Surge in visas ‘luring’ boatpeople
SUCCESS rates for refugee claims have leapt from 30 to 70 per cent in just six months
Immigration
Christmas Islanders lament ‘invasion’
CHRISTMAS Islanders have blamed an “invasion” of asylum-seekers for massive price hikes and environmental destruction.
Security risk refugees appeal to UN
ASYLUM-seekers who have been denied visas after ASIO declared them security threats will appeal to the UN Human Rights Committee.
Canberra overrules UN on refugee kids
IMMIGRATION officers, not child-protection experts, will decide which children are fit to be transferred to Malaysia.
Gillard quizzed on refugee beatings
THE opposition has seized on reports in the Malaysian press that UNHCR refugees have been beaten by Malaysian police.
Soft line spurred on smugglers: Rudd aide
THE end of the Pacific Solution was partly responsible for the resurgence of people-smuggling, a Labor strategist admitted in 2009.
Check-up, Ramadan to delay deportation
MEDICAL checks and religious festivities are expected to delay the deportation of 335 asylum-seekers to Malaysia by almost a week.
Jakarta to send suspect trafficker here
SAYED Abbas is headed for deportation to Australia to face trial over his alleged role in organising people-smuggling ventures.
Leading people-smuggler detained
SAYED Abbas, suspected as the most active people-smuggler operating out of Indonesia, has been arrested in Jakarta.
Curtin detainees returned to Christmas Is
THREATS to burn Curtin Detention Centre “to the ground” have seen seven detainees transferred in handcuffs to Christmas Island.
Jet costing $12m, and no transfers
THE Immigration Department is defending its decision to charter a jet to transfer asylum-seekers, despite no one having left yet.
Gillard defiant as Manus prepared
THE first crews have arrived in Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island to begin planning work for the new immigration detention centre.
Malaysia swap deal faces more delays
A HIGH Court injunction delaying Labor’s refugee swap deal with Malaysia will remain in place until August 31, when the court will rule on the scheme’s lawfulness.
Coalition seizes on detention ‘doubts’
THE Coalition has demanded Labor clarify its position on mandatory detention after the immigration chief appeared to question its effectiveness and value as a deterrent.
Immigration questions mandatory detention
THE Australian Greens have seized on doubts raised by the head of the Immigration Department on the value of mandatory detention.
New boat adds to pressure on asylum deal
THE number of asylum-seekers waiting to go to Malaysia under Labor’s refugee swap deal is about to double with the arrival of another boat at Christmas Island.
Burmese refugees arrive from Malaysia
THIRTEEN Burmese refugees have today touched down in Australia from Kuala Lumpur – the first since the Gillard government’s refugee swap was signed with Malaysia.
PNG offers Gillard an asylum lifeline
THE new government in Papua New Guinea has thrown Canberra a lifeline as it struggles with the High Court challenge to the Malaysia Solution.
PNG backs reopening of Manus centre
THE government of Papua New Guinea has given in-principle support to reopening the Manus Island asylum-seeker detention centre.
‘Grave’ issues at stake in boatpeople case
A HIGH Court challenge to the Malaysian refugee swap will hinge on the minister’s ability to make unilateral declarations on the human rights standards of another country.
Kids test resolve on Malaysia Solution
THE youngest asylum-seeker to arrive under the government’s Malaysia Solution showed yesterday that the policy may be a hard sell.
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