“It will be two or three days before we run out of everything,” one refugee said. “We don’t have transport to get medications and food. We don’t have money.”
Independent senator Jacqui Lambie says she felt intimidated by Scott Morrison when they were negotiating a secret deal in 2019 to send asylum seekers to New Zealand.
New Zealand will accept 450 refugees from Australia under a three-year deal,which independent senator Jacqui Lambie says was part of a promise Scott Morrison made her.
The digital communications expert believes social media,right-wing populism and the innate emotionality of human beings have combined to destroy consensus and de-legitimise truth.
Australia and NZ are close to reaching a deal to resettle up to 150 refugees who have been rejected by the Australian government because they attempted to arrive by boat.
John Howard and his government looked doomed. But then came events that changed everything,including hardening the way Australia saw its place in the world.
What happens to a nation if its territories disappear under the sea? Pacific Island nations are exploring legal and diplomatic paths to retaining statehood.
Iranian asylum seeker Omid Masoumali,24,doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire on Nauru in April 2016.
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.
Offshore processing in Nauru will continue under a new agreement signed with that country last month.
Australia’s unfair laws and processes are designed to make it as difficult as possible for asylum seekers to succeed in seeking our protection.