This library has hundreds of articles and is best viewed on a desktop or tablet – in other words, not really readable on a mobile. Go back to the Flip Side – there’s plenty there to keep you occupied, I’m sure. Sorry about that. Leave the paper boy a tip though.
-
Integration
‘The neighbours were always very welcoming and warm’: little things count to help refugees belong (Jun '20) The refugee standup night: 'none of us can believe how successful it is' (Jun '20) Immigrants don't take Australian jobs. They create jobs for others (May '20) 'We owe Australia alot': Refugee community donates $160,000 to bushfire relief, offers up tradies (Jan '20) New Australians feel abandoned as they battle social isolation, struggle to find employment (Oct '19) 21 Aug, 2019 Agitators and organisers: untold histories of Chinese migrant workers in Australia (aug '19)
-
Immigration Policy
- How we stay together: 'We've seen so much, and gone through so much' …family refused residency because they had a Down's Syndrome child (Jul '20)
- Peter Dutton’s confidence in ignoring the judiciary mocks Australia’s system of government (Jun '20)
- Judge says Peter Dutton could be found in contempt if he defies orders in immigration case (Jun '20)
- Is slowing Australia’s population growth really the best way out of this crisis? (May '20)
- Policy Forum: Responsibility Sharing or Responsibility Shedding? Australia’s Refugee Policies in the Asia Pacific (Mar '20)
- Dutton Slammed for Locking Up a Blind, Mentally Ill Refugee for a Decade (Feb '20)
- High court rules Aboriginal Australians are not 'aliens' under the constitution and cannot be deported (Feb '20)
- 98-year-old grandmother faces deportation to India after living in Australia for 12 years (Jan '20)
- Home affairs department racked up $6.1m bill transferring refugees and asylum seekers (Jan '20)
- A 'Fair Share Agreement' for refugee resettlements (Jan '20)
- More asylum seekers arrive on planes amid trafficking fears (Dec '19)
- The government wants to privatise visa processing. Who will be held accountable when something goes wrong? (Dec '19)
- 'Doctors and engineers end up driving taxis': The uphill battle facing migrants to Australia (Oct '19)
- Why cutting Australia’s migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade (Dec '18)
- Blocking Disabled People from Coming to Australia (May '19)
Refugee Trauma/Torture/Abuse
International Criminal Court
-
Offshore Detention (Christmas Is./Manus Is./Medivac Legislation)
- For the refugees Australia imprisons, music is liberation, life and defiance (Sep '20)
- Why has a two-year-old girl lived her entire life in Australian immigration detention? (Jul '20)
- Dutton's bid to ban mobile phones in immigration detention centres could be unconstitutional (Jun '20)
- 'We are sitting ducks for Covid 19': asylum seekers write to PM after detainee tested in immigration detention (Mar '20)
- Home affairs fought for three years to stop Serco detention centre manual release (Mar '20)
- ‘People are crying and begging’: the human cost of forced relocations in immigration detention (Mar '20)
- Three-year-old Australian girl in Syria's al-Hawl camp may lose fingers to frostbite (Feb '20)
- Australia's offshore detention is unlawful, says international criminal court prosecutor (Feb '20)
- Australia Put Hundreds Of Women On A Tiny Island. There Are Just Eight Left. (Feb '20)
- 'Hysterical and ruinous': Christmas Island furious over Australia's coronavirus plans (Feb '20)
- "Worse than prison." Australian evacuees on the real conditions on Christmas Island. (Feb '20)
- Leaked photos of Papua New Guinea prison reveal 'torture' of 18 asylum seekers cut off from world (Jan '20)
- Last asylum seekers held in Papua New Guinea detention centre released (Jan '20)
- As a refugee detained indefinitely by Australia, I wish you a happy new year (Jan '20)
- ‘THEY GIVE US NO CLEAR ANSWERS’: MEDEVAC ASYLUM SEEKER REPORTEDLY DETAINED IN MELBOURNE HOTEL SPEAKS OUT (Dec '19)
- Asylum seekers transferred to Australia under medevac laws held in Melbourne hotel (Dec '19)
- Asylum seekers approved for medevac transfers detained in Port Moresby (Oct '19)
- Mentally ill asylum seeker sent away from promised treatment on 5,400km Qantas round trip (Oct '19)
- Man waits years for hepatitis C medication after immigration detention transfer (Oct '19)
- The Truth about Border Protections (Sep '19)
- Immigration deadlock as 50 asylum seekers detained indefinitely for being stateless (Sep '19)
- Australia's Shame (Sep '19)
