Asylum seekers living Australia, prevented from applying for refugee status, are suddenly faced with intricate paperwork which must be completed at once or they risk deportation. The Asylum Seeker Resources Centre urgently needs donations to provide legal help.

Dengue fever outbreak on Nauru threatens health system (GA, 25 February 2017)

Manus ( Read more... )

Let's have some good news!

Landmark win on citizenship provides hope for many thousands of former refugees (Refugee Council of Australia press release, 16 December 2016): "The Minister of Immigration... was found to have unreasonably delayed in making decisions on citizenship applications... The case... provides hope for 10,231 people that the ( Read more... )

Debate continues on the proposed lifetime ban on asylum seekers arriving by boat settling in Australia. Refugees in Australia bridging visas may or may not be affected, depending on which Coalition member you ask; they could be deported. Some ALP MPs and Senators are critical of the proposed legislation, but Bill Shorten has stopped short of ( Read more... )

A lot happened this week:

The ABC's current affairs program Four Corners (18 October) ran an expose on Nauru, The Forgotten Children, in which child refugees were secretly asked to speak about their experiences of detention. Politicians and the media pushed back hard. Teacher Tracey Donehue responded powerfully, and the ABC stood by its reporting ( Read more... )

We Care Nauru is preparing to send another load of goods to the refugees on Nauru, this time with Christmas in mind, and are seeking donations. Scroll down their FB feed for images of the previous deliveries.

Meet the forgotten children of Nauru (Four Corners, 17 October 2016) The episode will be shown tonight at 8.30 pm, Eastern Daylight Savings ( Read more... )

Child detainee mental trauma will last, immigration healthcare provider warns (GA, 18 January 2016)

The impact of refugee detention: a true story (Independent Australia, 12 June 2016)

'We are the forgotten people': the anguish of Australia's 'invisible' asylum seekers (GA, 13 April 2016) "Nearly 29,000 asylum seekers are in Australia on temporary ( Read more... )

(Just glancing back through the scores of bookmarks I've never managed to post. What I do post is the tip of the iceberg, and what's reported is only the tip of an even bigger iceberg.)

We Care Nauru continues to send all manner of necessities to the refugees there.

Protection Denied, Abuse Condoned: Women on Nauru At Risk Report (Asylum Seeker ( Read more... )

The Combined Refugee Action Group page on Facebook has plenty of information on this Saturday's protests, the paper petition to Parliament, and other information and action you can take.

More than 100 Nauru and Manus staff call for centres to close (GA, 17 August 2016) | 'This is critical': 103 Nauru and Manus staff speak out - their letter in ( Read more... )

Manus refugee says he thought he would die after being attacked by locals (GA, 15 August 2016)

After the Nauru files, how can Australia go about ending offshore detention? (GA, 16 August 2016) "John Menadue, the former secretary of Australia’s immigration department, rejected the argument that boat arrivals were linked to continued detention ( Read more... )

How you can help people held in detention by Australia (GA, 13 August 2016) "There are several refugee and asylum-seeker agencies that exist to help people in mainland detention or who have just left the island centres."

‘They don’t care’: a refugee’s story of reporting sexual assault on Nauru (GA, 13 August 2016)

One day in September: a grim 24 ( Read more... )