Home affairs minister Tony Burke is again complaining that a 2023 landmark High Court ruling has limited his ability to lock up migrants and refugees. Chloe DS argues that pressure needs to continue to force Labor to keep its promises on refugees.
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Elnaz, Milad Makvandi and Sowriya Vishnuvarman, refugees who have lived more than 12 years in limbo, travelled to Canberra to urge federal MPs to grant about 8500 people permanent visas. Kerry Smith reports.
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Refugees and their supporters want Tony Burke, the new minister, to urgently provide people who have waited years under the misnamed “Fast Track” process with permanent visas. Kerry Smith reports.
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The death of a refugee at Villawood Detention Centre is the latest indictment of the bipartsian cruelty towards refugees in Australia. Pip Hinman reports.
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The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is facing the terrible prospect of having to close its doors in six weeks due to funding shortages caused by cost-of-living pressures impacting on donors. Sue Bolton reports.
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“Australia's probably never had a PM this bad,” Wil Wagner, frontman of Melbourne's Smith Street Band, told Faster Louder on January 13.
