands of Australians as […]
Advocates calling for more collaboration with Indonesia on refugee issues
People Just Like Us (PJLU) Media Release Representatives of the new Albanese Labor Government visited Indonesia this week. Refugee advocacy group, People Just Like Us, […]
The savagery of ignorance – We will decide
By David Ayliffe “We will decide” When the savagery of ignorance makes the savagery of innocence The cruellest cut of all. “Who will come.” As […]