One of the guards was attacked by a teen with a guitar,the other was burned when hot water was thrown on him,so WorkSafe charged the Justice Department for workplace safety breaches.
Sarwan Al Jhelie’s family,who lives in New South Wales,have pushed for a coronial inquiry into the missteps over his care while held in WA immigration detention in 2018.
Many of the men in the hotel are already medically vulnerable after being evacuated,because of health issues,from detention at Manus Island and Nauru.
The NSW lockdown has been lifted,but there are still restrictions in place for one family – restrictions enforced for years and with no apparent end in sight.
A security guard at a Melbourne immigration detention centre has tested positive for COVID-19,but health authorities say the guard had no contact with detained asylum seekers.
NSW is sitting on the fence while Queensland has rejected calls to raise the age of criminal responsibility altogether.
The Kurdish-Iranian writer discusses politics and politicians,money and religion.
In Iran,people are shot or tortured for the simple act of protesting. But this,an asylum seeker says,is nothing compared with how he has suffered at the hands of the Australian government.
Letting the Biloela family stay in Australia,simply because they are here already,is the politics of proximity winning out over principle.
WA’s most senior health bureaucrat has written to the federal government passing on the advice from the doctors treating the four-year-old asylum seeker.
The images of Tharnicaa on a hospital bed are ones that no one can or should look away from. But what is happening to Tharnicca is not an aberration but the intended outcome of our cruel approach to people seeking asylum.