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- ACT FOR PEACE ON-LINE PETITION: A HUMANITARIAN APPROACH TO REFUGEES
- ‘This is breaking people’: visa deadline
- ‘Fast tracking’ refugee status determination
- “my great porridge moment” – Julian Burnside
- “Half a Step Forward” – ALP Policy on Refugees and Asylum
- 12 former Australians of the Year wrote to the PM – will you?
- 150 asylum seekers challenge offshore processing
- 1600 asylum claims could be reopened
- 17 councils call on govt to reverse SRSS cuts
- 2 Responses to Brad Chilcott’s ‘Possibility before Protest’
- 200 refugees to leave Manus & Nauru in January 2018
- 2015 – Open Letter from current & former Nauru staff
- 2018-2019 Federal Budget & Refugees
- 3 Key Questions on Refugee Responsibility-Sharing
- 5-minute guide to refugees, people seeking asylum and…IDPs
- 6.30pm Sun 10 April ABC TV: Compass: Sanctuary
- 76 Rohingya Muslims land in Indonesia
- A ‘win-win’ situation?
- A Conversation With Canada’s Refugees Minister
- A Look at the Home Affairs Dept
- A short film: The reality of life for children and their families on Nauru
- A Simple Guide To Asylum Seekers: Who Are They, And How Can We Help Them
- A Sri Lankan Tamil dies on Manus Island, the 6th Manus Island detainee to die in the past four years…….Shame Australia
- ABC: 4 Corners: Journey Into Hell
- ABC’s Lateline: Nazanin’s family at breaking point
- Academics call for better refugee policy
- ACTU Policy: A Fair Go for All
- Addressing The Pain of Separation for Refugee Families
- Adelaide Refugee Support Services
- Afghan refugee graduates as dux of school
- Age Editorial: Hope for some must not hide refugee plight
- AHRC – Leading for Change: A Blueprint for Cultural Diversity and Inclusive Leadership Revisited (2018)
- AHRC against Peter Dutton’s bid for more power
- AHRC Forgotten Children Report 2014
- AHRC Report: Asylum seekers, refugees and human rights
- AHRC: Submission re Migration Amendment 26 Nov 2015
- ALP agrees to boat turn-backs
- ALP Draft Policy has no reference to non-refoulement
- ALP Policy on Migration and Refugees – 2016
- ALP releases Plan for Asylum Seekers
- ALP Right push to adopt hardline boat turn-back policy
- ALP set to reopen row on asylum-seekers
- ALP, Coalition close offshore detention loophole
- ALP: Richard Marles: Speaks about Asylum Seekers
- Alternatives to Manus Island
- AMA calls for Urgent Action 4 Nauru
- AMA Forum (Report)
- Amnesty International Media Release – 13 Nov 2016
- Amnesty report on Nauru
- Amnesty-Human Rights Watch report: Nauru
- Amnesty: Australia’s cut to healthcare on Manus ‘inexplicable’
- Amnesty: Damning evidence of transnational crime
- Amnesty: EU do not repeat HR failures of Australia
- An Open Letter to the Australian People
- Angel visits Malcolm Turnbull
- Another cruel twist in Australia’s refugee policy
- Are those fleeing persecution and impoverishment so very different?
- ASEAN proposals to respond to boat crisis in South-East Asia
- Ashmore Reef Bill passed
- ASRC – Communicating effectively
- ASRC Messaging Project
- ASRC: Refuge from Our Rhetoric – Outlined
- Asylum seeker children still in detention despite claims
- Asylum seeker fast-track processing to begin with temporary protection visas
- Asylum seekers – an excruciating process
- Asylum seekers & refugees in 2018-2019 Budget
- Asylum seekers abused on Nauru may never get justice, says former adviser
- Asylum Seekers face destitution
- At What Cost? Save the Children & UNICEF Report
- Aussie expats help Manus, Nauru refugees in US
- Aust doctors offer treatment to Manus refugees
- Australia and the war on refugees
- Australia built a hell for Refugees
- Australia confirms air strikes in Syria, announces additional 12,000 refugee places
- Australia criticised: UN Human Rights Council review
- Australia imported US policies
- Australia joins UN condemnation of Cambodia but refugee deal remains
- Australia ratifies UN protocol, agrees to mainland detention inspections
- Australia sailed asylum seekers to remote reef
- Australia to allow UN inspections of onshore detention centres
- Australia Under Fire for Separating Refugee Families
- Australia’s Anglican Primate Comments on Children In Immigration Detention
- Australia’s Refugees: US shouldn’t follow.
