The Murdoch family's Australian newspaper and the Fairfax's Melbourne Age have spent a number of weeks helping the government in its campaign to destroy the credibility of the Baktiyaris, a Hazara family who are seeking asylum in
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The August 8 High Court decision that the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) had denied two applicants "natural justice" when its members lied about having studied all the material the applicants had submitted with their initial
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It is clear to many people, just from day-to-day experience, that public opinion has become enormously polarised on the issue of asylum seekers. This polarisation reflects a positive trend — that while support for the
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Since the MV Tampa incident one year ago, a broad and vibrant protest movement has developed. It is matched by no other social movement in recent years. The movement has swelled well beyond the ranks of those who have
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Two Indonesians of Chinese descent fled to Australia from Indonesia seeking asylum on the basis of religious and ethnic persecution after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998. Assessed as separate cases, they were
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After a two-year fight, the Badraie family, who fled to Australia from Iran in March 2000, have been granted refugee status and issued with temporary protection visas. The Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) announced its decision on
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Refugees on temporary protection visas make up an expanding component of the Australian government's intake of refugees. At the end of May, there were 8400 people living in Australia on TPVs. Between July 2000 and June 2001, more
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On July 24, the Australian government voted against the adoption of an optional protocol to strengthen the United Nations convention against torture. The government claimed its decision had nothing to do with preventing
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British Home Secretary David Blunkett and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy agreed on July 12 to a timetable for the closure of the Sangatte Red Cross Centre. Sangatte has become a gathering point for asylum seekers attempting
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"Offensive to human dignity — With these four words the UN human rights envoy, Justice Bhagwati, has encapsulated the moral vacuum at the heart of Australia's mandatory detention of refugees", wrote Howard Dick, an associate
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Dressed in riot gear, British police and immigration officers broke down the door of a mosque in Lye, West Midlands, with a battering ram in the early hours of July 24. Two Afghan asylum seekers who had sought sanctuary there 28
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Alamdar Baktiyari and his uncle, Mahzer, were among a number of detainees caught up in disturbances inside the Woomera detention centre on July 28. Detainees told the August 1 Sydney Morning Herald that an Afghan man required