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  1. Coalition unveils new plans to persecute refugees

    would entail a 鈥渘avy blockade鈥 in international waters 鈥 which would be illegal under international ... reach Australian territorial waters, where they could ostensibly apply for protection. But the Coalition ...

  2. Refugees: How Australia makes Nauru do its bidding

    Desalination is necessary because the island has almost no fresh water supply. Its arid landscape and lack of ... imported fresh water, foodstuffs and almost everything else. Yet its unemployment rate tops 90%, again due ...

  3. Australia鈥檚 deadly refugee system

    thousand that reach Australian waters, many thousands more endure horrific conditions in so-called transit ... odds and reach Australian waters, the federal government uses other tactics to deny their rights as ...

  4. Fortress Australia claims more lives

    It was the sixth vessel carrying asylum seekers to arrive in Australian waters this year and was ... it when it arrived in Australian waters. Australia April 18, 2009 791 Analysis ...

  5. Boats a last resort 鈥 let them stay

    reach Australian waters to 10 this year. There is, in fact, a genuine surge around the world of people ... way to Australian waters by boat hardly win preferential treatment for their risks. "The UN has ...

  6. Refugee policy risks more lives

    authorities refused to take responsibility for it, because the incident occurred in Indonesian waters, said ... smuggling" in an attempt to stop those fleeing war and conflict from making it to Australian waters. Prime ...

  7. Labor to force Aborigines off their land

    Australia's Aboriginal communities, says it will struggle to deliver water, power and sewerage services to ... missionaries would provide food, water and other provisions. By the 20 th century huge reserves, such as ...

  8. UN urges ban on sending children to Manus Island

    areas were extremely muddy and in some places there were large amounts of standing water.鈥 An ...

  9. Doctors accuse government of harming refugees

    Australian waters who are seeking protection,鈥 he wrote. 鈥淭he individuals responsible, and appropriate to be ...

  10. Refugees bound for Nauru and Manus Island mount desperate resistance

    Another boat that arrived in Australian waters on August 11, before the Gillard-imposed cut-off, has been ...

  11. Government pushes for offshore detention

    where 24-hour electricity and access to fresh water are still problems for the majority, and the price ...

  12. A few refugees freed, most still detained

    refugees arrived in Australian waters on November 24, Bowen said: 鈥淭his is exactly what we warned would ...

  13. Refugees: targeted in transit, forgotten when they arrive

    Refugees. This year, 16 boats have made it close enough to Australian waters to warrant interception and ...

  14. Bowen ignores rights of refugee 'close to death'

    hospital, he began refusing water on November 22 and tried to cut the veins in his arms two days later. 聽 He ... 30 days already. Five are now refusing water, several have collapsed and most are determined to ...

  15. What's behind government refugee bashing?

    with the Indonesia government to intercept the refugees' boat before it entered Australian waters ... dangerous waters and funded detention of asylum seekers in transit countries 鈥 was too soft. The poll also ...

  16. Abbott鈥檚 refugee policies: What to expect in the coming year

    The Coalition and the navy's media blackout on boat arrivals and 鈥渙n-water鈥 operational matters, ...

  17. High Court hears details of missing asylum seekers

    thatched huts, others in small cement block houses; water and sanitation are problematic in the more remote ...

  18. Why Manus Island conditions are fatal

    water and paracetamol was common treatment.鈥 Asylum seekers could not self-administer paracetamol or ...

  19. A baby with nowhere that's safe: Court finds Baby Ferouz has no right to refugee status

    compounds, such as limited clean water, filthy toilet facilities, inadequate medical care and the island鈥檚 ...

  20. Tony Abbott鈥檚 boat claim stopped by facts

    by forcing passengers into lifeboats and directing them back to Indonesian waters or, in the case of ...

  21. Notorious firm G4S to run refugee prison camp on Manus Island

    food or water and no toilet breaks. Aboriginal man Mr Ward died in an overheated GSL prison van in ...

  22. Protesting refugees upset Aust鈥檚 cruel Nauru plan

    are refusing water in a bid to have the department of immigration hear their claims for asylum. ...

  23. Extreme self-harm rises on Nauru and Manus Island

    arrived in Australian waters. Related articles: Ten thousand refugees held in Australian detention. ...

  24. Report shows privatisation destroys jobs and services

    workers across the electricity, gas, water and waste services in August 1995 to 6000 in August 2012. ...

  25. Coalition to stop media reporting on the boats

    Sovereign Borders would include more navy vessels and a military-like patrol of northern waters. Abbott has ...

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