Asylum seekers at the Manus Regional Processing Centre in Papa New Guinea, one of Australia’s two offshore immigration detention facilities.
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Across Europe anti immigration political leaders are turning to Australia for inspiration on how to reduce the number of people seeking asylum in their countries.
A March 21, 2014 photograph of asylum seekers behind a fence at the Manus Island detention centre.
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The government’s message to asylum seekers is already clear: you are not welcome, and you will not be resettled in Australia. Surely that message does not need to be any harsher.
Malcolm Turnbull sounded shrill when, with Peter Dutton, he announced new legislation on Sunday.
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The only way the Turnbull government’s announcement of its latest move against boat people makes sense is if it is the belt-and-braces part of a wider plan to resettle refugees from Nauru and Manus Island…
A relative of asylum seekers being held on Nauru cries at a press conference to launch an Amnesty International report.
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It has been the absolutism embedded in Australian immigration culture of control that helps explain our hardline policy history on asylum seekers.
Through reframing issues, strong leaders can adopt and promote strongly humanitarian policies toward issues such as refugees.
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In a globalised world, the credibility of the birthright lottery as grounds for excluding people from protection may be diminishing.
Journalists with the skills to dig into social media can discover connections between key players in complex, often global stories.
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From a social media post that cracked open a decades-old abuse scandal in the UK and Australia, through to tracking asylum seekers, social media can be vital in breaking investigative news stories.
Children’s access to education in Nauru has declined following the acknowledgement of their refugee status.
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An implementation gap means Australian courts cannot directly enforce children’s rights as protected in international law.
Q&A panellists discussed migration and refugees, but struggled to agree on what the numbers show.
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On Q&A, panellists duelled over the numbers of migrants Australia takes a year. Is it 200,000 or 800,000? How many permanent and how many temporary? Let’s check the facts.
Within weeks of the ‘Children Overboard’ claims, the Howard government enforced a media blackout of sorts on asylum seekers.
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How do the media management strategies devised in haste 15 years ago affect how asylum seekers are portrayed today?
Antonio Guterres at a refugee camp near Erbil in northern Iraq.
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As the former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Guterres could promote a more unified approach to helping the displaced.
A mural in Toxteth, Liverpool, a key historic area for immigration in the city.
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Uncertainty and injustice have become the staple diet of the British asylum system.
A protest outside the Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre.
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Access to immigration and asylum tribunals is about to get a lot more costly.
‘Femicidal state’: a woman protests female murder rates in Mexico City.
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More than 44% of Mexican women face violence in their homes. Some of them become asylum seekers in the United States.
Pauline Hanson claimed poll results showing high levels of opposition to Muslim immigration were understated.
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Survey findings are typically considered in isolation in the media, with no understanding of context, of what is within and what is beyond the expected.
Is the British government doing enough?
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Theresa May’s proposals for curbs on uncontrolled migration are both unimaginative and disingenuous.
Asia is home to the world’s largest known stateless group, the Rohingya.
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Unless managed more effectively, forced migration will have permanent and intensifying negative impacts on countries across the globe.
Malcolm Turnbull has announced a permanent rise in Australia’s humanitarian refugee intake to nearly 19,000.
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A new policy to take refugees from Central America may be paving the way to solve the refugee problem on Manus Island and Nauru.
One Nation senator Pauline Hanson wants a ban on further Muslim immigration to Australia.
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Public attitudes toward migration are a key driver of political instability and controversy across Europe and North America.
Malcolm Turnbull has an opportunity to show leadership on a regional refugee solution.
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Turnbull can show leadership in the current talks in New York by driving an Asian regional solution to the global refugee crisis.
Can and should Australia be doing more to resettle refugees?
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Should Australia stick with its current model of state-controlled refugee resettlement schemes? Or are there other models we can learn from?