Australia’s refugee policies ‘a bad example to Asia’
A leading human rights lawyer from Hong Kong has warned that Australia’s treatment of refugees could set a dangerous precedent for other nations in the Asian region.
Protestors call for Victoria to take refugees
Refugee advocates have called on the Victorian state government to defy the federal government and bring the refugees from Manus Island to Victoria.
A spacious hope
In this short poem, Gospel Ralte reflects on the resilience of refugees and asylum seekers searching for a new life that is free from persecution.
We can do better than this cruel treatment
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has condemned plans to cut federal government support from a group of asylum seekers living in the Australian community.
Shining a light on four years of offshore cruelty
Thousands braved the chilly Melbourne weather on Wednesday evening to join in a candlelight vigil marking four years of illegal offshore detention.
A glimpse into the despair of detention
HELEN STAGOLL When I visited a Melbourne asylum seeker detention centre recently, I was not allowed to take in a bunch of flowers for my friend’s birthday. No reason given except ‘it’s policy’.
With courage let us all combine
UCA Assembly President Stuart McMillan said the federal government’s decision to award $70 million in compensation to asylum seekers kept in offshore detention once again showed what a moral failure the policy has been.
Give them a fair go, Mr Dutton
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has condemned as ‘inflammatory’ and ‘deplorable’ comments made by federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.
Violence spurs renewed call to close camp
Uniting Church President Stuart McMillan and members of the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce have called for refugees on Manus Island to be transferred to Australia after shots were fired at the compound on Good Fr
Loving the country
Pic credit: Jim Foley and Solway Nutting “I really loved seeing the country we came through on the bus”, a young mother told one of the organisers as we walked over to the picnic.
Walk for refugees
Vic/Tas moderator Sharon Hollis has described Australia’s treatment of people seeking asylum as a national shame ahead of this year’s Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees on 9 April.
Border Farce
Review by NICK MATTISKE BOOK | VIOLENT BORDERS | BY REECE JONES | VERSO IN 2015, 3700 people died trying to enter Europe.