Detainees on hunger strike
A SMALL group of asylum-seekers in the Wickham Point detention centre near Darwin is on a hunger strike.
Immigration
Detention policy ‘not creating wave’
LAWYERS have rejected suggestions that the expansion of community-based detention has incited a fresh wave of boat arrivals.
ALP under fire on boats
THE opposition blames the arrival of a fourth asylum-seeker boat in almost as many days on Labor’s push to expand community detention.
New asylum boat the fourth this week
ANOTHER asylum-seeker boat has been intercepted in Australian waters carrying 53 people, the fourth vessel to arrive in less than a week.
Detained rapist may get millions
A CONVICTED sex offender could reap millions of dollars in compensation from the federal government.
Sentences ‘should be reconsidered’
LAWS which force judges to dole out five-year jail terms to boat crew convicted of people-smuggling offences should be reviewed.
Jury won’t hear island crash details
NO details of the Christmas Island boat crash that killed 50 asylum-seekers will be heard at an upcoming people-smuggling trial.
ALP ‘in denial’ over border protection
THE arrival of a boat carrying 43 asylum-seekers has reignited a political brawl over offshore processing.
US workers to plug skills gap
AUSTRALIA will make it easier for American workers to fill skill shortages in the mining and construction sectors.
Gillard defends asylum record
JULIA Gillard says the government has worked hard to process asylum claims quickly and ensure detention conditions are acceptable
Boatpeople challenging ASIO ‘absurd’
THE Coalition will oppose giving asylum-seekers found to be national security risks the power to appeal their ASIO determinations.
Refugees get right of appeal
REFUGEES found to be national security threats by the country’s top spy agency will be able to appeal under proposed changes
Time limit urged for immigration detention
EVERY refugee application would have to be processed within 90 days under a proposed overhaul of the nation’s detention network.
Java focus for smuggle probe
POLICE will investigate whether two Australians helped organise passage for asylum-seekers on the boat that sank off Java last year
People-smugglers arrested
FOUR alleged people-smugglers have been arrested in Australia after an investigation in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
Boats defy asylum claims fall
LABOR still wants an offshore processing regime despite the number of asylum-seekers falling for the first time in six years.
Fewer boats behind fall in asylum-seekers
THE number of asylum-seekers coming to Australia has fallen, despite a global surge in displaced persons seeking safe haven.
‘Illegal’ seizure puts trial in limbo
A COURT has been asked to halt the trial of two alleged people-smugglers, amid evidence indicating they were seized illegally.
Warning on riots one year earlier
THE findings of a damning report were conveyed to the government almost a year before a devastating riot on Christmas Island
Keating slams ‘racist’ tone of debate
FORMER Labor prime minister Paul Keating has savaged the tone of the asylum-seeker debate.
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