- Australia’s Treatment of Asylum Seekers – ANZAC Day 2015
- Australia’s obligations to asylum seekers
- Australia’s treatment of refugee children
- Australia’s UN report card raises concerns
- Australian Bishops endorse “Bring Them Here” campaign
- Australian Churches Media Release – 13 Nov 2016
- Australian doctor challenges Turnbull & Shorten
- Australian NGO Coalition Submission to the Human Rights Committee
- Australian public misses the mark on basic facts
- Australians demand end to Manus Island and Nauru refugee centres
- AWOL African athletes have visas to stay
- Baby Asha and the political grandstanding of #LetThemStay
- Baby Asha and the shadow of ‘children overboard’
- Ben Doherty: Nauru
- Bendigo to host national refugee conference
- Beyond the Wire: Stories from Manus
- Biloela family handed deportation notice
- Bleeding Heart or the Devil
- Boat People and Gun Ships in the Mediterranean
- Boat turn-backs in Australia, the United States and Italy
- Boochani: Five years of detention
- Boochani: It has now been five years
- Border Force beset by problems
- Budget: Double Wait Time for Refugee Support
- Burnside: Failings of super-minister Dutton
- Burnside: More letters returned from Manus
- Burnside: Nauru should shock every Australian
- Burnside: The truth about asylum seekers
- Burnside’s Speech for ALP Conference
- Byron Bay becomes a Refugee Welcome Zone
- Call for Assistance with Refugees in the Ukraine
- Call for help for legal defence of Biloela Tamil refugees
- Call me illegal: The semantic struggle over seeking asylum in Australia
- Cambodia deal to lapse
- Cambodia Fiasco
- Cambodia to receive more refugees from Australia
- Can doctors really speak out?
- Check out RAR on Twitter
- Chilcott: More Compassion Needed
- Child in detention for 1113 days: Only 25 Rohingya refugees accepted
- Children on Nauru diagnosed with Resignation Syndrome
- ChilOut Calls for Closure of Nauru Detention Centre
- Churches Taskforce calls for evacuation of Manus
- City of Freemantle speaks out for Refugees
- Close Nauru
- Coffs Harbour: Refugee Week Events
- Comcare Report: Untold Damage
- Community rallies around Ethiopian woman facing deportation
- Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative
- Compelling account of conditions on Nauru
- Crimes of omission: Nauru
- CVRSN Discussion Paper: The Development of a Regional Protection Framework
- Damned Lies, News Corp and Manus Island Refugees
- David Manne on RN Breakfast
- Department of Immigration and Border Security’s Inhumanity on Manus (click one NEWS)
- Despair over fresh crackdown on asylum seekers
- Detention centre doctors ‘should seek legal advice’ over new disclosure laws
- Detention gag orders make it impossible for doctors to do their job
- Detention times at record levels under Turnbull
- Do the means justify the ends?
- Doctors oppose anti-whistleblower law
- Doctors urge care for dying refugee
- Dutton attacks Amnesty International
- Economic Cost of Australia’s Asylum Policies
- Editorial: Canberra Times
- Equal Protection of the Law?
- Expert panel into child protection in detention announced as AFP heads to Nauru
- Fact Check: Does Whistleblower Legislation offer protection?
- Facts about seeking asylum in Australia
- Fast Track Assessment
- Fast-track assessment unfair, high court told
- Fast-Track Legislation TODAY re Off-Shore Detention Centres
- Final Draft: Global Refugee Compact
- Flouting “duty of care” may result in claims
- Forbidden island
- from 2016: No Business In Abuse
- From Manus Island to Philippines – $150m deal
- Future of human rights in Australia: Triggs
- Ged Kearney: Getting people off Manus and Nauru a priority
- George Newhouse: Inquests – Fazel Chegeni Nejad & Hamid Khazaei
- GetUp’s #BringThemHere campaign for the Men of Manus
- Gillard Pens “Heartbreaking” Refugee Situation
- Gillian Triggs attacks Transfield offshore detention centre contract
- Global push against refugees
- Goodbye Manus Island: Eric Tlozek
- Hamid Khazaei: pre-inquest report
- Hamid Khazaei: Coroner to release findings
- Have refugees in Australia become terrorists?
- Healthcare on Manus is worse
- High Court Decision – 3 Feb 2016
- High Court: Govt can detain asylum seekers
- Homestay Working Group
- How Australia decides who is a genuine refugee
- How generous is Australia?
- How has it come to this?
- How Labor can create a humane refugee policy without reviving boat arrivals
- How many migrants come to Australia each year?
- How to avoid a violent end to the Manus Island stand-off
- How to end our Nation’s Shame
- How you can help Rohingya Muslims
- If We Let The Babies Stay
- IHMS pulls out of Manus
- Immigration spent unauthorised $2.2bn on offshore detention, says auditor
- Impact of Detention on the Social–Emotional Wellbeing of Children Seeking Asylum
- In the Firing Line (Manus) – Amnesty International
- Injustices and the Art of Realpolitik
- Inside Labor’s refugee strategy
- Interivew: Paris Aristotle
- Iran puts conditions on asylum-seeker deal
- Iranian asylum seeker dies on Nauru
- Isaacs: Doctors should boycott Australia’s immigration centres
- Jane Healy: Impressions on Christmas Island and Yongah Hill
- Journalists confronted with trauma and hypocrisy
- Julie Bishop: Rohingya should not be repatriated to Myanmar until credible investigation
- Key Players in the Syria Crisis
- Kids don’t belong in detention: trauma changes growing brains
- Klaus Neumann’s history of Australia’s response to refugees
- Labor Policy in 2002: Report from Mudgee Conference
- Labor vs Coalition on asylum seekers
- Labor’s Plan for Asylum Seekers
- Lawyers want PMs from John Howard to Malcolm Turnbull in dock over asylum detention
- Lawyers: Refugee Protection Bill
- Legal challenge to Australia’s offshore detention of asylum seekers goes ahead
- Legal showdown looming on children in detention
- Legality of Manus Camp
- Letter from Tanya Plibersek
- Liberal MP appeals to ‘people of conscience’ after release of Nauru files
- Liberty Vic Report: Immigration Minister’s Unrestrained Power
- Life in the Manus Island detention centre
- Macken: I Now Stay Quiet About My Connection To Labor
- Make Sure You Read This
- Making the Global Compacts Work: What future for refugees and migrants?
- Malaysia stops tanker heading to Aust
- Malcolm Fraser on AHRC Enquiry into Children in Detention
- Malcolm Turnbull should walk away from US refugee deal
- Manus & Nauru highlighted on ANZAC day
- Manus detainees need our support
- Manus is the most confronting place I have seen
- Manus Island Refugee Centre
- Manus Island: behind the wire
- Manus Lives Matter: Nov 2017 Newsletter
- Manus refugee attacked for second time
- Manus to cost $250 million after closure
- Marlene Griffin of Bellingen RAR poses a question about Syria
- May 2018: Offshore Statistics
- Mayors Can Help the Refugee Compact
- Media Release from Faith Leaders
- Melb couple help helps refugees
- Melbourne: Planning Palm Sunday 2016
- Melissa Parke’s speech at L4R Dinner
- Men of Manus
- Message from Anne Coombs, Helen McCue, Susan Varga – Co-founders of RAR in 2001
- Message from Friends of Refugees
- Minister’s “Rule of Law” Comments
- Monsoons hit Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
- Monstrous failure of our bipartisan AS policy
- Moss Review
- Mother’s Day – away from family
- My Manus Island nightmare
- Myanmar: efforts to force Rohingya to leave
- Myanmar: The limits of sanctions
- Nambucca community for refugees
- National Settlement Standards
- Nauru files ‘an extraordinary trove of short stories’, says Richard Flanagan
- Nauru inquiry a witch hunt, says minister
- Nauru inquiry: Australia’s Abu Ghraib moment?
- Nauru refugee dies in Brisbane hospital
- Nauru: 12-year-old at imminent risk
- Nauru: Court orders sick child to Oz
- Nauru: How long can we keep lying to ourselves?
