Department fined $100,000 for failing to protect youth justice guards from attacks

Department fined $100,000 for failing to protect youth justice guards from attacks

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.

  • byAdam Cooper

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Immigration detainee fell through gaps before death at WA detention centre,inquest hears

Immigration detainee fell through gaps before death at WA detention centre,inquest hears

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.

  • byAja Styles
COVID-19 spreads in Melbourne hotel used as detention centre

COVID-19 spreads in Melbourne hotel used as detention centre

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.

  • byBianca Hall
Life in limbo:This family fled the Taliban but still aren’t free

Life in limbo:This family fled the Taliban but still aren’t free

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.

  • byMarisa Wikramanayake
Guard tests positive for COVID-19 at Melbourne immigration detention centre

Guard tests positive for COVID-19 at Melbourne immigration detention centre

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.

  • byRachael Dexter andRoy Ward
One year on,MPs still can’t agree on laws to stop jailing 10-year-olds

One year on,MPs still can’t agree on laws to stop jailing 10-year-olds

NSW is sitting on the fence while Queensland has rejected calls to raise the age of criminal responsibility altogether.

  • byCameron Gooley
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Behrouz Boochani:‘Human beings don’t have a place to go but to other human beings.’

Behrouz Boochani:‘Human beings don’t have a place to go but to other human beings.’

The Kurdish-Iranian writer discusses politics and politicians,money and religion.

  • byBenjamin Law
A stranger to his son:Locked in limbo at a Brisbane detention centre

A stranger to his son:Locked in limbo at a Brisbane detention centre

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.

  • byCloe Read
Walk a mile in their shoes,but don’t be a sucker

Walk a mile in their shoes,but don’t be a sucker

Letting the Biloela family stay in Australia,simply because they are here already,is the politics of proximity winning out over principle.

  • byAmanda Vanstone
Doctors plead for authorities to reunite Tharnicaa with her family

Doctors plead for authorities to reunite Tharnicaa with her family

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.

  • byEmma Young
Biloela family’s plight puts nation at the crossroads

Biloela family’s plight puts nation at the crossroads

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.

  • byKon Karapanagiotidis andJana Favero