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About 50 refugees from Nauru and Manus Island will leave in the next week to ten days for resettlement in the US.
Like Australia and the US before it, Europe is now flirting with the idea of processing centres for refugees in transit countries.
Indonesia’s decree on refugees honours a customary international law obligation of non-refoulement, or not expelling or returning refugees.
BBC Panorama has exposed violence and abuse of detainees at Brook House immigration removal centre.
Police used water cannons and tear gas to remove a group of migrants and refugees from a square in Rome in August.
The Australian government had and has the power to do things necessary to establish and maintain its immigration detention facility on Manus Island, despite detention violating PNG law.
Australia is the only democratic nation in the world without a national charter of rights or similar.
What is the point of international co-operation in matters of shared concern? According to the UN Charter, its founding member nations were determined to achieve overarching societal progress based on…
Malcolm Turnbull’s opponents, including those reflexively opposed to Australia’s asylum-seeker policies, would be hard put to take exception to the substance of a leaked conversation with US President…
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Transcripts of a conversation between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull reveal Australia’s refugee swap deal with the US may come to nothing.
The University of Canberra’s Michelle Grattan and Frances Shannon discuss the week in politics.
On ABC TV’s The Drum on Monday, author Antony Loewenstein called for a sports boycott of Australia. Loewenstein’s argument was that such a move from other countries could force a change in approach to…
The UNHCR has accused Australia of breaking its word by refusing to allow refugees on Manus Island and Nauru with family in Australia to settle here.
The mass movement of people across the world is nothing new, but migration today is so global and so unrelenting that it may well be the great humanitarian issue of our time.
The scale of contemporary forced human displacement is unprecedented and difficult to comprehend. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has just reported staggering statistics. As of…
Looking like a centrist, but governing as a conservative, Angela Merkel has cleared the decks before the coming German election.
The children’s author Michael Bond left a literary legacy of inclusion and tolerance.
Everyone has forgotten there were almost as many asylum seekers in Europe in the early 1990s as today.
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