Australia has imposed country-wide sanctions on Russia, Myanmar and Iran. Calls are growing for stronger action on Israel, including an arms embargo.
- Associate Professor, International Law, University of Technology Sydney
These amnesties occurred under successive Labor and Liberal federal governments, and each enjoyed enthusiastic bipartisan support.
Australia shouldn’t just align with so-called ‘like-minded partners’ on sanctioning other countries, but rather follow core principles of international law.
High Court decisions, government announcements and opposition speeches have all discussed migration. It’s become a heated, sometimes panicked conversation.
The decision is a missed opportunity to move away from Australia’s practice of indefinite immigration detention.
The case could result in further limits on the immigration minister’s powers to keep refugees in detention indefinitely.
Those who have been released have little financial or social support, confining them to lives of precarity, dependency and impoverishment in our community.
To make sure the COVID rollout is accessible to all people living in Australia, the government should consider a migrant amnesty.
It is almost impossible for asylum seekers held in detention to practise social distancing. For their protection, and that of the wider community, the government must take action now.
A Senate report details the high need for refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to be able to seek medical care in Australia. The fate of the medevac law now rests in Jacqui Lambie’s hands.
27 men detained in Broadmeadows’ Melbourne Immigration Transit Centre (MITA) ended their hunger strike on Wednesday evening. This group of 25 Tamils and two Burmese Rohingyas had gone ten days without…
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