Refugees
Australia quietly ditches $4.6b detention contract with scandal-plagued Serco
The British multinational will no longer run immigration detention centres, ending a partnership that has been riddled with claims of violence, drug trade, neglect and understaffing.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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‘Everything else disappears’: How music brings relief in detention centres
Philip Feinstein, 76, collects donated instruments to deliver to those waiting in immigration detention.
- by Penry Buckley
Neo-Nazis pepper-sprayed after attempting to disrupt refugee rally
Police dispersed a balaclava-clad group near a refugee encampment on Tuesday night, sending them running as demonstrators cheered.
- by Cassandra Morgan
Burke to sign off on every Gazan refugee granted new humanitarian visa
Labor’s visa pathway for Palestinians fleeing the war gives the minister authority over who can apply.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Trump claims ‘bad genes’ to blame for crimes by undocumented migrants
Donald Trump has faced backlash for his rhetoric targeting undocumented immigrants. But his language has grown more dark and vilifying in his latest campaign.
- by Patrick Svitek
The day that turned their lives to rubble: The escape of three families from Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza have long experienced violence from Israeli forces, but the war after October 7 has been unlike anything they’ve lived through. These are the stories of three families who fled to Australia this year.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Two of Us
Good Weekend
As refugees, they slept on the ground. Three kids, study and work is ‘nothing’
When Noël fled the Rwandan regime, his long-time sweetheart Delphine followed.
- by Amanda Hooton
Analysis
Tony Burke
‘Every day is a living hell’: The Australians languishing in a Syrian detention camp
Thirty-four Australian women and children, relatives of Islamic State fighters, are trapped in a desert camp in Syria, five years after the fall of IS. They want to know why they have been forgotten.
- by Deborah Snow
Bibi was given $4 a day to survive. Now that allowance has been cut to zero
As humanitarian crises unfold around the globe, the United Nations is looking at its books.
- by Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
Updated
Immigration
Spy chief spells out dealbreakers for Gaza refugees
ASIO director-general Mike Burgess says “people have chosen to distort” comments he made about Palestinians fleeing Gaza last month.
- by Olivia Ireland and Matthew Knott
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Immigration
Asylum seeker dies in Melbourne a day after self-immolation
Mano Yogalingam had been part of a protest demanding permanent residency for more than 8000 people who arrived in Australia by boat more than a decade ago.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos and Henrietta Cook
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