asylum seeker

A court had held the government responsible for security guards on Manus Island failing in their duty to protect detainees during a 2014 riot.

Here is a run-down of what the Biloela family can expect now they have been ‘upgraded’ to community detention.

In the past five years, more than 95,000 people who arrived by plane have lodged a claim for asylum in Australia, new statistics show. Labor’s Immigration Spokesperson, Senator Kristina Keneally, has labelled this a “crisis”, but the “crisis” is the Australian government’s failure to properly manage the refugee-processing system.