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| UpdatedTensions between refugees and locals on the pacific island of Nauru are heightened after a series of violent attacks that have left multiple refugees injured or arrested.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, immigration, refugees, nauru, pacific
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| UpdatedMore than a dozen people stage rooftop protest at Western Australia's Yongah Hill immigration detention centre, according to detainees.
Topics: immigration, refugees, northam-6401
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The Western Australian Great Southern town of Katanning will be declared a refugee welcome zone this weekend.
Topics: refugees, multiculturalism, community-and-multicultural-festivals, katanning-6317
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Federal authorities have confirmed they are investigating allegations that refugees living in Bendigo, in central Victoria, were tricked into signing up with private training groups.
Topics: education, refugees, federal-government, bendigo-3550
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| UpdatedThe Federal Court dismisses Iranian man's appeal against a decision to reject his bid for asylum because of discrepancies found in his claim.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, immigration, refugees, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe world is "not even close to grasping the magnitude" of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, a top aid official says ahead of the fourth anniversary of the peaceful protests that marked the start of the devastating conflict.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, law-crime-and-justice, rights, refugees, terrorism, syrian-arab-republic
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A group of 25 asylum seekers on Manus Island is mounting a fresh challenge in Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court against their detention.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, refugees, immigration, papua-new-guinea, australia
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| UpdatedA not-for-profit Brisbane restaurant helping female African refugees hopes volunteers and diversification will help keep the business running.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, human-interest, refugees, west-end-4101
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| UpdatedTopics: refugees, community-and-society, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe UN's special rapporteur on torture rejects claims by Prime Minister Tony Abbott that Australia is being lectured on human rights.
Topics: rights, human, immigration, refugees, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe ABC obtains leaked testimonies from the Moss inquiry that cast doubt on the evidence used to remove nine Save the Children staff from their jobs working with asylum seekers on Nauru.
Topics: community-and-society, immigration, refugees, government-and-politics, federal-government, nauru, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Tony Abbott hits out at the United Nations over a scathing report on the Government's asylum policies, saying Australians are sick of being lectured to by the international organisation.
Topics: refugees, immigration, government-and-politics, australia, switzerland
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Nauru police say they have released all 183 refugees who were arrested in connection to mass protests this week, with the majority charged with "unlawful assembly".
Topics: immigration, refugees, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, nauru, pacific
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| UpdatedResearchers in the UK are looking at using the power of pee to light refugee camps in disaster areas. The cheap and abundant fuel source could mean power to formerly inaccessible areas, and more security for women.
Topics: research, science-and-technology, refugees, england
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The government of Nauru says 183 people have been arrested after protests and described the demonstrators as troublemakers trying to manipulate the media and public.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, refugees, immigration, nauru, pacific
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Jordan has become home to more than 600,000 Syrian refugees and the government says it needs $US3 billion to implement a long term plan to deal with the crisis.
Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, jordan, syrian-arab-republic
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Nauru police arrest more than 100 refugees in connection to recent protests on the Pacific island, advocates say.
Topics: refugees, immigration, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, nauru, pacific, australia
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Hundreds of refugees on Nauru say they will continue to protest against what they say are slave-like living conditions on the remote Pacific island.
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Refugees on Nauru have begun a campaign of non-cooperation and say they will continue to demonstrate against "slave-like conditions" on the remote island.
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Hundreds of refugees on Nauru say they will continue to protest against what they say are slave-like living conditions on the remote Pacific island.
Topics: refugees, immigration, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, nauru, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedThe murder trial in Papua New Guinea for two men accused of beating asylum seeker Reza Barati to death on Manus Island is due to start next week.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, immigration, government-and-politics, refugees, papua-new-guinea, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedLebanon has provided shelter to more than one million Syrian refugees both in private homes and in makeshift refugee camps that have endured a brutal winter.
Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, lebanon, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedOf all the weird developments in the past week, surely the strangest is this: Labor now fancies itself to be on the moral high ground on refugees.
In government, the ALP opened the floodgates and then spent panicked months brainstorming increasingly unpleasant things to do to the hordes of desperate chancers who - not unreasonably - took up the earlier-proffered option of being treated humanely.
Through its extraordinary attack Gillian Triggs, the Federal Government has allowed Labor to avoid scrutiny.
Topics: federal-government, rights, immigration, refugees
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull dismisses the debate about Gillian Triggs' impartiality as one that "misses the point", describing her as a "distinguished" figure.
Topics: human, rights, federal-parliament, federal-government, immigration, refugees, children, australia
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| UpdatedAmnesty International delivers a scathing report on Australia's approach to human rights, labelling the offshore processing of asylum seekers and the detention of children as inhumane and degrading.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, human, rights, government-and-politics, federal-government, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia