Refugee Rights Action Network - Western Australia

The Age
Abuse a true NT disgrace
NTNews.com.au
It also has the right to set up an immigration detention centre at Christmas Island - and, indeed, at Nauru or East Timor. And Australia certainly has the ...
Fears of copycat escape bids after asylum-seekers' breakoutThe Australian
Mass breakout from Australia immigration centreAFP
Detainees break out for highway protestHerald Sun
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No detention centre for Coast
Fraser Coast Chronicle
Meanwhile Fraser Coast business leaders yesterday supported the creation of a refugee centre here in the wake of news that Christmas Island is now full. ...

Indonesian fishermen accused of peoplle smuggling are clogging the courts and ...
The Australian
Indonesians suspected of people-smuggling are held in a Darwin detention centre until they are charged, at which point they are transferred to state prisons ...

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Brisbane Times
Mass breakout from Australia immigration centre
AFP
SYDNEY — Nearly 100 asylum-seekers broke out of an Australian immigration detention centre on Wednesday after days of riots and staged a protest outside, ...
Detainees break out for highway protestHerald Sun
Afghan asylum seekers break-out of detention to protestABC Local
Asylum seekers run riot on Australian land while more arriveAustralia.TO
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Numbers may bar Coalition boatpeople plan
The Australian
It arrived as immigration authorities took control of Darwin's northern immigration detention centre after a two-day disturbance by 117 Indonesian nationals ...

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New boat arrives as centre protest ends
The Australian
It also coincided with the end today of a rooftop protest by accused Indonesian people-smugglers at the Darwin immigration detention centre. ...
Rioters demand to be sent homeThe Australian
Another boat interceptedNinemsn

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Parties inch towards a deal
The Australian
Andrew Probyn and Nick Butterly write that Judi Moylan and Russell Broadbent will cross the floor to vote against a detention centre on Nauru. ...

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Rioters demand to be sent home
The Australian
There are now 2516 people in immigration detention on Christmas Island. For Indonesian crew, life in the Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin is ...
New boat arrives as centre protest endsThe Australian
Another boat interceptedNinemsn

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The Age
Detainee roof protest grows
The Age
More than 100 detainees protest for a second day on the roof of Darwin's immigration detention centre. Photo: Glenn Campbell MORE than 100 Indonesian ...
Indonesian appeal after detention riotThe Australian
Fire, unrest at Australian immigration centreAFP

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Brisbane Times
Indonesian appeal after detention riot
The Australian
Meanwhile, tempers erupted inside the Darwin detention centre. Up to 97 Indonesians detained for people-smuggling offences set mattresses on fire, ...
Fire, unrest at Australian immigration centreAFP

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Latest asylum-seeker vessel causes barely a ripple
The Australian
There, guards and other immigration workers live in the resort on the opposite side of the island to the detention centre. The government has also bought ...

Poem: We are refugees
Green Left Weekly
By Kokulan [Kokulan is one of the Sri Lankan refugees facing court over the “riots” in the Christmas Island detention centre. ...

Detention centres: lethal mental illness factories
Green Left Weekly
He was detained in the Christmas Island detention centre. Without the pressure exerted by the Australian Human Rights Commission and a lawyer, ...

BigPond News
Asylum-seekers ask court for appeal
The Australian
Yesterday morning, 49 more men were flown by charter jet to Curtin detention centre, the holding pen for Afghans in indefinite detention, as a result of a ...
Rejected refugees take Australia to courtABC Online
Judges question asylum loopholeThe Australian
Asylum seekers challenge detentionThe Age

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Oakeshott offers softer refugee stance
Sydney Morning Herald
The Howard government spent more than $400 million setting up the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre but it has only operated under Labor. ...

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Escapee found on Christmas Island
The Australian
IMMIGRATION officers are investigating how a Kurdish detainee escaped from Christmas Island's Detention Centre for at least nine hours today. ...
Christmas Island shopkeeper seeks 'unskilled' migrants to stack shelvesThe Australian

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Detention centre a prison camp for kids
Sydney Morning Herald
The detention centre, located three hours drive north of Kalgoorlie, was opened in June to ease the pressure on the overcrowded Christmas Island facility. ...

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Asylum-seekers hurt in detention-centre brawl
The Australian
... bloody riot on Christmas Island. Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said pressures and conflicts inside overcrowded detention centres would ...

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Tony Abbott has likened Australia's detention centre on Nauru to boarding school
Courier Mail
As the Coalition pressed its case to reopen Australia's detention centre on Nauru, the Opposition leader defended conditions for detainees there under the ...
Labor rules out Nauru solutionThe Australian
Political opponents united in rush for offshore solutionThe Age
Nauru ready and willing, say LibsThe Australian

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