Archived Posts
- Turnbull Announces Refugee Resettlement Deal With United States November 13, 2016
- Turnbull Defends And Promotes Refugee Policy In Address To United Nations General Assembly September 22, 2016
- Turnbull’s Economic Policy Speech To CEDA Disrupted By Refugee Protesters August 17, 2016
- Liberals Maintain Focus On Boats June 16, 2016
- Liberal Advertisement: What Do Shorten And Rudd Have In Common? May 13, 2016
- “Our Policy Is Clear” – Liberals Pounce On ALP’s Border Protection Dissension May 9, 2016
- Immigration Detention And Children: Statement From Immigration And Border Protection Department March 8, 2016
- Melissa Parke: Speech On Asylum Seekers February 29, 2016
- Daniel Andrews Offers To Settle Nauru Refugees In Victoria February 6, 2016
- High Court Rejects Refugee Challenge To Offshore Processing And Resettlement February 3, 2016
- Morrison Announces Tamil Asylum Seekers Will Be Brought To Mainland For Processing July 25, 2014
- Scott Morrison Releases Robert Cornall Report Into Manus Island And Death Of Reza Berati May 26, 2014
- Operation Sovereign Borders: Morrison Says People Smugglers On The Back Foot February 21, 2014
- Morrison: One Dead, Thirteen Seriously Injured In Manus Island Disturbance February 18, 2014
- ABC Says Its Reports Of Asylum Seekers’ Claims Should Have Been “More Precise” February 4, 2014
- Morrison: No Boats For 36 Days January 24, 2014
- Boat Arrivals In Australia: Statistics Since 1976 January 23, 2014
- Asylum Seeker Allegations: I Trust The Navy, Abbott Says January 22, 2014
- Statement From Nauru Justice Department On Sacking Of Magistrate January 21, 2014
- No Boat Arrivals For Three Weeks Says Morrison January 10, 2014
- Code Of Conduct For Asylum Seekers Living In Australia: Full Text December 15, 2013
- “You Should Not Come Because You Will Not Stay” – Abbott Claims Mandate For TPVs December 3, 2013
- Scathing UNHCR Report On Conditions On Nauru November 26, 2013
- Indonesia Demands Spying Explanation, Suspends Co-operation; Abbott To Respond; Shorten Invokes ‘Team Australia’ November 20, 2013
- Operation Sovereign Borders: Scott Morrison’s Weekly Briefing November 15, 2013
- Indonesia Refuses To Accept Turned Back Boat; Asylum Seekers Taken To Christmas Island November 9, 2013
- Abbott Abolishes Twenty Advisory Bodies November 8, 2013
- Morrison Quizzed About Stand-Off With Indonesia Over Asylum Seeker Boat November 8, 2013
- A Melbourne Cup Day Observation In Gosford November 5, 2013
- Morrison Says The Boats Are Stopping November 1, 2013
- Morrison Confirms 31 Dead From Asylum Boat Sinking September 30, 2013
- Morrison Confirms ‘Tactical’ Secrecy On Turning Back Asylum-Seeker Boats September 23, 2013
- Christine Milne And Adam Bandt Re-Elected To Lead Greens September 23, 2013
- Embarrassing Interview With Jaymes Diaz, Liberal Candidate For Greenway August 5, 2013
- Rudd Announces Asylum Deal With Nauru August 3, 2013
- Full Text Of The Asylum Seekers Agreement With Papua New Guinea July 20, 2013
- Alternative Universes And The PNG Solution July 20, 2013
- Rudd’s Boat People Policy: All Asylum Seekers To Be Sent To PNG July 19, 2013
- Scott Morrison Comments On Asylum Seeker Conditions On Nauru December 6, 2012
- Government And Opposition Reflect On Five Years Of Rudd/Gillard November 24, 2012
- Gillard Government Moves Yet Closer To Howard On Asylum Seekers November 21, 2012
- Nauru Designated For Regional Processing September 10, 2012
- Confusion, Timidity And Capitulation On Asylum Seekers December 26, 2011
- Deadlock Over Asylum Seekers Remains Following Talks December 23, 2011
- Government Offers Nauru To Abbott In Return For Malaysia December 22, 2011
- Five Ways To Prevent More Asylum Seeker Tragedies December 22, 2011
- Political Stalemate Over Asylum Seekers December 21, 2011
- Bowen Calls On Abbott To Work With Government On Refugees December 20, 2011
- ALP Conference: Some Votes Are More Equal Than Others December 5, 2011
- Asylum Facts: Booklet From Parliamentary Library January 14, 2011
- A Flurry of Activity – and it’s only January 7 January 7, 2011
- Gillard Announces Cross-Party Group On Christmas Island Boat Wreck December 16, 2010
- Howard Announces Changes To Detention Policy; Families With Children To Be Released June 17, 2005
- Howard Attacks Latham As ‘Weak’ On Border Protection January 24, 2004
- Burnside Challenges Abbott’s Claim Of Moral Courage January 24, 2004
- Latham Announces Labor’s Border Protection Policy January 23, 2004
- Security Fundamental To The Cause Of Labor: Latham May 20, 2003
- Simon Crean’s Address To The National Press Club December 10, 2002
- Carmen Lawrence Quits ALP Frontbench December 5, 2002
- Labor Releases Asylum-Seekers Policy December 5, 2002
- Democracy And The Law Threatened By Howard Government: Burnside July 10, 2002
- Admiral Chris Barrie Lashes Suggestion Navy Allowed SIEVX Victims To Die July 3, 2002
- In Berlin, Howard Promotes Free Trade, Defends Refugee Policies July 2, 2002
- In Europe, Howard Is Questioned On Refugees And Agricultural Subsidies July 2, 2002
- John Howard’s Press Conference In Support Of The Governor-General February 21, 2002
- “Children Overboard” Gallery Of Photographs February 19, 2002
- Howard Grilled At Lively Press Conference; Tense Mood In Question Time February 19, 2002
- John Howard Press Conference: Asylum Seekers, Defence Photos,Governor-General, SA Election February 19, 2002
- Crean Calls For Release Of Women And Children From Detention Centres January 26, 2002
- John Howard’s Border Protection Bill August 29, 2001
Tampa
- Government Statements and Interviews
- Federal Court Appeal Judgement (Sept 18, 2001)
- Federal Court Judgement (Sept 11, 2001)
- Border Protection Bill 2001
International Media Coverage of the Tampa Issue
- G’Way, Mate – Los Angeles Times Editorial
- The Economist
- Tampa is Howard’s Belgrano – London Guardian
- The Times of London – The Times 2 – The Times 3
- South China Morning Post
- Australians Seize Ship to Keep Refugees at Sea – New York Times
- Mark Steel (London)
- The Times of India
- The Independent (London)
- Herald-Tribune
- Financial Times
- Troops board refugee ship off Australia – Boston Globe
- Readers in Australia respond to Tampa crisis – Norwegian Post
General Sites
- Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
- Ministerial and Departmental Statements
- Humanitarian Program Background
- Refugee and Special Humanitarian Programs (PDF)
- Sources of Refugees (PDF)
- Refugee Law – Recent Developments – Parliamentary Library
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- United Nations Convention Relating To The Status Of Refugees
- ALP Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Policy
- One Nation Immigration Policy
- US Committee for Refugees
- Information on Australia
- Refugees International
- Refugee Royal Commission – an Australian site calling for the establishment of a Royal Commission into the Howard government’s treatment of refugees.
- Rural Australians For Refugees – a network of country towns offering support to refugees.
