Australia forcibly deports, for first time, Afghan asylum seeker
By Ben Doherty Hazaras targeted: Ian Rintoul, from the Refugee Action Coalition, says the forcible deportation makes no sense. Photo: Louie Douvis Australia has, for the first time, forcibly deported More...
Timeline: Asylum seeker boat tragedies
The number of people seeking asylum on Australian shores has risen dramatically in the last three years, as has the number of incidents resulting in deaths at sea. Asylum policy is in focus in the wake of recent More...
Drowned asylum seekers left in the water believed to be Afghan Hazaras
Bridie Jabour guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 June 2013 04.02 BST Australian authorities assist asylum seekers who survived their vessel capsizing off Christmas Island. Photograph: Jon Faulkner/AAPIMAGE The asylum seekers More...
New Australian law will send asylum seekers to Nauru or Manus
16 May 2013 (The moves is aimed at discouraging asylum-seekers showing up on Australias shore illegally through sea route.) The Australian Government can now send all asylum seekers who arrive by boat to More...
Hope fades in a deadly sea for missing teen asylum seekers
By Gemma Jones | April 16, 2013 Ibrar Hussain Rajabi Source: Supplied FAMILIES of three teenagers who boarded an asylum boat in Indonesia for a better life in Australia but who are feared lost at sea More...
Ships ignored survivors pleas
Michael Bachelard, Indonesia | The Age | August 31, 2012 Asylum seekers who were plucked from the sea as their friends drowned around them say five ships passed them during their two days in the ocean but refused More...
95 feared lost at sea off Java coast
Michael Bachelard and Megan Levy | August 31, 2012 HMAS Maitland, Navy patrol boat. Photo: Jamie Brown JUST 55 people had been rescued by last night from a boatload of 150 or more asylum seekers that foundered only More...
Nauru-bound asylum seekers on hunger strike
AAP | August 25, 2012 Asylum seekers are transferred to the island. Picture: Daniel Wilkins Source: Herald Sun ASYLUM seekers at Christmas Island’s detention centre are refusing food in protest at plans More...
Leaving is better than staying to face death
By Muhammad Khani I want to talk about my people, the Hazara people. The emigration of Hazara people started about 200 years ago. In the 1890s, the British-backed Amir of Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan, killed More...
Australia Says Refugee Boat That Left Indonesia Is Missing
Great fears are held for 67 people, presumed to be asylum seekers, on board a boat that has been missing since it left Indonesia more than a month ago and may have sunk, Australian authorities said on Tuesday. The More...
