Refugee Mostafa Azimitabar sued the federal government over his lengthy detention in two Melbourne hotels,arguing it was unlawful to keep him there.
Experts expressed anger and shock at the premier’s comments that fetal alcohol spectrum disorder was used as “an excuse” for inmates’ actions at Banksia Hill.
Social justice legal firm Maurice Blackburn has used artificial intelligence to illustrate the alleged experiences of detainees on Nauru and Manus islands.
WA man Robert Taylor could be days away from being sent back to a country he last lived in as a baby.
The girl’s disturbing experience in the facility has been detailed in material filed with the Federal Court as part of a class action against the WA government.
Since 2015 Australia has deported thousands of people to New Zealand. This is how New Zealand organisations are responding to the influx.
High-profile attendees of last week’s 90-minute Banksia Hill crisis meeting at the premier’s office have offered differing views to the government of how the meeting went.
A refugee who fled Iran and spent more than seven years in detention has been told he will not be settled in Australia and has days to decide where he wants to go.
The Noongar man has told a disability royal commission he was left “broken” by his time inside Western Australia’s only youth detention centre.
Justice Paul Tottle found the isolation inflicted on a child in the WA juvenile prison as severe and said it could result in considerable harm.
Between their arrival on July 20 and August 8,there were three attempted suicides and 13 minor self-harm attempts at the facility known as Unit 18.