Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull have been very clear the US arrangement is a one-off deal.
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The Australian government’s refugee deal with the US is the first positive news in three years for asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus Island.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the ban on October 30.
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The Federal Government’s proposal to permanently ban asylum seekers and refugees who come to Australia by boat is in direct contravention of the Refugee Convention.
The agreement would not extend to anyone who arrives in the future, or to those asylum seekers who have not been judged to be refugees.
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The federal government has finally unveiled its agreement for the United States to resettle refugees from Nauru and Manus Island.
Stilt houses to help cope with floods in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Climate change will certainly affect Bangladesh but claims of climate change refugees are premature.
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A PhD candidate retells the moving stories of Syrian women, as they try to find a place in their new neighbourhoods.
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 Red Cross rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Smugglers who transport migrants and refugees into the EU are both heroes and villains.
Tracking the long and complex journey of refugees and migrants.
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Many migrants would have stopped before they reached Europe – if only there had been the opportunities.
Peter Dutton speaking at a media conference at Parliament House on Wednesday.
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Peter Dutton’s Wednesday news conference was the predictable rant against Labor, but something else came through. The Immigration Minister is genuinely anxious to get the refugees off Nauru and Manus Island…
Bill Shorten called on the government to reveal the detail of any accompanying arrangements for resettling the Nauru and Manus people.
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Shortly after Malcolm Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton aggressively targeted Labor on Sunday when announcing the government’s latest draconian border deterrent, Turnbull rang Bill Shorten…
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.
A tear gas cannister on the outskirts of the Calais camp.
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The French and British governments have prioritised security over humanity for refugees in the Calais Jungle.
Evicted: migrants and refugees wait to be processed at the Calais Jungle.
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As the camp for migrants and refugees outside Calais is dismantled, two academics from either side of the Channel look at what will happen next.
Arrivals in Croydon from the Calais Jungle.
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Scepticism beats back humanitarian response to unaccompanied minors arriving from Calais Jungle.
Dreams of a better life for those in the Calais Jungle camp.
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An academic explains what it has been like running a storytelling course for migrants and refugees in the Calais camp.
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.
Girls are at greater risk of early marriage in refugee camps where their parents are unable to provided the necessary support.
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Rates of child marriage increase among refugee communities, where rates of sexual violence are high and opportunities for families low.
Q&A panellists discussed migration and refugees, but struggled to agree on what the numbers show.
Q&A
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?