Federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock was no doubt looking forward to a pleasant speaking engagement at the April 22 Commonwealth Lawyers' Association function in London.
A little awed by the illustrious status of the
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The Curtin detention centre, in the far north of Western Australia, was the scene of a mass protest by detainees on April 19 after an Iranian asylum seeker, stressed and agitated, went to the school building before dinner and
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Villawood detention centre in south-western Sydney is currently the prison of 417 asylum seekers, who are locked behind tall fences and coils of razor wire. Next to the centre are dozens of unused small brick houses, which were
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The April 2 Australian carried an opinion piece — "Refugee hard line is right" — written by Labor Party member and self-described "left-wing activist" Ivan Molloy. Molloy called for "reasoned criticism from a human rights
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In a March 30 media conference condemning protesters at Woomera detention centre, immigration minister Philip Ruddock asserted: "The bulk of the detention population in Australia today are not refugees", instead calling them
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At the end of March 2001, an estimated 450,000 New Zealand citizens — 2.3% of the Australian population — were visiting or living in Australia. Under various arrangements since the 1920s, there has been a free flow of people
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On March 21, federal Labor and Coalition MPs delivered another blow to the rights of refugees. With Labor's assistance, the government's Migration (Transitional Movement) Bill was ensured speedy passage through the House of
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The five-day hunger strike by 170 people imprisoned in the Woomera detention centre, which began on March 7, has received scant coverage in the mainstream media. This has made it difficult for asylum seekers to relay their protest
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Hundreds of detained asylum seekers from Afghanistan have been denied protection visas, despite recommendations from immigration department officers that they be granted. A spokesperson for immigration minister Philip Ruddock
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Tahmeena Faryal, a 23-year-old activist involved in the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), will be a featured speaker at the Second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference, which will be held in
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"We were taken on a bus to Midway Hostel, in Maribyrnong [in Melbourne's west], and for Vietnamese like us, who had suffered so much from the ravages of war and change, the welcome and care shown by the hostel staff moved us so
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A hunger strike by around 150 mostly Iraqi asylum seekers held in Woomera detention centre began on March 7. Fifteen shallow graves were dug, and detainees buried themselves up to their necks, indicating that they would rather be