Australia’s asylum seeker politics ’toxic’ since 2001 : Tanya Plibersek

Australia’s offshore asylum policy ruled legal by High Court

Australia’s High Court has ruled that the government’s policy of detaining asylum seekers offshore is legal.

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▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35479173

Australian High Court rejects challenge to offshore immigration detention

Australia’s High Court has rejected a challenge to the government’s right to hold asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.

▻http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/02/asia/australia-high-court-nauru-detention

Asylum policies ’brutal and shameful’, authors tell Turnbull and Dutton

Thomas Keneally, JM Coetzee and Peter Carey are among the 61 signatories of a letter describing policies as having a ‘disregard for human dignity’

▻http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/06/asylum-policies-brutal-and-shameful-authors-tell-turnbull-and-dutton

The Nauru files: 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention

Exclusive: The largest cache of documents to be leaked from within Australia’s asylum seeker detention regime details assaults, sexual assaults and self-harm

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