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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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Loghman Sawari fled Iran as a minor after his brothers were imprisoned and tortured. Despite his age, he was sent to the detention centre on Manus Island. He was resettled in Papua New Guinea, where he faced violence and homelessness, and attempted suicide. Last week he fled to Fiji to seek asylum, but, perhaps due to a negative press reaction, he ( Read more... )

(I apologise if you hit paywalls with any of these links. Most news sites let you view at least some stories for free.)

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)

On New Year's Eve on Manus Island, two Iranian refugees were severely beaten by police, then kept in custody without food or medical treatment for 36 hours without charge. The police claim that the refugees were drunk and disorderly. The refugees state that they were first approached by immigration officers, who told them they were not allowed to ( Read more... )

'They're trying to kill me, if they kill me take care of my son.'


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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... )