Navy ‘would disobey’ asylum orders
NAVAL officers would disobey orders from an Abbott government to turn back asylum-seeker vessels, a former Defence chief has declared.
Immigration
Boat plan could spark navy deaths
TONY Abbott’s push to turn back all asylum-seeker boats to Indonesia has been greeted with dismay by the navy.
Curtin interpreters may strike
INTERPRETERS at the remote Curtin Detention Centre could walk off the job as early as tomorrow over a pay dispute.
I’ll turn back every boat: Abbott
TONY Abbott has decided that a Coalition government will instruct the navy to force asylum-seeker boats back to Indonesia.
Asylum ‘threat’ was free to roam
AN asylum-seeker was given a refugee visa and lived freely in the community for seven months before he was deemed a threat.
‘Learn English’, Gambaro tells migrants
MIGRANTS should learn English soon after arriving in Australia to avoid racism, federal Liberal MP Teresa Gambaro says.
Asylum-seekers on the run
NINETEEN asylum-seekers were still at large yesterday after 30 tunnelled their way out of a detention centre in Indonesia.
Jakarta calls for release of juveniles
A meeting at the Indonesian embassy in Canberra addressed growing concerns about juvenile boat crew held in Australian jails.
No ‘horse trade’ on Malaysia Solution
TALKS to resolve impasse over asylum-seeker processing look likely to fail after the opposition said it won’t negotiate a deal.
Release ‘red-flag’ refugees: Melham
REFUGEES deemed security threats should be able to live in the community on control orders, a senior Labor MP has urged.
Escapes escalate migrants crisis
THERE are no signs that the country’s porous immigration detention centres are set to become any more secure this year.
Child restraint by Serco exposed
SERCO has been found by Britain’s High Court to have unlawfully restrained English children for at least a decade.
Skip the migrant lessons: Fraser
FORMER prime minister Malcolm Fraser has called for migrants to be offered a suite of new services to help them settle in.
Asylum visa plan makes a slow start
A PROGRAM to ease the strain on detention centres by placing boatpeople in the community has issued barely 100 bridging visas..
‘Smuggler’ nabbed at request of A-G
THE suspected people-smuggler Zamin Ali was arrested in Indonesia at Australia’s request, the Attorney-General’s Department says
No room for Greens MP in doco
SBS has rejected an offer from a Greens senator to take part in its asylum-seeker documentary Go Back To Where You Came From.
Iranians caught between worlds
A DRAMATIC increase in asylum-seekers from Iran has sparked concerns that thousands will be caught indefinitely in Australia
Tenth judge decries ‘savage’ law
A TENTH judge has criticised laws imposing “savage” five-year mandatory sentences on asylum boat crews
Migrants claim bulk of the jobs
MIGRANTS have claimed 81,000 new jobs over the past year while 38,000 locals lost their own jobs.
Gambaro backs off migrant remarks
TAXPAYERS would have to spend more than $100m a year to fund the Coalition’s plan to give temporary working migrants full services.
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