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The release of 80 people from Australian detentions comes after the ground-breaking High Court decision on November 9, declaring indefinite immigration detention in Australia unlawful. The ruling overturns a 20-year-old precedent and could lead to the release of 12 more people, casting doubt on the detention of 340 others, with far-reaching implications for future detention …
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On Sunday, the Refugee Action Collective and Tamil Diaspora Association of Queensland marched through Brisbane calling for the Australian government to grant refugees in Brisbane permanent visas in place of the rolling three month bridging visas, which means they can’t get steady work, housing or Medicare. They say they are unable to go back to …
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Australia has had a complicated history with Indian Ocean territories, with such territories becoming areas for quarantine and detainment of asylum seekers. Some detainees, as we learn through harrowing accounts in Reneé Pettitt-Schipp‘s new book The Archipelago of Us, are held in centers for years, where they are mistreated, underfed and distressed. RTRFM’s Danae Gibson …
A documentary on award-winning Kurdish journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani – who spent over six years in detention in Manus – will be screening across the country. Behrouz, directed by Simon V Kurian and produced by Anji Kurian, was filmed in secret at the the Australian Immigration Detention Centre on Manus Island. Boochani …
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