- Two-year-old in immigration detention forced to have rotting teeth surgically removed (Jul '19)
- What now for asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island in need of medical evacuation? (Feb '19)
- Medevac Bill (Feb '19)
- Australia’s ‘border protection’ policies cost taxpayers $4bn last year (Jan '18)
- How many more people must die on Manus before Australia ends indefinite detention? … Behrouz Boochani (Jun '19)
- Morrison ignored boat security advice … Medivac Legislation(Mar '19)
- The Paladin scandal is only a drop in the ocean of corruption on Manus and Nauru … Behrouz Boochani (Mar '19)
- Government to pay $70m damages to 1,905 Manus detainees in class action (Jun '17)
- Asylum seekers say Paladin 'doing nothing' for its $423m Manus Island deal (Feb '19)
- Border protection policies cost Australia $10b in three years, international aid groups find (Sep '16)
- Fact check: Does Australia spend more on offshore processing than the UN spends on refugee programs in South East Asia? (Jul '15)
-
Refugee Stories
The impact of Covid-19 on asylum seekers (Jun '20) The last refugee family on Nauru (Jun '20) China's Tiananmen generation reflect on how Bob Hawke gave them a permanent Australian home (Jun '20) 'Finally, a life': Canada comes to the rescue when a refugee family loses hope in Australia (Feb '20) Iranian refugee fire fighter battles NSW blazes (Jan '20) These women traveled 4 hrs with 5 trucks of supplies to cook food for 150 tired Australian firefighters (Jan '20) ‘I had no choice but to quit study and save my life’: A Syrian refugee’s road to graduation (Dec '19) 'I can't believe I'm free': the Canadian citizens ending the torment for Australia’s offshore refugees (Nov '19) Manus Island asylum seekers make friends with Australians online, but many do not want to come here (Jul '19) ‘I knew people who had harder lives than me’ - the Syrian refugee child who started a school (Dec '17)
-
Behrouz Boochani
New Zealand grants asylum to Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish-Iranian refugee who was detained on Manus Island (Jul '20) Behrouz Boochani: Jacinda Ardern lashes 'offensive' claim refugee won political favours (May '20) Behrouz Boochani's book, No Friend But The Mountain, to be made into a film (Feb '20) Hope Is a Complicated Concept: An Interview with Behrouz Boochani (Feb '20) Behrouz Boochani, brutalised but not beaten by Manus, says simply: 'I did my best' (Nov '19)
-
Refugee Advocacy
How an inner-city motel became a detention centre for more than 100 refugees (Jun '20) What's the Difference Between a Refugee, an Asylum Seeker and an Immigrant? Refugees need protection from coronavirus too, and must be released (Apr '20) Australians want to open their homes to locked-down refugees. The government should let them (Apr '20) FFA Cup shirts to recognise refugees and asylum seekers still held in detention (Mar '20) Exclusive: More than 500 visa scams a year are being reported in Australia (Nov '19) ‘The boats are coming’ is one of the greatest lies told to the Australian people (Jul '19)
-
Biloela Family
- Biloela Tamil family separated as mother flown to Perth for medical treatment (Jul '20)
- 'Relief': appeal win means Biloela family can put claim Sri Lanka is not safe, says supporter (Apr '20)
- Reprieve for Biloela family after federal court rules they were denied procedural fairness (Apr '20)
- How the Biloela Tamil family deportation case highlights the failures of our refugee system (Aug '19)
- Biloela family may spend months more on Christmas Island waiting on court decision (Feb '20)
- How two women from a conservative Queensland town made the deportation of a local Tamil family national news (Feb '20)
- What will happen to the Biloela family held on Christmas Island? (Feb '20)
- Judge tells government to give documents to Biloela family's lawyer after ‘overenthusiastic’ redactions (Feb '20)
- Advocates demand Tamil family be removed from Christmas Island before Wuhan evacuees arrive (Feb '20)
- Biloela family wait in Christmas Island limbo as Wuhan evacuees see out quarantine (Feb '20)
- Biloela family may spend months more on Christmas Island waiting on court decision (Feb '20)
- Four-year-old Christmas Island detainee to be escorted to first day of school by guards (Jan '20)
- Did the father of a Tamil asylum seeker family travel from Australia while his immigration case was before the courts? (Sep '19)
- Australia has ignored the UN's request to release the Tamil family from Christmas Island (Oct '19)
- ‘Fast track’ asylum processing risks fairness for efficiency (Dec ’14)