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Nov. 8th, 2015
Doctors call for asylum seeker on Nauru to be brought to Australia to give birth (SMH 6 October 2015). The mother is diabetic and her child will require intensive neonatal care.
Asylum seeker dies after escaping Christmas Island detention centre (ABC 8 November 2015)
Cost of offshore detention centres on Nauru, Manus Island blows out by $100 million: Immigration Department annual report (ABC 7 November 2015). To make just one comparison, Australia's audio, radio, and TV archive could be saved for one-tenth of that. Offshore detention bill hits $280m for three months, Senate hearing told (SMH 19 October 2015). To make another comparison, the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children has been allocated $119.5 million over four years.
But this glorious article makes all other comparisons irrelevant: Stop the boats – it's cheaper to fly.
If you're eating as you read this, I apologise. Human teeth found in meal served to asylum seekers on Manus Island (GA 3 November 2015). Transfield (now Broadspectrum) denies this, as well as the outbreak of food poisoning - although its own staff back up the reports. Oh well, could be worse than teeth in your tucker: another UXB turned up in the family camp on Nauru.
Leading health agencies call for Australian detention centres to be independently monitored (ABC 16 October 2015)
A Civil Society complaint is to be filed by Refugee Action Collective Victoria at the International Criminal Court (Press release 19 October 2015) I don't know what chance this might have of succeeding, but if we can't haul the pollies into court, I hope it at least adds to their continuing international embarrassment.
Asylum seeker Government sent back to Syria injured in shelling, father killed (ABC 21 October 2015)
Not muzzled: Red Cross denies it paid Immigration multimillion-dollar bond (SMH 4 November 2015)
UN's Nauru verdict: A poor, isolated island ravaged by phosphate mining (SMH 2 November 2015).
NT Senator Nova Peris denied access to Christmas Island detention centre in her electorate (GA 19 October 2015)
Asylum seeker dies after escaping Christmas Island detention centre (ABC 8 November 2015)
Cost of offshore detention centres on Nauru, Manus Island blows out by $100 million: Immigration Department annual report (ABC 7 November 2015). To make just one comparison, Australia's audio, radio, and TV archive could be saved for one-tenth of that. Offshore detention bill hits $280m for three months, Senate hearing told (SMH 19 October 2015). To make another comparison, the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children has been allocated $119.5 million over four years.
But this glorious article makes all other comparisons irrelevant: Stop the boats – it's cheaper to fly.
If you're eating as you read this, I apologise. Human teeth found in meal served to asylum seekers on Manus Island (GA 3 November 2015). Transfield (now Broadspectrum) denies this, as well as the outbreak of food poisoning - although its own staff back up the reports. Oh well, could be worse than teeth in your tucker: another UXB turned up in the family camp on Nauru.
Leading health agencies call for Australian detention centres to be independently monitored (ABC 16 October 2015)
A Civil Society complaint is to be filed by Refugee Action Collective Victoria at the International Criminal Court (Press release 19 October 2015) I don't know what chance this might have of succeeding, but if we can't haul the pollies into court, I hope it at least adds to their continuing international embarrassment.
Asylum seeker Government sent back to Syria injured in shelling, father killed (ABC 21 October 2015)
Not muzzled: Red Cross denies it paid Immigration multimillion-dollar bond (SMH 4 November 2015)
UN's Nauru verdict: A poor, isolated island ravaged by phosphate mining (SMH 2 November 2015).
NT Senator Nova Peris denied access to Christmas Island detention centre in her electorate (GA 19 October 2015)