Tag: Manus Island

OPINION & ANALYSIS: It’s critical that the Australian government take a new direction in refugee policy and move beyond its tired and false rhetoric of deterrence as a justification for detaining refugees on Nauru and Manus.

The Australian government is providing minimal detail of those who have so far passed the Americans’ “extreme vetting” and been approved to go, saying it is up to the US to do that.

UN told healthcare provided to asylum seekers is comparable to what is available in Australia and that “all but a few children will be out of detention” within months.

An asylum-seeker detained at the Manus Island refugee camp is suing the Australian government and its outsourced security company after a riot in February left the man with severe head trauma.

A former Manus Island processing centre guard says he knew there would be bloodshed within a week of arriving on the island.

BBC radio presenter suggests Australia is ‘effectively operating a sort of Guantanamo Bay ... only in some ways even worse’

The Australians Greens have called on the federal government to lift gag orders on staff at Manus Island detention centre.

The federal opposition is critical over reports that Iran has summoned the Australian envoy to complain about the death of an Iranian asylum seeker in PNG.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison is refusing to say if asylum seekers in offshore detention will be strip searched under enhanced security measures.

Papua New Guinea wasn't seeking economic gain when it agreed to open a processing centre for asylum seekers trying to get into Australia, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says.

Less than a week since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his PNG solution the first asylum seekers have arrived on Manus Island for processing.