- Nauru:1000 Days In Detention
- New AHRC report reveals alarming impact of detention on children
- New Victoria Police officers from Congo and Sudan
- New York Declaration
- New: Citizenship Discrimination for Boat Arrivals – RCOA
- News from ChilOut – Sept 2015
- NGOs set deadline to get all refugee children off Nauru
- Nine month pause on UNHCR referrals
- Nope, Nope, Nope: Why Australia won’t help the Rohingya
- NSW signs up to place refugees in regional areas on five-year visas
- NZ: Australia’s responsibility to block on-travel
- Offer a Home to a Refugee
- Offshore detention laws rushed through Senate to avoid high court
- Offshore processing of asylum seekers – ABC’s Big Ideas
- Offshore processing policy examined by High Court
- Ongoing Release Of Refugees – Questions For ASIO
- Open Letter from Manning RAR Member
- Open letter on the Border Force Act: ‘We challenge the department to prosecute’
- Open Letter to Labor
- Open Letter: A Committee for Peace and Justice
- Pain of Separation for Refugee Families
- Palestinian Refugees face cuts to aid
- Palm Sunday Rallies 2018
- Pamela Curr: Impending Retirement
- Papua New Guinea court rejects application to restore services to Manus detention centre
- Parliament House protest: Love Makes A Way
- Petitions and Letters – do they make a difference?
- Pilot program – refugees into professions
- PM announces refugee resettlement deal with US
- PM plays down chances of NZ taking refugees
- PNG wants Australia to put deadline on refugee resettlement
- PNG’s supreme court halts asylum seeker deportations
- Possibility before Protest: Brad Chilcott
- Pre-Dawn Terror in Broadmeadows
- Pro-refugee platform for Labor?
- Proposed citizenship test: a new White Australia policy
- Protection and Punishment in the People Business
- Psychiatrist: Child should not be sent back to Nauru
- RAC: Iranian refugee on Nauru attempts suicide
- Ramadan harder for Detainees
- RAR Australia agrees with UNICEF and calls on the Australian Government to respect the principle of family unity……… family members on Nauru and Manus who have family members in Australia must be reunited.
- RAR Event Calendar
- RAR Patron – Julian Burnside AO QC
- RCH doctors refuse to return children to detention
- RCOA Briefing – Visitors’ Access to People in Detention
- RCOA calls for Australian action to protect Rohingya lives at risk
- RCOA calls for immediate action on offshore detention
- RCOA Refugee Week Bulletin 1
- RCOA Report: Delays in Citizenship Applications for Permanent Refugee Visa Holders
- RCOA: 2015-16 Federal Budget in Brief
- RCOA: Economic Migrants or Refugees?
- RCOA: Mean-spirited Budget will harm Australia’s global reputation
- RCOA: Refugee Council of Australia Appeal
- RCOA: Refugee Week Poster
- RCOA: State of the Nation 2017
- RCOA: The ALP & Boat Turnbacks
- RCOA: UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO THE ROHINGYA CRISIS
- RCOA: Why are Australians silent on Rohingya deaths at sea?
- Read the latest outrageous announcement from the government regarding asylum seekers……go to the NEWS page
- Red Cross CEO: There is no legal queue.
- Refugee advocates are winning allies in the bush
- Refugee advocates target political leaders
- Refugee Council calls for urgent answers on asylum seekers
- Refugee initiatives showcased at migrant conference
- Refugee movement comes together to call for immediate evacuation of offshore camps
- Refugee Summit Should Address Conflict Prevention
- Refugee Week: A message from Gillian Triggs
- Refugee women in Australia speak on Mother’s Day for the ‘voiceless’ in camps
- Refugees Alternatives: RCOA Conference 2017: Report
- Refugees and asylum seekers hit by Coalition cuts
- Refugees integrating well in Regions
- Refugees Living Beyond Big Cities Face Challenges
- Refugees work in Tasmania & NSW under SHEV
- Region has right ingredients for resettlement
- Reply to Lesley’s Letter by Macedon Ranges RAR Member
- Report on Christmas Island
- Report to Senate: LifeTime Visa Ban
- Report: Four Years Too Many
- Report: Nauru Family Health and Support Study
- Research challenges boat turn-back policy
- Research Project – Asylum Seekers and Refugees
- Resettled in Australia WITHOUT Reviving Boat Arrivals
- Resettlement is the way out of detention mess
- Returned to Nauru against medical advice
- Robert Adler, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist: Off-shore Detention
- Robert Manne: Slow death
- Rohingya ‘rather die’ than return to oppression in Myanmar
- Rohingya Crisis, Deportations, People-Smuggling … and more
- Rohingya Demand U.N. Security Council Pursue Justice
- SBS: Rohingyas in Myanmar
- Senate Inquiry: Child asylum seeker alleges rape in shower and 253 Nauru detainees attempt self-harm
- Senate Report on the Regional Processing Centre in Nauru 2015
- Senate Report: Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015
- Senate Report: Serious allegations
- Senate: No child in detention in Australia
- Senator Anning: White Australia Policy
- Sexual Assault Survivors Deserve Compassion & Care
- Shorten faces asylum seeker debate
- Shorten wants boat turn-backs
- Shorten’s backflip on boat turn-backs is reprehensible
- Should Australian states step up?
