Refugee Update
Dec. 12th, 2016 12:18 pmChip 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 more sinister exercise in cruelty than Australia's island prisons."
Norway pension fund told to get out of Australian offshore detention business (SMH, 27 November 2016) "The Australia Institute claims the pension fund's investment in Ferrovial is at odds with its commitment to high ethical standards and is not widely known in Norway." (Here's their press release.)
Existence of 'pivotal' letter from Scott Morrison on boat turnbacks revealed (GA, 28 November 2016): "Document sought in FoI case purports to authorise possibly unlawful return of asylum seekers to Indonesia."
Nauru blocking release of information about asylum seekers, court documents show (GA, 30 November 2016): "Documents filed by the immigration department to the Administrative Appeal Tribunal cite Nauru's objection as a key reason to block a freedom of information request."
'We are still suffering': detainees on Manus and Nauru speak – in pictures (GA, 7 December 2016)
Broken Men in Paradise (New York Times, 9 December 2016). "The world's refugee crisis knows no more sinister exercise in cruelty than Australia's island prisons."
Norway pension fund told to get out of Australian offshore detention business (SMH, 27 November 2016) "The Australia Institute claims the pension fund's investment in Ferrovial is at odds with its commitment to high ethical standards and is not widely known in Norway." (Here's their press release.)
Existence of 'pivotal' letter from Scott Morrison on boat turnbacks revealed (GA, 28 November 2016): "Document sought in FoI case purports to authorise possibly unlawful return of asylum seekers to Indonesia."
Nauru blocking release of information about asylum seekers, court documents show (GA, 30 November 2016): "Documents filed by the immigration department to the Administrative Appeal Tribunal cite Nauru's objection as a key reason to block a freedom of information request."
'We are still suffering': detainees on Manus and Nauru speak – in pictures (GA, 7 December 2016)