Fatima is a widow and grandmother who has been in Australia for 10 years, living with her family who are financially supporting her. She has no remaining close family in East Timor and has grown very close to her grandchildren here.
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Prime Minister John Howard has been at pains to argue that the ASIO raids on Indonesian Muslims in recent weeks were not targeting Indonesians, nor Muslims, resident in Australia. He was even more affronted by the allegation that
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A woman told the November 1 Illawarra Mercury that she has stopped wearing her traditional hijab headscarf after suffering five years of taunts and abuse. She is not alone. Many Muslim and Arab Australians are bracing for an
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The 8500 refugees who hold temporary protection visas are already denied the right to bring their families to Australia, are not allowed to have access to free English language classes, resettlement services or employment
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On February 4, 1998, doctors Victor Chan and Ho Peng Lee from the Nanyara abortion clinic were charged under Western Australia's criminal code with performing an abortion, and faced up to 14 years' jail. The shock move by WA
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Four years ago, Colombian dissident Alvaro Morales fled to Argentina and then to Australia to escape death threats from Colombian government-backed paramilitaries. In May, following the Refu gee Review Tribunal's (RRT) rejection of
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The 168 East Timorese asylum seekers whose claims were rejected by the immigration department on September 25 are the first of almost 1700 asylum seekers who face the prospect of being forcibly returned to East Timor, despite many
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Fifty Australasian Correctional Management guards at Port Hedland immigration detention centre ended a 12-day strike on October 6, after reaching an agreement with ACM management on increased staffing levels during day and night
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A Perth District Court judge on September 27 sentenced two Indonesian fisherpeople to jail for their role in transporting 438 asylum seekers to Australia in August last year. The people responsible for organising the journey and
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The Australian government speaks proudly of this countrys history of resettling large numbers of refugees (numbering 600,000 since World War II), keen to present an image of Australia as a country that opens its arms to those who
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For two years, Kevin John Enniss was a paid informant of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). He was also at the heart of the people-smuggling business in Indonesia. Enniss went far beyond the normal role of an informant. At the
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On February 20, a Senate committee began investigating what the government knew about false allegations that asylum seekers threw their children overboard. In March, retired diplomat Tony Kevin alleged that Australian navy