Strange things happened in Canberra during the US President George Bush's visit. Residents woke on October 23 to radio reports that a Canberra hospital ward had been cleared in anticipation of a presidential emergency. The
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BY AARON BENEDEK& SARAH STEPHEN SYDNEY — The murder of two people in the south-western Sydney suburb of Greenacre on October 14 has been turned from a criminal investigation into a new round of government and media attacks on Sydney's Arab
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Since the end of July, 24-year-old Palestinian asylum seeker Aladdin Sisalem has been the only prisoner in the Australian government's Lombrum detention centre on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea. He has very little human contact,
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Australia is facing a shortage of working medical specialists. Almost 10% of Australia's obstetricians abandoned the profession last year, and in June the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists released a
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Mootaz Attia, known in Australia as Abu Quassey, a self-proclaimed people smuggler of Egyptian nationality, went on trial in Egypt on September 13 for the manslaughter of 353 people on the boat now known as SIEV-X ("suspected
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@Five-year-old Tania Singh was born in Australia in 1998, a year after her parents arrived from India seeking asylum. She has never been to India and speaks no Hindi. She goes to kindergarten and loves cricket. Yet she will be
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In August, Afghan refugees in Australia started receiving letters from the immigration department demanding they leave the country. It seems the Australian government intends to deport all Afghan asylum seekers holding temporary
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The concept of "temporary" protection was first introduced into Australia with the passing of legislation on October 20, 1999. Since then, 8400 people, 88% of those who have arrived in Australia by boat since July 1999, have been
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Australia's treatment of refugees took its ugliest turn with the hijacking of the MV Tampa by heavily armed SAS squads on August 29, 2001, and the subsequent remote incarceration of thousands of asylum seekers, without any access
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According to refugee supporters who are in regular contact with asylum seekers in the Baxter detention centre, on August 22 there were a number of suicide attempts following news that more than a dozen Iranian asylum seekers faced
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The Australian-funded detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island first opened on October 21, 2001. The first group of Iraqi asylum seekers to arrive there were dismayed to find they had been tricked into thinking they were being taken to Australia.
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Earlier this year, clinical psychologist Zachary Steel released a report describing children's experience of detention as a "living nightmare". It found unprecedented rates of mental illness among young asylum seekers: among the 22