SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s military intercepted a Sri Lankan boat carrying 13 asylum-seekers last month, Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said on Monday, as Canberra sought to defend the relocation of a Tamil family to a remote detention center. Dutt... More »
Australia will not be allowed to walk away from legal, financial and moral responsibility for nearly 800 men when it closes its asylum seeker detention center in Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Tuesday, PNG's immigration minister said. More »
FILE PHOTO: A protester holds a placard in Sydney, Australia, February 4, 2017 during one of several rallies across Australia condemning U.S. President Donald Trump’s order temporarily barring refugees and nationals from seven countries and demanding an end to... More »
Australia and New Zealand reached agreement on a landmark Pacific trade pact on Thursday to cut down trade barriers, boost tourism and raise living standards in the region, the two governments said on Thursday. More »
FILE PHOTO: Security fences can be seen near trees inside the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, February 11, 2017. Behrouz Boochani/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo The future of an Australia’s controversial asylum-seeker detention center in Pap... More »
U.S. officials began taking fingerprints of asylum seekers in an Australian-run camp on the Pacific island of Nauru on Monday, signaling that vetting of applicants for resettlement in what U.S. President Donald Trump called a “dumb deal” has restarted. More »
Australian Labor Party leader Bill Shorten appears at a news conference in Melbourne, Australia, July 10, 2016. AAP/Julian Smith/via REUTERS Australia’s plan to permanently ban asylum seekers who arrive by boat from ever entering the country was in jeopardy on... More »
A cartoon by Ali, an Iranian refugee held at Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island detention centre whose pen name is Eaten Fish, is seen in this image supplied to Reuters on August 27, 2016. Eaten Fish/Handout via REUTERS An Iranian refugee held at an Australian-fu... More »
Asylum seekers look at the media from behind a fence at the Manus Island detention centre, Papua New Guinea in this picture taken March 21, 2014. This is image is supplied from source with faces digitally blurred. AAP/Eoin Blackwell/via REUTERS Australia and P... More »
SYDNEY Australia’s hardline immigration policies overshadowed the launch of its bid to join the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday, with the government and rights lawyers arguing bitterly over a pregnant Somali asylum-seeker who claims she was raped. Immigrat... More »
