Two-year-old Tharunicaa was struck on the head after a blackboard on the wall fell over at Broadmeadows detention centre on Thursday.
For 50 years,Australia was a global leader in protecting refugees. Now it violates its international legal obligations and seeks to deny refugees medical help.
Prime Minister James Marape wants more local companies to provide the services.
A UN working group says a Vietnamese mother and baby should be immediately released from immigration detention in Melbourne.
A 2003 independent computer game about the asylum seeker detention experience has been restored by Sydney art collective Applespiel.
From a guarded budget hotel room in Papua New Guinea to Sydney by Skype,detained writer Behrouz Boochani talks of using creativity as an act of resistance.
The literary and journalistic communities have launched a campaign to bring Behrouz Boochani to Australia from Manus Island. His case is an emblematic one.
"Right now,unfortunately,the situation on Manus is even more critical. Almost every day there are suicide attempts and incidents of self-harm."
Up to 200 men have launched protests at a high-security compound at the MITA detention centre in Melbourne's north,protesting what they say are brutal conditions in the new compound.
She was a guard. He was a detainee. Their future is now in the hands of a jury.
A Nigerian woman has been charged over her alleged role in a scam police say was being run by a detainee at Villawood Detention Centre with 16 mobile phones.