Reza Berati鈥檚 death has become a symbol of the brutality and impunity of the offshore imprisonment of听asylum seekers and refugees,听argues Janet Parker,听on the ninth anniversary of his brutal death on Manus Island.
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鈥淢ITA is worse than jail. People are losing their minds,鈥 Joey Tangaloa Taualii, a prisoner in听Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation听told a Refugee Action Collective forum. Chris Slee reports.
Protesters听marked eight years since the Kevin Rudd government announced he would stop asylum seekers arriving by boat from ever settling in Australia. Alex Salmon reports.
Paul Gregoire听looks at听new changes to the Migration Act,听which听allow听the federal government to lock people in immigration detention indefinitely.
Labor needs to break the bipartisan consensus and end its support for mandatory detention and boat turn-backs, argues Alex Bainbridge.
The Aviation Tourism package comes with no obligations to protect jobs. Jim McIlroy argues it is another handout to big business.
How did Australia go from a place where its migrant hostels fostered some of the world鈥檚 most famous bands to one where the detentions centres it presides over are described as 鈥渉ell on Earth鈥? Zebedee Parkes takes a look at the history of mandatory detention and the struggle against it.