Turning back boats is reckless: Bowen

Detention centres breaking people: report

24 Oct 2011, 8:14AM

Asylum seekers say immigration detention centres are rife with suicide attempts and the overuse of anti-depressants. Read more

Oppn attacks Labor's immigration bickering

15 Oct 2011, 4:04PM

Chris Bowen should resign as immigration minister after backing the coalition's Nauru solution and failing to end the government's internal bickering over asylum-seeker policy, the opposition says.

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• More boats will come, PM warns
• Abbott refuses to give ground on boats
• Defiant PM blames boat surge on Abbott

PM urged to resign over asylum deal

13 Oct 2011, 7:10PM

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison says PM Gillard and Immigration Minister Chris Bowen should resign over the government's failed Malaysian people swap deal. Read more

• Government moves to onshore processing
• Government concedes Malaysia deal off

Crook sinks Malaysia deal

13 Oct 2011, 9:15AM

West Australian Nationals MP Tony Crook has confirmed he will vote against the government's amendments to the Migration Act.
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• Government concedes Malaysia deal off
• Crook still undecided on carbon, asylum bills
• Teen detention plans ''morally wrong''

Campaign targets migrant 'slavery'

12 Oct 2011, 6:25PM

A government-funded campaign has been launched on television and cinemas nationally, aiming to raise awareness of modern-day slavery. Read more

Senate report slams Malaysia solution

12 Oct 2011, 7:34AM

A majority of members in the senate inquiry into the Malaysia solution have said the 'atrocious' policy should not proceed. Read more

• Your say: Where to process asylum seekers?
• What do you think of the asylum deal with Malaysia?
• Vic ALP urges change on Malaysia, marriage

Serco had been warned about riots: NSW police

05 Oct 2011, 6:18PM

NSW Police say they had warned the company that runs the Villawood Detention Centre of the possibility of a riot two days before it broke earlier this year. Read more

• Blog: Trying time reporting from Villawood
• Inquiry focus turns to Villawood

Christmas Island Administrator reappointed

27 Sep 2011, 11:50AM

The federal government's representative on Christmas Island, which holds a key asylum seeker detention centre, has been reappointed for another year. Read more

• Inquiry told of child detainee''s self harm
• Nauru officially joins Refugee Convention
• Teen detention plans ''morally wrong''

Inquiry told of child detainee's self harm

26 Sep 2011, 8:18PM

A Darwin doctor has told a parliamentary inquiry that a nine-year-old child in immigration detention tried to commit suicide. Read more

• Nauru officially joins Refugee Convention
• Teen detention plans ''morally wrong''

Major parties 'hysterical' on asylum deals

23 Sep 2011, 7:13PM

A further 49 asylum seekers have been discovered hiding from border protection officers under a false deck of a vessel intercepted by the navy off Christmas Island. Read more

• Two more asylum boats arrive
• Authorities assist boat in distress
• Abbott keeps boat pressure on Gillard