Media reports about refugees: March 2019
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Palaszczuk Government strengthens asylum seeker support services.
(Mirage News) 28/03/19.
Scott Morrison’s $9 billion mass detention plan. (The Age) 26/03/19.
Patient Testimony from Nauru:“Refugees on Nauru are Desperately in need of
Freedom.” (MSF) 25/03/19.
Six facts that tell a different immigration story than we hear from politicians. (ABC News) 21/03/19.
Morrison government faces first test under new refugee medical transfer laws. (The Age) 20/03/19.
Nauru refugees exposed to asbestos after shipping containers dumped just metres away (ABC News March 19 2019).
PM pushes mixed messages on migration (InDaily March 19 2019).
Exclusive: Former Nauru president’s dying wish is to end offshore processing (SBS News March 18 2019).
Australia’s citizenship backlog is taking a toll on the country’s refugees
(SBS News March 17 2019).
Hero refugee chased gunman away from NZ mosque
(Yahoo News March 17 2019).
High risk and inflated: Australia’s contract for food on Manus Island
(Canberra Times March 14 2019).
Rally opposes Christmas Island plan (Green Left Weekly March 11 2019).
Toll paid $9m to do nothing after Canberra scrapped the Manus project
(AFR March 11 2019).
A decade in detention: refugees face indefinite time on Christmas Island (March 8, 2019). More from The Age.
Babies of refugees on Manus Island eligible for transfer under Medevac Bill, but confusion reigns (March 9, 2019) . Read more from ABC News.
PM, stop the cynical charade on asylum-seeker boats (March 9, 2019). Read more from The Age.
Bring Aussie kids home from Syria says Save the Children (March 9, 2019). More from SBS News.
Put ‘politics above lives’ (March 9, 2019). Read more from the Jeffersen Journal.
Two men arrested over attack on refugee at Adelaide CBD bus stop
(March 8, 2019). Read more from The Adelaide Advertiser.
Villawood detainee self-harms: advocates (March 7, 2019).
Read more from 9News. Read more from SBS News.
Second Villawood death raises concerns (March 7, 2019).
More from Independent Australia.
UN human rights chief blasts PM’s Christmas Island plans.
(March 7, 2019). More from SBS News.
Christmas Island to do asylum processing (March 6, 2019).
More from 9News.
Sick asylum seekers deemed ‘a risk’ to Australia to be sent to Christmas Island (March 6, 2019). Read more from ABC News.
Qld town demands Tamil family’s release (March 5, 2019).
Read more from the Illawarra Mercury.
Time’s up for the Home Affairs experiment (March 5, 2019).
Read more from Fairfax media.
Man dies inside Sydney detention centre (March 4 2019).
Read more from 9News.
