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‘Bring them home’: fresh calls for release of family in Australian detention centre

Three-year-old and her family held in immigration facility for years as government fights to deport themThe plight of a three-year old girl who has spent nearly her entire life in Australian immigration detention facilities has galvanised opposition to…

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Thousands of Myanmar citizens in Australia at risk of being deported to violence back home

Labor urges Morrison government to extend the stay of temporary visa holders and expand sanctions against military figuresThe Morrison government faces fresh calls to allow more than 3,000 Myanmarese citizens to stay in Australia once their visas expir…

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Australia should create ‘Pacific visa’ to reduce impact of climate change and disaster on islanders

Displacement is growing in the Asia-Pacific region, and a new policy paper argues migration policies must be established nowAustralia should establish a new “Pacific Access” visa category that could be used by Pacific islanders forced from their homes …

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Australia’s special forces problem: why the SAS is facing a crisis

An inquiry into allegations of war crimes committed by a small number of elite troops in Afghanistan is expected to report imminently. Can the regiments survive the fallout?In the heart of the Australian War Memorial hang twin portraits of Ben Roberts-…

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New Zealand hails Behrouz Boochani visa as a victory for ‘fairness and compassion’

Exiled journalist is offered a role at University of Canterbury amid celebration of successful application for refugee statusBehrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand“A protective cloak” will be draped over Kurdish Iranian exile Behrouz Bo…

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Behrouz Boochani: Jacinda Ardern lashes ‘offensive’ claim refugee won political favours

Opposition immigration spokesman in New Zealand claims Kurdish refugee was let into the country only because he had ‘political friends’ in government Jacinda Ardern has denounced as “offensive” a suggestion that Behrouz Boochani benefited from a politi…

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Not much love actually: Jacinda Ardern was right to call out Australia’s ‘corrosive’ policies | Ben Doherty

The New Zealand prime minister was justified in taking Scott Morrison to task over a policy that is both spurious and damagingWe’ve seen this movie before.Then, in Love Actually, Hugh Grant played the unlikely prime minister of Britain, standing up to …

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Behrouz Boochani’s book, No Friend But The Mountains, to be made into a film

Kurdish Iranian writer says the film will bring more attention to Australia’s brutal immigration detention regimeBehrouz Boochani’s award-winning debut book, No Friend But The Mountains, will be made into a feature film with production to begin in Aust…

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Biloela family wait in Christmas Island limbo as Wuhan evacuees see out quarantine

Exclusive: As they prepare for their final hearing, the only asylum seekers on the island hope they, too, will be soon be able to return homeTime, for all, passes slowly in detention on Christmas Island.But for the family of Tamil asylum seekers Nadesa…

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Inside Christmas Island: the Australian detention centre with four asylum seekers and a $26m price tag

The sole occupants of a million-dollar facility off the country’s coast are two adults and two small children, who are paying the price for its war on refugees It should be one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations – a remote Indian ocean island …

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Leaked photos of Papua New Guinea prison reveal ‘torture’ of 18 asylum seekers cut off from world

Exclusive: Conditions inside Australia-funded Bomana centre prompted dozens to agree to return to country of originLeaked pictures from inside Papua New Guinea’s Bomana immigration detention centre have given a glimpse of where up to 20 asylum seekers …

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New Zealand would be honoured to take Behrouz Boochani. Australia be damned | Morgan Godfery

The moral case for the former Manus island detainee becoming a citizen is as simple as ‘asylum is a human right’I wonder if it winds up Peter Dutton to know that Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist, award-winning author and former Manus Is…

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