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Refugee children want a future in Australia. So why are they excluded from universities?

Lack of visas mean even those who finish high school and win scholarships can find themselves barred from further studies

Published: 22 Apr 2022

Published: 22 Apr 2022

‘Not without my partner’: refugees forced to choose between family in Australia and chance of US visa

US agreed in 2016 to resettle up to 1,250 people in Australian detention, but won’t guarantee family members qualify

Published: 3 Feb 2022

‘Finally I can buy a candle’: 61-year-old refugee released after nine years in Australian detention

Woman held since fleeing Iran in 2011 given accommodation in Melbourne hotel after being freed but told she must find new home

Published: 27 Dec 2021

After eight years in Australian detention, the only refugee family held in Darwin centre remains in legal limbo

Held in small cabins behind the airport, Hajar Maghames says her family has ‘no resources left to withstand the oppressive situation’

Published: 11 Aug 2021

Refugee hunger strike at Melbourne detention centre ends after 17 days with detainees in hospital

Group of mostly Iranian detainees are asking to be released into the community while awaiting resettlement

Published: 6 Jul 2021

Female refugee evacuated from Nauru to Australia could be deported despite ill-health

Woman being held in Melbourne detention says she sinks ‘deeper into the swamp of fear and despair’ every day

Published: 5 Jun 2021

Australia refuses to confirm prisoner swap to get Kylie Moore-Gilbert out of Iran

Scott Morrison won’t confirm Iran’s claims three bombers who tried to kill Israeli diplomats have been freed in return for academic

Published: 26 Nov 2020

Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison

Moore-Gilbert, who has Australian and British citizenship, had been held in Qarchak, widely regarded as the worst female prison in Iran

Published: 29 Oct 2020

'I need freedom': refugees approved for resettlement stranded on Nauru as processing stalls

Delays are causing further suffering for almost 200 refugees whose requests for transfer or resettlement were approved in 2019

Published: 12 Sep 2020

Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says

But the academic has told human rights advocates that in Qarchak prison ‘I can’t eat anything, I feel so very hopeless … I am so depressed’

Published: 4 Aug 2020

Kylie Moore-Gilbert granted meeting with Australian ambassador to Iran

Published: 31 Jul 2020

'We are sitting ducks for Covid 19': asylum seekers write to PM after detainee tested in immigration detention

Doctors are calling on people to be released from immigration detention, saying it could exacerbate the public health crisis

Published: 23 Mar 2020

Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert begs Scott Morrison to help get her out of Iranian jail

Letter comes as human rights groups urge foreign governments to take a stronger line with Tehran

Published: 14 Jan 2020

Dozens of refugee medical transfers held up by Nauru's controversial approval system

Doctors mystified that Australia gives Nauru the final say in the care of critically ill individuals

Published: 24 Nov 2019
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The fight over medevac and the people caught in the middle

Helen Davidson and Saba Vasefi talk to Laura Murphy-Oates about why Peter Dutton is so intent on repealing this law and what will happen to sick asylum seekers

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Published: 5 Nov 2019

‘Feel like I’m living on death row’: refugees forced to choose visa limbo or family separation

US resettlement offers hope for refugees denied permanent entry to Australia. But there’s a catch

Published: 28 Sep 2019

'Australia is a bigger cage': the ongoing trauma of Nauru's child refugees

Even after finally being transferred to Australia, the scars remain for many young refugees

Published: 24 Aug 2019

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