Tag: australia

During World War Two, people across Europe risked their lives to offer sanctuary to refugees escaping from the Nazis. And ...

The Guardian has published a call that confidentiality rules should protect Catholics who admit to child sexual abuse in confession. ...

Just under 600 of the 800 refugees and asylum seekers detained on Manus Island (Papua New Guinea) by the Australian ...

Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers held in detention on Manus Island (Papua New Guinea) by the Australian government are ...

It's extremely rare for the UN to accuse a government of deliberate deception. But that's exactly what just happened. On ...

Australia is demanding justice over the fatal shooting of a Sydney woman in the US city of Minneapolis, at the hands ...

The Australian government likes its refugees out of sight and out of mind. So it built offshore facilities to detain ...

A multinational corporation has raked in millions of dollars via a contract with the Australian government for the management of ...

A UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights is deeply concerned by Australia’s high rates of indigenous incarceration. And she believes this discrepancy is about ...

Thanks to a landmark court ruling, prosecuting human rights abusers may have just got a whole lot easier. All around ...

Hundreds of refugees are due to commence class action against illegal detention. If successful, the judgement would set a precedent ...

On 13 February, a debate about immigration on ABC News Australia led to an explosive argument on air. Nationalist senator Jacqui Lambie ...

Loghman Sawari is a young refugee who fled Iran after his cousin was executed by the regime and his brothers ...

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order banning refugees for four months and bringing in massive ...

An extortion racket is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people in Australia. But far from being a criminal enterprise ...

Was it a 'crisis of conscience' that prompted the Australian government to set up a deal with the US to ...

Australian indigenous activist Roxley Foley spoke at an event in Brighton on 2 November. During his speech, he made a ...