Refugees & migrants

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is holding a World Refugee Day Telethon
Behind the CFMMEU’s rightward drift on refugees

At the recent Victorian Labor state conference, the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) delegation and the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU), Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association (SDA) and Labor’s Right faction to close the conference early. That meant that a range of good motions, including for a Shorten government to close the offshore detention centres, were not debated. Union leader John Setka didn't think this was a problem but others, including rank-and-file CFMMEU members, do.
Vigils to remember the man of flowers
Wins for workers, blows for refugees at the ALP Victorian State Conference
Molan lays bare Liberal plan to win election with cruelty to refugees
Poem: Manus as Tourist Attraction — Contract Bid
Refugees on Manus speak out after another death
Refugee activists rally against Dutton
Birthday party for three-year-old detainee
Grave fears for Iranian hunger striker from Nauru
Migrant Caravan members denied asylum at US-Mexico border

After a journey of more than a month, more than 150 members of Viacrucis Migrante — known as the Central American Migrant Caravan — arrived at the United States border on April 29. They were met with a hostile response.
Manus Island refugees are ‘political hostages’