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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)

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GetUp! is asking Australians to mail their MP to ask for the evacuation of refugees from Nauru and Manus Island.

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Conflicting messages from President Trump and the White House have left both the Australian government and refugees on Manus and Nauru bewildered about the fate of Australia's refugee deal with the US. Refugee advocates have ( Read more... )

For the usual tedious health reasons I can't make it to today's rally, so I'll have to do my activism from my keyboard.

Lots to catch up on. First, some great news:

Pregnant refugee to be flown from Nauru to Australia to give birth (GA, 3 February 2017) | Pregnant asylum seeker on Nauru flown to Australia (ABC, 3 February 2017). On a personal ( Read more... )

A pregnant woman on Nauru will die if she's not brought to Australia for an immediate Caesarean Section. Please call Malcolm Turnbull's office on 02 9327 3988 (I just did(!) and spoke to a nice lady. Whole thing probably didn't take thirty seconds.)

The Pregnant Refugee On Nauru Is Now In A Critical Situation (Buzzfeed, 30 January 2017)

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... )

The refugee swap deal with the US is dubious, but getting at least some people out of offshore detention can only be a good thing. However, it looks increasingly unlikely that the swap will go ahead.

What do we know about the Central American refugee deal between the US and Australia? (GA, 25 November 2016)

Senior US Republicans criticise 'secret ( Read more... )

Chip in to take Peter Dutton's cruelty to court #Season4Justice: Mums 4 Refugees and Grandmothers against Detention of Refugee Children NSW fundraiser for the National Justice Project, who provide urgent pro bono legal help to people on Nauru and Manus.

Broken Men in Paradise (New York Times, 9 December 2016). "The world's refugee crisis knows no ( Read more... )

The big news is that Australia and the United States have made a deal in which the US will take some of the refugees on Manus Island and Nauru. There are many questions about the deal, including whether President-Elect Trump will honour it, as it will take months for anyone to be resettled. (Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says he knows but can ( Read more... )