Australian immigration and asylum
Latest news affecting Australian immigration and asylum from the Guardian
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Exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne seek to humanise asylum seekers, so they are not viewed exclusively ‘through the lens of their past suffering’
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Scovia Anzoa and Akoor Dhelbai, who came to Australia on humanitarian visas talk about their passion for playing Aussie Rules
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Policies on solitary confinement, and many more documents from inside the Northern Territory facility, are key to unlocking what happened inside Don Dale
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Two of the 10,000 asylum seekers whose personal details were disclosed on the immigration department website had their refugee claims fairly assessed, finds court
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Iranian refugee, who draws under the name Eaten Fish, has chronicled his detention on Manus Island over more than 900 days
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Human rights advocates say inquiry should be expanded to including ‘all children deprived of their liberty by the Australian government’
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Section 42 carries a two-year jail term for anyone who makes an ‘unauthorised disclosure’ about conditions in the camps
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The Human Rights Commission president responds to shocking footage from a Darwin detention centre showing the abuse of children on Q&A.
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Directors and employers of Ferrovial told they risk prosecution over firm’s role at offshore detention sites
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Ordered to amputate the limbs of deserters from the Iraqi army or be shot, Dr Munjed Al Muderis hid and fled. In the latest film in the Guardian’s series on refugees in Australia, he tells his astonishing story: how he went on to Christmas Island, spent 10 months in a detention centre and now carries out pioneering reconstructive surgery in Sydney, inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator. ‘I was born very comfortably, I had a silver spoon in my mouth … I never expected that I would end up in a boat coming to Australia’
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Deputy prime minister says comparing all Muslims to terrorists is like equating all Catholics with the ‘crazy criminals’ of the IRA
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The terrible true story of Mr Eaten Fish, Manus Island cartoonist
First Dog on the MoonAli is 24 years old. He is from Iran and is an artist. I ask Ali, what is it like to live on Manus Island? Every day the same like the last 800 days, he tells me
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Remember Howard Beale from the movie Network, the prophet of the angry and disillusioned? There’s a lot of Beale in Pauline Hanson
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‘We don’t have discrimination on the basis of religion when it comes to immigration and nor should we,’ says assistant minister for multicultural affairs
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The cross-party initiative has the support of Lord Ashdown, Jonathon Porritt and Caroline Criado-Perez, and is looking at fielding candidates in the next general election
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Exemption is the subject of a high court challenge by the MUA and Australian Maritime Officers Union
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Podcast Dr Munjed Al Muderis' journey to Australia – Behind the Lines podcast