Media Release 10 November 2021 A refugee being treated for COVID-19 at a Melbourne hospital has been transferred back to the Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) today. The Time for a Home alliance of 140 organisations condemns the Morrison Government’s decision to continue detaining refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia’s network of
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Media Release 29 October 2021 COVID-19 has now spread to a second site in Australia’s onshore immigration detention network, with a person held at Melbourne Immigration Transit Authority (MITA) testing positive on Tuesday. The case at MITA follows an outbreak at Melbourne’s Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention, where half of the 46 people have
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Media Release 25 October 2021 The Morrison Government has presided over an avoidable catastrophe in Melbourne’s Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) as nearly half of the 46 people in the hotel test positive for COVID-19. Two weeks ago refugees and people seeking asylum in Park Hotel began displaying symptoms of COVID-19, with three
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Media Release 20 October 2021 The Morrison Government’s Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test) Bill 2019 was voted down in the Senate today thanks to opposition against the legislation, which would have introduced punitive new powers and a two-tier legal system. The second reading debate of the Bill was voted down by crossbenchers, Labor and
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Media Release 17 October 2021 Reports of refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia’s immigration detention system testing positive for COVID-19 have confirmed the worst fears of medical experts and reaffirm the need to release all refugees from detention immediately. On October 17, refugees in Park Hotel Alternative Place of Detention (APOD) said at least
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