Christmas Island

Cabinet historian David Lee is hoping to unearth more detail about China-Australia relations following the release of the Howard government’s secret 2002 deliberations.

Among its 20 recommendations detailed in a new report, the AHRC has called on the government to release priority groups from closed immigration detention.

Immigration minister Alex Hawke says the Tamil-Australian family will be reunited in Perth for an unspecified amount of time.

A summary of the funding allocations made to various refugee organisations in the 2020-21 federal budget.

The Australian Border Force has taken to social media to defend its decision to reopen the detention centre on Christmas Island after a number of media outlets reported that refugees and asylum seekers would be moved to the facility.

Comcare’s CEO says she’s appalled by the latest salvo from its vocal critics over safety in immigration detention centres, based on an FOI release. Soon a senate committee will make its own judgement.

Michael Pezzullo, then Customs boss, and former diplomat turned commentator Tony Kevin were harsh critics of each other over SIEV tragedies and the Operation Sovereign Borders alternative. Then Tony Kevin saw deaths at sea had stopped. He argues turn-back was successful and the camps must go.