BY ROHAN PEARCE
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) should reverse its newly announced policy of promoting the voluntary repatriation of refugees to Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on July 23.
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Protests held in
solidarity with the Alamdar and Montazar Baktiyari, the Afghan boys who
applied to Britain for asylum from Australia, were attended by 150 people
in Sydney on July 21, 70 people in Melbourne on July 19 and another 50
people
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH — On July 25, police launched an extremely brutal attack on a peaceful student protest. Thirty-five students were assaulted with batons and squirted with pepper spray.
The students had gathered at Curtin University to
100-0 rule?
"We don't have a 60-40 rule operating at any of the state conferences of the Liberal Party. We don't have 10, 20, 30, 40 or any percentage of votes allocated to business interests. But we do, very importantly, we have a broad sympathy
ZACHARY STEEL is a clinical psychiatrist who has been working with asylum seekers for 10 years and is documenting the impact of government policies on their mental health. Steel has spoken at numerous public forums, and on radio and television in
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On July 19, immigration minister Philip Ruddock announced that in April his department had informed Ali Baktiyari, father of two boys who sought asylum on July 18 from a British consulate, that it intended to cancel his visa.
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