Serco ‘overwhelmed’ by detainee numbers
THE boss of detention-centre operator Serco says the firm was so “overstretched” it resorted to using admin staff as security guards during a riot.
Immigration
Visa applicants hit as subsidies end
VISA applicants will pay an extra $613m in fees over the next four years as Labor struggles to deliver its promised budget surplus.
Asylum system swamped: riot inquiry
OVERCROWDING, poor security and a surge in asylum-seeker arrivals were behind the riots at detention centres.
Envoys to ease asylum-seeker burden
A REPORT into violent riots in detention centres has called for special envoys to help return failed asylum-seekers home.
Overcrowding caused detention riots
SEVERE overcrowding of Australia’s immigration detention network has been blamed for riots at Christmas Island and Villawood earlier this year.
People-smuggler cases to double
THE collapse of offshore processing threatens to strain law enforcement agencies to breaking point.
ABC’s crutches getting wobbly
CORRECTIONS by Labor and the IPCC have undermined the broadcaster’s credibility.
Labor rewinds asylum regime
LABOR will rewind Australia’s border protection policies to “pre-Tampa” days, returning to a uniform asylum-seeker processing regime.
Asylum seekers move into community
AT least 100 asylum seekers a month will move into community detention from today as Labor begins to empty detention centres.
Detainee to tell inquest of warning to guards
THE asylum-seeker who says he told guards the SIEV 221 was on its way hours before it crashed off Christmas Island will give evidence.
Week’s asylum-seeker tally at 339
SHORE-BASED radar on Christmas Island has detected the fourth asylum-seeker boat this week to be apprehended in Australian waters.
Asylum-seekers moved to detention ship
FORTY asylum-seekers and four crew detained off Ashmore Reef have been transferred to the detention ship Ocean Protector.
Radar missed asylum boat
A RADAR system installed on Christmas Island after last December’s shipwreck failed to detect a stricken asylum boat on Sunday
Labor lands on better policy
JULIA Gillard has found Labor’s conscience on asylum-seekers – moving to a system of onshore processing.
Key MP still undecided on asylum changes
WA Nationals MP Tony Crook says all offshore asylum-seeker processing could face legal challenge under current migration laws.
Crook weighs support for asylum changes
TONY Crook has offered a sign he may support Labor amendments to allow offshore processing in Malaysia.
Envoy warns of smuggling pipeline
SRI Lanka’s envoy in Australia, Thisara Samarasinghe, has warned that people-smugglers will exploit the recent High Court ruling.
Another asylum-seeker boat intercepted
ANOTHER asylum-seeker boat has been intercepted as people smugglers capitalise on Australia’s border protection impasse.
Bowen defends Leonora
IMMIGRATION Minister Chris Bowen has defended Leonora as a “more appropriate” site to detain teenage asylum-seekers than Christmas Island but health professionals described the remote centre as a “toxic environment”.
Serco guard sacked over text
A Serco guard at Christmas Island has been removed after an investigation into a misdirected text message.
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