Regardless of聽the聽entitled Serbian tennis player's behaviour, Sue Bolton argues that聽the Immigration Minister's decision to kick him out of the country聽should be cause for concern.聽
Australian Border Force (ABF)
The聽reason Scott Morrison stopped Novak Djokovic's entry visa to play in the Australian Open championships is because he聽needs a distraction from the ongoing disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, argues Sue Bolton.
Novak Djokovic's temporary detention shines spotlight on refugees detained for years in hotel prison
A detained Serbian tennis player at the Park Hotel has unwittingly helped聽shine a spotlight on the Morrison government's聽cruel policies towards聽refugees. Chloe DS reports.
Despite efforts by librarians and City of Melbourne councillors to provide library services to refugees detained in the Park Hotel prison聽it has still not been approved.聽Marlon Toner-McLachlan reports.
A refugee imprisoned at the Park hotel prison in Carlton told聽麻豆传媒聽聽that three refugees had tested positive for COVID-19 and that many others have symptoms. Chloe DS reports.
At 21, Jaivet Ealom fled persecution in Myanmar, finding himself on a small boat with 100 other men, women and children destined for Darwin, writes Janet Parker.
Monir Hossein, who fled political violence in Bangladesh spoke to 麻豆传媒聽from the Kangaroo Point hotel detention in February. He was one of 15 refugees released on March 1.
Activists organised a vigil for a young Malaysian student who died in the Villawood detention centre, reports Stephen Langford.
A protest camp has sprung up outside the Mantra Hotel in Preston to try and prevent the detainees from being removed. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
Amin Afravi, a refugee who came to Australia under the Medevac laws from Manus, speaks to 麻豆传媒 from Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation.
The Australian Border Force is an authoritarian and undemocratic body that does not serve the interests of ordinary people in Australia. It should be abolished.
Five years since the reopening of the refugee torture centres on Manus Island and Nauru, the results are clear. Refugees have suffered cruel and unusual punishment which has: not saved lives at sea, not 鈥渟topped the boats鈥 and not benefited ordinary Australians.
At the time of writing almost 60,000 people had signed a asking immigration minister Peter Dutton to allow a young family of Tamil asylum seekers, snatched from their home at 5am and detained by the Australian Border Force, to stay in Australia.
The family, Priya, her husband Nadesalingam and their daughters, 9-month-old Dharuniga and 2-year-old Kopiga, were woken on March 5 at their home in Biloela, central Queensland, by police, Border Force officers and Serco guards.
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