Refugee Update

Good news, sort of! Australia agrees to take seriously ill refugee girl from Nauru as case reaches court (GA, 5 July 2018) | Court orders Nauru refugee and son, both ill, to be flown to Australia (GA, 13 July 2017). The judge ordered they not be separated and not be returned to Nauru. As columnist Ben Doherty reminds us: Each time Australia delays bringing a sick child from Nauru, the stakes get higher (GA, 11 July 2018). Crikey argues that Australia has weaponised suicide and Peter Dutton just admitted it (25 June 2018).

Unsurprising news from the US: Detaining Immigrant Kids Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry (Snopes.com / AP, 12 July 2018). As Down Under, so Up Over.

Definitely good news: Brisbane mum granted 12-month extension from deportation (SBS, 27 June 2018). "A ministerial intervention has stopped the deportation of a Brisbane-based Filipino mother who was facing separation from her eight year-old son." This isn't a refugee story, but in a world full of cruelty, every small kindness is to be celebrated.

Manus Island: I found a horrific 'living graveyard' (news.com.au, 9 July 2018). An extract from Asylum Seeker Resource Centre founder Kon Karapanagiotidis's book The Power of Hope.

'They are breaking him': the stateless refugee Australia may never release (GA, 4 July 2018). A Kurdish refugee from Iran arrived in 2013 at the age of 16 and is still in detention.

Asylum seeker detainees can keep mobile phones, federal court rules (ABC, 22 July 2018)

'I didn’t know how to survive': the refugees and asylum seekers hit by Coalition cuts (GA, 12 June 2018)