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On April 25, Abu Quassey was deported from Indonesia to Egypt. Quassey had admitted his responsibility for helping to organise the fatal SIEV-X voyage, in which 353 asylum seekers died on October 19, 2001, while trying to reach

"We chose Australia as a country of justice and freedom", Iranian asylum seekers in Port Hedland detention centre wrote in an open letter to the Australian people on March 14. They were horrified, however, by what they found.

The nightmare of US health care — where medical bills are the highest cause of bankruptcy and 42 million people have no access to care — may be around the corner for Australia, as the Coalition government prepares to use the

The Coalition government argues that it is impossible to provide a world-class health care system that is free to all citizens at the point of delivery. Yet that's exactly what a Third World country in the Caribbean has been able

Ebrihim Sammaki fled Iran after the fall of the Shah, and fell in love with an Indonesian woman, Endong, while he was living in Indonesia. Nine years ago, they married and had two children. Then, two years ago, Ebrihim

On April 15, the full bench of the Federal Court found that the government has limited powers to detain asylum seekers, and cannot detain them indefinitely as they await deportation. The court found that, in order to

With chaos, violence and a humanitarian crisis in Iraq, the Australian government is wasting no time in preparing to send Iraqi refugees home. Immigration minister Philip Ruddock told Channel Nine's Sunday program on April 13 that

Mohib and Fatima Sarwari and their four children were arrested by police at their home in Launceston, Tasmania, on December 5 and taken to the Baxter detention centre. Their 'crime"? They failed to correctly notify the immigration

Hundreds of refugee-rights campaigners will converge on Baxter detention centre from all over Australia on the Easter weekend to focus the national spotlight on the horrors of mandatory detention. There is disconetent among local

SYDNEY — “Student protest hijacked by hatred”, Sydney’s tabloid rag the Daily Telegraph declared, the day after the March 26 10,000-strong student anti-war protest. The newspaper argued that the rally was “ambushed” by a

Former Australian diplomat Tony Kevin has this month been awarded international whistleblower of the year by the respected UK-based organisation Index on Censorship. The citation for Kevin's award reads: "The former Australian

Afghan refugees, some of whom have lived in Australia for three years, are being taken from their houses in the early hours of the morning and put into detention because the immigration department argues that they are not