organization:australian labor government

Whistleblowers expose unspeakable conditions in Australian refugee camps - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/25/manu-j25.html

Whistleblowers expose unspeakable conditions in Australian refugee camps
By James Cogan
25 July 2013

Horrific details have emerged about the conditions inflicted on refugees imprisoned by the Australian Labor government in its South Pacific detention camps on Manus Island, to the north of Papua New Guinea, and Nauru. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has responded by insisting there will be no turning back from Labor’s policy of indefinitely condemning asylum seekers to what are being described as “hell-holes” and “gulags.”

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Australian refugee lawyer condemns deportations to Sri Lanka - World Socialist Web Site

►http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/21/refu-d21.html
21 December 2012

Since September, the Australian Labor government has forcibly returned more than 650 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka. Alongside members of the persecuted Tamil minority, they include poor Sinhala fishermen from western Sri Lanka.

These refugees have been deported from Australia in large groups, after being arbitrarily “screened out” of the refugee visa application process. They have been denied the right to apply for asylum, blocked from access to legal advice, then bundled onto planes, sometimes within 48 hours.