UN member states challenge Australia’s refugee and asylum policies
(Refugee Council of Australia -RCOA) 31 January 2021
Last year, RCOA worked with a coalition of Australian NGOs to prepare a
report about the state of human rights in Australia, endorsed by over 200 organisations, for the UN’s Universal Period Review (UPR).
The coalition also prepared a series of fact sheets.
Kangaroos and Barnesy: Former detainee Moz Azimitabar’s first days of freedom
(SMH) 31 January 2021
Treaties and blind spots: What is Australia’s record on human rights?
(SMH) 30 January 2021
Refugees close to year in hotel detention
(Nambucca Guardian News) 30 January 2021
Australia in focus at the UN Human Rights Council
(Lowy Institute -The Interpreter) 28 January 2021
More asylum seekers released from Melbourne immigration detention, a week
after dozens freed (SBS) 28 January 2021
Could the Biden administration pressure Australia to adopt more humane refugee policies? (The Conversation) 27 January 2021
Could the Biden administration pressure Australia to adopt more humane refugee policies? (The Canberra Times) 28 January 2021 and
(UNSW Newsroom) 27 January 2021
People power prevails in release of Medevac refugees
(Pro Bono Australia) 27 January 2021
Australian government ordered to pay 1300 asylum seekers whose details were exposed (The Guardian) 27 January 2021
Free them all: the government is finally releasing the medevac detainees
(sydneycriminallawyers.com.au) 26 January 2021
The pandemic is no excuse to shut the door on refugee resettlement
(The New Humanitarian) 25 January 2021
“I never felt alone”: refugee Mostafa Azimitabar on justice, Jimmy Barnes and freedom after eight years (The Guardian) 25 January 2021
I am an Australia Day ambassador and support a change in date: Craig Foster
(The Guardian) 25 January 2021
Locked up in a hotel for a year, then a sudden taste of freedom
(Baltimore Sun) 24 January 2021
Release the rest of the detained refugees (Editorial)
(The Age) 22 January 2021
Just 14 asylum seekers remain in Melbourne hotel detention
& here’s what you can do to help (Pedestrian TV) 22 January 2021
Medically vulnerable refugees in Australia hotels finally freed
(Aljazeera) 22 January 2021
‘Like a new person’: Refugee Moz freed after eight years in detention
(SBS) 22 January 2021
Locked Up in a Hotel for a Year, Then a Sudden Taste of Freedom
(The New York Times) 21 January 2021
‘We are out now’: more refugees released from hotel detention in Melbourne
(Brisbane Times) and (The Age) 21 January 2021
Mostafa Azimitabar says his release was ‘the most beautiful moment of
my life’ (ABC) 21 January 2021
Medevac detainees have been freed after years in Australia’s immigration detention system. Here’s why, and what may happen next (ABC) 21 January 2021
Nearly all refugees held in Melbourne hotel detention to be released,
advocates say (The Guardian) 20 January 2021
Dozens of medevac refugees freed from detention
(ABC News) 20 January 2021
UN’s spotlight on Australia’s human rights
(Yahoo News Australia) 20 January 2021
Australia: address abuses raised at UN review
(Human Rights Watch) 20 January 2021
Editorial: Australia fails on human rights
(Echonetdaily) 20 January 2021
Medevac detainees freed from Melbourne hotel after years
in immigration detention (ABC News) 20 January 2021
Withholding medicines an abuse of human rights
(Australian Journal of Pharmacy) 19 January 2021
Refugee Rights protest Brisbane seeks to ‘humanise the dehumanised’
(The Westender( 18 January) 2021
Detainees on Australia’s Christmas Island continue protests against appalling conditions (World Socialist Website -WSWS) 15 January 2021
Pauline Hanson website url diverted to surprising page in online prank – the Refugee Council of Australia (Yahoo News Australia) 15 January 2021
Protesters demand freedom for hotel detainees
(Green Left) 10 January 2021
Fresh disturbance at Christmas Island detention centre due to ‘inhumane’ conditions, advocates say (The Guardian) 10 January 2021
Meet the refugee behind these memorable Sri Lankan cooking lessons
(SBS) 13 January 2021
Tear gas, rubber bullets and beating leaves men traumatised and sick at Christmas Island detention centre (The Guardian) 10 January 2021
Keeping the Biloela family exiled on Christmas Island in 2020 cost taxpayers $14 million (The Guardian) 7 January 2021
Fires at Christmas Island as detainees riot
(The West Australian) 6 December 2021
Ex-Manus detainee Amir was given a new life by sponsors in Canada. Now he’s looking to pay it forward (SBS) 5 January 2021
Australia’s national interest must be weighed when deporting refugees, court tells government (The Guardian Australia) 5 January 2021
Asylum seekers put their hands up to fill labour shortage in regional Victoria
(ABC News) 3 January 2021
Cabinet papers reveal how seeds of Australia’s divisive asylum seeker boats
policy were sown in 2000 (The Guardian) 1 January 2021
Cabinet papers: Secrets behind illegal boat arrivals revealed
(Herald Sun -$ paywall) 1 January 2021
Cabinet papers: Government warned over human rights issues
(Weekend Australian) 1 January 2021