- Sister Jane Keogh on Manus: “I’ve never been more upset or traumatised in my life.”
- South Sudan: Give me shelter
- Special Envoy on Human Rights. Ruddock. What?
- Speech to AMA Forum on Health of Asylum Seekers
- Stalling the lawyers who aid asylum seekers
- States of Refuge: Liberty Victoria
- Stepping up to the plate
- Strip searches on Nauru
- Successful Community Sponsorship Program
- Summary of the 4 submissions to the ICC
- Summit for Refugees and Migrants
- Syria and the Refugee Iceberg
- Syrian refugee graduates as dux of school
- Tamil asylum seekers facing deportation
- Telling Stories Without Showing Faces
- The Australian Border Force Act: trying to silence health workers
- The Border Force Bill was passed quietly on May 14
- The Cry of a Voice in Isolation
- The Disappearing Athletes
- The ethical consequences of making the ALP electable
- The gift of music
- The Global Refugee Crisis: A Conspiracy of Neglect
- The Liberal Nonconformist from Sydney’s West
- The Long Journey To Nauru
- The Men of Manus
- The myth that grips a nation
- The Nauru files
- The New Australian Order
- The Power of an Image
- The Question Marles Couldn’t Answer
- The Refugee Crisis in 2017
- The Saturday Paper: Hateful numbers
- The stateless refugee Australia may never release
- The truth about Manus
- The Vulnerability Report: Inside the process of seeking asylum: Australian Red Cross
- Tim Costello: Manus drains refugees of hope
- Today at MITA – Pamela Curr
- Tony Abbot on AHRC Enquiry into Detention of Children
- Tony Windsor: Asylum-seeker policy a dark spot in Australia’s history
- Turnbull refuses NZ Offer
- Turnbull rejects NZ offer
- UN body condemns Australia
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ‘dismayed’ at Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers
- UN says Australia’s “chronic non-compliance” is “completely off the charts”
- UN: ‘horrors’ inflicted on Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
- UNHCR – 10 Point Plan in Action
- UNHCR Report: World at War, Forced Displacement in 2014
- UNHCR: Australia Must Prevent Humanitarian Emergency in PNG
- UNHCR: Help Refugees on Nauru and Manus before white SA farmers
- Unique challenges for women seeking asylum
- University of Melbourne Lecture Series
- Untold Damage
- Up to 7,000 asylum seekers to lose income support
- US Refugee Deal: Men told to separate from families
- US will take up to 1,250 refugees under Aust deal
- Vic ALP to debate Offshore Processing
- Victorian Premier offers sanctuary to refugees
- Vinnies blasts cruel cut in benefits to asylum seekers on medical treatment
- Vinnies CEO blasts ‘cruel’ SRSS cuts
- Visa Information Fact Sheets
- Warrnambool & District Christian Leaders approach local MP, Dan Tehan, about asylum seeker children in detention.
- What is the difference between asylum seekers, refugees and economic migrants?
- What the appointment of Antonio Guterres as UN secretary-general means for the refugee crisis
- What we do & don’t know re the US refugee resettlement deal
- What we really want is freedom
- Where are the Boats?
- Wilkie tables Refugee Protection Bill
- Wilson Security’s appalling record on Nauru
- World Refugee Eve Dinner
- Would You Let a Refugee Live with You?
- Write to Senators about the Babies
