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Keywords: Refugee Convention

  • INTERNATIONAL

    Foundering justice

    • David Manne
    • 05 July 2006

    Stowaways’ rights to seek asylum are being denied, argues David Manne.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Preparing for the fifth wave

    • Peter Mares
    • 12 June 2006

    Frank Brennan’s Tampering with Asylum prompts Peter Mares to look at this issue again.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Marilyn Shepherd, Brent Howard
    • 31 May 2006

    Letters from Marilyn Shepherd and Brent Howard

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Forgotten children

    • Leanne McKay
    • 14 May 2006

    Leanne McKay sheds light on the reality of unaccompanied minors arriving in Australia

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  • AUSTRALIA

    What is the Howard Government Up to with the Pacific Solution Mark 2?

    • Frank Brennan
    • 14 May 2006

    Father Frank Brennan discusses the Howard Government's approach to the issue of asylum seeker detention off-shore.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Rights and responsibilities

    • Marcelle Mogg
    • 08 May 2006

    Australia’s agreement with Papua New Guinea over the use of Manus Island as an off-shore detention and processing centre for asylum seekers, expired at the end of October.

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  • RELIGION

    Australia’s judicial isolation

    • Frank Brennan
    • 29 April 2006

    Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Why I quit the department

    • Tom Davis
    • 24 April 2006

    The organisational culture within Australia’s Department of Immigration appears to have little regard for human rights, but an ex-insider says it didn’t have to be that way

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