According to Victorian Greens refugee spokesperson Pamela Curr, the three remaining asylum seekers on Christmas Island were secretly removed at 3am on March 25.
"A specially chartered plane came in from [Papua] New Guinea", she
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At the end of March, Baxter detainees wrote an open letter to the Australian people. It said, in part, “The government policy is so hard, so tough — they don't want to grant us protection, even on humanitarian grounds. At
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The war against Iraq, the US government and its allies say, is being waged for a just and moral cause — to free the Iraqi people from a despotic and brutal dictator, to allow the people of Iraq to build a free and democratic
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On March 12, an immigration department media release announced that the Australian and Iranian governments had signed a memorandum of understanding to "promote the legal and mutually beneficial movement of people between the two
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Thousands of refugees' rights supporters from around the country are set to converge over the Easter weekend on the Australian government's latest concentration camp — the Baxter detention centre, near Port Augusta in South
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In the past six years, there has been a rapid decline — from 80% to 70% — in the proportion of doctors who bulk-bill their patients, charging the government direct, rather than charging the patient a fee. If this rate of
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A deepening of Australia's military alliance with the United States was heralded by the February 26 launch of Australia's National Security — a Defence Update 2003. While much of the 25-page document foreshadows only marginal
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The decline in bulk-billing by doctors has been making headlines for weeks. In February, it was revealed that the percentage of doctors who bill Medicare directly and do not bill patients has dropped dramatically under the
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Betty Dixon, a 73-year-old grandmother from Goulburn, NSW, is an indication of the growing diversity of the refugees' rights movement. Dixon describes herself as an activist. She has visited Woomera detention centre three times
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A war on Iraq would create an unparalleled humanitarian crisis and generate a massive outflow of refugees, according to a confidential United Nations High Commission for Refugees document leaked in January. The UNHCR document
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In the last weeks, further incidents of abuse of asylum seekers have come to light at detention centres on Christmas Island, Nauru and Woomera. An Iraqi woman, detained on Christmas Island with her husband and two children, was
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On December 20, Afghan refugee Riz Wakil, living on a temporary protection visa that is about to expire, received a letter from the immigration department. The letter informed him that he had until June 30 to take up the