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- 11 OCT 17
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Turnbull government admits PNG unsafe, offers transfer to Nauru for Manus refugees.
A document placed in the Oscar Compound of Manus Island Regional Processing Centre tonight shows that over 700 men who have been assessed as refugees remaining on Manus Island are being offered a transfer to Nauru, due to risk of violence in PNG’s Lorengau. Three people have died on Nauru since being transferred there with the commencement ofRead more
- 21 SEP 17
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The movement to #LetThemStay is working
The #LetThemStay movement responded powerfully to the Turnbull government’s announcement in late August of a new ‘final departure Bridging E Visa’ that would affect 410 people, a move designed to force people back to the danger of detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island. In the first stage of those announcements, 65 refugees and peopleRead more
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- 18 SEP 17
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Supporting Rohingya Activists
Habiburahman is the founder and spokesperson for The Australian Burmese Rohingya Organisation. More than 500 Rohingya people live in Melbourne and around 3000 in Australia. Since 2013, ABRO has been representing Rohingya-Australians and people seeking asylum and raising awareness about the atrocities being committed in Burma. ABRO has lobbied local MPs, demonstrated outside the
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- 24 JUL 17
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UNHCR calls for immediate end to offshore processing
Last November UNHCR exceptionally agreed to help with the relocation of refugees to the United States following a bilateral agreement between Australia and the US. They agreed to do so on the clear understanding that vulnerable refugees with close family ties in Australia would ultimately be allowed to settle there. UNHCR has recently been informed
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- 24 JUL 17
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A timeline to remember
On July 19 2013, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that ‘any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees’ and would be sent to Papua New Guinea for processing and resettlement. Since the announcement, successive governments have failed in their duty of care
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