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  1. Les Murray defends heroic 'people smugglers'

    13 forum 鈥淪muggled to Freedom鈥 to hear SBS sports commentator Les Murray tell his family鈥檚 story of ... sentencing trends for people smuggling were escalating, due in part to a rise in the number of boats, but ...

  2. Afghans to be sent back to danger

    a fair legal process triggered the hunger strike. The rising rate of failed asylum requests of refugees ... that country. It is like signing an agreement with our enemy. Is that humanity? 鈥淲e want freedom or ... death, protection not detention.鈥 Refugee support group RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees) said ...

  3. History reminds us to protect refugees

    operations, mandatory detention, rising involuntary returns and the enforced 鈥渦nderclass鈥 of asylum seekers ... conditions forced on German Jews, they continued to flee Nazi Germany in ever rising numbers 鈥 a sure ... rise in asylum boats being captured by the Sri Lankan navy, and the passengers arrested, were ...

  4. Refugees left homeless as government drops responsibility

    glimpse of freedom is felt by many asylum seekers who, after years in detention, see an opportunity to ... bridging visa holders. Crisis centres say they are turning away rising numbers of asylum seekers. Some ... with a black-mark credit history. It all leads to rising numbers of asylum seekers resorting to ...

  5. Inquiry annoys big media, but could hurt alternative media

    local news and two-thirds of international news from the internet. The freedom to spread news and ... analysis online has led to a rise in alternative news websites and blogs. Alternative media such GLW can ... From a certain point of view, it begins to look like an impost on diversity and media freedom ...

  6. Refugee policy risks more lives

    for a "coordinated global plan" to tackle the rising numbers of asylum seekers across the ... world neglected the most important point: the desperate people who risk their lives for freedom. In ... more than 800 refugees. The numbers of refugees moving across the world continues to rise. Both the PM ...

  7. Australia鈥檚 border control policies leave refugees to die

    that 鈥減eople smugglers鈥 were running a 鈥渃losing down sale鈥 to explain the rise in boats in the wake of ... control correspondence from cables released under Freedom of Information that say a sinking or missing ...

  8. Mandatory detention is the real crime

    since it took office. Time in detention has grown unbearably long for thousands of people and rising ... call for a total end to mandatory detention, the closure of all detention centres and freedom and ...

  9. Rudd's policy is racist 鈥 refugees are not illegal

    climate change are causing a rise in refugees worldwide. Shortly after Australia strong-armed Indonesian ... trying to find safety and freedom for themselves and their families. The 1951 UN refugee convention ...