Labor has agreed to support the independent MP Kerryn Phelps’ bill for emergency medical transfers from offshore detention, but has demanded changes that would keep a ministerial power to refuse transfers. Phelps has reiterated that “clinicians rath...
It has been 58 days. That’s how long Farid Attaie has been sleeping on the footpath outside an immigration detention centre in Kalideres, West Jakarta, with his parents, five siblings, and another Hazara family of three. Less than 20 metres from whe...
It has been 58 days. That’s how long Farid Attaie has been sleeping on the footpath outside an immigration detention centre in Kalideres, West Jakarta, with his parents, five siblings, and another Hazara family of three. Less than 20 metres from whe...
Nauru has severed a long-standing arrangement to allow appeals to the high court of Australia, impacting on the rights of asylum seekers to challenge the refusal of refugee status. The high court is the final appellate court for Nauru, under an agre...
The Department of Home Affairs, the new “super-ministry” whose minister is Peter Dutton, has strongly rejected claims it is deliberately delaying Chinese student visas, following stories in China’s state-run media and social media that claim the iss...