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Community Sector Demands End to Offshore Processing

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 13th October 2011 -  Above: Arriving at Christmas Island Detention Centre. Flick Image:  Some rights reserved by DIAC Images  With the Gillard Government’s Migration…

MP Stops Malaysia Swap Deal

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 13th October 2011 -  The Gillard Government faces the embarrassing prospect of being the first government since 1929 to lose legislation in the lower house after National MP Tony Crook announced he would…

Malaysia Deal May Be Safer: UNHCR

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 11th October 2011 -  Flickr Image:  Some rights reserved by sidelife  The Gillard Government’s proposed Malaysia swap plan has received an unlikely boost, with…

Community Sector Calls for New Approach to Asylum Seekers

Staff Reporter, Monday, 5th September 2011 -  Above: Woomera detention centre (Flickr image  Some rights reserved by Karen Eliot)  Leaders of Australia’s major charities and social service…

High Court Grounds Malaysia Solution – Opinion

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 1st September 2011 -  Fr Frank Brennan Unless there were to be a bipartisan agreement in the Parliament or a government deal with the Greens, asylum seekers arriving by boat now need to be processed fairly,…

Charities Applaud High Court Ruling Against Malaysia Swap Deal

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 31st August 2011 -  Leading Australian Not for Profit Organisations – including Baptcare, Mission Australia and Amnesty Australia – have welcomed the High Court’s ruling which…

Charities Join Church in Offering to House Child Asylum Seekers

Staff Reporter, Monday, 22nd August 2011 -  Australian Not for Profit organisations have renewed their calls for child refugees to be allowed to stay in Australia as the High Court decides upon their fate. Both Baptcare and…

Senate Begins Inquiry into Malaysia Deal After Greens and Coalition Unite

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 18th August 2011 -  The Senate has agreed to send the Malaysia deal to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report back by September 22, 2011. The inquiry comes after…

Charities Join Outcry Over Malaysia Swap Deal

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 9th August 2011 -  Not for Profit organisations have joined the public outcry this week against the Government’s decision to send refugees – and in particular unaccompanied minors –…

Amnesty Warning on Asylum Seekers

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 14th October 2010 -  Amnesty International has warned that detention conditions on Christmas Island are deteriorating rapidly and asylum seekers there, as well as in other detention centres around…

Asylum Seekers Issue Needs Regional Approach

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 28th July 2010 -  International aid agency Oxfam says a comprehensive regional approach to asylum seekers must be adopted by whoever wins the Federal Election if there is to be any hope of truly moving…

Regional Solution for Refugees Makes Sense: Brotherhood

Staff Reporter, Monday, 12th July 2010 -  The Brotherhood of St Laurence believes that a regional framework for the processing of refugees is a step in the right direction. The General Manager of BSL Community Services, Sarina…

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