The Aid Budget Is Not An ATM
The budget confirmed what many feared – Australia will continue to fail to honour its…More
Browsing: Asylum Seekers
Let Compassion Define Us Now
On Monday in Canberra, with Foreign Minister Bob Carr and other dignitaries in attendance, the…More
Why One Man Fled Sri Lanka
I have spent the past week helping a Melbourne man who was brutally tortured in…More
Hunger Strike Refugees 'Kept Isolated'
Twenty-five indefinitely detained refugees are now on the fifth day of their hunger strike at…More
Melbourne Hunger Strike Hits Day Two
In the early hours of yesterday morning 28 refugees began a hunger strike at the…More
Detention Limbo Claims Another Tamil Victim
Only last week I wrote about a Tamil refugee detained for almost four years who…More
'Lost Cause' Tamil Refugee On Suicide Watch
Refugee advocates say a Tamil man in his early 30s was taken to Royal Melbourne…More
The World's 'Third Worst' Firm Runs Manus
Asylum seekers on Manus Island say their hopes were crushed by visits from the Minister…More
Deported Tamils Brutally Tortured
The Australian Government’s insistence that Tamil asylum seekers can return safely to Sri Lanka has…More
'No Woman Has The Right To Have A Voice'
This week New Matilda published letters written by Iranian women in detention on Manus Island.…More